- Demand more by seeking out different questions. Ask to see Cloud spend show back or chargeback figures
- Ask about how much of your Business’s Cloud spend is a ‘waste’. Dig deeper
- Challenge yourself to think of techie terms such as “Cloud”, “DevOps”, “Compute” as business-side levers
- Seek out how savings from already-committed or planned Cloud investments can finance your GTM ambitions
Rising Cloud investments may not always lead to P&L GAINS
Reinvest savings from your Cloud Spend waste for your Business
Deploy Cloud savings to improve revenue quality
- Leave IT to deal with core IT change, by all means. But why leave money on the table with growth possible from Cloud-led better analytics and
product development? - Investigate if your customer-facing SaaS applications can deal with unpredictable hyper-growth. You need instant, on-demand elasticity to scale across customer segments and geos!
- Experiment with revenue and margin ‘hustling’ with deploying your Cloud infra with low-cost failures
- Try ‘what-if’ simulations to see how Cloud-led business growth models can expedite sales growth and margin expansion
Sync up with your Cloud CoE to receive more value
- Appoint someone from your senior team into your organization’s Cloud CoE. Start one if there is none!
- Earn rich dividends from engaging via the CCoE – contribute business roadmaps and expectations, in return, get clear ideas on how best to use Cloud for your business use cases
- Ask the CCoE how you could model Cloud into your Data and Application strategies to get business results
- Measure the ROI of engaging with and through the CCoE – change the ways of working till get to desired levels
Get a constant stream of new digital ideas from outside
- Tap into the market for what your peers, clients and competitors are doing for new digital ideas
- Find what works better for you in terms of execution of these ideas – build bespoke approaches to win better and sooner
- Negotiate with as much as learn from your key Cloud vendors and Services vendors to see how the market is changing
- Avoid becoming an echo chamber of internal ideas by creating hackathons and competitions to pioneer new business models