Five guiding principles for cloud organization setup

Thinking of setting up a cloud center of excellence (CoE) in your organization. Here are some of the learnings from my recent experiences that may be worth the read. Use them as guiding principles when enabling your team 

1. Roles - Operating model decisions determine how people fill roles that achieve business outcomes and not vice versa.
2. Embrace the change - willingly and enthusiastically.  Change of applications, IT systems and business direction is expected with any transformation initiative
3. Change Management - Use intentional and targeted organizational change management to change company culture and norms. It is not easy but it is not impossible too as long as you have the leadership buy-in and the right team driving the change management.
4. Culture - Build your company culture into everything you do.
5. Structure - Ensure that your cloud CoE structure has a representation from all the impacted business segments with cross functional skills and knowledge. As your organization transforms and initiative moves forward, be ready and open to change the cloud CoE organization structure. 

There are no one size fits all list of principles that work for every company so leave me a feedback in comments below as you move through the cloud migration journey in your organization.