Finance and Investment Insights for CFOs
Increasing revenue, managing costs, and mitigating financial risk
Finance leaders share their perspectives
CFOs are looking to increase the digital dexterity of their teams as a means to reduce risk, optimize costs, and extract value from data. Here, senior finance leaders share their thoughts on finance modernization, running lean, and the changing role of the CFO.
Evaluating the ROI of Major Tech Investments
In the last 12-24 months, the average organization has made sizable investments in more than 10 different solution areas. New research from ESG reveals that IT and business leaders are not aligned on which of these tech investments delivered the greatest return on investment.

Redefining Tech ROI: Uniting IT and Business Expectations
Despite economic uncertainties, organizations recognize that investing in technology is crucial for driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge.

Calculating the Cost and ROI of Generative AI
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize industries and organizations, but how much will it cost you, and how do you measure return on that investment? In this episode, get practical guidance on estimating the costs of generative AI adoption, from model selection to infrastructure requirements.
Finance on the Executive Insights podcast
AWS Executive Insights is a podcast featuring executive-level discussions on leadership, culture, innovation, and maximizing ROI of technology investments. Listen to episodes of the show that focus on personal insights from finance leaders across industries and countries.
Cost management & financial analytics
Mark Schwartz, AWS Enterprise Strategist:
"I think working to achieve leanness by searching for waste in value delivery processes is an often-neglected method that is more consistent with the ideas of the digital age. It may have short-term costs (e.g., automating to reduce repetitive manual steps) but quickly generates permanent and—importantly—scalable savings."
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Business value on AWS
In this paper, we share how the AWS Cloud is transforming business and provide an analysis of these four aspects of business value based on over 1,500 public AWS case studies and examination of 15 operational and financial KPIs.

How to think like a digital CFO
In this ebook, AWS Enterprise Strategist Mark Schwartz compares the “old” and the “new” ways of defining what a CFO does in order to identify the traits of today's digital CFO. Though different CFOs and their enterprises have treated the role differently, it’s clear that the CFO has become central to driving the digital performance of the enterprise.
