Category: Best Practices

As an Enterprise Strategist, I’ve noticed that discussions about multicloud are often marked by confusion and contradictory advice. Some advisers warn against adopting a multicloud strategy, while others suggest that you will miss an industry-wide transformation if you don’t. There are legitimate reasons for and against multicloud strategies; success depends on balancing potential business value […]

AWS achieved a 15.9% year-over-year cost reduction by measuring the total economic cost of delivering software units rather than relying on traditional development productivity metrics.

As organizations deploy generative AI technologies, they face challenges including lack of expertise, fragmented governance, unclear accountability, and immature tooling—issues that can be addressed through an integrated framework of governance mechanisms, repeatable processes, and embedded safeguards.

Your stakeholders expect you, as a technology leader in life sciences, to master generative AI, implement next-generation sequencing platforms, and deploy digital twins for clinical trials—all while accelerating innovation, increasing delivery speed, and managing costs. And of course you have to do this with your existing team. Just don’t forget to maintain flawless system uptimes […]

Driving successful innovation quickly is a major challenge for many organizations, even in the generative AI era. Only 21% of organizations achieve their innovation goals.1 The typical concept-to-launch journey still takes about 22 months, and 82% of engineers say they’re “constantly looking” for ways to speed it up.2 Slow go-to-market timelines mean missed opportunities and […]

Most corporate value statements fail to live up to expectations. Words like “Integrity” and “Innovation” sit on walls and websites with little impact on daily decisions. A 2020 MIT Sloan study found little to no correlation between most companies’ stated values and their organization’s culture. Whether you run a startup or a global organization, you’ve […]

Software development teams have always struggled to deliver features within the timeframe that businesses and customers expect. A recent BCG study found that over a third of respondents’ internal software development projects were delayed. Late delivery delays ROI and frustrates everyone involved. Organizations face numerous challenges when accelerating software delivery, but one stands out for its outsized […]

Traditional feedback methods, like the sandwich approach or harsh criticism, are being replaced by more effective feedback strategies that focus on excellence, real-time reactions, and coaching-style interactions to build organizational learning and intelligence.

The Data Hoarding Trap Many organizations are guided by the adage “Knowledge is power.” Teams closely guard their data to maintain an internal competitive edge. But what if this mentality is holding your company back? Imagine your marketing team has gathered valuable data on customer preferences but fails to share that information with your product […]

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 […]