A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration

Chapter 7. Scaling Innovation

Awais Malik, Infrastructure Cloud Consultant

Who

• CxO

• Technical Leads

• Managers

• Engineers

Why

Brilliant innovators all throughout history have shown us the impact their creativity and inventions have had on us. Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, and many others did amazing things with limited resources and capabilities. They experimented and demonstrated their findings, in spite of their scant resources, and their inventions profoundly impacted our lives.

More recently, access to innovation platforms has become increasingly easier to gain. With the advent of cloud and SaaS services, building solutions has never been easier, and these have become the perfect catalyst to spark innovation.

It’s apparent that no one can consider business innovation as just a nice-to-have anymore. As such, technology should be viewed not as a cost center but rather as a core capability and key business enabler. More importantly, enabling innovation at the micro level encourages teams and even individuals to rapidly experiment with creativity. This rapid experimentation is the key to fast failures, and many iterations of fast failures eventually lead to successes. Fortunately, the cloud enables this experimentation through its favorable procurement and cost model, which helps perform polynomial proofs of concept over time that are commercially feasible. With proper controls and well-defined performance measurement indicators, decentralization ...