Cloud and AI Strategy
Crafting, executing, and making smart investments in a scalable cloud, data, and AI strategy can challenge even the most innovative organizations. Cloud Lighthouse helps IT and business leaders become strategic leaders for the Age of AI as we craft, architect, roadmap, and action your strategy together.
Why, though? What drives organizations to embrace the strategic cloud?
➜ Aligning technology with business goals
➜ Ensuring that investments are impactful and sustainable
➜ Making informed decisions about developments within your cloud ecosystem
➜ Mitigating risk of unsafe and unsuccessful development efforts
➜ Reducing capital expenditure (CapEx) without impeding colleague enablement
➜ Promoting continuous improvement and upskilling across your organization
➜ Giving you the competitive edge, positioning you for long-term, scalable growth
Wait, but how?
We’re a very senior team, with most of us coming from C-level, VP, or practice director roles. Every Cloud Lighthouse client has access to our entire team, wity one of us serving as your “principal”, acting as your 1:1 guide from the very beginning.
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Pre-workshop prep to understand the organization and its current situation
Free-wheeling “big ideas” envisioning session with leaders and key stakeholders
Ideate and prioritize scenarios or opportunities for cloud app, data, and AI solutions
Holistically map the organization’s cloud, data, app, AI, and security ecosystem
Design and architect one to three (size dependent) high priority scenarios
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Key strategic and technical considerations identified by our experts
Your executive vision including aspirations and targeted outcomes
Top priorities with an actionable roadmap to achieve them (action is the key)
Prioritized workload roadmap of apps, infrastructure, data, and AI capabilities
Architectural, design, and user journey diagrams or mockups (whatever is appropriate)
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Taking on big challenges, driven by the strategy we’ve created…
Assess your technical maturity to reduce risk and target investment
Guided engineering to build the app, data, and AI “muscle” in the organization
Technically assure big initiatives as we embed with your team (when you need)
Enable your workforce to safely thrive in the Age of AI (and Power Platform, and Fabric, and…)
We love to share what we’ve learned through our deep strategic and technical white papers. We hope you’ll find them to be the most useful reading you’ve done in months, even if you decide not to work together formally.
We don’t work by the hour or the day, and we don’t have an army of developers to upsell you. Rather, we offer straightforward Blue, Gold, and Platinum engagements at a fixed all-inclusive cost for a quarter, six months, or year. We’re partners, and we want our clients to call on us any time for our cloud strategy, AI, and ecosystem-oriented architecture expertise without fear of a higher invoice.
Blue
Cloud Lighthouse guides you through strategy formulation, road mapping, architecture, and as-needed expert guidance and open-door collaboration.
Crafting your cloud strategy together
Regular priority setting on the roadmap
Ad hoc architectural or technical review
1:1 guidance for the CXO or other leader
Gold
Cloud Lighthouse leads strategy formulation, road mapping, architecture, and technical assurance through regular coaching, design, problem-solving, and more.
Crafting your cloud strategy together
Expertise throughout its execution
Regular architectural or technical review
1:1 guidance for the CXO or other leader
Guidance, expertise, and mentoring for technical leads within the organization
Platinum
Cloud Lighthouse is hands-on through our white glove collaboration, architecture, and execution of your strategy as an embedded member of your organization’s team.
Crafting your cloud strategy together
Hands-on strategic + tech collaboration
Enablement drives new tech in the org
1:1 guidance for the CXO or other leader
Frequent hands-on collaboration with the organization’s technical teams
Craft, architect and execute strategy
Collaborative workshops setting strategy, prioritizing, and architecting together to produce your polished strategy, actionable roadmap, and architecture to translate ideas into action.
Technically assure your big initiatives
Guiding and mentoring the team that executes the strategy and aligns action with vision, landing the tech in a way that grows the ecosystem and creates value for the organization.
Embrace Trustworthy AI
Establishing and executing your Trustworthy AI strategy to build a digital ecosystem that is strategic, responsible, safe, reliable, and scalable.
Enable colleagues for the Age of AI
“Enablement” accelerates technology adoption, going beyond a traditional COE by fostering culture, driving innovation, and enabling colleagues to create solutions across the Cloud.
We’ve built and applied our cloud strategy capabilities alongside leading organizations in eleven countries (and counting), with an emphasis on the highly regulated environments where strategic, responsible, safe, reliable, and scalable apps, data, and AI are so critical.
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We worked with the CIO through a long-term transformation resulting in the elimination of technical debt and resulting deployment of AI-infused tools supporting legal case management, client acquisition, and operations.
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We guided an international bank through the development of their cloud strategy and vision, architecture, and roadmap scaling AI across their multi-cloud (Microsoft and Amazon) digital ecosystem.
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We helped an organization focused on energy production in many countries employ rigorous Trustworthy AI best practices to make their engineering and qualitative data accessible to highly sensitive consumers.
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We led an enterprise effort to develop strategy and vision, wholesale rearchitect the data and application landscapes, and deploy numerous modern app, data intelligence, and AI products to users.
