This document discusses mindset and culture changes needed for a successful cloud journey. It emphasizes that moving to the cloud can provide business value through increased revenue, agility, lower costs and less risk. However, overcoming fears, uncertainties, and doubts (FUD) about security, compliance and complexity is important. Adopting lean manufacturing principles, automating processes, shortening lead times through removing barriers can provide competitive advantages through continuous innovation. Acquiring new skills in areas like DevOps while including security can help IT move further up the stack and deliver more value.