CAF

CLOUD ADOPTION FRAMEWORK: STRATEGY AND PLAN WORKSHOP

Create a clear and concise business strategy for migration to the Cloud

Strategy

Envision the strategy by defining and documenting your motivations to moving to the cloud while engaging the Stakeholders.

Critical Business Events such as end of support for mission-critical technologies

  • Datacenter exit
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Reduction in capital expenses
  • EoS of mission-critical technologies
  • Regulatory compliance changes
  • Deadlines of data sovereignty requirements
  • Recent disruptions in IT stability

Migration triggers such as cost-saving and operations optimization

  • Cost savings
  • Reduction in ventor or technical complexity
  • Optimization of internal operations
  • Increase business agility
  • Prepare for new technical capabilities
  • Scale to meet market or geographic demands

Innovation triggers such as scaling to meet market or geographical demands

  • Improve customer experiences
  • Transform products or services
  • Disrupt the market with new products or services
  • Prepare or build new technical capabilities
  • Scale to meet market or geographic demands

Justify business outcomes by developing a business case to validate the financial model. Choose your first cloud adoption project to help you align your motivations with technical effort.

Plan

Convert the aspirational goals of the cloud adoption strategy into actions. Guide technical efforts, in alignment with the business strategy. Implementing Cloud adoption plan requires some initial alignment of different stakeholders who will make the plan a reality.

Create a balance between speed or moving quickly and control or reducing risks by having teams accountable for adoption and governance.

Business Outcomes

At-a-glance

Strategy

Document your business Strategy to help team members understand the cloud adoption outcomes

  • Define and understand your motivations
  • Document business outcomes
  • Develop a business case
  • Choose the right first project

Plan

Convert your cloud adoption strategy into an actionable Plan.

  • Rationalize digital estate
  • Align governance and cloud adoption
  • Plan skills readiness
  • Create an actionable cloud adoption plan