To free your organization from US shitty tech and become less vulnerable to the instability of the US, you first need to assess the situation for your organization. Where exactly does your vulnerabilities lie? Based on this, a mitigation plan can be drawn up to reduce your vulnerability. So: what are you replacing with what, what does that mean, what are the costs (and savings!), what are the risks? And what is the priority? You can then switch step by step to other software or service providers that will reduce your vulnerability.
First, you need to determine how vulnerable your organization actually is: what software or services are in use, which of these are American or otherwise deshittified, and how much money are you actually spending on them? And could you do without them? That sounds like a simple step, but it remains to be seen whether it really is. In any case, the Dutch government has indicated that it does not know the answer to this question in 20% of cases. However, the most important suppliers will quickly become clear. Think of Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta: the big boys.
Once the situation for your organization is clear, a plan can be drawn up to replace vulnerabilities. Start with the biggest ones first, but there may also be some low-hanging fruit. It may also be possible to achieve significant cost savings (for example, by replacing Microsoft Office365 with an open-source version). That could also be an important reason to do something like that first. However, employees are used to and attached to what they currently have. Expect resistance. It is essential to involve employees and the works council in the why, what, and how. Existing suppliers will also make themselves heard: they won’t like this project.
In this phase, the transition to alternative software and services is carried out step by step. Continuity of business processes is paramount here. This is also the phase in which the organization will have to get used to changed tools and working methods. Good preparation and a testing phase to ensure that the transition runs as smoothly as possible are therefore essential.
If it had been easy, we would have done it all long ago. The problem is that we have become accustomed to and attached to how we do things now, and that change has been deliberately made difficult or presented as impossible. On top of that, we still have to see whether the new situation works just as easily.
This may be more work than you had hoped for. deSHITtify can guide you and help you through every step of the process. Make a no-obligation appointment to explore how your organization can become less vulnerable to the instability and shitty quality (and associated costs) of American services.