1. 1 Envision 3 Outline 4 Design
Our experience tells us that a successful cloud initiative is comprised of steps that produce these key outcomes during the journey.
1 Envision
2 Evaluate
3 Outline
4 Design
Identify cloud opportunities
Cloud service
delivery strategy
Cloud design
Gap analysis
Business case
Determine the opportunities cloud offers your business based on your industry
Incorporate cloud and a service delivery approach Into your IT portfolio decision process
Define the conceptual and operational design of your cloud solution
Analyze where you are and where you need to be in areas critical for cloud success
Define the total cost of ownership, return on investment , business value or full business case of your cloud
Cloud direction and scope
Architectural decisions
Management framework
Prioritized workloads
Governance and
organizational impact
After thousands of engagements with clients and cloud, we have seen that a successful cloud initiative is comprised of several steps that produce these key outcomes.
At IBM Cloud Advisory Services, we take a collaborative approach. We weave together business insight, advanced research and technology to help give you a distinct advantage in today’s rapidly changing environment. Our integrated perspective on cloud consulting, design and implementation can turn strategies into action.
Whether it is envisioning the opportunities cloud can offer your business, analyzing your gaps and infrastructure readiness, building your cloud implementation roadmap, or prioritizing what workloads you put on the cloud and how they will perform – we can help. We can also help you determine how to adjust to new services in your organization, how to make strategic systematic decisions on those services, define you architectural requirements and decisions, understand how cloud impacts your organization and governance, build your business case, design your conceptual and operational cloud and define the management framework or operating model.
Composable business is the new way forward – As is composable services offered by IBM. This will enable you to have a more personalized experience geared to your needs and your point on your cloud journey and make better decisions moving forward. To accomplish this, we use a composable model. We can help you at any step in your cloud journey. This “building block” approach allows you to build the solution you need.
Envisioning success in the cloud
Evaluating where you are, where you need to be and which workloads to migrate:
Through gap analysis
Prioritization of workloads
Outlining your service delivery strategy and technical blueprint
Defining your service Delivery Strategy
Architectural Decision and requirements
Designing your roadmap for success
Your roadmap will guide the journey from vision to success in the cloud. Key elements include:
Business Case
Cloud design
Governance and Organizational Impact, and
Management Framework
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The chart depicts the four steps of the Cloud Advisory Services composable model and the capabilities in each step. The capabilities in each step are shown in parentheses here:
Envision (Identify cloud opportunities, determine cloud direction and scope)
Evaluate (Perform gap analysis and prioritize workloads)
Outline (Determine cloud service delivery strategy and architectural decisions)
Design (Cloud design and definition of the management framework)
Define or revalidate the role and direction your organization will assume with cloud
Determine and document overarching architectural decisions and requirements
Define the management framework for the operational environment
Examine new and/or existing workloads for cloud suitability and remediation
Define the governance and organizational impact of cloud
Pilot feedback
Pilot feedback
Pilot feedback
Initial roadmap
Current state
Updated roadmap
Portfolio planning
Technical decisions
Transition plan
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2. Envision the business opportunities enabled by cloud technology.
2 Evaluate
3 Outline
4 Design
1 Envision
Envision the business opportunities enabled by cloud technology.
What we offer
Identify new business and IT transformation opportunities made possible by cloud technologies
Consider your cloud opportunities in the context of your industry trends and competitive landscape
Initiate a new level of collaboration between business and technology leaders
What you get
Identified cloud opportunities, aligned with business goals
Discussion of cloud usage trends in your industry
A new channel for business and IT collaboration
Envisioning success in the cloud
It’s important to understand the reason that you are pursuing cloud. What are the business imperatives that are driving the investigation of cloud capabilities? What business opportunities exist that you can take advantage of by implementing a cloud based solution?
Using industry data and your direction, we work with you to identify what your company can do with cloud (envision the opportunities), and we can continue to work with you to prioritize and build a detailed plan based on these opportunities. Here we bring the business and technology leaders together and on the same page.
Internal note:
This box can be delivered jointly with GBS, and behind is the Cloud Envisioning Workshop and Cloud Transformation Services engagement model.
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The second image is a pyramid titled “Are you doing enough with cloud?” The top section of the pyramid is labeled Mission for the cloud enabled transformation. The middle section is labeled Strategy. The bottom section is labeled Critical Success Factors.
The third image is a cross section of a round disk. The inner semi-circle is labeled Optimize and Why here? The middle semi-circle is labeled Innovate and the outer circle is labeled Disruptor.
The fourth image is the same as the third without the text. It has an arrow pointing from the green circle with 4 perpendicular lines to another duplicate image in the Innovator semi-circle. It is depicting the question “How do we transform and sustain?”
The fifth image is titled What competitions are doing with cloud. IT shows circles with 4 perpendicular lines extending from them, one in each semi-circle.
The last image is text. It is titled Cloud transformation roadmap. The section titles are Mission, Strategy and Critical Success Factors.
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