How to Thrive in the Covid-19 Recession by Going Digital Using SCENARIO
Medium
November 14, 2020
With one million deaths, thirty-eight million infected, hundreds of millions lost jobs and small and mid-size businesses (SMEs), the pandemic has created one of the worst crises of confidence since the Great Depression.
Hit by an unprecedented gloomy mood, entrepreneurs are looking for recipes to survive the recession and grow.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Business Continuity, COVID19, Ecosystems
Survivre à la Récession liée au COVID-19 en mettant son Activité au Diapason du Numérique
ITaaSNow
October 23, 2020
Et si l'adoption du numérique était l'antidote pour éviter les faillites du contexte économique liée au Covid-19?
Avec près d'un million de morts, trente-huit millions de personnes infectées, des centaines de millions d'emplois et des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) perdus, la pandémie a créé l'une des pires crises de confiance depuis la Grande Dépression.
Frappés par une humeur morose sans précédent, les entrepreneurs du monde entier recherchent désespérément des recettes pour survivre à la récession et continuer à prospérer.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, COVID19
Learning AWS The Easiest & Quickest Way: The Framework
ITaaSNow
September 12, 2020
A sensitive issue with most AWS engagements, that's my observation, is knowledge transfer between consulting teams and clients' staff; it takes clients sometimes up to three months to be comfortable operating their AWS platform.
AWS with its one hundred seventy five (175) services is certainly nice to implement but, fact of the matter is it's difficult to learn.
"One hundred seventy five (175) services, that's a lot!", "How do they work?" and "How can I learn them in a way that makes me qualified in a record time?" is what I hear all the time.
The reason for the long learning curve is, technology instructors don’t take into account learners' concerns, expectations, mindset and psychology.
Leading experts, researchers, teachers and speakers, confirm it, "effective learning goes hand in hand with effective learning strategies, methodologies and techniques."
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Tags: Cloud, Data Center
AWS DevOps Implementation: The XP and CodePipeline Integration Pattern
LinkedIn
July 01, 2020
Fast, effective and efficient implementation of DevOps is the challenge of most businesses, CIOs and consultants. The question they anxiously keep asking me is, « is there a way to quickly and properly implement it? » My answer surprises them: « Use DevOps implementation patterns, they make the transformation process easy, fast, and effective. »
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Tags: Cloud, Innovation
DevOps Implementation: The XP and AWS CodePipeline Integration Pattern
ItaasNow
June 28, 2020
Fast, effective and efficient implementation of DevOps is the challenge of most businesses, CIOs and consultants. The question they anxiously keep asking me is, « is there a way to quickly and properly implement it? » My answer surprises them: « Use DevOps implementation patterns, they make the transformation process easy, fast, and effective.
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Tags: Innovation, Agile, COVID19
Transforming IT for the COVID-19 Disrupted Business Context
linkedin
May 09, 2020
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is desperately disrupting industries, CIOs are starting to anticipate not only the impacts on IT but also the changes to carry out. How to reorganize IT staff? How to optimize a cloud architecture to make IT relevant? What tools to invest in? What infrastructure to invest in?
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Tags: Business Continuity, COVID19
Cloud Made Simple for Undecided Career Change Planners - Part 1
linkedin
March 07, 2020
Despite its fundamental role in today’s business, many IT job seekers are reluctant to embrace a career in cloud computing. Sophisticated technical concepts and jargon make it confusing and complicated.
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Tags: Cloud
IT Career Change: How to Make Your Digital Move Swift and Successful
linkedin
January 22, 2020
The digital business expansion in the global economy introduces changes that certain IT professionals aren’t prepared for; what I see is frustrated tech workers, paralyzed by the fear that they have to make that digital technology career change.
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Tags: AI, Cloud, Digital Disruption
How CIOs Can Reinvent The IT Organization with Cloud Computing
Medium
January 18, 2020
In recent years business lines have been increasingly going the shadow IT route to achieve their critical objectives, showing there’s a real disconnect with IT as to how to leverage cloud computing.
The problem lies with cloud vendors who ignore the issue of the business vision. They see low IT costs and accelerated application delivery as business growth drivers while businesses are more concerned with market responsiveness achieved through agile and collaborative environments that bring together the business and IT.
The business is right: organizational silos, hierarchical barriers, unclear business priorities and people issues like power struggles, resistance to change, defiance of policies and politics are all impediments that only make it more difficult to achieve flexibility, fast problem solving and decision making.
The solution is to implement IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) in the form of integrated platforms of people, processes, practices, governance structure and tools specifically built to bring the business and IT together.
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Tags: Agile, Cloud, Digital Transformation
Amazon Web Services: Practices That'll Make Your AWS Migration Successful
linkedin
November 18, 2019
Cloud adoption is accelerating as the increased number of AWS migration initiatives shows. The question is, how many CIOs can pretend, they got what's known as the five benefits of high performing AWS cloud platforms? These benefits include operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, security, and cost optimization.
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Tags: Cloud
The Complete ITaaS Delivery Model
Lulu
May 08, 2016
The complete ITaaS Delivery Model is the complete guide to implementing IT as a Service (ITaaS) as the foundation of the digital enterprise's IT organization.
Thought Leader Philippe Abdoulaye drives the reader step by step across a complete digital transformation journey focused on DevOps and ITaaS.
The book provides precious and actionable insights into issues as critical as digital transformation strategy development, cloud service catalog and cloud service requirement developments, IT infrastructure and application migration to AWS cloud, IT operating model transformation to lean and agile structure, and Deployment and adoption of organizational changes.
The book's digital transformation approach has been widely featured in several major online IT medias including Dell Power More in the article "ITaaS: The Future of the CIO" and Germany's ComputerWocher in "IT as a Service: Was CIOs dafür tun müssen."
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Tags: Cloud, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation
Cloud Computing: Advanced Business and IT Strategies
Lulu
March 27, 2014
Cited as "One of the best Cloud Computing ebooks of all time" by BookAuthority and Amazon reviewers. Cloud Computing is the IT services delivery model of the near future. The problem is, there there are very few experts that have hands-on understanding of its competitive and organizational impacts.
The vast majority of books address the technical details of cloud, but few emphasize its implementation and deployment at the scale of the enterprise.
This book provides the models, concepts, and methodologies you need to be successful in your organization's transition to cloud.
Through his 23-year IT Transformation background, Philippe Abdoulaye brings a project-oriented approach to cloud transition, with several techniques needed to accelerate adoption of cloud services.
The book begins with a definition of the competitive perspective of cloud, provides insights into the cloud-oriented business model, and details through a complete business an agile approach to cloud transition addressing issues as critical IT operating model transformation, SaaS application architecture, and datacenter transformation.
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Tags: Cloud, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation
The Complete ITaaS Delivery Model
BAIP YouTube Channel
May 08, 2019
Invited to give a keynote speech in Vilnius, Lithuania about my model The Complete ITaaS Delivery Model and provide insight into why and how it makes cloud migration easy, faster, and more importantly, a catalyst of business revenue.
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Tags: Agile, Cloud, Digital Transformation
Econocom DevOps Forum
Econocom
July 04, 2018
In March 15, I gave four keynote speeches on DevOps in Toulouse, France. As the main speaker of Econocom Club MEP 2018, an annual think tank summit organized by the European business-to-business digital services provider, I shared the day with 15 firms in industries as prestigious as financial services, energy, aerospace, aviation, and telecommunications and heard all about their implementation projects.
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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Agile
Reinventing the Business with IT Innovations for the Digital Age
Hamburg Aviation Conference
February 02, 2018
Invited at the Hamburg Aviation Conference (HAC) in Germany to share my though about Reinventing the Business with IT Innovations for the Digital Age.
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Tags: Agile, Cloud, Digital Transformation
ITaaS: The Future of the CIO
Future of Work
January 13, 2020
Cited by the Future of Work (FOW) through my model The Complete ITaaS Delivery Model a major contributor of the CIO work.
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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Agile
Yes, DevOps is all about business growth, especially the digital variety
ZDNet
March 03, 2019
My thoughts about DevOps reported on ZDNet following a conversation with thought leader Joe McKendrick.
DevOps is now seen in one in four enterprises. It extends well beyond the bounds of the data center, as it opens up the path to disruption.
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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Agile
IT as a Service: Was CIOs dafür tun müssen
Germany's ComputerWoche
October 19, 2015
Conversation with Germany's ComputerWocher about The Complete ITaaS Delivery Model I developed and promoted to make easy cloud migration and management
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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption