The cloud adoption playbook : proven strategies for transforming your organization with the cloud

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Business Drivers -- Addressing Challenges for the Enterprise -- What Drives a Business to the Cloud? -- What Do You Gain from Cloud? -- Implications to the Enterprise -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Framework Overview -- The Framework -- Key dimensions of cloud adoption -- Steps in the adoption journey -- Ten Key Actions of the Framework -- 1. Involve the right people -- 2. Achieve business and technology alignment -- 3. Take a holistic approach across dimensions -- 4. Assume an outside-in, client-centered approach -- 5. Open the aperture to new possibilities -- 6. Show progress and quick wins -- 7. Collaborate actively -- 8. Balance sustained and disruptive innovation -- 9. Establish success criteria -- 10. Account for a multicloud hybrid model -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Strategy -- What Does a Cloud Strategy Mean for the CIO? -- What Do We Really Mean by â Strategyâ ? -- Developing a Cloud Strategy -- What Are the Complete Dimensions of a Cloud Strategy? -- What Key Considerations Should a Cloud Strategy Address? -- Service types -- Deployment models -- Roles -- Controls -- Vendor relationships -- What Prescriptive Steps Are Required to Develop a Cloud Strategy? -- Step 1: Define business objectives and constraints -- Step 2: Complete analysis of your workload portfolio -- Step 3: Envision your future state and analyze your current state -- Step 4: Assess your organizationâ s readiness -- Step 5: Build an execution framework with defined strategic milestones -- Step 6: Define proven approaches best suited to your organization -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Culture and Organization -- What Does the Cloud Mean for Human Resources? -- What Do We Really Mean by â Cultureâ ? -- What cultural elements make cloud adoption easier or harder? -- Talent and flexibility