August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
64 pages
1h 19m
English
Content preview from Laying the Groundwork for Cloud
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Introduction
This report is for senior decision makers in enterprise organizations who have started (or are about to start) a cloud transformation. The report will introduce techniques you can use to drive a successful transformation, and offers advice based on my experiences in working with various organizations who ran into trouble on their journey.
The report structure follows the path you should expect to take to transform to a cloud organizational and operating model, but this blueprint can be equally applied to your broader business or digital transformation initiatives. The report does not focus on how you would create your technical architecture or migrate your applications to cloud; the focus is to set you up for success before you embark on those initiatives.
I suggest that you consider cloud as the delivery of technology as a service in a standardized and flexible way, with an operating model that helps your business to leverage improved costs, performance, and agility. Think of digital as the experience that consumers get when interacting with all of your business services, from anywhere and using any device.
The scope of this report is broader than cloud and includes transformation of the operating model. Given the immense challenge to enable cloud and change the operating model, I have included techniques to manage the transformation itself.
Transformation is both complex and challenging. Your reasons to start the journey need to be clear and you need ongoing benefits ...
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