Tag: Business Value

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.

Despite projected increases in global IT spending to $5.7 trillion by 2025, companies remain caught in a funding dilemma where 70-80% of budgets maintain existing systems rather than driving innovation. Organizations can break this cycle through zero-based budgeting, innovation capacity reinvestment programs, modern FinOps for cloud optimization, and portfolio rationalization to unlock resources for growth.

In response to CFOs demanding returns on technology investments, CTOs must measure software development productivity across four dimensions—business value, speed to market, delivery reliability, and team health—to effectively demonstrate how their teams create measurable impact and business growth.

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 […]

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 […]

Automate tedious tasks, gain faster insights through conversational analytics, and innovate using synthetic data – accelerating time-to-value from data assets.

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.

Leverage AWS to accelerate post-merger IT integration and cost synergies through data center/storage consolidation, database modernization, volume discounts, and simplified procurement.

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 […]