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Is Your IT Organization Ready to Unlock the Full Potential of the Cloud?
With tailored recommendations, we guide you in ensuring the optimal alignment of your IT organization with a modern Cloud Operating Model. Take the next step in cloud maturity to offer your customers even more scalability, flexibility, and speed in your cloud services.
Contact & Appointment Scheduling
Contact us with your request for a Cloud Maturity Assessment. Together, we will define key focus areas and schedule an on-site appointment.
Assessment Workshop
In a full-day workshop at your location, we will collaboratively examine the eight core areas of Cloud Operating Models, with a particular focus on the areas most important to you.
Evaluation & Action Planning
We analyze the workshop results and determine an overall score for the eight core areas of the Cloud Operating Model. In a results presentation, we will share our analysis and outline measures for optimization.
Our Approach
The Eight Core Areas of Cloud Maturity
Our Cloud Maturity Assessment provides you with a comprehensive overview of your cloud maturity level and evaluates how well your organization is prepared for the demands of modern cloud technologies. As part of the analysis, we examine these eight key areas of action:
Cloud Strategy
The strategy forms the foundation for all IT initiatives, including cloud and its corresponding Cloud Operating Model. It is crucial to have a clear understanding of your IT business model and the role that cloud services play. This includes the specific value cloud delivers to you and your customers, along with well-defined value cases.
Cloud Governance
Process management, combined with performance and capacity management, plays a significant role in achieving the scalability and flexibility of your cloud services in daily operations. Additionally, your focus should be on robust cloud risk management and clear cloud governance.
Architecture & Infrastructure
A well-defined cloud reference architecture serves as a critical cornerstone of your Cloud Operating Model. Effective documentation standards ensure consistency across your cloud services. Clear guidelines for infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native solutions should also be implemented.
Security & Compliance
Whether cloud-based or on-premises, adherence to security and compliance requirements must be ensured in every operating model. This includes up-to-date security concepts and standards, as well as effective incident response processes, emergency management, and identity and access management.
Migration & Transformation
For the ongoing modernization of your IT landscape, you need a clear roadmap, including plans for replacing legacy applications. To successfully navigate your cloud journey, you should have proven data migration strategies while prioritizing stakeholder engagement and change management.
Workforce Management
To fully realize the potential of a scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure, your workforce must possess the necessary expertise. Continuous professional development and strategic competency management are indispensable success factors for your IT organization. Empowering the business is also a key priority to unlock the full potential of the cloud.
Cost Management
IT, as an enabler of business, often operates under cost pressures. Performance management for your Cloud Operating Model plays a significant role in making IT costs holistically transparent and allocating them accurately.
Operational Excellence
IT services and processes form the basis for daily IT operations. Derived from the (target) operating model, cloud services must be tracked and processes managed to ensure IT is aligned with business requirements on a daily basis.
Through this holistic approach, we identify both short-term optimization potential and long-term strategies to position your cloud organization as future-proof and competitive.
Your Results
Detailed Assessment
The cloud maturity of an IT organization is multifaceted and complex. It is not sufficient to examine isolated components such as technology or processes in use. Instead, a comprehensive analysis of all relevant factors that define a mature, fully optimized cloud organization is essential. These factors include strategic alignment, effective governance with efficient resource utilization, and the ability to adapt quickly to changing market conditions.
Together, we will evaluate the current state of your cloud maturity and develop tailored optimization measures to make your IT organization sustainable and future-proof.
Market Comparison
To comprehensively assess the maturity level of your cloud services within your IT organization, an internal perspective alone is not sufficient. Instead, a holistic evaluation of internal processes, structures, security, compliance, workforce management, cost management, and operational excellence is necessary.
A comparison with market averages allows you to clearly identify strengths and weaknesses and take targeted actions to improve resilience. Based on the joint evaluation of your IT organization's cloud maturity, we provide a comparison with organizations of similar size and budget.
Optimization Recommendations
Identifying opportunities for optimization is essential to continually increase the efficiency and competitiveness of your IT organization. Cloud organizations play a key role here. It is important to systematically analyze the maturity of your Cloud Operating Model-from strategic integration to architecture, technology use, workforce expertise, and customer satisfaction. A holistic evaluation helps uncover weaknesses and unused potential.
We assist you in identifying specific optimization opportunities and work with you to develop tailored measures to sustainably realize this potential. Our goal is to help you optimize your cloud services, processes, and structures, reduce costs, and strengthen your market position.
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Why 4C?
Every company is at a unique stage in its cloud journey. Our experienced team of experts works with you to analyze not only technical conditions but also organizational, procedural, and cultural factors. With our Cloud Maturity Assessment, you gain a holistic understanding of your current cloud strategy and capabilities. Our recommendations are designed to deliver both short-term results and sustainable strategies, ensuring your cloud usage is optimized and future-proof.
