Is Your Company Ready for Cloud: Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business

7. Planning the Transition

Hindsight is 20-20 or so the saying goes. The implication is that your vision is clearer when you look back because you can see actual outcomes of actual events. The mere fact that you should learn from yours as well as the experiences of others makes this saying a good idea, but it also begs the question, “In our rapid paced world, new economic environment, and increasingly complex society, how can we effectively glance at the past yet reflect long enough to apply experiences for our future?” This chapter discusses transition planning considerations, including (but not limited to) the business of cloud computing. Intertwined are discussions on change management and the necessity of rapid insights into information and ...