Google Cloud Adoption: Organisational Change, Capabilities, Upskilling, and Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)

Welcome to the continuation of the Google Cloud Adoption and Migration: From Strategy to Operation series.

In the previous part, we looked at how to map the as-is OS, application servers and databases to Google Cloud. In this part, we’ll talk about some of the fundamental organisational change that is required to be successful when adopting cloud, including:

• The skills and capabilities where demand is reduced.
• The opportunity for upskilling and reskilling.
• The capabilities you need.
• How to acquire the capability, skills and knowledge.
• Establishing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE).

How Does Cloud Adoption Impact Our Workforce?

Effective Google Cloud adoption requires a huge change in how an organisation deploys and manages its IT.

I asked DALL-E to give me visualisation depicting moving away from legacy IT to the exciting world of Cloud

Let’s recap some of the changes we’ve already covered in this series:

• Much (or all) of our IT will now be operating out of public cloud. This means a shift in responsibility.
• We will see a significant in reduction in the need for engineers and staff…