Enterprises everywhere are moving to the cloud to reap the financial, operational and technical benefits. However, their cloud objectives may range from reducing operational costs, increasing agility and improving productivity, to powering back-end engines with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, or fostering a culture of innovation. To extract value from these cloud initiatives, it is imperative that organizations ensure their cloud projects are well structured and tied to specific results or outcomes. This whitepaper considers three phases to be vital to a successful cloud migration.