Digital transformation pitfalls 2 – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation
Going too fast
To succeed, you must crawl before you walk and walk before you run. It is essential to prove concepts at a smaller scale before scaling them up across the enterprise and before you spend millions of dollars. Taking this route will allow you to make small mistakes and refine the transformation process before implementing it in an enterprise-wide fashion. Remember one-way Vs. Two-way door decision while investing in cloud migration projects. Not just for cloud migration, but for any project in general, a highly recommended method is to perform PoC projects before going all in. For example, if you have 100 databases in your organization, it is not bad to migrate only one or a few to the cloud instead of doing all of them simultaneously.
Going too slow
Once you prove the process in a couple of guinea pig departments, it is also important not to continue implementing the lessons learned one department at a time. Once you have the right template, it is recommended to roll out the new technology across the board. If you take a step-by-step approach, it may be too slow to enable you to keep up with more nimble competitors.Once you get familiar with the migration process and absorb the lessons learned from the first migration, you can accelerate your migration and migrate more of them.
Outdated rules and regulations
In some cases, the reason for failure may not be in the hands of the company’s leadership. Current regulations may be a stumbling block to success. In this case, business leaders may have made the mistake of thinking that they would be able to change the rules and failed, or the rules may have changed in the middle of the game.Take, for example, the real estate industry in the US. Proving that someone owns a property and recording such ownership requires recording physical documents in the courthouse, in many cases requiring wet signatures. With the advent of blockchain and other enabling concepts, the technology already exists to transform local governments’ archaic and heterogeneous methods. However, a patchwork of laws at the state level and a wide array of methods used to record these documents at the county level are disrupting this industry and implementing this technology.Another example is at an online pharmacy. They want a pill-dispensing robot that could fill tens of thousands of prescriptions per minute. As you can imagine, this was an expensive machine costing millions of dollars. However, the company had a restriction in that they had to be faxed for medicine prescriptions to be filled, and many customers had trouble faxing in their prescriptions. Hence, the robot pill dispenser ended up being heavily underutilized. Other reasons contributed to its demise, but unfortunately, this enterprise eventually went under.AWS provides a Cloud adoption framework to help you start with digital transformation. Let’s learn more details about it.
