Conclusion - Building a Cloud Operating Model

Conclusion

Organizations that successfully establish a COM have a lot to gain. While the focus is often on cost savings, other benefits typically include reduced downtime, faster delivery of new services and capabilities, productivity improvements, and higher staff morale.

Organizations should consider developing a new operating model before they experience the four common pitfalls of unexpected and higher than predicted costs, slow and stalled adoption, outages, and/or security breaches.

The six-step approach contained in this whitepaper is provided to help guide cloud adoption leaders in developing a successful COM aligned to business needs.