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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Untangling Your Organisational Hairball: A Framework

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. —Tim Harford, Economist Read any contemporary article on organisations and within the first few sentences the word, “agile” appears at least once. Some articles suggest achieving agility with a new target operating model (TOM), […]