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: Document Your Vision and Alignment
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 | Record your cloud mission and vision. |
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| 1.2 | Document your cloud strategy’s alignment with other strategic plans. |
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| 1.3 | Record your cloud guiding principles. |
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Module 2: Record Your People Strategy
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 | Outline your skills and roles strategy. |
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| 2.2 | Document your approach to culture and adoption |
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| 2.3 | Create a cloud governing body. |
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Module 3: Document Governance Principles
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 | Conduct discussion on architecture. |
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| 3.2 | Conduct discussion on integration and interoperability. |
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| 3.3 | Conduct discussion on operations management. |
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| 3.4 | Conduct discussion on cloud portfolio management. |
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| 3.5 | Conduct discussion on cloud vendor management. |
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| 3.6 | Conduct discussion on finance management. |
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| 3.7 | Conduct discussion on security. |
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| 3.8 | Conduct discussion on data controls. |
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Module 4: Formalize Your Technology Strategy
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 | Formalize organizational approach to monitoring. |
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| 4.2 | Document provisioning process. |
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| 4.3 | Outline migration processes and procedures. |
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