Appendix B
Executive Scenario for Cloud Migration
This narrative discussion will help you to understand the decisions that must be made by members of a corporate executive team when considering a move to cloud-based operations. In our scenario, consider a situation which the Acme Widgets company has increased production from $12M in revenue to $120M over the past five years. Facing a projected growth of 20% in sales ($144M in the next year), the company infrastructure has been stretched to the limits of capacity and there are demands for more from both internal users and from external clients and vendors.
Susan, the CEO, has been lauded for bringing the company phenome- nal growth. Increasing a company’s revenue stream 10-fold over a five-year ...
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