Posts by: Al Kiessel

Cloud and IT Organizational Change

Recently, I was involved in the development of the Database as a Service reference architecture.  In developing the business and IT capabilities models, I defined Service Design and Development as required IT functions for the delivery of cloud services.   This provided us…

How Strategic is IT? – Assessing Strategic Value

Why do we care?  Understanding the role IT plays in the business will be important in establishing proper scope, obtaining support for initiatives and delivering the greatest value to the organization.  Recently I was working on strategies for Data Center Transformation.  The…