{"id":13952,"date":"2015-04-28T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T10:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=223572"},"modified":"2015-04-28T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T10:42:18","slug":"former-tesco-it-lead-dont-narrow-standardization-to-just-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/former-tesco-it-lead-dont-narrow-standardization-to-just-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tesco IT lead: Don\u2019t narrow standardization to just technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enterprise technologists need to consider standardisation, orchestration and automation as these extend to business processes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Moving to the cloud means not only focusing on orchestration and standardization at the technical level but change at the business process level, too, explained Tomas Kadlec, who until recently served as group infrastructure IT director at Tesco.<\/p>\n

Kadlec, who was speaking at the Telco Cloud Forum in London this week said technologists within enterprises too often narrow their focus on the technologies needed to solve a problem or supply a need.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn cloud everyone\u2019s always talking about automation and orchestration, and as a technologist and an enthusiast within IT you always focus on the IT element,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you go down and automate it, deploy orchestration, and make it brilliant. But suddenly you realize this one step is just that, one step in a much larger process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kadlec was most recently responsible for Tesco\u2019s IT infrastructure strategy globally, and has spent the better part of the past few years building a private cloud deployment model the company could easily drop into regional datacentres to power the troubled European food retailer\u2019s operations locally and beyond.<\/p>\n

This was done largely to improve the services it provides to clients and colleagues within the company\u2019s brick and mortar shops, and support a growing range of internal applications and digital services.<\/p>\n

He explained that as cloud services become more prominent within organisations, technologists need to start addressing standardisation, automation and orchestration at the business process and organizational level \u2013 which is where many of the challenges really are. This will help sell these technologies to other areas of the business outside IT, and help accelerate positive change in these organisations.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you actually bring people together? How do you make sure the Korean team isn\u2019t thinking of moving to Windows 8 or something while the UK team doesn\u2019t even have the capability? It\u2019s about simplification of the landscape, speaking the same language,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo as an IT pro there is an element of having to go back to the customers and bridging that gap between needs and capabilities. Standardization is not jus technical, it really about mindset and organizational change,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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