Mistakes Made in Building a Cloud Strategy

 Mistakes Made in Building a Cloud Strategy

1. Assuming it’s an IT (only) strategy, not involving business 

2. Not having an exit strategy 

3. Combining a cloud strategy with cloud adoption/migration/implementation 

4. “It’s too late — we’re already executing,” redoing everything 

5. Equating a cloud strategy with “we’re moving everything to the cloud” 

6. Our cloud strategy is our data center strategy/it’s “all in” or nothing 

7. Our strategy is by executive mandate 

8. We’re a shop so that’s our cloud strategy/we need a single vendor cloud strategy 

9. Outsourcing your cloud strategy 

10. We are “cloud-first” and that is our strategy

PS: How to map cloud journey and avoid mistakes in execution

Source: Gartner, BCG, Mckinsey