The Toronto Cloud Business Coalition – a group of more than 80 Canadian experts drawn from the IT management, cloud services provider, channel, academic, VC/corporate finance and consulting communities – has published a new document designed to help Canada’s SMBs to define paths to use of cloud within their operations.
Planning for the Cloud/Cloud Strategy – SMB: A TCBC Best Practices Document was co-created by a working group representing many different perspectives: IT firms with expertise in delivering cloud solutions to SMBs (GoDaddy, Cloud A, Symantec), specialists in deploying cloud within SMBs (NewPath Consulting), consultants working with mid-sized enterprises on cloud strategy (PwC), and IT managers from SMB firms in the education and manufacturing sectors. This breadth of perspective helped the group to approach cloud from multiple directions, identifying the opportunities and constraints that SMBs need to consider as they evaluate how and where to deploy cloud.
We were intimately involved in the creation of this report, providing regular feedback over the past several months. We are also delighted to see that the "Cloud milestones for SMB planning purposes – the annotated version" in Figure 6 is closely tied to NewPath Consulting's service and onboarding methodology. We strongly believe an iterative approach to setting milestones and measuring results is a key to successful cloud strategy and implementation.
