VUCA describes chaotic environment

Organizations must adapt

VUCA causes losses

Requires management

VUCA	Definition
Volatility	The speed of a change in an industry, market, or overall environment
Uncertainty	The lack of predictability in an environment
Complexity	The number of issues and amount of confusion that surround the organization
Ambiguity	The lack of clarity and potential for misreading situations

1. Strategic planning for a VUCA future

VUCA makes cloud strategy difficult:

• Too many risks
• Collaboratively define strategy

Invest in people

Cloud strategy plan:

• User-centric business case
• Cloud vision and mission
• Values, purpose and objective
• Roadmap and success criteria
• Transition plan
• Stakeholder list
• Requirements
• Communication mechanisms
• Required resources
• Stakeholder plan
• Risk assessment
• Requirement for approval
• Cloud strategy owner
• Adoption roadmap
• Organizational structure

2. VUCA and the five drivers of value co-creation

Organization may suffer one or all elements of VUCA

Different approaches:

• Volatility: invest in resources
• Uncertainty: knowledge management
• Complexity: structure for agility
• Ambiguity: allow experimentation

VUCA affects five co-creation drivers:

• Strategic adaptability
• Consumer experience
• Operational excellence
• Realiability, resilience and continuity
• Governance and control

Cloud services ideal for managing VUCA:

VUCA	Description
Volatility	Manage demand variations
Complexity	Cloud services elastic and scalable Process volatile demand
Uncertainty and ambiguity	Knowledge management and experimentation Commission, adjust and decommision cloud services rapidly Lower risk

 

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