Targeted business outcomes - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Targeted business outcomes

Business outcomes are highly dependent on your organization, but can include the following:

  • Time savings: Identify and mitigate organizational, political, cultural, or leadership blockers that stand in the way of starting or scaling the cloud journey.

  • Employee engagement and growth: Create strategies for the workforce transformation to involve employees in the cloud journey, and to get them excited, prepared, and skilled in AWS technologies.

  • Reduced risk exposure: Manage and mitigate risk while rewarding and recognizing desired new behaviors to reduce the risk of non-compliance as things rapidly change with cloud adoption.

  • Organizational adaptability: Develop the ability to deliver more change at a faster pace, adopt quickly, and scale.

  • Transformation leadership alignment and mobilization: Strengthen leadership capability, mobilize leaders to drive transformational change, and enable outcome-focused, cross-functional decision making.

  • Workforce transformation: Create a high-value, agile, and adaptable workforce that can embrace change, innovation, and organizational agility to address changing customer and market demands (such as changes in buying patterns, changes in regulations, or remote versus on site working). Enable talent and modernize roles to attract, develop, and retain a digitally fluent, high-performing, and adaptable workforce that can autonomously drive key capabilities.

  • Talent enablement: Modernize talent management strategies across leadership, learning, rewards, inclusion, performance management, career mobility, and hiring to ensure that the right people with the right skills are in the right roles at the right time, and are demonstrating new, cloud-fluent behaviors.

  • Culture evolution: Assess, incrementally evolve, and codify organizational culture with digital transformation aspirations and best practices for agility, autonomy, clarity, and scalability.

  • Change adoption: Use outputs from change impact assessments to define a strategy for adopting the new ways of working while building a change coalition network and digital acumen to effectively leverage the cloud to accelerate business outcomes.

  • Organizational alignment: Establish ongoing partnerships among organizational structures, business operations, processes, talent, and culture to enable rapid adaptation to market conditions, and to improve your organization’s ability to capitalize on new opportunities.

The following sections break down the AWS Change Acceleration 6-Point Framework and Organizational Change Management Toolkit in a logical fashion so you can reference it throughout your cloud adoption journey. Each section focuses on one of the six points of the framework.