13 CREATING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR THE CLOUD
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Attributed to Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
A continuing problem for IT is in gaining the required investment from the business to fund the implementation of new technologies. For many companies, this is down to an ongoing inability for the IT department to put its message across in solid business terms. It may also be linked to the business laying down inappropriate metrics for how a request should be put forward. In the case of cloud, this is made even worse, as the IT team is not only asking for money but also asking for it to be invested in an early-stage concept ...
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