Figure 5. Cloud Practices for Continuum Success To expand successfully on the Cloud Continuum, organizations must embrace six important practices. Continuum practices—advanced cloud Current state of practices practices that support permanent reinvention Disconnected Agility: Some parts of Feed-it-forward Agility: Speed time to future business are agile, but others are a bottleneck markets, again and again Waterfall Goals: Waterfall approach to Continuous Goals: Alignment is continuous, IT estate—big changes done infrequently not episodic Cloud-last Apps: Cloud only when Cloud-昀椀rst Apps: Cloud’s the developers’ developing new apps, but core stays legacy default Makeshift Talent Strategy: Tactical use of Talent Transformation: Compress cloud in digital transformation, 昀椀lls in gaps transformation continuously IT Conservation: Keeping the lights on, no IT Experimentation: Unremittingly upgrade new cases experiences Scale In昀氀exibility: Perpetually underutilized Scale Awareness: Predict the power or overwhelmed servers requirements for new generation of Cloud-AI Services Ever–ready for every opportunity 25