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title: "Transition to Adoption"
description: "The controlled transition from strategic Advisory to technical Adoption: readiness assessment, formal approval and a prioritised roadmap for a successful start."
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## What this chapter does for you

This chapter marks the turning point: from the strategic Advisory phase to the operational Adoption phase. It ensures that the transition is not accelerated by impatience or delayed by over-planning — but governed by a fact-based readiness assessment.

You receive a structured readiness assessment, an approval process that makes accountabilities clear, and a roadmap methodology that helps select the right workloads in the right sequence.

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  <Card title="Measure readiness">
    Five dimensions — strategy, organisation, finance, technology and compliance — with clear
    go/no-go criteria and a traffic-light scorecard for management reporting.
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  <Card title="Formal approval">
    The approval meeting as a governance act: who must agree, what is decided, and why a signature
    is more than a symbol.
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  <Card title="Adoption roadmap">
    2×2 prioritisation matrix, 12-month wave planning and the criteria for selecting pilot workloads
    — not by technical simplicity, but by learning value.
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  <Card title="Connection to Migration Framework">
    How Advisory outputs flow directly into the Discovery and Design phase of the Migration
    Framework — and which documents the Migration Framework expects as input.
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## The transition in context

![Transition Overview](./files/transition-overview.svg)

## Readiness is not a perfection requirement

The most common mistake in readiness assessment: setting the bar too high. Not everything must be perfect before Adoption begins. But certain foundations must be in place — because without them every technical decision stands on clay feet.

The five readiness dimensions in this chapter are calibrated to identify the genuinely critical prerequisites — not an ideal state that no organisation ever fully reaches before it starts.

## Connection between Advisory and Adoption

This transition is the structural bridge point of the entire framework.

**What the Advisory phase delivers:** Cloud strategy, business case, CCoE charter, governance framework, readiness assessment, approval document.

**What the Adoption phase expects:** A clear mandate, an approved budget, defined governance rules, and at least one prioritised pilot workload.

**What the Migration Framework makes of this:** Discovery, design, Landing Zone build-up, migration waves — all building on what Advisory has delivered.

<Steps>
  1. Complete the **[Readiness Assessment](/advisory/transition-to-adoption/readiness-assesment/)** across all five dimensions.
  2. Consolidate the results in the **[Approval Document](/advisory/transition-to-adoption/approval-event/)** and obtain the signatures.
  3. Build the **[Adoption Roadmap](/advisory/transition-to-adoption/adoption-roadmap/)** with prioritised waves and realistic resource planning.

</Steps>