Phil Le-Brun

AWS Enterprise Strategist

"It’s imperative that we raise the technology IQ of leadership teams to enable them to understand IT as a competitive advantage."

-- Phil Le-Brun

Phil Le-Brun, AWS Enterprise Strategist

Getting to know

Phil Le-Brun, AWS Enterprise Strategist

Phil's AWS experience

Phil joined AWS as an Enterprise Strategist and Evangelist in September 2019. In this role, he shares practical lessons from his experiences implementing technology at scale. He uses these lessons to help enterprises succeed in achieving their own cloud-based technology goals to support organizational agility and customer-centricity.

Phil's beginnings

Phil learned a long time ago that while technology continues to evolve, culture remains at the heart of a company’s sustainable advantage and success. He experienced this firsthand in his storied career of over 25 years at McDonald’s Corporation. He led large-scale efforts to centralize technology, also viewing this as an opportunity to change the culture of the organization. Today core technologies operate in 38,000 restaurants across 120 countries, serving 1% of the world's population every day.

Phil's expertise

Phil discovered that you can have the best technologists in the world, but unless you factor in people’s aspirations and motivations, you’ll be building things no one wants. From this vantage point, Phil was instrumental in starting McDonald’s journey to the cloud in 2010. Subsequently, he was part of the effort to achieve the CEO’s goal of saving $500 million in costs while also accelerating digital transformation across the business. With AWS as a partner, McDonald’s was able to scale e-commerce to 21,000 locations, and home delivery to 8,000 locations, in less than nine months—milestones that would have been impossible to reach before the cloud.

Phil's AWS goals

The power of change management is a theme that continues to play a central role in Phil’s approach with AWS customers today. It’s especially valuable in a world where educating leaders about cloud often requires putting fears and doubts to rest. It’s the approach Phil uses to help business leaders understand how they can harness a combination of culture and technology to become agile organizations.

Many enterprises have experienced challenges with cloud strategies and have been weighed down by inertia from multi-sourcing, pricing negotiations, concerns about risk, a tradition of owning data centers, and comfort with the status quo. Phil believes that the real conversation must be around people and culture; about opening doors for teams to rapidly experiment, learn fast, and quickly scale good ideas. A new mindset is required to unleash the talent in enterprises. Phil works with enterprise leaders and their teams to evolve internal cultures and accelerate cloud journeys.

Phil's passions

Phil’s passion for helping enterprises to innovate spills over into his personal life, where he remains innately curious and is still actively learning about, and dabbling in, electronics, programming, data science, and a multitude of other hands-on interests.

Phil's career

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    How Can My Organization Build a Data Strategy to Support Generative AI?

    by Phil Le-Brun, Director, AWS Enterprise Strategy

    As a director of enterprise strategy at AWS, Phil Le-Brun works with executives at the world's largest companies, helping them formulate strategies and implement cloud-based technology at scale. Before joining AWS, he spent 25 years in business and technology leadership roles at the McDonald Corporation, where he led large-scale efforts to transform the business.

    Read Phil's advice for building a data strrategy to support generative AI.

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    SCM: Supply Chain Muscling or Modernization?

    by Phil Le-Brun, Dimitrios Armenakis, and Sebastian von Berg

    In my customer conversations, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become almost as constant a theme as people and agility. The last two years of pandemic and other disruptive events, along with the necessity to achieve sustainability objectives, have shocked companies into realising that they don’t necessarily know as much about their supply chains as they thought they did. Two of my colleagues, Dimitrios Armenakis and Sebastian von Berg, share their observations of what the impetuses for change are and how you can start on your own journey to become both efficient and effective. 

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    Taking Inspiration from Others: Transformation at DB Systel Part 1

    By Phil Le-Brun, AWS Enterprise Strategist and Warren Tucker, Partner at PwC

    In this first blog post, two of those deeply involved in this transformation, René Schneider and Andrea Sturm, share how DB Systel transformed itself from a classic hierarchy into self-organised teams, making them faster and more cost-effective and less encumbered by the bureaucratic overheads that plague many organisations. It now delivers 20% more revenue while continuing to look for further ways to improve.

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