Framing Your Adoption
In the last chapter, we discussed why strategy is important and looked at common adoption scenarios to help you define an approach that works for your business. But strategy without execution is just a bunch of ideas – exciting ideas with amazing potential, sure, that are great to talk about with your colleagues, but just ideas, nonetheless.
Now, the work must start, but how can you turn these great ideas into reality? Once you start to pick apart each idea and discover what actually needs to be done, it can become overwhelming very quickly. You need to be ready for cloud adoption, meaning your technology and people are ready. You also need to know what you’re getting into and have a plan. If you are new to the cloud, a lack of experience can prevent you from creating a credible plan – you don’t know what you don’t know. Even if you have many years of experience working in a cloud environment, and you feel confident that you...