Design Your Cloud Operations

It’s “day two” in the cloud. Now what?

The Situation

Traditional IT capabilities, activities, organizational structures, and culture need to adjust to leverage the value of cloud, optimize spend, and manage risk.

Different stakeholders across previously separate teams rely on one another more than ever, but rules of engagement do not yet exist.

Design Your Cloud Operations visualization

Assess your key workflows’ maturity for life in the cloud and evaluate your readiness and need for new ways of working
Identify the work that must be done to deliver value in cloud services
Design your cloud operations framework and communicate it clearly and succinctly to secure buy-in

Blueprint Contents

Design Your Cloud Operations – Storyboard
Cloud Operations Design Sketchbook
Roadmap Tool
Cloud Maturity Assessment
Cloud Operations Communication Plan
Cloud Operations Organizing Framework: Executive Brief

Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

9.1/10

Overall Impact

$44,833

Average $ Saved

Average Days Saved

Member Testimonials
Client	State of Michigan
Experience	Workshop
Impact	8/10
$ Saved	$40,800
Days Saved	32
Testimonial

Member Testimonials
Client	Milliman, Inc.
Experience	Guided Implementation
Impact	9/10
$ Saved	$13,600
Days Saved	10
Testimonial	Nabeel is/was a great partner to Milliman's GCS IT I&O team. Helpful, translator, instigator, teacher and coach. Nabeel is/was a great partner to Milliman's GCS IT I&O team. Helpful, translator, instigator, teacher and coach.

Member Testimonials
Client	University of Ottawa
Experience	Guided Implementation
Impact	10/10
$ Saved	N/A
Days Saved	5
Testimonial

Member Testimonials
Client	Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services
Experience	Workshop
Impact	8/10
$ Saved	N/A
Days Saved	N/A
Testimonial	We provided Jeremy with a less-than-ideal situation and he continued to provide the best value he could. I greatly appreciated his work and apologi... We provided Jeremy with a less-than-ideal situation and he continued to provide the best value he could. I greatly appreciated his work and apologize for the situation we put him in. I hope the workshop will continue to influence those at OMES and good things will come from it.

Member Testimonials
Client	Ledcor Industries Inc.
Experience	Workshop
Impact	9/10
$ Saved	$27,500
Days Saved	18
Testimonial	Enjoyed the collaboration and reconnecting the dots with the different business areas Enjoyed the collaboration and reconnecting the dots with the different business areas

Member Testimonials
Client	The Alberta Teachers Association
Experience	Workshop
Impact	9/10
$ Saved	$50,000
Days Saved	20
Testimonial	Nabeel was excellent and struck a great balance in getting to know our small team in the time we had and being very productive while we attended th... Nabeel was excellent and struck a great balance in getting to know our small team in the time we had and being very productive while we attended the workshop. He was able to spend time between sessions preparing and saving us time in the workshops which was very much appreciated. He was very quick to understand our environment and after a day and a half worked almost predictively with us on a few fronts. Because we were moving so quickly (mainly because we have a small team), he was able to add another deliverable for us around RACI diagrams, which was a great add-on. It was also maybe one of the most difficult parts of the workshop though as this exercise just has too much detail - this became a real struggle to get through because it's simply too long. Everything else was excellent!

Member Testimonials
Client	State of Michigan
Experience	Workshop
Impact	10/10
$ Saved	$137K
Days Saved	110
Testimonial	Franklly the last two questions in this survey. It's very difficult to come up with the "Time Saved" estimate due internal obsticles that must be ... Franklly the last two questions in this survey. It's very difficult to come up with the "Time Saved" estimate due internal obsticles that must be overcome that your engagment may or may not have solved. Until I get buy in it's hard to calculate. The last time you folks hosted something like this we all went away thinking we had consensus only to find out we had small apetite for the changes needed. Hopefully this time that won't happen. As to costs that's even harder as we don't really know if our cloud migration will actually be less costly than on prem.

Member Testimonials
Client	Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada
Experience	Workshop
Impact	10/10
$ Saved	N/A
Days Saved	20
Testimonial	Very good workshop. Jeremy provided a lot of valuable information and got us working well together. Very good workshop. Jeremy provided a lot of valuable information and got us working well together.

Member Testimonials
Client	Experience	Impact	$ Saved	Days Saved	Testimonial
State of Michigan	Workshop	8/10	$40,800	32
Milliman, Inc.	Guided Implementation	9/10	$13,600	10	Nabeel is/was a great partner to Milliman's GCS IT I&O team. Helpful, translator, instigator, teacher and coach. Nabeel is/was a great partner to Milliman's GCS IT I&O team. Helpful, translator, instigator, teacher and coach.
University of Ottawa	Guided Implementation	10/10	N/A	5
Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services	Workshop	8/10	N/A	N/A	We provided Jeremy with a less-than-ideal situation and he continued to provide the best value he could. I greatly appreciated his work and apologi... We provided Jeremy with a less-than-ideal situation and he continued to provide the best value he could. I greatly appreciated his work and apologize for the situation we put him in. I hope the workshop will continue to influence those at OMES and good things will come from it.
Ledcor Industries Inc.	Workshop	9/10	$27,500	18	Enjoyed the collaboration and reconnecting the dots with the different business areas Enjoyed the collaboration and reconnecting the dots with the different business areas
The Alberta Teachers Association	Workshop	9/10	$50,000	20	Nabeel was excellent and struck a great balance in getting to know our small team in the time we had and being very productive while we attended th... Nabeel was excellent and struck a great balance in getting to know our small team in the time we had and being very productive while we attended the workshop. He was able to spend time between sessions preparing and saving us time in the workshops which was very much appreciated. He was very quick to understand our environment and after a day and a half worked almost predictively with us on a few fronts. Because we were moving so quickly (mainly because we have a small team), he was able to add another deliverable for us around RACI diagrams, which was a great add-on. It was also maybe one of the most difficult parts of the workshop though as this exercise just has too much detail - this became a real struggle to get through because it's simply too long. Everything else was excellent!
State of Michigan	Workshop	10/10	$137K	110	Franklly the last two questions in this survey. It's very difficult to come up with the "Time Saved" estimate due internal obsticles that must be ... Franklly the last two questions in this survey. It's very difficult to come up with the "Time Saved" estimate due internal obsticles that must be overcome that your engagment may or may not have solved. Until I get buy in it's hard to calculate. The last time you folks hosted something like this we all went away thinking we had consensus only to find out we had small apetite for the changes needed. Hopefully this time that won't happen. As to costs that's even harder as we don't really know if our cloud migration will actually be less costly than on prem.
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada	Workshop	10/10	N/A	20	Very good workshop. Jeremy provided a lot of valuable information and got us working well together. Very good workshop. Jeremy provided a lot of valuable information and got us working well together.

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Increase in stakeholder satisfaction where IT leaders used Info-Tech services

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