Thinking of... Building a Digital Operating Model with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure? Ask the Smart Questions

by Dan Scarfe, Frank Bennett, Ray Bricknell Sean Morris

Overview

Around the world the disruptive promises of the infamous dot com bubble of the late nineties and early noughties are finally being realised. The current generation of IT that had Cloud enter everyday vocabulary has businesses embracing digital transformation and digital enabled business methods. As a result, a new requirement has emerged for a different kind of Operating Model – a Digital Operating Model (DOM). As we will explain, the Digital Operating Model is the new lingua franca for the business and IT teams to communicate and collaborate and get down to work. The digital agenda is commanding CEO attention worldwide, and its outcomes will set the scene for high-speed business change over the next decade.

The balance between agility and control is a key theme in this book, and we will advocate the necessity of (some) sacrifice of control in order to enable the agility now demanded by a business competing in a digital world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907453281
Publisher:	Smart Questions
Publication date:	11/11/2019
Pages:	252
Sales rank:	1,146,189
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.53(d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Business

'What the leadership team need to know'

1. The Digital Age 1

2. The Digital Wave 7

3. The Way Ahead 17

4. Digital Countdown – The Race is On 25

5. Agile – Small Word Quick Work 37

6. The Business Questions 45

Part 2 Technical

'What the technical team need to know'

7. A New Operating Model 79

8. Strategy and Service Providers 83

9. Procurement and Financial Governance 97

10. Service Management 105

11. Access Control, Security and Policy 123

12. Monitoring, Management and Automation 139

13. DevOps and Application Development 147

14. The Technical Questions 165

15. Funny You Should Say That 203

16. Final Word 211

Editorial Reviews

Clare Barclay, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft UK

“Building a Digital Operating Model with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure” is a must read for leaders looking to understand how the rules of the game have changed, and importantly how to unlock the value that comes with the right model, great technologies and engaged people.

I love the fact it’s practical and serves as a useful guide for those driving change and innovation in their business.

Evelyn Padrino, Azure Marketing Director, Microsoft

Adopting ‘the Cloud’ carries core changes for an organization, that go beyond the obvious technology aspects, incorporating business and process components needed for a successful digital transformation.

“Building a Digital Operating Model with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure” provides a balanced and practical approach to operate in this new ‘cloud era’. With its easy, and almost entertaining, prose, the book guides the reader through this transformation. Presenting insightful questions and ‘real-life’ references, it triggers internal conversations across the business and technology sides of the organization to identify and execute the right path for Cloud adoption.

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