Cloud Innovation & Transformation
Learn about the Cloud and what it can do for you
Decision makers often do not know what it brings to their enterprise, and what Cloud offers that on-premise doesn’t. Many people are unaware of how the Cloud
- grows and shrinks according to enterprise needs, avoiding fixed costs or size constraints in a changing, omnipotent marketplace;
- supports service automation (digital transformation);
- overcomes risks when my data is outside of my four walls;
- enables remote working; and
- enables extended cloud service modelling, linkage between Cloud workflows, governance, strategy, objectives, measurements, reporting, rules and services.
IT decision makers are often unsure where the Cloud
- brings transformation and innovation across their enterprise;
- removes the need for physical locations; and
- should – or shouldn’t – be standardized to maximize value/cost ratio.
Furthermore, enterprise leaders are often unable to match who the Cloud
- aligns with in their organization, hence discovering new or adapted roles that maximize value; and
- supports or automates in real-time decision making in Cloud analytics, reporting, measurements and rules.
Another organizational challenge is that enterprises often are unable to identify when the Cloud rolls out project-by-project, department or function, having problems with effectively identifying the transitions along the way.
Last, but not least, there is uncertainty as to why the Cloud motivates any enterprise to become outperformers, unconstrained by physical constraints that extend beyond hardware to include workplaces, employee locations and travel.
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. LEADing Practice offers a unique service and approach through the combined use of cloud standards, reference content and the extensive experience of our industry professionals. Our Cloud Innovation & Transformation services include, but is not limited to:
- Analysis of the current Cloud situation and come up with detailed improvement suggestions.
- Analyze and evaluate your Cloud.
- Assess your existing Cloud Strategy and help enhance it.
- Develop directional Cloud aspects (vision, strategy, objectives, etc.).
- Identify Cloud requirements and assess your development potential.
- Design a new – or improve upon an existing – Cloud.
- Analyze your Cloud user (role) concept.
- Rethink and transform your Cloud workflows (manual and automated).
- Spot and detail how to decomplexify your Cloud.
- Identify optimization potential within the Cloud.
- Assign and work with your Cloud.
- Develop a continuous Cloud improvement technique.
- Develop a Cloud Architecture; something that can help structure and align various Cloud concepts and the Cloud.
- We can help the transformation from “siloed IT-centric Cloud services” to “user-centric Cloud products”.
- Work with change and make it stick!
- Recognise and agree on where and how to standardize.
Other services which might be interesting in combination with the above:
- We have data across 10 sectors and 52 different industries, categorized into worst, best and outperforming practices.
- Therefore, we can benchmark you against these practices and come with detailed improvement suggestions of where and how you could learn from others, enabling you with best, industry and outperforming practices.
- Knowledge worker analysis; identification of your knowledge workers (depending on industry, about 5-15% are core differentiating and core competitive knowledge workers). The rest are non-core knowledge workers, and therefore differentiating in the Cloud concepts adds no value.
- How to go about Cloud cost reduction.
- How to go about Cloud Productization (advanced categorization and classification). This could be used to develop clean and simple:
- Cloud as a Product (CaaP) concepts – can be used for Cloud product basket structure.
- Cloud Product as a Service (CPaaS) concepts – simplifies overall construct and enhances service value delivered.
- Develop a Cloud Business Case.
- Cloud Change Management services.
Our cloud reference content provides customers with a unique insight into what are the best, worst and todays leading (unique) practices within the customer’s industry. Our cloud standards are the result of international academic research and industry expert consensus on repeatable patterns that can be reused and replicated.
They have been designed to be tailored to any organization, regardless of size, scope, products, services and/or and industry. Based on this, the cloud innovation and transformation journey can be performed less costly, more reliably and much faster compared to that of other expensive consulting companies.
For the cloud innovation and transformation service offering, we recommend using a selection of the following reference content:
Cloud Management Reference Content | ID # |
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Cloud Strategy (development & re-adjust) | LEAD-ES10001PG |
Cloud Roadmap (Planning) | LEAD-ES10007BC |
Cloud Governance | LEAD-ES10018GO |
Cloud Portfolio Management | LEAD-ES10019ALL |
Cloud Modelling Reference Content | ID # |
Cloud Ontology | LEAD-ES20001ALL |
Link between Business Model and Cloud | LEAD-ES20004BC |
Cloud Services (incl. microservices) | LEAD-ES20009BCBS |
Cloud & Role Modelling | LEAD-ES20014BC |
Cloud & Workflow | LEAD-ES20017ALL |
Cloud Meta Model | LEAD-ES20023ALL |
Cloud Artefacts & Templates | LEAD-ES20028ALL |
Cloud Taxonomy i.e. Object descriptions | LEAD-ES20032ALL |
Cloud Engineering Reference Content | ID # |
Cloud Decomposition & Composition | LEAD-ES30001ALL |
Cloud Requirement Management | LEAD-ES30004ES |
Cloud Categorisation & Classification | LEAD-ES30008ES |
Digital Portfolio and Enterprise Tiering | LEAD-ES30009ALL |
Cloud Architecture Reference Content | ID # |
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Cloud & Business Architecture | LEAD-ES40002PGBCPSI |
Cloud & Information Architecture | LEAD-ES40007BCSAD |
Cloud & Platform Architecture | LEAD-ES40009PL |
Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture | LEAD-ES40010IL |
Cloud & Security Architecture | LEAD-ES40012CS |
Cloud Information & Technology Reference Content | ID # |
Cloud & Blueprinting | LEAD-ES50023ALL |
Cloud & Blockchain | LEAD-ES50029ALL |
Cloud Transformation & Innovation Reference Content | ID # |
Cloud & Change Management | LEAD-ES60002ALL |
Cloud Maturity Assessment & Development | LEAD-ES60003ALL |
Cloud Transformation Benchmarking | LEAD-ES60011ALL |
Cloud Innovation | LEAD-ES60012ALL |
Cloud & Digital Innovation & Transformation | LEAD-ES60016ALL |
Cloud Health Check | LEAD-ES60018ALL |
There are many great benefits that the Cloud can deliver to your organization and your clients. Some of these include, but is not limited to:
- You can have a partner that can cover subjects from Cloud vision and strategy, and analyze the Cloud maturity to help implement the changes.
- Get help with reducing Cloud.
- Develop or update the development path/roadmap for your Cloud.
- Whereas high complexity exists within your Cloud concepts, you have a partner that specializes in simplification and reduction of complexity.
- You can maximize value/cost ratio within your Cloud concepts.
- Different Cloud concepts with a need to understand where you should – and where you should not – standardize Cloud aspects.
- Increase the level of digitalisation by moving to the Cloud across organizational boundaries.
- When – and where – to create valuable context and structure within the Cloud.
- With Cloud Productization, you can finally rethink your Cloud concepts and their overall structure.
We invite you to engage with our cloud experts to discuss your needs and wants and how our identified cloud practices could help you and your organization.