Burn the ships: no looking back on legacy technology We hope you’ll join us! Register here. You may have heard various accounts of “burning the ships” in blogs and leadership lessons – if you believe the legend, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés delivered a rousing order to his men when they launched their conquest of the Aztec empire in 1519 – “ Burn the ships”! The legitimacy of the story is lost in lore; however, the concept remains – make a decision, commit, leave no way back. We engage with credit unions at various stages of cloud adoption and digital transformation – some have fully committed and are conquering new territories, others have half their team on land and the other half still on the ship, while many remain moored offshore wondering what to do next.