Organizational Resilience and Dynamic Capabilities During Rapid Cloud Migration: A Longitudinal Analysis

Accelerated digital transformation imperatives frequently compel enterprise organizations to execute rapid cloud migrations. While unoptimized “lift-and-shift” strategies enable rapid short-term operational continuity, they trigger profound socio-technical friction, workforce burnout, and exponential technical debt accumulation. This paper presents a 24-month longitudinal analysis of 42 enterprise organizations across four migration-strategy cohorts, formulating and empirically tracking a co-evolving Technical Debt Ratio (TDR) and Organizational Resilience Index (ORI) moderated by dynamic reconfiguring capability. Organizations pairing dynamic capabilities with structured change management (Cohort D) achieved a 72.2% higher final resilience index and 78.2% faster operational incident resolution than unmanaged lift-and-shift organizations (Cohort A). This revised edition extends the longitudinal evaluation with an illustrative organizational validation study: a simulated cross-sectional survey of enterprise transformation stakeholders (N = 224) analyzed with reliability, validity, and PLS-SEM-style structural path techniques comparable to those conducted in SmartPLS, R, or SPSS/AMOS, demonstrating how perceived dynamic-capability strength translates into perceived transformation value, realized organizational resilience, and continued transformation adoption intention.