CIO.com Roundtable Discusses Change Management Strategies for Cloud Smart Enterprises

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Aug. 19, 2021 - PRLog -- Change management has never been easy and will not get any easier as organizations embrace complex heterogeneous infrastructures that mix legacy and next-generation enterprise platforms. This was the central conclusion of a moderated CIO.com virtual roundtable co-hosted with Chuck Tsocanos of IBM on change management strategies for cloud-smart enterprises.

With over a dozen executive participants representing a wide range of industries -- including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, high-tech, energy, higher-education and more -- it was interesting to see a broad consensus emerge around one key premise.  Change management has never been easy and will not get any easier as organizations embrace complex heterogeneous infrastructures that mix legacy and next-generation enterprise platforms.

As one executive noted: "Change management has been pretty sketchy for on-prem for a really long time. It has never been easy to get common agreement from the different executive disciplines (business units, IT, compliance, security/risk management, etc.) that must work together in the internal governance bodies responsible for vetting and validating change and release management."

While many hoped that moving to the cloud and embracing DevOps would simplify the change management process, the fact is that most established enterprises are operating increasingly complex hybrid environments that require continued attention to conventional operations while developing skills and expertise to manage hyper converged and multi-cloud infrastructures.  This complexity has only served to elevate the importance of change management. "It must be at the center of modernization," noted one executive. "More, not less, attention must be paid to establishing an enterprise-wide approach to governing enterprise architectures to introduce new technologies and to manage the life cycle of technologies -- including hardware, software, networking, cloud services and security resources -- through to retirement."

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