Is your organisation cloud ready?

A cloud or digital endeavour being known and understood at the C-level is a key condition for a successful outcome.

CULTURAL READINESS

‘Cloud’ and ‘digital’ have become widely used words, but mean different things to different people.

NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Heads of service, directors and other stakeholders have their priorities already set. These priorities should be mapped and translated into an assessment of their needs and wants, in relation to cloud.

NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Identify business services that could be “quick wins” for cloud adoption, those that will show value early in the project.

TECHNICAL READINESS

A full discovery of your ICT infrastructure should enable better categorisation of systems and allows cost forecasting for cloud transformation, per business service.

TECHNICAL READINESS

Understand your application estate, identify legacy applications, incompatibilities and any vendor constraints/restrictions on cloud.

BUDGETARY READINESS

Transformational projects are investments, there must be acceptance of the necessity for investing to save and investing to focus on the organisational mission.

RESOURCING READINESS

Do the resources exist in your organisation to go it alone? If not you need to budget for bringing-in proven expertise to augment your own.

AWARENESS AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK

What is your organisation's risk appetite?

AWARENESS AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK

Due diligence could be required on the supplier and their supply chain, to include their management of risks and their security and compliance status.