Cloud-First Strategy: Ask This;

Cloud-First Strategy: Ask This;

TLDR: Ask This;

1. How does your organization decide where to put data on a hybrid cloud and how to use it?

2. How does cloud become a core it service and deliver business results?

3. How will cloud based systems drive the business model?

4. Will the cloud provider use the data for any purpose other than the delivery of the service?

5. Does your organization have a back up cloud provider keeping in sync with primary vendor?

6. Does a cloud first strategy move business and security functions to integrate?

7. Does your organization have a written strategic plan for the adoption of cloud computing?

8. What types of cloud service model do you plan to use in your organization in the future?

9. Is your data center ready to adopt a hybrId cloud strategy?

10. Where are the cloud providers service centres, and what level of vetting have the staff undergone?

11. Does your organization have a cloud first policy?

12. How far can the use of cloud technology help deliver a better user experience for end consumers, and what end user applications are likely to be migrated to the cloud first?

13. What will make you successful at implementing a hybrid cloud architecture?

14. How long will hybrid cloud be the operating model for organizations?

15. How will cloud affect your current and future operating model?

16. What are the key attributes of a winning cloud provider business strategy and model?

17. Does the cloud provider have snapshot capability for its block storage service?

18. When will it reach the cloud first tipping point?

19. What will the new cloud environment look like?

20. Are cloud based apps and data the new normal in your organization?

21. How important are cloud first strategies when managing and analyzing data on a large scale?

22. Is public cloud first or data center first?

23. What is a cloud data warehouse, and why is it important?

24. What will the true cost of cloud ownership include?

25. Is the cloud providers privacy policy consistent with your organizations business requirements?

26. How do other organizations decide on the best fitting cloud model for the business strategies?

27. Do you have a streamlined governance model for your hybrid or multi cloud environment?

28. How will moving to the cloud affect the hardware license costs?

29. What does cloud computing do that is so powerful?

30. How does ensuring the perception of confidentiality make sure there is a firewall between where the status is stored, how does that fit into the considerations of cloud computing?

31. How will you deploy the new cloud environment?

32. Where will non cloud IT be situated?

33. Do you have a way to manage assets across your public and private cloud environments?

34. How does partner of record work in the cloud distributor model?

35. How can the cloud support your business strategy?

36. Is your organization taking a cloud first perspective in all future projects?

37. How do you move forward and get started with cloud computing?

38. Do all legacy and core applications run on cloud compute platform / virtual machines?

39. Do you have tools to collect logs and metadata from the cloud platform?

40. Which applications and workloads are commonly run on private cloud as opposed to public?

41. Will the cloud vendor remain in business for the next few years?

42. Can your organization run forensic tools on the cloud system?

43. Is the overall move to the cloud environment reflecting what was expected?

44. What are the business benefits of cloud outside of technology?

45. How much and what type of cloud architecture should each business adopt?

46. Why does cloud stack up for your organization?

47. Do you have a cloud exit strategy?

48. Do you have a cloud first approach/strategy to applications?

Organized by Key Themes: CLOUD, TECHNOLOGY, DATA, STRATEGY, PRODUCT, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, DEVELOPMENT, ENGINEERING, LEAD:

CLOUD:

What is your status in terms of using the cloud to host or deliver IT services?

Make sure the Chief Data Officer (CDO) partners with the CIO and leaders across the organization to provide the vision, strategic direction, and overall leadership in the development of an integrated best-in class, robust, automated, centralized, governed, and reliable, cloud first, enterprise data platform and use it to deliver transformative, advanced analytics solutions and products.?

Are the costs including the latest decreases in infrastructure hosting?

Develop experience building and deploying applications to the Azure cloud using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, evaluation, design, and development of Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Single Sign On (SSO) technical requirements, solutions, and implementation roadmap to ensure functional, reliable, secure and cost-effective technology environment.?

What are the culture shifts when moving from infrastructure as hardware to infrastructure as code?

Implement a cloud first technology strategy and identify opportunities to solve business challenges by modernizing and continually improving IT business applications.?

Who determines user access rights to data?

Liaison so that your personnel is working with application teams and technology architects, determine the right solutions to business needs with cloud technologies, leveraging cloud-first and cloud-agnostic designs, patterns, and services.?

What cloud moves should be made first?

Interface so that your design partners across business and technology disciplines to present and deliver the needed architectures focusing on a cloud first mentality.?

Is the application still being defined?

Ensure you deliver services that connect, host, virtualize, store, collaborate, integrate, compute and transact business solutions that utilizes cloud first, automation, analytics, as a Service, BIG data and software defined.?

Does your system meet your other security requirements?

Check that your organization delivers cloud first business architecture and scalable and flexible solutions to meet business demand.?

Which companies are you using to support your overall adoption of cloud services?

Drive a close alignment and support of data held in Service Cloud with the Support team leadership and organization.?

How do you measure your softwares contribution to your organizations goals?

Oversee that your operation has involvement transforming IT infrastructure and moving your organization toward a mature cloud based service delivery model.?

What operating systems are you supporting?

Ensure strong technical involvement with architecting, implementing and supporting on-premises infrastructure, public/private cloud infrastructure and business application solutions in a mid to large size organization.?

TECHNOLOGY:

Is cloud mostly about cost savings or are there other advantages?

Develop experience developing strategies to leverage cloud technology to solve for overarching organization business challenges.?

How much time do you have in your schedule to drive the initiatives through your business?

Make sure the VP interprets business strategy and aligns technology resources, including Infrastructure and Enterprise Applications to provide technology capabilities that drive business value.?

Is there a compensation scheme supporting cloud adoption?

Provide leadership for those involved in the design, implementation and optimization of one or more information technology and systems functions supporting company business processes and technical information systems platforms.?

Why does cloud stack up for your organization?

Collaborate with Alliance Management and Business Development teams to streamline and improve (internal) client onboarding and technology transfer.?

How long has your organization been utilizing cloud solutions?

Secure that your process has involvement leading development and implementation of enterprise wide data management and technology strategies, programs and services.?

How do you democratize data and enable self service?

Assure your organization connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas and drives changes and improvements to existing intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable solutions to scale across (internal) customers.?

How do you use sentiment data to diagnose stability and identify conflict risks?

Ensure your strategy partners with other business leaders to identify opportunities for significant technology and process enhancements.?

Has your organization need been identified?

Verify that your group applies broad technical, industry, and enterprise knowledge to architecture projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints.?

Can technology provide a mechanism to support innovation?

Lead Technology team to meet the needs of all levels of your organization, to maximize technology support for business optimization.?

What are the support/management needs of the application?

Certify your operation manages managing technology partners to deliver business applications and support services.?

DATA:

How do you test if provider credentials are valid?

Oversee that your operation dashboards to communicate business impact and drive thoughtful considerations with product team; identifies data that with priority to provide key insights for operational or (internal) customer problems.?

Do you have the right talent to be able to process, model and interpret big data results?

Support proof-of-concept and/or pilot engagements with data scientists and other business units to build analytics solutions focused on embedding AI/ML into critical business decisions and processes to elevate value-creation and (internal) customer involvement.?

Is your workforce ready to shift to the new paradigm of data driven decisions?

Develop experience doing data analysis, modeling, and/or financial analysis to support or drive business decisions.?

How do you select a cloud provider?

Certify your design is involved in developing business strategies through sound business judgement, collaboration, data benchmarking and validation through research and testing.?

What is the process for business sign off on a new model?

Safeguard that your team is assisting with developing and executing data and business intelligence strategy.?

How long does the vendor retain the information after termination?

Develop experience using data to drive business outcomes or inform business decisions.?

How is the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data maintained?

Provide and interpret analytical data on case metrics, incident trends, and programmatic service level agreements (SLAs) and report out metrics to leadership through regularly occurring business reviews.?

What sorts of models should be built, and how?

Confirm that your group leads disaster recovery planning and testing activities, develops and implements business continuity protocols to minimize disruption to business operations in the event of emergency situations or data loss.?

Does your organization support the use of PGP for asymmetric data exchange?

Manage a portfolio of data center programs from initiation through execution, enhancing business value across different program delivery dimensions.?

How do other organizations decide on the best fitting cloud model for the business strategies?

Partner with business leadership to precisely define, easily integrate and effectively retrieve data for both internal applications and external communication.?

STRATEGY:

Can your systems support rapid delivery?

Partner with IT Infrastructure Services, IT Security, and Solution Delivery teams on technical strategy and innovation plans to support the IT vision with the business teams.?

Are people embracing the changes cloud is bringing to the daily work?

Warrant that your group communicate business strategy and goals and how they align to the teams work.?

Where are the cloud providers service centres, and what level of vetting have the staff undergone?

Make sure your staff analyzes group readiness strategy proactively to ensure the team has the correct readiness plan and executes readiness plan for technologies and feature releases.?

Which provider can offer you the most flexibility and support?

Warrant that your process ensures continuation of business operations, driving strategy execution and/or leader alignment.?

How can a cloud first approach help you achieve your organizational vision?

Partner with (internal) customer business units to use to understand strategy to achieve revenue faster.?

How do you capture the value associated with time to market and faster innovation?

Be confident that your group is leading the channel business insights strategy including defining and delivering business analytics, channel metric dashboards, and metric packages to internal stakeholders.?

Do you expect to use different cloud infrastructure providers?

Translate vision and strategy into sets of solution offerings that provide real business value and outcomes to your (internal) customers.?

How do you represent the data more effectively?

Be sure your workforce identifies best practices for strategy execution, leverages information, advocating for business cases, and may present cases to leader.?

How committed is your organization to developing cloud first infrastructure?

Develop collaboration tools strategy in conjunction with business and technical teams.?

Is it aligned with the business and can it help you compete against new, nimble competitors?

Check that your personnel is driving solution architecture, and ensuring solution strategy is optimally aligned with business strategy.?

PRODUCT:

Does it address regulatory requirements, security risks, disaster recovery, etc?

Confirm that your staff supports team on escalated (internal) customer issues involving high-impact or large (internal) customers, and drives business-focused discussions with product team around (internal) customer satisfaction, roadblocks, revenue generation risks, business impact, etc.?

Is there a team that understand the methods used for developing in the cloud?

Manage a team of Product Managers that drive requirements and identify priorities to understand (internal) customer experience insights.?

Where is your organization today?

Work with internal business teams, account teams, product engineering teams and other stakeholders to articulate problem resolutions and service improvements.?

Does the cloud provider perform regular tests of its security processes and controls?

Warrant that your workforce defines and communicates product vision and strategy in line with the (internal) customers long term business goals.?

What use cases are you planning to implement?

Make sure your personnel projects include initiatives to meet regulatory and compliance requirements, business and product expansions, enhancements to existing products, and system enhancements to support operating efficiencies.?

Is real time reporting on the way?

Warrant that your process runs one or more moderately complex projects/programs from requirements to design and development to production, including scoping, planning, resource acquisition/scheduling, tracking and reporting through the coordination of an extensive project team or multiple project managers.?

How will you secure your organizations data as well as your customers data?

Oversee that your design advocating and representing the voice of business (internal) customers to influence organizational objectives, product roadmaps and the overall (internal) customer involvement.?

What should you beware of when using cloud services?

Conduct Market and (internal) customer research to ensure Product vision and strategy is (internal) customer centric while using design thinking tools.?

How exactly do you prioritize the migration of applications to the cloud?

Provide guidance to the Product Owner in creating and maintaining the list of backlog items and prioritize them based on the overall strategy and business objectives.?

How far can the use of cloud technology help deliver a better user experience for end consumers, and what end user applications are likely to be migrated to the cloud first?

Move the needle on business results through product improvements, and relentless focus on measuring (internal) customer and business impact to deliver a well positioned product.?

BUSINESS:

What drives organization adoption?

Guarantee your design is creating (internal) customer Success plans and conducting periodic business reviews and check ins with (internal) customers to ensure business success and to align on ways to drive more value together.?

What drives organization adoption?

Make sure the Finance team partners organization wide with organizations to deliver financial expertise that drives high business impact.?

Which workflows cannot move to the public and private clouds, respectfully?

Be certain that your design creates event plans, creative marketing, and involvement wire frames to support defined business objectives as well as ensure seamless event process flow and marketing execution landing.?

Who are the users of the information?

Guarantee your group helps drives accountability for the team and organization in executing core business activities.?

Is the application flexible and able to meet changing business requirements?

Warrant that your team leads the operation of the services that adjusts to the changing needs of your business across capability, service levels and financial impact.?

How much revenue increase do you get from using the selected cloud service?

Assure your operation is working closely with involvement Planners, Supportability Program Manager and Business Stakeholders to find solutions to the (internal) customer problems using social media.?

How do you democratize data and enable self service?

Help drive analysis and solution development of key business challenges to enable new growth and value opportunities across a swiftly dynamic and innovative business environment.?

What services did you apply to drive the customer to use the solution?

Ensure you have demonstrated involvement in partnering with Business and IT teams at multiple levels to drive alignment and delivery of complex problems.?

What is your organizational strategy and vision?

Establish business domain architecture and partner with business to establish analytics strategy and collaborate with development of business solutions.?

Can a vendor become an approved vendor through the term of the contract?

Be confident that your team proposes and develops new solutions to scale across multiple ISVs while demonstrating the business case and presenting alternative scenarios.?

MANAGEMENT:

Who is responsible for cloud strategy, and is that aligned with the business strategy?

Liaison so that your company ensures that investments and initiatives in project management services are aligned with business strategy and priorities.?

How do you move your applications to the cloud?

Secure that your process across all Information Management business and product lines.?

How do you automate processes so it is easier to maintain and manage your applications in the cloud?

Establish and maintain communication and a working relationship with management in key business areas and other overarching Reserve System IT service providers.?

What licenses can the cloud provider include?

Design and execute an IT security plan to include security training, device and password management, critical infrastructure security, network and cloud security, data security, and cybersecurity; ensure security of the physical plant.?

Do you have a cloud first approach/strategy to applications?

Promote adherence to corporate infrastructure processes, procedures, and standards; Change Management, Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan, (DR/BCP), and Security organization regulatory compliance.?

Are you confident about the solutions ability to handle security concerns?

Partner with business stakeholders across your organization to raise awareness of risk management concerns.?

Is the application to be written using advanced cloud architecture practices?

Serve as an evangelist and inspirational leader for your organization and communicate and drive the vision, execution and management of best practices in software development and portfolio operations.?

Will it of the future have its feet firmly planted in the cloud?

Break down the overall strategy into strategic initiatives with clear charters (end state, targets/KPIs, deliverables, timelines and team structures) in cooperation with Regional and Functional leaders; embed the strategic initiatives in the Performance Management Plan (PMP).?

How do you know if your legacy or planned application is viable in cloud?

Work with Account Management team to commit to client(s) on behalf of Delivery organization on SLA achievement demand plan and delivery schedule.?

Are security and risk professionals involved in cloud governance?

Confirm that your staff is involved in full life cycle implementations and the development and execution of Project Management (PM) processes and policies, including agile.?

DEVELOPMENT:

Are the cloud initiatives on your roadmap going to accelerate or hinder innovation?

Partner with (internal) customer Account Teams, Business Development Managers and Analytics Service teams to accelerate (internal) customer adoption and revenue attainment.?

How do you get rid of support contracts for hardware, software, and network?

Lead application teams in ideation and development of innovative and differentiating solutions that support business strategy.?

What tech transformation efforts has your organization launched to date?

Warrant that your design leads cross functional project teams to launch new business development initiatives.?

How long will it take for applications to be approved?

Be confident that your company supports roadmap development and the initiative intake process through feasibility analysis and estimation efforts of new concepts, ultimately delivering approved concepts in partnership with Solutions Delivery and Enterprise Architecture resources.?

Which cloud approaches is your organization most likely to use?

Oversee that your workforce leads development of Engineering practices, coding standards, CI/CD pipelines and enables Cloud first delivery approaches.?

Does the cloud provider offer different support tier levels?

Invest in the development of communication, implementation and/or training plans to support implementation of projects and/or business initiatives.?

How can the cloud support your business strategy?

Establish that your strategy improve and streamline development and application support processes and ensure robust quality assurance processes.?

Does your customer trust you and/or your partners enough?

Assure your company manages external partners for business development projects, including partner selection, planning, contract negotiation and execution.?

What does the data migration plan entail?

Create and Present architecture to development and infrastructure teams to enable them to develop low level design implementation plan.?

What are your pros and cons for a cloud first approach?

Verify that your organization brings a Cloud first approach to development solutions.?

ENGINEERING:

What types of cloud services have you used to support your business?

Secure that your operation oversees system engineers and engineering support processes to ensure effective resolution of business issues.?

Will your priority be analysis, to identify trends in customer preferences or to optimize operations?

Work with the business and function managers and engineering staff to identify IT pain points and project needs.?

Do you improve your network performance and simultaneously reduce costs?

Make sure your team provides support to develop and improve the quality of technical engineering documentation.?

How did you go about developing the deployment strategy with the customer?

Secure that your organization guides engineering teams in developing system, performance, and software specifications.?

What improvements are needed to current or future projects?

Measure and improve engineering team performance against KPIs and objectives.?

Are the license costs associated with the software sustainable for the program?

Develop experience working with engineering and operations on OKRs around service costs and performance targets.?

Do you have clearly defined development models that enable right speed?

Develop experience working with internal and external engineering partners on a platform/API design that is simple, consistent, yet powerful.?

How quickly is hybrid cloud evolving?

Define Engineering strategies and ensure that processes meet the evolving needs of the business.?

What are the most important criteria for cloud service provider selection?

Develop experience establishing Engineering processes and standard methodologies.?

What is the best suited development model?

Work with (internal) clients to develop network engineering solutions from concept through implementation.?

LEAD:

Have employee work pattern changed with the move to cloud?

Be sure your strategy partners with OCM team and functional and business leaders to mitigate disruption of change.?

What is the value that you deliver to your customers?

Safeguard that your group success in leading complex, cross organization teams to deliver business results.?

Does the cloud provider offer a load balancing service that supports session affinity?

Warrant that your team provides business leader support and actionable insights during financial close periods.?

What level of data quality is required to meet your big data goal?

Lead the application of analytical processes to the planning, design, and implementation of systems to meet business requirements.?

Are there service level agreements and escrow?

Make sure your organization is working with stakeholders and other leaders to synchronize work, make prioritization/trade off decisions for team capacity planning, and agree on goals, priorities, and dependencies.?

How far into the future does your organization project when developing its enterprise digital strategy?

Develop experience developing, mentoring, and leading (internal) customer experience teams in a growth and delivery context.?

How do you implement a cloud first strategy when constrained by a lack of internal resources, knowledge, tooling and budget?

Lead in transforming traditional disaster recovery (DR) solutions to secure, agile, scalable, always on, cloud first environments.?

Who leads decision making on selection of IT providers?

Make sure your operation partners and leads communications team to land internal and/or external content.?

What are the best practices needed for IT management?

Be certain that your staff leads team by educating them on technical and non technical concepts and sharing best practices.?

How do you align relevant stakeholders and business outcomes along a common journey and strategy?

Lead and partner on complex, cross functional projects that align critical stakeholders and secure effective design and execution of project plans.