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  • Managing in Economic Uncertainty: Cost Reductions

    Managing in Economic Uncertainty: Cost Reductions

    Managing in times of economic uncertainty means facing difficult choices. Reducing costs is a choice that leaders often face but mostly dread. Many of us on the Enterprise Strategy team have faced...

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  • Digital Transformation: the Why, Who, How, and What – Part 4, “The What”

    Digital Transformation: the Why, Who, How, and What – Part 4, “The What”

    In part three, ‘The How’ blog post, we covered best practices for transformational processes, and how you can use the digital-transformation process framework to deliver an effective...

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  • Digital Transformation: The Why, Who, How, and What – Part 3, “The How”

    Digital Transformation: The Why, Who, How, and What – Part 3, “The How”

    In part one, ‘The Why’ blog post, we discussed why digital transformation is needed for organizations, followed up by part two, ‘The Who’, which covered how successful organizations are rethinking...

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  • Digital Transformation: The Why, Who, How, and What – Part 2, “The Who”

    Digital Transformation: The Why, Who, How, and What – Part 2, “The Who”

    Although still challenging and important, technology is often the easier part of digital transformation. As it turns out, the people part is the most critical and is often overlooked and...

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  • Digital Transformation: The Why, Who, How, and What – Part 1, “The Why”

    Digital Transformation: The Why, Who, How, and What – Part 1, “The Why”

    Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to fundamentally change how an organization operates and delivers value to its customers. It involves the integration of digital...

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  • Prioritising Business Value Creation from Data

    Prioritising Business Value Creation from Data

    With data at the centre of every application, process, and business decision, nearly every organisation I talk to describes a quest to become more data-driven to discover and act on insights...

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  • Announcing the New AWS Enterprise Strategy Track at re:Invent

    Announcing the New AWS Enterprise Strategy Track at re:Invent

    Recommended sessions for enterprise executives looking to accelerate digital transformation. On behalf of the entire Enterprise Strategy team at AWS, we’re looking forward to welcoming you to...

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  • AWS Security Leaders: A Series

    AWS Security Leaders: A Series

    Background As an Enterprise Strategist at AWS, I spend the majority of my time in two key areas when I meet with customers: all things digital transformation—people, process, technology, culture,...

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  • Seven-step roadmap for CEOs and CFOs who are embarking on sustainability reporting journeys

    Seven-step roadmap for CEOs and CFOs who are embarking on sustainability reporting journeys

    Given the increasing interest in ESG we are seeing among customer executives, we thought this blog post by AWS Senior Customer Solution Managers Hari Venkata and John Roberts would be useful. –...

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  • Go Faster! But How? How mapping your product-development process can help you build a high performing organization

    Go Faster! But How? How mapping your product-development process can help you build a high performing organization

    Become a high-performing software organization How do you become a high-performing software organization? It is more than just putting new tools in place to manage your CI/CD/CT pipeline. Doing so...

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  • Powering transformations with real-time data

    Powering transformations with real-time data

    Powering transformations with real-time data How much of your company’s resources are spent searching for answers to day-to-day operational issues and writing reports, looking inwards rather than...

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  • Tracking the Effectiveness of Cloud Adoption

    Tracking the Effectiveness of Cloud Adoption

    We often recommend that enterprises have a clear idea of what they hope to accomplish by moving to the cloud. They can then set up success measures that will both guide them and allow them to...

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  • A guide to making your AI vision a reality

    A guide to making your AI vision a reality

    The headlines read “Artificial Intelligence (AI) will completely transform your business.” But does the hype match the reality? We have been seeing these exclamations for two decades, but where...

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  • SCM: Supply Chain Muscling or Modernization?

    SCM: Supply Chain Muscling or Modernization?

    In my customer conversations, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become almost as constant a theme as people and agility. The last two years of pandemic and other disruptive events, along with the...

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  • Taking Inspiration from Others: Transformation at DB Systel Part 2

    Taking Inspiration from Others: Transformation at DB Systel Part 2

    In the first blog post, René Schneider and Andrea Sturm described the why and how of DB Systel’s transformation journey. Here they dive into how their organisation is now structured and some of...

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  • Taking Inspiration from Others: Transformation at DB Systel Part 1

    Taking Inspiration from Others: Transformation at DB Systel Part 1

    Pick an organisation to transform into a modern, agile, and self-organised equivalent. Would you pick one of the biggest transportation companies in the world which happens to be a German...

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  • The CPO-CIO Partnership Part 3: You get what you reward

    The CPO-CIO Partnership Part 3: You get what you reward

    “Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.” — From the Agile Manifesto Since my blog post on the Chief...

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  • A conversation on expanding access to cloud skills for finance professionals

    A conversation on expanding access to cloud skills for finance professionals

    By Levon Stepanian, Cloud Financial Management Specialist, and Chris Hennesey, Enterprise Finance Strategist Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and their finance organizations are no longer just...

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  • Complexity, interchangeability, and partnership in outsourcing

    Complexity, interchangeability, and partnership in outsourcing

    In this post, John Naylon draws an interesting connection between multi-cloud strategies and outsourcing. I won’t steal his thunder by saying any more! Mark Complexity, interchangeability, and...

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  • Learners lead, leaders learn: The case for technology fluency in the C-Suite

    Learners lead, leaders learn: The case for technology fluency in the C-Suite

    “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” —Brian Herbert, Author It’s easy to think of life as linear stages. Where did you go to...

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