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Cloud strategy.
A pragmatic Azure adoption roadmap organised around outcomes, using the Cloud Adoption Framework. We work out where you are, where you need to be, and the order to do things in — in days, not months.
You'll recognise this.
Everyone agrees you should do more with Azure. What you don’t have is a plan — just a backlog of opinions, a few stalled pilots, and spend that creeps up without a clear story. When the board asks where this is going, the honest answer is “it depends who you ask”.
Or you are already in Azure, and it isn’t going well. The servers moved but the ways of working didn’t, so other teams won’t touch the platform, developers route around it, and everything waits on a ticket. Applications sit half-deployed for months because a security or compliance problem surfaced far too late. The spend is real; the adoption isn’t. A migration happened, but no strategy — nobody agreed why, or how the organisation would work differently once it arrived.
The missing piece is sequence. Not a list of everything you could do in Azure, but the order to do things in, tied to outcomes the business actually cares about, that your engineers also believe is realistic.
Senior depth, handed over.
- An adoption roadmap grounded in the Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Priorities tied to business outcomes, not a product list.
- A plan your leadership and your engineers both recognise.
The decisions that matter.
Outcomes first, technology second.
Why: A roadmap tied to business outcomes gets funded and finished. One built around interesting technology stalls the moment budget is questioned.
What we'd rule out: A technology wish-list dressed up as a strategy.
Sequence by dependency and risk.
Why: Some things have to come before others — a landing zone before workloads, identity before applications. Getting the order right avoids expensive rework.
What we'd rule out: Doing the most visible or exciting thing first and paying for it later.
The Cloud Adoption Framework as the frame, not the religion.
Why: It structures the plan and makes sure nothing important is missed, without turning the engagement into a documentation exercise.
What we'd rule out: Box-ticking every Cloud Adoption Framework artefact for its own sake.
Deliverables.
- A phased, sequenced adoption roadmap, tied to business outcomes.
- A target operating model — who runs what, and how.
- A governance and landing-zone recommendation.
- A board-ready summary you can present without translating it first.
- A decisions-and-risks log from the work.
What it isn't.
- It is not the build — delivering any phase is a separate engagement.
- It is not a detailed discovery or application inventory.
- It is not a licensing or commercial negotiation.
How it fits together.
Cloud adoption is set out like a building. In an engineering setting-out, you fix the datum — the single reference point everything else is measured from — and mark the footprint on the ground before any construction begins. That is the Strategy phase. The sheet is almost empty on purpose: the title block records only what has to be agreed before build — motivation, mission, objectives and measures. Fix those and every later phase has something to measure against. Skip them, and teams build in different directions — which is how cloud adoption stalls even when the technology works.
With your team, not around them.
We run it as a focused engagement: understand the business drivers, assess where you are today, and agree a sequenced roadmap you can actually deliver against.
Who it's for: We work with mid-to-large enterprise, State and semi-State bodies, education, and the partner consultancies who bring us in when a client needs senior Azure depth.
Frequently asked.
- How long does a strategy engagement take?
- Days of focused work, plus write-up — not months. The Cloud Strategy Workshop is the productised version of this.
- Who needs to be involved?
- The people who understand the business drivers and the people who will deliver — plus someone who can make decisions. A plan nobody can sign off is just a document.
- Is this based on the Cloud Adoption Framework?
- Yes. We use it to structure the roadmap, tailored to your drivers and constraints rather than applied by rote.
- Do we get something for the board?
- Yes — a board-ready summary is part of the output, written to be presented as it is.
- Does it include building any of it?
- No. The strategy produces the plan. We can deliver any phase — a landing zone, a migration — as a separate engagement.
- What if our priorities change?
- The Cloud Strategy is a live, versioned document. Its first version describes your first cloud adoption project; later versions take on changing priorities and new business ambitions once that project is complete.
Talk to an Azure architect, not a salesperson.
Fixed scope, fixed price — quoted on enquiry.