5 Cloud Adoption Framework 2 The Google Cloud Adoption Framework —a streamlined framework for adopting the cloud— evaluates current business practices at the firm and suggests moving beyond the familiar people, process, and technology lens and looking deeper into how they work together. Why? • Because it is only when firms bring people and technology together, that they create the skills and experience to thrive in a cloud-first world. • Firms only drive meaningful change by bringing people and process together with a strong mandate top-down and the momentum bottom-up - where they have both leadership and employees across the organization evangelizing and taking on cloud. • It is only when process and technology fit together that firms can scale - and see real improvements across their IT operations. • In the center of everything is security. The move to the cloud for all companies always starts with security. In the cloud, it’s less about shielding off the outside world and more about the right person having access to the right resources from the right devices. Fundamentally, the adoption journey is about firm's ability to continuously learn, effectively lead, efficiently scale, and comprehensively secure its environment. Figure 1. The Google Cloud Adoption Framework - learn, lead, scale, and secure People Learn Lead Secure Technology Process Scale 2https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/adoption_framework_whitepaper_nov12_final.pdf