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Business leaders should consider five key strategic moves to achieve a successful cloud transition.
Create internal pilot programs for cloud migration, conduct feedback sessions throughout the life of the pilot.
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Ask why you need cloud, what you are looking to achieve?
Decision makers may want to approach this research with an outcomes-based orientation.
Don’t spend time migrating systems that will become obsolete in the next few years.
What is that step 2 after moving to the cloud?
Even a successful migration can fall short when the outcomes aren’t defined prior to implementation.
It’s easy to gloss over these contracts and accept them as the cost of doing business.
Not every cloud service provider can or will offer five nines.
Not every company has existing in-house staff resources to support a new system or architecture.
Tight integration ensures teams can continue leveraging their ERP- orCRM-operating skills.
Leaders can also focus on (re)training their employees to use new cloud tools.
Retraining can include workshops and hands-on demos that teach actual technical skills.
Savvy leaders can also look at how new cloud operating environments may change the cultural makeup of their organization.
Organizations should recognize a metric that affords a degree of comfort, such as number of invoices.
By finding that predictable metric to measure cloud cost, companies can better forecast spending.
Partners and cloud apps with built-inmonitoringtools can help keep a close eye on relevant usage metrics.
Tightening oversight also enhances visibility.
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