11. Developing a Cloud Roadmap

The pace of change and innovation in Information Technology and its increasing contribution to business transformation has been a major source of spending in organisations. At the same time, companies of all sizes have increasingly been affected by unpredictable and uncertain changing business environments in recent years. Whilst externally current business landscape is driven by new hurdles and opportunities such as challenging economy, emerging technologies, increasing commoditisation of technology, shorter information life cycle, increased transparency along the supply chains, changing customer demands and preferences, evolving issues around transparency, privacy, security, as well as associated regulations, compliance and standards, internally organisations are challenged by tighter budgets and emphasis on managing investments effectively, reducing costs, managing the evolving complexity of markets, managing new relationships including developing new business models to differentiate and stay competitive, harnessing the technology capabilities for efficient and effective business delivery, process and operational efficiency, strategically aligning IT resources to business needs for optimised business benefit realisation, managing risk and many more.