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Business context
An established virtual desktop estate needed modernising ahead of an operating-system support deadline.
Enterprise Transformation Brief · Volume 03
Corporate experience · Global consumer enterprise
Enterprise Digital Workplace Transformation
Modernising virtual desktops in phases, with cloud and on-premises environments running side by side.
Read the brief online →~1,000Desktops moved to cloud-hosted VDI in the first phase
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Transformation challenge
The new operating system required more capable desktops, and the organisation did not want to expand on-premises hardware to meet it.
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Strategic response
A move to a cloud-hosted virtual desktop platform that kept the existing desktop virtualisation software, with cloud and on-premises environments running side by side during a phased migration.
- Operations
- Operations across cloud and on-premises environments were supported under a single managed service.
- Technology
- A cloud-hosted virtual desktop platform supporting a hybrid VDI estate.
04
Executive decisions
- Run the operating-system upgrade and VDI migration as one programme.
- Phase the migration, running cloud and on-premises environments side by side.
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Devendra’s role
Programme scale describes the transformation. This describes the leadership contribution within it.
- Integration Architecture
- Integrated the hybrid VDI architecture and coordinated delivery across workstreams.
- Programme Coordination
- Coordinated the operating-system upgrade and VDI migration as one programme, delivered in phases.
06 · Business outcomes
Verified results
- Devices in scope
- 2,500Devices in scope
- Desktops moved in the first phase
- ~1,000Desktops moved in the first phase
- 2,500 devices in scope for hybrid VDI
- ~1,000 desktops moved in the first phase
- Cloud and on-premises VDI run side by side during the transition
Transformation focus
- Hybrid VDI
- Phased migration
- Integration architecture
07
Leadership lesson
Employee experience is an executive metric. When people are equipped and confident, adoption stops being a programme risk.
08 · Executive takeaway
The shift to a digital workplace is not just an IT initiative. It is a business imperative.
Read the brief online →Why this matters
Relevant when you are facing:
- Post-merger operating model fragmentation
- Workplace and employee experience change
- Integration across global technology teams
- IT support cost and agility pressure
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