AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
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.
Overseeing AI Risk in a Rapidly Changing Landscape
With AI’s rapid evolution, boards face multi-faceted risks requiring diverse oversight, technical expertise, agile risk-mitigation, clear values guiding deployment, and robust cybersecurity – proactively managing uncertainties while capturing AI’s transformative potential.
Does Your People Strategy Match Your Transformation Objectives?
Unlocking innovation demands aligning talent strategy with organizational aspirations; an oil company’s overlooked compensation model discouraged risk-taking, undermining its transformation goals until leadership revised employee stock rewards.
Your AI is Only as Good as Your Data
Data powers groundbreaking generative AI; curate diverse, high-quality datasets to cultivate innovation, while mitigating risks and biases.
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 […]
Development Productivity in the Age of Generative AI
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” —anon With generative AI grabbing almost every organisation’s attention, watching how they use the technology is interesting. Today most AWS customers are focused on achieving productivity gains (e.g., making information easier to acquire and digest for customer service staff). A […]
Navigating the Generative AI Landscape: A Strategic Blueprint for CEOs and CIOs
Generative AI demands a pragmatic strategy to identify value, embrace agility, scale intelligently, experiment rapidly, and prioritize responsible deployment.
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 […]
How Can You Build a Culture of Experimentation?
In my conversations with hundreds of enterprise executives worldwide, I have found that they like the idea of moving fast and innovating but find it difficult to accomplish within their corporate legacy and constraints. Innovating quickly is especially urgent in light of generative AI’s potential. But to increase innovation, you need to build a culture […]
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 […]