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The most significant measure of success

• A Cloud COE is successful to the extent that it successfully drives cloud adoption.
• If employees feel that the Cloud COE is collaborative and that it helps facilitate cloud deployment and usage, they will be more likely to use its services to work together in building better technology, processes, and culture.
• If they feel coerced or that the Cloud COE has its own separate agenda, they are less likely to embrace the COE or work with it.
• The Cloud COE must strive always to inspire, to guide, and to support. It is an enabler of success and exists to help the overall organization achieve its goals.
• The Cloud COE is only successful if the various teams and organizations it supports are successful on their cloud journeys.

Building a Cloud Center of Excellence

• The best timing for building your Cloud COE is well before undertaking the first cloud migration.
• However, there is never a bad time to introduce best practices and cloud governance.
• Setting up a Cloud COE midway through your cloud journey still offers many opportunities to realize benefits and better alignment with your strategic goals for cloud adoption.
• Once the Cloud COE members are selected and the Cloud COE is evangelized across the organization, it is important to quickly create momentum and begin the work to set the foundation for the cloud.
• Strong executive sponsorship A successful Cloud COE empowers transformation.
• For a Cloud COE to be successful, it must itself be empowered, endorsed, and supported by strong executive sponsors. Comprehensive buy-in should expand across the C-suite and must reach across business functions, not just the Information and Technology (IT) function.
• Strong executive sponsors are actively involved in cloud deployments.
• They champion Cloud COE practices across the organization.
• And they support the Cloud COE through its evolution.

Strong executive sponsors in the form of an executive committee will:

• Co-develop objectives with the Cloud COE to make sure that activities align with the business strategy, and communicate this to the wider business and projects team(s)
•  Create a communication channel for the Cloud COE for the purpose of quickly raising issues and risks with the committee
• Announce and promote the Cloud COE communication channel(s) within the business
• Agree on the engagement model for the committee with the Cloud COE and between Cloud COE and businesses/functions
• Secure funding for the resources to staff the Cloud COE and for all the initiatives led by the COE

Organizational analysis

• Any cloud implementation strategy should be grounded in an organizational analysis.
• Included in the analysis are documenting the organization’s cloud vision and establishing measurable goals.
• The cloud vision maps business objectives and needs to technology capabilities.
• It provides the sponsor with a key tool for selling the benefits of moving to the cloud to stakeholders and decision makers within the enterprise.
• The vision is critical to establishing a realistic adoption strategy.
• It provides the business context for making cloud computing transformational for your business.
• You might kick off an organizational analysis with a workshop to discuss the cloud adoption journey and to make the key decisions required.
• Include stakeholders with both technical and business points of view. You will need both perspectives in the discussion.
• The core question to be answered is, “What will adopting the cloud do for us as a company? What outcome are we looking for?” To get at that central issue, the conversation may explore questions such as these: