Pillar 1:

Alignment

Aligning hybrid cloud strategy with the business-wide transformation agenda

Pillar 1:

Alignment

Aligning hybrid cloud strategy with the business-wide transformation agenda

The Hybrid Cloud Leaders excel by aligning their hybrid cloud goals with the business-wide agenda. So what is on the business agenda? Companies want to innovate – fast.

Their top priority is to create innovative and seamless digital experiences.

The second priority is to increase speed and innovation in their products and services.

The third priority is to derive revenue from emerging technologies such as AI, automation and IoT.

By aligning their hybrid cloud strategies to the wider business transformation agenda, the Hybrid Cloud Leaders are moving faster than the rest.

The Hybrid Cloud Leaders excel by aligning their hybrid cloud goals with the business-wide agenda. So what is on the business agenda? Companies want to innovate – fast.

Their top priority is to create innovative and seamless digital experiences.

The second priority is to increase speed and innovation in their products and services.

The third priority is to derive revenue from emerging technologies such as AI, automation and IoT.

By aligning their hybrid cloud strategies to the wider business transformation agenda, the Hybrid Cloud Leaders are moving faster than the rest.

The Hybrid Cloud Leaders are moving faster and making innovation a reality

Q. Which of the following benefits have you realized from your hybrid cloud approach in the past 12 months?

But it is worth noting that even the leading companies still have a way to go in their efforts, and there is plenty of scope for the Followers to catch up.

The Hybrid Cloud Leaders are moving faster and making innovation a reality

Q. Which of the following benefits have you realized from your hybrid cloud approach in the past 12 months?

But it is worth noting that even the leading companies still have a way to go in their efforts, and there is plenty of scope for the Followers to catch up.

At Bridgestone Americas, Tom Corridon, Vice President of Cloud and Infrastructure, says his company’s hybrid cloud strategy is at the core of its transformation.

“I would say that our cloud strategy is in direct alignment with supporting Bridgestone in what we're calling Bridgestone 3.0 – the next generation of the company,” he says. “It is all about becoming a premier sustainable mobility solutions company, and we can't do that in a silo from an on-premise footprint. We have to meet our customers and partners where they are. Most of the time, that is in the cloud.”

“It is all about becoming a premier sustainable mobility solutions company, and we can't do that in a silo from an on-premise footprint.”

Tom Corridon, Vice President of Cloud and Infrastructure, Bridgestone Americas

of Hybrid Cloud Leaders have improved the speed of new service or innovation delivery in the last 12 months as a result of their hybrid cloud strategy.

Tim Moody, Head of Global Offering Strategy at Fujitsu, says it is getting easier to exploit the benefits of hybrid cloud. “One of the real benefits of the hybrid approach is the opportunities it gives to augment the existing services organizations provide with new capabilities,” he says.

“If you roll back even a few years, companies might have had R&D departments looking at emerging technologies like AI to see how they could apply them, and having to maybe partner with academia. The cost of entry to use those new technologies to drive business innovation was really high. Because of the huge investment from cloud providers and the pace of innovation, the barrier to entry has dramatically reduced.”