This document discusses lessons learned from an early multi-cloud journey. It highlights how IT can become more agile and strategic to enable business growth through an IT as a service model and moving to the cloud. Key lessons include standardizing, automating and scaling cloud services; developing a flexible private cloud platform; adopting a holistic multi-cloud orchestration approach; and updating processes and culture to embrace failures as part of innovation. The goal is to deliver an "IT vending machine experience" and become a cloud brokerage service.