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Designing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)
Many companies have found that a cloud center of excellence (CCOE) can accelerate their migrations to the cloud and broader digital transformations. These CCOEs take many forms, which is...
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Becoming a Future-Ready Enterprise
It’s the job of senior enterprise leaders to ensure that their organizations are ready for the future. Unfortunately the future is unclear to us—all the more so in this era of rapid change,...
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Responsible AI Best Practices: Promoting Responsible and Trustworthy AI Systems
The emergence of generative AI has brought about transformative possibilities and the potential to benefit how we work, live, and interact with the world. However, it is crucial to recognize the...
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Everyone is Busy: Who Has Time to Transform?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A company wants to transform to meet the future. The transformation is necessary; without it, they will be threatened by disruptive competitors or unable to serve...
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How ITIL Changed IT in Sometimes Painful Ways
IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has changed IT for the worse. OK, now that I have your attention, let me be fair: ITIL has benefited many aspects of IT (e.g., help desks, infrastructure...
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Is Your Data Foundation Solid, Future-Proof, and Value-Added?
Organizations need a powerful infrastructure to realize the full value of their data. The purpose of this infrastructure is to organize data, ensure its quality, manage metadata and create a...
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A Culture of Resilience
There’s something problematic about planning for resilience. On the one hand, we know it’s necessary. If the COVID pandemic taught us nothing else, we learned that unexpected major disruptions can...
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Codus Interruptus: Stop Wasting Time
Never waste your time; it is too precious. There are never any guarantees we will have tomorrow. —Catherine Pulsifer, Author “I don’t have enough (fill in the blank)” is a common refrain in the...
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The Agile Enterprise
Assume with me that the digital world is a world of fast change. Organizations need to excel at responding quickly to those changes—that’s what we call agility or nimbleness. When it comes to...
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What are Your Cloud Transformation Principles?
Tenet: (n) A principal or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy. These tenets are held by the group. To be a member in good standing, you are expected to hold...
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How to Set Up a Platform That Effectively Supports Your Development Teams
Many of my conversations with AWS customers are about their attempts to build developer experience platforms that simplify software development and operations, automate deployments, improve...
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Lessons from Edison’s Bulb: Using Generative AI to Light the Way for Business Transformation
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Arthur C. Clarke Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park in Edison, New Jersey, commemorates the birthplace of recorded sound...
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AI and Collaboration: A Human Angle
I wonder if we’re overlooking an important implication of AI and generative AI for the future of the enterprise. If, as seems to be the case, many employees will use generative AI applications to...
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Creating a Pathway to Innovation by Becoming Data-Driven
Are you and those in your company struggling to innovate? Are you asking how others are innovating but still not finding a mechanism to drive innovation yourself? At work, we face problems daily...
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Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy
As an Enterprise Strategist, I find multicloud topics come up in many discussions rife with confusion, false certainty, and tentativeness. Companies are bombarded with conflicting messaging...
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Transformation and AI
We’ve all been busily transforming for the last few years. Now there’s this big AI thing. How does it relate to the rest of our transformation? Should we be changing or rethinking our...
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Measuring Success: A Paradox and a Plan
You’ve taken your company in a new direction; the impact is a 10% growth in year-on-year revenue. Your new marketing program has increased leads by 5%. Your telecom costs have decreased by 5%...
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What Will Generative AI Mean for Your Business?
It won’t surprise you to hear that there’s been lots of excitement and speculation about generative AI in our meetings with AWS customer executives lately. The question on their minds is: “What...
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Continuous Engagement and Innovation
In the digital world, formerly discrete activities have become continuous. In the old world of IT, software deliveries were considered discrete events. We created projects to deliver software...
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Should You Prioritize?
Sometimes an idea becomes so ingrained in conventional wisdom, such an embedded assumption in everything we do, that it demands to be questioned. Think about how often you hear someone in a...
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