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CIO GUIDE: REWIRING YOUR CULTURE TO BE DATA-DRIVEN 8 Successful data-driven transformation will vary depend- ing on a company's business objectives, as well as how quickly the entire workforce adapts to cultural shifts and embraces new business practices. The transition can be slow, but there are a few clear signs your organization is making headway on changing culture. They include: "Culture is hard to change and sometimes hard to define," says Vachhrajani. "It requires a tremendous amount of will and it takes time." But with the right blend of leadership, empowerment, and technology, organizations can devel- op a data-driven culture capable of making high-quality decisions, at high velocity, to innovate and grow. A higher number of innovation projects, indicating a shift to a culture of experimentation Reduced bottlenecks and cycle times across different functions, such as expediting new offerings into the product pipeline, closing new deals, or facilitating customer transactions Improved recruiting and retention, as business users are galvanized to leverage data to take action, which can boost overall job satisfaction Increased data proficiency, as newly empowered business users embrace competencies and take on roles that didn't exist before. Sponsor viewpoint Leveraging data as a strategic asset can help your or- ganization meet customer expectations and remain competitive. But the insights and truths data offers must be accessible to every facet of your business. If you're committed to reinventing your organization into a data-driven one, you can empower everyone to unlock data's potential and innovate in new ways. The move from on-premises and self-managed data solutions to fully managed cloud data services is a critical first step. Teams that are now free from managing complex and expensive infrastructures can spend time innovating and building new applications. With the right cloud partner, you can make this initial move immediately. Organizations want to be confident their choice of technology will deliver value from their data while keeping it secure and compliant across a broad and everchanging set of regulations. More organizations partner with AWS to do this than anyone else, with over 450,000 databases migrated from on-premises to the cloud using our database migration service. We've also completed this data modernization ourselves: Amazon.com migrated 75 petabytes of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases to AWS databases and reduced costs by over 60%. AWS provides you with an easy path to increased data access for all, greater visibility of your data, and immediate peace of mind. Migration to fully managed databases, storage, and analytics ser- vices on AWS allows you to offload infrastructure management tasks to AWS and focus on building applications. Join the dynamic AWS community of customers and take the first step of your data modernization journey. Learn more SUMMARY What success looks like