PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDE
Cloud Strategy
What should a modern cloud strategy accomplish?
The short answer
A modern cloud strategy should connect resilience, security, cost, data, and AI enablement to the organization’s operating priorities—not merely move infrastructure to a different location.
Four operating priorities
Tie architecture to business outcomes
Make this visible in the operating model, assign ownership, and connect it to evidence the organization can review.
Design for resilience and recoverability
Make this visible in the operating model, assign ownership, and connect it to evidence the organization can review.
Make security and governance foundational
Make this visible in the operating model, assign ownership, and connect it to evidence the organization can review.
Create a data foundation for automation and AI
Make this visible in the operating model, assign ownership, and connect it to evidence the organization can review.
A practical starting sequence
- Name the business outcome and the people affected.
- Map the information, systems, decisions, and permissions involved.
- Choose a contained use case with a measurable result.
- Set the review, escalation, and learning process before launch.
- Scale only after the evidence supports it.