Inside Insights: Impact of Organizational Change with Matt Florian

In this episode, Matt Florian of Comerit rejoins Mustansir Saifuddin to discuss the importance of managing organizational change as enterprises take on cloud based analytics. It's not enough to choose an analytics tool. Successful companies take the time to look at how organizational change gets to be addressed; from awareness, decision making, implementation, and finally institutionalizing it. His key takeaway: Not addressing a change strategy will inherently increase your risk of not achieving your objectives for your cloud analytics initiative.

Matt has more than 25 years of leadership in data and enterprise architecture in numerous industries. He has successfully delivered enterprise data transformation projects for government, telecommunication, retail, manufacturing, and financial services sectors.

Matt began consulting focusing on data warehousing in telecommunication for national providers. Over the course of his career has consulted for Oracle, IBM, and Unisys across many industries. His leadership, experience, and clarity of technical topics earned him the trust of client executive leadership. Matt’s talent to develop and lead teams is the key to his successful delivery of projects for clients.

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Episode Transcript

[00:00:03.390] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Welcome to Tech-Driven Business, brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. In this third episode of a multipart series,  I welcome back Matt Florian of Comerit. Listen in as Matt and I discuss the importance of addressing organizational change. When you pursue a cloud analytics initiative, we'll drive into real-life scenarios to highlight the value of alignment of business and .IT

 

[00:00:35.440] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Hello Matt, welcome to Tech During Business. How are you man?

 

[00:00:39.370] - Matt Florian

I am doing very well. Mustansir, how are you sir?

 

[00:00:43.840] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Wonderful. Thank you for joining us today.

 

[00:00:48.490] - Matt Florian

I'm happy to be here, happy to join you once again. These have been fantastic talks and look forward to more.

 

[00:00:56.360] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Awesome. So I'd like to continue our discussion. I know we started this conversation some time ago where we dived into transitioning to cloud data warehouse and also looked into hybrid environments and some of the benefits that customers are reaping going that route. So today I would like to focus on organizational change in cloud analytics and why are they so important in the whole cloud journey? How does that sound to you?

 

[00:01:29.020] - Matt Florian

It sounds great. It's a conversation, a topic that is too often overlooked. So let's get to it.

 

[00:01:36.640] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Absolutely. So I think let's start with the basics, right? I mean, can you help explain the role of organizational change when it comes to cloud analytics? Can you just simplify that?

 

[00:01:49.690] - Matt Florian

You know, it's such an important piece on the cloud analytics and like I said, it's not discussed often enough. Being in IT for over 25 years, and you and I have both been around the block quite a bit and worked with different companies of all shapes and sizes. And their failures in analytics always come down to a very com