Category: Innovation and Reinvention

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 […]

Organizations can bridge the widening gap between exponential technological advancement and slower organizational change by implementing three key practices: elevating operations through simplification and autonomy, energizing employees through curiosity and education, and envisioning clear business goals that connect technology initiatives to meaningful outcomes.

In the digital world, formerly discrete activities have become continuous. In the old world of IT, software deliveries were considered discrete events. We created projects to deliver software capabilities, set requirements for them, deployed code, and then moved on to the next project. At least that was the theory. We knew those IT systems would […]

To be honest, I’ve never liked the distinction between building and buying when it comes to software. Of course you shoud buy rather than build – if, somehow, there’s a third-party product that does exactly what you need, has the same roadmap for future development as your company will require, meets all your security needs, […]

Truth be told, most large organizations don’t exactly resemble perfectly tuned machines. In stark contrast is the breathtaking teamwork, focus, and precise execution we witness during Formula One (F1) pit stops. An F1 fan myself, I will explore the world of F1 in this blog post about digital transformation. Why? Because behind each on-podium champagne […]

By Annina Neumann, AI/ML Strategist and Gregor Hohpe, Enterprise Strategist at AWS We routinely underestimate the effects that new technology has in the long run while also overestimating its impact in the short term. What has become known as Amara’s Law, in honor of the late researcher and scientist Roy Amara, is playing out now […]

Most large IT organizations, at some point, have to make decisions about what to centralize and what to decentralize. Some organizations decide to create a shared services group; others look to centralize governance over security and architecture, or to centralize procurement and financial management. When done poorly, the centralized functions can become frustrating bottlenecks, and […]

Business Cases for Cloud Migration I’ve seen some companies struggle to assemble and vet a business case for the cloud. Intuitively, they know the investment is solid. But they get bogged down in projecting their infrastructure needs and have difficulty connecting their cloud activities to broader returns on investment across the enterprise. Fortunately, there’s a […]

Good inventors and designers deeply understand their customer. They spend tremendous energy developing that intuition. They study and understand many anecdotes rather than only the averages you’ll find on surveys. But you, the product or service owner, must understand the customer, have a vision, and love the offering. A remarkable customer experience starts with heart, […]

While the term digital transformation has become slippery and overused, it nevertheless remains a priority of many business and technology executives. In this blog post, Dr. Saša Baškarada, a senior transformation architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services, explains the drivers of digital transformation as well as its three interdependent stages. The resulting conceptual […]