Facing stakeholder resistance to your cloud cost optimization strategy. How will you win them over?

1. Active Listening 🎧: Pay attention to stakeholders’ apprehensions, which could include security risks or potential downtime during the transition. 2. Empathy 💡: Understand their perspective and validate their concerns. 3. Tailored Communication 📝: Once you comprehend their worries, customize your communication to address each point. 4. Risk Mitigation 🛡️: Highlight how your strategy will lessen risks and enhance the overall efficiency of cloud operations.

Moveing to cloud is becoming a mindset and nowdays all people understanding this concept in wrong way they thought that once we lift and shift we are successful but their always a area of optimization in the cloud after migration and this your part to show stakeholders the cloud capabilities in terms of cost optimization like auto scaling, auto shutdown for services and reserved instance and using hybrid benefits all of this is a capabilities need to present it to prove your strategy and cost optimization in front of your stakholders

🧠 "Listen to stakeholders' worries about the cloud cost optimization strategy." 🤔 "Identify specific pain points and reasons for resistance." 🎤 Hold Feedback Sessions 📝 Document Concerns 🖥️ Use Surveys and Interviews

Cloud is bit confusing to all stakeholders and once you have the right knowledge you can present it capabilities to them and this will not happen without understanding the benefits of it to make it clear for them it should be separated to two parts first one migrate to cloud will remove cost of data center utilization like( hardware & maintenance, cooling , hardware procurement cycle , etc) and second part migration to cloud you also have a chance of cost optimization like (auto scaling, auto shutdown for services, reserved instance and hyper benefits) all of this can present your strategy to your stakholders in proper way

🧠 "Clearly articulate the advantages of cost optimization." 💼 "Highlight potential savings and efficiency gains." 📊 Use Visual Aids 📘 Provide Case Studies 🖥️ Create Benefit Summaries

🧠 "Provide concrete data to support the proposed strategy." 📈 "Use past successes and metrics to build credibility." 📊 Share Performance Metrics 📘 Reference Industry Benchmarks 🖥️ Use Financial Projections

🧠 "Involve cloud cost optimization specialists to validate the strategy." 🧑💼 "Leverage their expertise to reassure stakeholders." 📊 Arrange Expert Presentations 📘 Include Third-Party Assessments 🖥️ Use Expert Testimonials

🧠 "Develop a comprehensive and transparent implementation plan." 📋 "Detail each step and expected outcomes to build confidence." 📊 Create Detailed Roadmaps 📘 Outline Risk Management Strategies 🖥️ Use Project Management Tools

No matter what type of cloud computing project you are embarking on, you need to have a value realisation strategy. Why? Because if you connect value you either bring or prevent losing it for organisation, it will get support. Here’s why. Commercial organisations in general has three types of objectives: 1) Make money, 2) Save money, 3) Stay out of trouble. Let’s say your solution targets Saving money by reducing AWS bill 40%. Can you quantify it? Sure you can. Then it’s about giving it a try. For example: You keep 90% of workloads on AWS and put 10% on OCI. Then you measure cost efficiency in both. You may find some services runs cheaper in OCI other in AWS. But if you never try you never find out.