AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
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 […]
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 […]
Data Lakes vs. Data Mesh: Navigating the Future of Organizational Data Strategies
For more than a decade, organizations have embraced data lakes to overcome the technical limitations of data warehouses and evolve into more data-centric entities. While many organizations have used data lakes to explore new data use cases and improve their data-driven approaches, others have found the promised benefits hard to achieve. As a result, the […]
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 Organizational Hairball: How to Increase Local Autonomy
Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more. —Jeff Bezos, Executive Chairman of Amazon Traditional organizations focus on optimizing efficiency, trying to specialize and maximize the use […]
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), […]
Unleash Developer Productivity: How to Remove Common Blockers as an IT Leader
In the dynamic realm of software development, fostering a positive developer experience is critical to organizational success. However, certain practices inadvertently sabotage this experience, hindering productivity and innovation. Let’s examine these pitfalls and explore actionable strategies for IT leaders to overcome them and ensure a vibrant and efficient development ecosystem that attracts and retains talent. […]