Any experienced sailor knows it’s easy to launch a vessel – the hard part is keeping it afloat once you’re out at sea. The same can apply to chief information officers (CIOs) who’ve successfully upgraded their business to the cloud.
Finding your sea legs quickly as wave after wave of problems hit – including creaking legacy technology, belligerent employees and the ever-present threat of cyberattacks – is key to post-cloud survival.
Helen Ashton helped power fashion giant ASOS through several technological shifts, moves which ultimately made them the market leader in online shopping, earning £3.26bn last year. Now founder of Shape Beyond, a business transformation consultancy, Ashton says the key to success at ASOS was full migration to the cloud.