CDW Canada Tech Talks

How CDW Reorganized its Team to Deliver Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Episode Summary

In this episode, KJ Burke and Alhagie Puye, Director of Solutions at CDW Canada, discuss the internal reorganization that was required to remove silos at CDW and better help customers achieve business outcomes from the hybrid cloud.

Episode Notes

In this episode, we discuss…

• How CDW reorganized internally to remove silos between its public cloud and enterprise data centre teams
• Why CDW needed to move to a hybrid cloud strategy to better support customers
• Where CDW is seeing benefits from bringing teams together and changing the focus from technologies to business outcomes
• How the culture around hybrid cloud is changing
• Challenges we’ve seen from customers in adopting the hybrid cloud, and how to resolve them
• How to build high-performance teams: Investing in the right people, empowering them and supporting them with the right tools
• How to inspire change as a leader within an organization