Governance

Three areas of governance are addressed in this book, expressly in Chapter 5, “What About Governance?,” and each incorporates cloud considerations:

1. Strategic direction: Sets the vision and directs development of the enterprise cloud adoption strategy.

2. Management and control: Develops and manages execution of the enterprise cloud adoption strategy; drives and makes updates to EA.

3. Execute: Implements the enterprise cloud adoption strategy and communicates experiences and lessons learned.

Key activities relative to this phase of cloud adoption, governance, include

• Develop the governance framework: Establishing stakeholder decision rights and authority in terms of cloud purchasing and vendor selection is performed. The communications plans are addressed in this framework. The cloud decision model described in Chapter 4 will be used.