Cloud Strategy & Migration
Cloud adoption, multi-cloud architecture, cost optimization, and migration roadmaps on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Data arrives in abundance, but cloud strategy decisions still travel by opinion. The meetings are longer, the decks are thicker — the judgement is no better. Meanwhile, regulators are moving from encouragement to scrutiny — ungoverned cloud strategy is becoming a supervisory finding, not a technicality. This programme converts scattered cloud strategy pilots into a sequenced, governed portfolio — evidence before enthusiasm, value before volume.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Commission cloud strategy work and interrogate its outputs with an operator’s confidence.
- Defend a cloud strategy investment case before a board that has been disappointed before.
- Construct a cloud strategy roadmap sequenced by value, feasibility and risk.
- Read cloud strategy evidence — dashboards, model outputs, vendor claims — and know exactly what to trust.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Cloud Strategy Pilot at the Crossroads
A a national revenue authority has run a cloud strategy pilot for eighteen months. Back-testing flatters it, the frontline disputes it, and the audit committee has begun asking who approved the spend. The pilot’s sponsor resigns the week before the board meets; the vendor offers a discounted scale-up contingent on signature this quarter.
Your decision: Scale the cloud strategy pilot group-wide, rebuild it under new governance, or stop it and redirect the budget — knowing each option trades capability, credibility and careers differently.
IPAT Data Lab™
Three functions at a pan-African retail bank report three different truths about the same cloud strategy question.
Dataset: Synthetic multi-source cloud strategy dataset — finance, operations and customer tables that disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the single defensible view, and decide which dashboard the executive committee keeps.
A reconciled cloud strategy decision view and the data architecture behind it.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build a twelve-month analytical and AI roadmap for your organisation: the value case, the data foundations, the governance, and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
- • Value-versus-feasibility portfolio analysis
- • CRISP-DM analytical lifecycle
- • Model risk management principles (SR 11-7 adapted)
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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