Cloud Readiness Assessment

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No clear strategy or roadmap from senior leadership.

Cloud initiatives are important to senior IT leadership but not to our business executives.

Cloud initiatives are important to senior leadership but there’s no coherent strategy across the organisation.

Very important, with cloud strategies aligned and optimised to meet business objectives.

There’s no dedicated budget for cloud spending.

We have dedicated budgets, but only for specific cloud projects.

We have dedicated cloud budgets aimed at reducing our reliance on on-prem technology.

Cloud budgets are implicit, with on-premises spend only where justified.

No. It is up to individual managers, funded by their own budgets.

Yes. We have some basic on-demand training courses and labs for our employees.

Yes. We have on-demand training courses, hands-on labs and instructor-led training options.

Yes. We have created a culture of continuous learning through hands-on labs, instructor-led training and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

Rarely. Third parties are used only to provide specialised knowledge or support.

Somewhat. Third parties are relied upon to deliver some cloud work.

Extensively. Third parties are relied upon to deliver most or all cloud work

Data is decentralised and in silos. We don’t have a centralised data management strategy.

We have a documented data policy, which we manage through manual review.

We have systems for ingesting, storing and discovering data. However, our data governance still needs to improve.

We have centralised automated data management, fully documented with strong data governance for compliance.

Most provisioning efforts are done manually.

Limited automation like scripting. Mostly manual. Different teams use different methods.

Some processes are totally automated, but not all teams are automating everything.

We have fully automated almost all cloud provisioning.

Monolithic applications with a wide technology stack, each deployed as a single unit.

Applications are modularised and independently deployable but significant dependencies still exist.

Applications consistently utilise a component-based modular architecture with minimal monolithic stack dependencies.