CASE STUDY: Enterprise Cloud Strategy

CLIENT

Global media company

Problem / Opportunity

The client was struggling to deliver cloud capabilities to meet the needs of its 60 distinct brands. At least three different offerings were made by separate infrastructure teams - each at different levels of development and varied support models - leading to considerable business confusion over which cloud to leverage and associated benefits.

Resolution & Results

To devise a coherent enterprise cloud strategy, a working group of 85 participants representing all the company brands was organized into 14 distinct workstreams covering a variety of perspectives about the cloud, such as goals, network architecture, financial management, and legal considerations. Each workstream was organized into a series of workshops that included presentation of industry best practices before synthesizing on requirements and design. The entire initiative was time boxed to 12 weeks.

At the end of the project, all 85 participants were able to agree on a consensus enterprise cloud strategy with 11 distinct goals, over 200 requirements and 80 requirements prioritized to be part of a minimum viable product, informing the enterprise investment plan. This project earned the recognition of the American Business Association for Cloud Innovation.