AWS Executive in Residence Blog
Author: Jana Werner
Jana is an Executive in Residence at AWS. Prior to joining the team she led the AWS' Financial Services Practice in EMEA, consulting with executives on their transformation journeys. With a focus on culture and new ways of working, she leverages hands-on experience from leading digital transformations and heading the EMEA Enterprise Transformation Program team. Having observed change patterns across Fortune 200 companies and drawing from her start-up experience, Jana offers a unique perspective. A contributor to academic research at institutions like the Fraunhofer Institute, she holds a PhD in Management and MSc in Strategic Project Management, with her first book on organizational transformation forthcoming from Harvard in 2025.
Agentic AI: Bridging the Widening Gap Between Ambition and Execution
AWS recently partnered with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services to understand the current state of agentic AI in organisations.1 The results were exciting and informative: While expectations are high, the path to value at scale has yet to be discovered. Outlined below is what we found creates the gap between appreciating AI’s importance and using […]
Moving from Efficiency to Growth: How Junior Talent Outpaces Tenure with AI
What if the real value of AI isn’t in replacing workers, but in accelerating the development of junior talent? This counterintuitive insight emerged from our recent conversation with Stephen Whitworth, co-founder and CEO of incident.io. The company provides an incident management platform to help engineering and operations teams coordinate outages, reduce downtime, and serve as […]