Cloudbusting Podcast

Duena Blomstrom returns to the Cloudbusting hot seat to discuss the importance of flexibility when trying to manage agile transformation.

Change is hard, especially when the culture you are trying to introduce clashes with the status quo. Adopting an agile mindset is seen by many as a vital part of the cloud transformation journey. If you want to reap the rewards you are going to have to wade into the uncomfortable territory of change and get good at the ‘fluffy’ side of leadership.

The Cloudbusting team is taking a break over the month of August to recharge our batteries, lie on a beach or two and plan some excellent episodes to get our fine listeners through the autumn.

We hope you enjoy this mini-episode featuring our summer TSRs and a special Cloudy Cliffhanger. See you in September!

Every IT organisation in the world is concerned about its ability to innovate fast enough. In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by designer, Matthew Cockerill to discuss how Design Thinking can help organisations evolve and disrupt.

Do Innovation Officers & Innovation Labs work? Should everybody be an innovator? Does Tom Selleck's moustache happen by accident?

Listen to Cloudbusting to hear the answer to these questions and more.

This week the Cloudbusting team goes legal!

Jez and Dave are joined by Ruth Orpwood, Cloudreach General Counsell, to wade into the legal impacts of cloud. How do we legislate for data protection and data ownership? How much power do the big cloud players have? How can we protect ourselves when the robots, inevitably, rise up?

Want to lead your cloud transformation from a caterpillar to a big, beautiful butterfly?

This week, Jez and Dave are joined by leadership wizard, Alastair Kidd, to discuss how changing your leadership approach can help you navigate the organisational pain points of cloud transformation. Topics covered include the difference between complicated and complex, the Cynefin Framework and the benefits of sense-and-respond, humbly audacious leadership.

The ‘Ripple Effect’ of cloud transformation can have a profound impact outside of your IT organisation. In this episode, Jez and Dave are, once again, joined by Mark Simons to get an IT leader’s perspective on mobilising an organisation and overcoming these impacts.

The team discuss the importance of strategy and letting go of your legacy frames of reference. They also chat about the benefits of building a lighthouse project to create momentum and make the positive effects of transformation visibl

Jez and Dave welcome Cloudreach CTO Peter Richards to the show to discuss why transformation is essential to turn technology into an enabler of business innovation.

The team chats about the need for technology change to match business change, the importance of embracing an agile mindset and the impact of mobile technology on innovation.

With security being the top priority at AWS re:Inforce this week, we thought we would dedicate our latest episode to the discussion of cloud security.  Dan Pitman from Alert Logic lends his expertise to the team, to help Jez and Dave dance around the cybersecurity handbag and wade through the myths and misconceptions to help answer the all-important question: Is the cloud as secure as your data centre?

In a brand new episode of Cloudbusting, the team is joined by Nelson Wootton and Darren Ritchie to tackle the conundrum: Is cloud killing banking or making it cool again?

Along the way, they discuss FinTech, the disruption of traditional financial institutions and the impact of regulations on a bank’s ability to innovate.

This week, Jez and Dave are joined by Duena Blomstrom, Co-Founder & CEO PeopleNotTech, to discuss the benefits of viewing ‘agile’ as a state of mind. The team discusses why technology transformations also require mindset transformations to be successful. They also dig into the concept of ‘psychological safety’ and why emotionally intelligent leadership is paramount to introducing agile.