React and Adapt
Use integration and control to achieve technical transformation.
Going digital should be considered against what can be changed to deliver the most benefit to the business. Cloud adoption should not be seen as the essential panacea — and indeed some cloud services already under your control may be themselves classified as old and part of the established estate. The cloud should be seen as an enabler of tools and services when and where it is appropriate to use them. Businesses need to build a plan that will enable new services and models to exist and build in this new mode, while also updating and integrating with existing estates.
The key piece to any technical transformation of business is integration and control. Businesses must establish a bimodal model of IT, an all-encompassing base strategy of consolidation, renewal and integration of old and new. This focus is critical to allow businesses to consolidate, migrate and build for the future by integrating what they have, with what they want and what they do not yet know, on one globally integrated IT structure.