What this book covers
Chapter 1, Leadership, Will, and Mindset, offers insights into the importance of the leadership, will and mindset in setting up the organization’s strategy and vision for success. This chapter also explores the significance of leadership with a few real-world examples and how it shapes their future.
Chapter 2, A Primer on the Cloud, provides an overview of the fundamental cloud concepts, including its essential characteristics. This chapter also explores cloud adoption across multiple industries, the myths of cloud adoption, and driving business agility with the cloud.
Chapter 3, Enterprise Challenges with Cloud Adoption, explores the challenges and complexities that enterprises face with cloud adoption and the techniques to navigate them. It further explores how enterprises can identify the right workloads for cloud transformation, cloud best practices, and dealing with cloud financial models.
Chapter 4, Building the Foundations for a Modern Enterprise, offers insights into organizational change management, cloud maturity assessment frameworks, establishing a cloud center of excellence, and building a cloud foundation that is based on open standards.
Chapter 5, An Enterprise Journey to Cloud Transformation, provides an overview of the multi-dimensional value-complexity matrix, various enterprise cloud transformation journeys, cloud migration strategies, and innovating with emerging technologies in the cloud.
Chapter 6, Building an Open and Nimble Cloud Framework, focuses on defining a cloud adoption framework, hybrid cloud design patterns, blueprints for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures, security architectures, and cloud-native anti-patterns.
Chapter 7, Hybrid Cloud Use Cases, explores the cloud transformation journeys of enterprises that have embraced the cloud to drive business objectives
Chapter 8, Architecting a Cloud-Ready Enterprise, offers insights into an opinionated framework that can serve as a blueprint for architecting a provider-agnostic cloud framework and how organizations can choose the right cloud strategy.
Chapter 9, Facets of Digital Transformation, provides an overview of the core facets of digital transformation, including building a security-first cloud architecture, modernizing infrastructure, application modernization, data modernization, and optimizing and scaling cloud infrastructure to maximize cloud value realization.
Chapter 10, Leading and Innovating with the Cloud, explores the strategies organizations can leverage to lead and innovate in the cloud, including setting up innovation centers of excellence and innovating responsibly with emerging technologies.
Chapter 11, ESG and Sustainability, explores the value enterprises can gain from ESG and sustainability goals and initiatives, how to build a sustainability program, and how to leverage the cloud as an enabler for an organization’s ESG objectives.
