Tag: Business Value

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]