It's Not the Technology, It's You

Keynote by James Staten, Chief Strategist of the Cloud + Enterprise division of Microsoft, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015. Clinton campaign manager James Carville reminded his team often that driving change came through winning the hearts and minds of the people and where government affects them the most: “It’s the economy, stupid.” In helping enterprises make the shift to cloud, the biggest issue isn’t the technology but the process change organizations have to go through that determine success. In this session, James Staten, chief strategist for the Microsoft Cloud+Enterprise division, and former lead cloud analyst at Forrester Research will share his findings and recommendations for helping enterprise organizations, particularly IT Orgs, successfully navigate a change to the cloud.Read less