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Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should?
Esther Schindler writes: It's a predictable argument in any IT shop: Should the techies — with their hands on their keyboards — be the people who decide which technology or deployment is right for the company? Or should CIOs and senior management — with their strategic perspective — be the ones to make the call? Ellis Luk got input from plenty of people about management vs. techies making cloud/on-premise decisions... with, of course, a lot of varying in opinion.
The first call comes from the technical people, and answers the question "Is the company technically able to move to the cloud, and if not what's required to get it to that point?". Once you've got that covered, then business can decide whether it makes sense to move and whether they want to invest what it'll take to make it happen. If it isn't technically possible it doesn't matter how much business wants it, and business can't make a determination about investing what's needed to make it possible if they don't know how much investment it'll take. You can't make a cost/benefit decision if you don't know the cost.