Steering Committee

A steering committee provides suggestions, strategic guidance, and decision-making support for cloud transformation projects. It plays a crucial role in cloud transformation. Members of the steering committee must be appointed by key stakeholders (such as the CEO, CIO, CTO, CFO, CISO, and business directors) of cloud transformation. The members should include at least the business director, IT director, finance director, and HR director. The steering committee makes collective decisions based on the parliamentary system and shares the following responsibilities:

• Cloud strategy development: Develop a cloud strategy that aligns with the enterprise's business objectives, assess the maturity of cloud transformation, specify the cloud transformation objectives and expected benefits, and plan the specific implementation roadmap.
• CCoE preparation: Prepare for and establish the CCoE, specify the responsibilities and skill requirements of each role in the CCoE organization, and coordinate related departments to quickly obtain various human resources required by the CCoE.
• Top-level planning of cloud transformation: Guide CCoE members including the cloud architecture team, cloud O&M team, cloud security team, and cloud governance team to perform top-level planning for cloud transformation, including the optimization of the application cloud transformation process, landing zone design, platform engineering design, and cloud operation mode design. The steering committee takes the final responsibility for the effect of the top-level designing.
• Business requirements clarification: Specify business-oriented requirements and expectations for cloud transformation, such as improving business continuity and agility, and boosting revenues.
• Budget approval and oversight: Review and approve budgets related to cloud transformation. Supervise the budgets and ensure that budgets are spent appropriately and effectively.
• HR management: Recruit, select, train, and retain CCoE members to build a stable and high-performance CCoE organization.
• Cross-department collaboration: Promote communication and collaboration among business departments, IT departments, and other related departments to ensure that all departments understand and support the cloud transformation and avoid conflicts and obstacles between departments.
• Cloud transformation effect evaluation: Evaluate the effect and value of cloud transformation, such as cost saving, efficiency improvement, and service innovation. Adjust and optimize the transformation strategies based on the evaluation results.
• Decision-making on key issues: The steering committee is the highest decision-making body in cloud transformation. It is responsible for making decisions on key issues in cloud transformation, such as selecting the cloud service provider, specifying the technical solution, and adjusting the implementation plan.