The document discusses how leaders can leverage the cloud to drive a culture of innovation in their organizations. It recommends that leaders embrace and influence their company's business objectives like agility and flexibility. Leaders should also clearly articulate how technology impacts their company's mission. The document advises letting go of the past and reframing cloud strategy discussions from technology debates to business leadership opportunities. Driving change through open conversations with stakeholders is key to transforming organizational culture.

1. Leveraging the Cloud to Deliver
a Culture of Innovation
Douglas Menefee
Enterprise CIO Advisor
@douglobb
dmenefee@amazon.com

2. Recovering Chief Information Officer, energetic leader,
and obsessive cloud computing advocate
2013
Benefits
2005
100%
on-premise
90%
Cloud based
Drivers:
• Agility & Continuity
• Scaling
• Mobile
• Innovation
Results:
300% growth in Revenue
466% growth in Patients Served
Diversified from 1 service line to 5

3. Region
Edge Location
Over 1 million active customers across
190 countries
900+ government agencies
3,400+ educational institutions
11 regions
28 availability zones
53 edge locations
Everyday, AWS adds enough new server capacity to support
Amazon.com when it was a $7 billion global enterprise.
Amazon Web Services Enterprise CIO Advisor

4. Today isn’t about me or Amazon. It is about you.
Your Company Your Customers Your Industry

5. Today is about reframing the “Cloud Strategy”
conversation from a technology debate into a
business leadership opportunity to better
enable organizations.

6. Past
• Hardware & Software
• Custom
code/Programming
• Departmental solutions
• HelpDesk
• Closed Systems
Now
• Data Center Management
• Addressing legacy code
• Data governance
• Security & Compliance
• Enterprise standards
• Mobility
• Traverses every aspect of
business
• Philosophical division around
cloud computing
• Outsource management
2020
• Leadership alignment on business and
culture imperatives
• Fluid business objectives
• Increased empowerment of business
decision makers
• Multiple user experiences
• Hardware/processing viewed as a utility
• Business enablement with flexible
enterprise standards
• Increased agility w/ shorter cycle times
• Applying technology instead of creating
customization
• Disposable technology
• Massive datasets from multiple sources
A paradigm shift is occurring:

7. “Earth's Most Customer Centric Company”
Leaders clearly understand and articulate
how they directly or indirectly impact their
company’s MISSION.

8. Leaders embrace and influence their
company’s overarching business objectives.
• Agility
• Flexibility
• Elasticity
• Cost Reductions
• Alignment
• Availability
• Security
• Innovation

9. To address this ever evolving paradigm, it is critical for
all levels of IT to emerge from the shadows of our
predecessors and lead a new approach to solving
business challenges through innovation.

10. For large enterprises, embracing the mission
and being aligned with business objectives is
sometimes easier said than done.

11. Evolution of the Enterprise

12. Leaders are leveraging the .

14. On-Premises
Resources
Cloud
Resources
Integration
(“Hybrid”)
Corporate
Data Centers
The Cloud Isn’t An All-or-Nothing Choice

15. C-suite:
Leadership, vision, enterprise communications, business objectives
Adjacent Departments:
Collaboration with finance, HR, legal, risk, & LOB decision makers
Info Security & Compliance:
Proactive approval of policies and procedures.
Core & LOB IT teams:
Gap analysis, change management, investigation, acquire cloud experienced talent
Individual member of IT:
Individual exploration and embraced contribution to the vision

16. Prioritization
Teamwork
Organizational awareness
Problem solving
Self-awareness
Proactivity
Influence
Decision making
Learning agility
Technical expertise
Leaders are building the next generation of
employees by focusing their staff on a diverse
set of new skills.

17. Perspective Change
How to deliver?
Risk Tolerant
When to deliver?
Active Engagement
Who to engage?
Mission Obsessed
Why to invest?
Benefit of
Department
Operational
Experience
Immediate
Adjacency
Cross
Section
Solution
Description
Technical
Design
Core Competencies
In the business of?
Tactical
Strategic
Execution
Individual
Goals
Company
Results
Departmental
Focus
Enterprise
ValueCurrent
State
People
Process
Technology
Envisioned
State
Mission
focused
Business
Aligned
Strategic
Dynamic
To drive a culture of innovation, leaders
realize they have to let go of the past.

18. Letting go of the past is the hardest part of any type
of transformation.
Embrace
The Mission
1
Business
Objectives
2
Drive
Change
3
Let
Go
4
Drive change through transparent broad reaching proactive
conversations with multiple stakeholders.
Embrace and influence the overarching business objectives
which need to be accomplished.
Clearly understand and articulate how technology directly or
indirectly impact the mission of your company.
Words to
Action
5
Apply business value as the primary driver to
the journey.
Reframe your “Cloud Strategy” conversation from a technology debate
into a business leadership opportunity.

19. Learning from each other
Douglas Menefee
Enterprise CIO Advisor
@douglobb
dmenefee@amazon.com
How has adoption of the cloud helped you
become a better leader?
What impact has cloud adoption had on the
culture of your organization?
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overcome as it relates to cloud adoption?