Enabling IT and business leaders

Enabling IT and business leaders as strategic leaders, crafting and executing your organization’s journey in the Age of AI

Crafting, executing, and making smart investments in scalable Cloud + AI strategy is hard. Leading strategically—and empowering your people to implement the vision—can seem overwhelming. Cloud Lighthouse for IT and Business Leaders empowers strategic leaders for the Age of AI, making it achievable with structured engagement packages that help you craft your Cloud + AI strategy, architect your ecosystem to achieve that strategy, then execute and scale it across your organization. Partner with us.

✔ Architect the strategic foundations

✔ Build future-ready cloud ecosystems

✔ Stay ahead of what’s next in Microsoft tech

✔ Focus resources on highest impact investment

✔ No consultants or development team to upsell

Cloud Lighthouse is selective, only partnering with organizations we believe in. Our CTO and Founder, Andrew Welch, works with each of our partners personally. So it’s worth asking, “where has Andrew succeeded enabling IT and business leaders to succeed in the Microsoft Cloud?” Here are some examples…

  • Architecting the strategic foundations and steering execution with the CIO of an international law firm investing to reduce security and regulatory risk, modernize applications, and extract intelligence from legal data.

  • Guiding the CIO of a multi-billion PE-owned firm transitioning away from point solutions, establishing single sources of truth for data, absorbing M&A activity, and building a future-ready Cloud ecosystem.

  • Serving the CIO of a globally-distributed public sector agency undertaking a highly-secure modernization of disparate operational, human resources, logistics, regulatory functions, and IT capabilities.

  • Designing and executing the low-code transformation alongside a financial services EVP overseeing business analysis, product development, and regulatory compliance at a Fortune 100 firm operating globally.

Cloud Lighthouse for IT and Business Leaders

Invest and build more strategically in the cloud with the Cloud Lighthouse for IT and Business Leaders engagement model that’s the best fit for you. Our model is uniquely all-inclusive meaning that our partners have open-door access to the entire Cloud Lighthouse expert team, and we won’t send you an extra invoice for additional hours or days.

Blue

Strategic collaboration on strategy and architecture, advisory and technical coaching for executive leaders, and as-needed expert guidance. For those seeking:

  • Leadership in crafting their strategy

  • Regular roadmap priority setting

  • Ad hoc architectural and tech review

  • 1:1 guidance for the CXO or another executive leader

Gold

Strategic collaboration architecting and actively guiding execution of strategy through regular coaching, design, problem-solving, and more. For those seeking:

  • Leadership in crafting their strategy

  • Expertise and guidance in execution

  • Regular architectural and tech review

  • 1:1 guidance for the CXO or other executive leaders

  • Guidance, expertise, and mentoring for the organization’s technical leads

Platinum

White glove strategic collaboration architecting and “hands-on” execution of strategy as an embedded member of your organization’s team. For those seeking:

  • Leadership in crafting their cstrategy

  • Hands-on strategic, technical, architectural collaboration

  • Enablement program to drive new tech

  • 1:1 guidance for the CXO or other executive leaders

  • Frequent collaboration with the organization’s technical leads

What to expect from Cloud Lighthouse?

The perfect blend is different every time, but we’ll put our growing toolbox to good use together…

Foundational Strategy

Collaborative workshops setting strategy, prioritizing, architecting together producing and maintaining your polished strategy, actionable roadmap, and architecture to translate ideas into action.

Priority setting with leaders

A great strategy alone won’t get this done. We’ll execute our roadmap, measure progress, and adjust along the way to account for challenges, opportunities, and new technologies.

Cloud Strategist open-door collab

This one is BIG. Access anyone from Cloud Lighthouse’s expert team when you need… So, we take on the unknowns and popups together. You’ll have a private calendar link.

1:1 strategic and tech coaching

…so you’re not executing the strategy alone. Strategic guidance, deciphering trends, understanding the Microsoft roadmap, setting priorities. We’re getting this done together.

Intellectual Property library

We put our irreplicable library of IP to work for our partners, so that you have access to the patterns, tools, papers, reference architectures, and a growing list more when you need.

Center for Enablement (C4E)

“Enablement” accelerates technology adoption, going beyond a traditional COE by fostering culture, driving innovation, and enabling colleagues to create digital solutions across the Cloud.

Hackathons

We provide expert guidance planning and executing hackathons that ignite fresh ideas, foster collaboration, unleash the team's creativity, drive innovation to transform your business landscape.

Ecosystem Design Authority (EDA)

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.

Innovation Challenge

We’ve found an IC so useful in harnessing ideas from business stakeholders and transform them into impactful proposals evaluated for value and ROI, and then into actionable business solutions.

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