Phase 3: Enable – Build organizational capability and capacity - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Phase 3: Enable – Build organizational capability and capacity

This phase is focused on building organizational capacity and capability, and replicating patterns of success, by implementing the detailed transformation roadmap and speeding up transformation adoption. During this phase, you use mechanisms such as the AWS OCA 6-Point Framework, business case valuations, Cloud Operating Model Maturity Framework, game day methods, and Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA). The Enable phase is illustrated in the following diagram. 

Focus areas and outcomes of the Enable phase of enterprise transformations.

By the end of this phase, organizations have established their foundational digital capabilities by implementing the detailed transformation roadmap. Sponsors, leaders, and the workforce know their roles in operationalizing relevant decision-making, and all teams are working in alignment to identified business objectives.

Key activities:

  • Revalidate the business case for expected benefits.

  • Continue to use experiential working mechanisms and experimentation plans to embed new ways of thinking, deciding, behaving, and innovating.

  • Optimize cloud operations, FinOps processes, change impact plans, and culture shifts.

  • Continue to work across IT and business functions.

  • Expand on success patterns.

  • Use the Transformation Readiness Diagnostic tool to measure growth and refine strategy.

  • Implement the detailed transformation roadmap plans with validated cost savings or value-generating and revenue-generating potential.