Document Your Cloud Strategy
Drive consensus by outlining how your organization will use the cloud.
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If you don’t get a handle on your cloud strategy, you can expect:
- A consistent, organization-wide approach to the cloud, that accounts for your organizational requirements
- A set of principles that can be applied to decisions about workloads, speeding up the cloud transition process
- A framework for discussing and iterating on key components of the cloud strategy
- Formal governance around cost, provisioning, integration, and more
By documenting a formal cloud strategy, you will derive the following benefits:
- Alignment between IT and the business on the right use of cloud services within the organization
- The right processes and procedures for governing the cloud
- High stakeholder satisfaction
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Align business & IT goals; form current state understanding
The Purpose
- Understand and document your cloud vision and its alignment with your other strategic priorities.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A complete understanding of your strategy,
vision, alignment, and a list of success metrics that will help you find your
way.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Identify individuals for your cloud council. |
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| 1.2 | Identify shared services. |
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| 1.3 | Discuss staff training and retention. |
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Module 2: Assess value & risk of cloud
The Purpose
- Define how people, skills, and roles will contribute to the broader cloud strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Sections of the strategy that highlight skills, roles,
culture, adoption, and the creation of a governance body.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Data governance. |
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| 2.2 | Security governance. |
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| 2.3 | Finance management. |
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| 2.4 | Vendor management. |
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Module 3: Evaluate risk and develop mitigation strategies
The Purpose
- This section facilitates governance in the cloud, developing principles that apply to architecture, integration, finance management, and more.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Sections of the strategy that define governance principles.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Portfolio management. |
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| 3.2 | Integration and interoperability. |
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| 3.3 | Architecture. |
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| 3.4 | Operations management. |
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Module 4: Outline strategy & roadmap
The Purpose
- Creation of a formal cloud strategy relating to technology around provisioning, monitoring, and migration.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completed strategy sections of the document that cover
technology areas.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Discuss workload (application) hosting decision matrix. |
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| 4.2 | Identify necessary controls for provisioning and monitoring the cloud environment. |
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