As the economic slowdown bites, demonstrating and clearly articulating enterprise change projects’ business value is imperative. If business leaders don’t recognise that a project is fundamental to future performance, it is likely to be abandoned in hard times. Technology leaders and CIOs can’t assume that the wider team understand where and how sophisticated cloud projects will deliver benefits. It’s important to rigorously define business value at a project’s outset, then vigorously champion it for the duration.
Big ticket cloud projects often involve the transition of enterprise IT from ‘service provider’ to ‘strategic business enabler’.