Enabling IT and business leaders

Enabling IT and business leaders as strategic leaders, crafting and executing your organization’s journey in the Age of AI

Crafting, executing, and making smart investments in scalable Cloud + AI strategy is hard. Leading strategically—and empowering your people to implement the vision—can seem overwhelming. Cloud Lighthouse for IT and Business Leaders empowers strategic leaders for the Age of AI, making it achievable with structured engagement packages that help you craft your Cloud + AI strategy, architect your ecosystem to achieve that strategy, then execute and scale it across your organization. Partner with us.

✔ Architect the strategic foundations

✔ Build future-ready cloud ecosystems

✔ Stay ahead of what’s next in Microsoft tech

✔ Focus resources on highest impact investment

✔ No consultants or development team to upsell

Cloud Lighthouse is selective, only partnering with organizations we believe in. Our CTO and Founder, Andrew Welch, works with each of our partners personally. So it’s worth asking, “where has Andrew succeeded enabling IT and business leaders to succeed in the Microsoft Cloud?” Here are some examples…

  • Architecting the strategic foundations and steering execution with the CIO of an international law firm investing to reduce security and regulatory risk, modernize applications, and extract intelligence from legal data.

  • Guiding the CIO of a multi-billion PE-owned firm transitioning away from point solutions, establishing single sources of truth for data, absorbing M&A activity, and building a future-ready Cloud ecosystem.

  • Serving the CIO of a globally-distributed public sector agency undertaking a highly-secure modernization of disparate operational, human resources, logistics, regulatory functions, and IT capabilities.

  • Designing and executing the low-code transformation alongside a financial services EVP overseeing business analysis, product development, and regulatory compliance at a Fortune 100 firm operating globally.

Cloud Lighthouse for IT and Business Leaders

Invest and build more strategically in the cloud with the Cloud Lighthouse for IT and Business Leaders engagement model that’s the best fit for you. Cloud Lighthouse is all you can eat, meaning that our partners have open-door access to Cloud Lighthouse, and we won’t send you an extra invoice for additional hours or days.

Blue

All you can eat collaboration includes:

  • Foundational strategy workshops

  • Cloud Strategy + actionable roadmap

  • Monthly priority setting with leaders

  • 1:1 executive strategic coaching

  • Renewable three-month partnership

$23,400 | £18,765 | €21.610
(first three months)

$3,600 | £2,887 | €3.325
(per month thereafter)

Gold

All you can eat collaboration includes:

  • Foundational strategy workshops

  • Cloud Strategy + actionable roadmap

  • Monthly priority setting with leaders

  • 1:1 executive strategic coaching

  • Cloud Strategist open-door collab

  • Renewable three-month partnership

$27,900 | £22,373 | €25.766
(first three months)

$5,850 | £4,691 | €5.403
(per month thereafter)

Platinum

All you can eat collaboration includes:

  • Foundational strategy workshops

  • Cloud Strategy + actionable roadmap

  • Monthly priority setting with leaders

  • 1:1 executive strategic coaching

  • Cloud Strategist open-door collab

  • Ecosystem Design Authority (EDA)

  • Renewable six-month partnership

$52,400 | £42,020 | €48.392
(first six months)

$7,600 | £6,095 | €7.019
(per month thereafter)

*Prices are fixed through term of engagement, but may vary slightly from what is shown based on currency fluctuations at start of engagement

What to expect from Cloud Lighthouse?

Cloud Lighthouse Blue includes the following “all you can eat” services:

Foundational strategy workshops

Several days spent together for Inspiration and co-design workshops that jump start our cloud strategy as we build the executive vision, workload prioritization, and ecosystem-oriented architecture.

Cloud strategy + actionable roadmap

Strategy detailing our guiding principles, target outcomes, priorities, ecosystem map, and related materials. This is accompanied by an actionable roadmap enabling you to translate strategy to action.

Monthly priority setting with leaders

A great strategy alone won’t get this done. We’ll execute our roadmap, measure progress, and adjust along the way to account for challenges, opportunities, and new technologies.

1:1 strategic and tech coaching

…so you’re not executing the strategy alone. Strategic guidance, deciphering trends, understanding the Microsoft roadmap, setting priorities. We’re getting this done together.

Cloud Lighthouse Gold adds the following “all you can eat” services to everything you’d get with Bronze:

Cloud Strategist open-door collab

Partnerships shouldn’t meter hours, so neither do we. We want to make you successful, not saving up a block of time in case we need it one day. So, we’ll take on the unknowns and popups together. This includes open-door collaboration with Cloud Lighthouse CTO and Founder, Andrew Welch, as well as access to whatever Cloud Lighthouse intellectual property, tools, patterns, and pre-existing material we need to bring to the table in any given circumstance.

Cloud Lighthouse Platinum adds the following “all you can eat” services to everything you’d get with Silver and Bronze:

Ecosystem Design Authority (EDA) established and mentored

Guiding and mentoring the team that executes the strategy and aligns action with vision, landing the tech in a way that grows the ecosystem and creates value for the organization. An EDA typically includes the leaders of each of your technology domains (such as Data Platform, AI, Low-Code, Core Business Systems, etc.), so this provides an opportunity for those leaders to be mentored as they do the work of achieving of the organization’s strategic objectives.

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