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Tag: Business Value
How Executives Can Avoid Being Disrupted by Emerging Technologies
Executives must anticipate rapid technology shifts, which increasingly disrupt businesses, and find new markets and partnering opportunities. Accenture’s global disruption index, which quantifies economic, social, geopolitical, climate, consumer and technology changes, indicates disruption occurs at a rate 50 times greater than just five years ago. How can executives stay ahead of the curve? Anticipating Technology […]
Navigating Strategic Partnerships: Aligning Legal, Procurement, and Business Priorities
When leading strategic initiatives, executives are often tasked with bringing on new partners or negotiating new contracts to drive critical business outcomes. Whether you’re onboarding a key technology vendor, a manufacturing partner, or a strategic consulting firm, you need to manage the often competing priorities of various internal stakeholders. Three of the most crucial—yet frequently […]
Fuel Your Data with Generative AI
Automate tedious tasks, gain faster insights through conversational analytics, and innovate using synthetic data – accelerating time-to-value from data assets.
Generative AI Cost Optimization Strategies
Maximize AI’s value without breaking the bank – this guide explores cost-optimization strategies across the AI lifecycle, from model selection and data management to FinOps practices.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Achieving Cloud Cost Synergies
Leverage AWS to accelerate post-merger IT integration and cost synergies through data center/storage consolidation, database modernization, volume discounts, and simplified procurement.
Untangling Your Organisational Hairball: Well-Controlled
One of the most common sources of org debt is the knee-jerk reaction. Every time something goes wrong, we immediately jump to create a constraint to prevent future mistakes. So we institute a new role, rule, or process. As a result over a decade or two, a one-step process becomes twenty steps. Or five different […]
Unveiling Blind Spots in FinOps
In the evolving landscape of cloud technology, effectively managing finances is paramount to organizational success. However, while many organizations reap the benefits of cloud services, they often have blind spots that reduce financial visibility and control. This blog post examines four common blind spots that can evade even the most vigilant executives’ radars. Limited Spend […]
Generative AI: Getting Proofs-of-Concept to Production
When facing a game-changing technology like generative AI, experimenting is a great way to learn what it can do and how to use it. And indeed, we at AWS see plenty of companies doing precisely that, becoming more sophisticated and able to ask more informed questions about where the technology is heading and what it […]
Navigating the Cloud: Key Performance Indicators for Success
The worldwide public cloud market is poised for substantial growth in upcoming years, with “end-user spending projected to reach $679 billion in 2024.[1]” . This surge is fueled by enterprises’ ongoing migration of existing workloads, the development of new cloud-native applications, and the emergence of innovative use cases like generative AI. At AWS, our Cloud […]
Untangling Your Organisational Hairball: Highly Aligned
All organisations are perfectly aligned to get the results they get. —Stephen R. Covey, Educator and Author My first blog post on untangling your organisational hairball describes six focus areas to increase organisational agility. The first is to be highly aligned. As the Cheshire Cat remarked in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “If you don’t know […]