What you'll learn

As organizations adopt cloud, they face a critical challenge: the technology changes faster than the organization adapts. Teams operate with outdated structures, misaligned incentives, and fragmented governance -- leading to wasted spend, security gaps, and unrealized value. In this course, Operating Models for Successful Cloud Adoption, you'll gain the ability to evaluate organizational models that support cloud delivery and align stakeholders around sustainable adoption. First, you'll distinguish between traditional IT operations and cloud platform operating models, exploring how platform teams, DevOps culture, and product-oriented teams influence delivery. Next, you'll discover how governance, cost management, and engineering ownership interact in cloud environments -- and where organizational friction typically emerges. Finally, you'll assess leadership practices that enable sustainable cloud operating models and build a practical readiness checklist for your organization. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the knowledge and vocabulary of cloud operating models needed to evaluate your organization's cloud readiness and advocate for the structural changes that separate organizations extracting value from cloud from those just paying for it.