McKinsey April 26, 2022
In this interview, TrueBlue’s chief technology and information officer explains why migrating to the cloud was always about far more than just technology.
When recruitment, staffing, and workforce provider TrueBlue embarked on its cloud journey in 2018, it approached the migration as a way to create value for the entire enterprise, rather than just an IT enhancement. Having migrated the bulk of its primary data centers by 2020, the company is now innovating at speed, operating at far greater capital efficiency, and releasing a steady stream of new products and services. Jeff Dirks, TrueBlue’s chief technology and information officer, discusses his company’s cloud journey with McKinsey’s Chhavi Arora, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Venkatesh Lakshminarayanan, and Brendan Campbell. What follows is an edited...