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We have a pretty amazing crew of consultants. They are passionate about their job and are constantly improving their technical skills to be ahead of the market. But to really make a lasting impact, soft skills are equally important. That’s why in 2023, we introduce the Boost Your Impact program: an 8-step journey our entire …
Boost Your Impact: our 8-step journey for a successful crew. Read More »
Traditional IT cost management practices will not work within a cloud environment. Also, how would you link a traditional on-premises fixed expense model to the cloud environment? For a variable expense model, such as the cloud model, you only pay for what you use. Additionally, you have greater financial flexibility, agility, and innovation potential as …
Fairytales don’t exist. Especially not in IT. With Cloud technology emerging, a new type of operating model started to get a lot of traction and attention. The “old school” siloed IT department running projects in a waterfall way is not the best match with the new technology possibilities. People were looking for inspiration for the …
Three years ago we designed the first 45 Degrees version of our ‘Cloud Centre of Excellence’ approach. We looked at AWS, Microsoft and Google, spoke with our customers and came up with a framework to drive the transformation to a modern service oriented IT organisation. Where cloud technology is the catalyst in the story. Since …
Cloud Centre of Excellence v3 : what did we change in the summer of 2022? Read More »
About 3 years ago we started building our own 45 Degrees approach to setting up and running a Cloud Centre of Excellence. The world was a very different place then. Most enterprises were having their first proof of concepts with Cloud technology, pushed by Cloud providers to get consumption as fast as possible. IT-marketeers said …
(But there’s a lot more work before they can be built) Imagine yourself as a real estate developer. You just bought a large piece of land and eventually want to use it to build and sell houses. These sales will earn you money. But there’s a problem. Your new land is not ready to just …
In achieving digital transformation or higher business value, more and more companies are looking to migrate their businesses into the cloud. The selection of and migration towards a cloud platform is often regarded as a silver bullet to overcome most IT issues that have been experienced in the past. Unfortunately, the platform as such is …
The importance of Service Management in the Cloud Read More »
During the first weekend of the Tour de France 2021 a big debate arose, based on interviews by two of our most experienced Belgian riders. It immediately caught my attention because those interviews perfectly reflect what is happening in the business domain today. Curious? Thomas De Gendt Thomas De Gendt threw the cat amongst the pigeons …
What CxO’s can learn from the Tour de France 2021 Read More »
Companies like Spotify are often referred to as examples of modern IT organizations. Unfortunately modernizing a large, complex enterprise is not as simple as just copying models like these. The basic idea however is the same: how does an IT organization provide more value to the business by bringing technology closer to the customer? Cloud …
Building a Modern Services Oriented Organization – Part 3 Read More »
In the first part of this mini blog series we explored why cloud technology is not just another technology shift. It’s an opportunity to change the role of the traditional IT team. The way Microsoft is visualizing this is by introducing a paradigm shift. From a traditional view of IT as an operations unit to …
Building a Modern Services Oriented Organization – Part 2 Read More »
