Growth & Scale
Driving growth through effective leadership of digital transformation
Unlock your business’s potential with digital transformation insights for leaders. Dive into our expertly curated resources and real-world examples to learn how leadership in digital transformation can drive growth and innovation, turning challenges into opportunities for scaling your enterprise.
Mapping your Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is not only about technology. Learn the three interdependent aspects of digital transformation and how to put them into action in your organization.
Can Data Security Accelerate Innovation?
“Generative AI” is one of the biggest tech buzzwords in every region and industry around the globe. While Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have captured the world’s attention through applications such as ChatGPT, the truth is, there’s a prerequisite to successful AI innovation. The success or failure of an AI program hinges on the trustworthiness of your data.
In this research report, Clarke Rogers, Director of AWS Enterprise Strategy and Chris McCurdy, Worldwide VP and GM of IBM Security delve into the importance of data security for business innovation. Download the report to dive deeper into topics around data strategy, governance, and trust.
Leaders play a crucial role in business transformation
Digital transformation isn’t just about implementing new technology, it’s about using technology to drive growth. Leaders who envision reinvention for their business begin by taking steps to invest in their strategy, process, people, and culture.
Executives share how they drive growth in their organizations with cloud.
Driving Transformation and Customer Trust
A conversation with Julia Houston, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Equifax
Rapidly Scaling Business Transformation
A conversation with Rita Fisher, CIO and EVP of Supply Chain at Reynolds Consumer Products
Positive Cloud Transformation
A conversation with Frank Tarsillo, SVP and Chief Architect at IHS Markit
Agility to improve customer experience
A conversation with Christian Palomino, Global IT Vice President at Meliá Hotels International
98% of executives view the cloud as essential to digital transformation."
Implementing digital transformation strategies
A sweeping survey of more than 500 leaders at companies in nearly every industry and size category by Chief Executive Group and AWS reveals a sizable shortfall in the organizational behaviors needed to drive business growth in the digital age—as well as huge opportunities to learn and leapfrog the competition.
Accelerating digital innovation in business
In eight short years (between 2010 and 2018) a total of 151 companies disappeared from the Fortune 500—more turnover than in the previous 50 years combined. Why? Because technology redefined the potential for customer experience, and only a small number of companies redefined their approach to customers. Understanding how to digitally disrupt business models is perhaps the easiest part of the journey. Being ready and able to disrupt is quite another matter. The patterns of readiness, however, are beginning to look familiar. They combine operational speed, distributed capacity, and smart cloud strategy.
How Amazon Defines and Operationalizes a Day 1 Culture
Amazon's "Day 1" mentality is a culture and an operating model that puts customers at the center of everything Amazon does. Putting "Day 1" into practice relies on maintaining a long-term focus, obsessing over customers, and bold innovation.
Cloud for CEOs: Innovating at Scale in the Age of AI
An enterprise’s ability to innovate isn’t about technology adoption, it’s about the right combination of people, processes and technology, and being an innovative CEO requires overcoming organizational challenges in four areas: culture, skills, organization and data.
Cloud: The Secret Sauce for Growth, Differentiation, and Productivity
As the role and influence of cloud technologies expand, we are entering a new wave of change where cloud adoption is having a greater business impact, and transforming how people live and work.
Cloud strategy: scaling adoption
Charles Chu
Managing Director, Digital Native Business Segment, AWS
You’re On the Cloud, But Are You Really Leveraging the Cloud?
How does the cloud help speed innovation? What’s the difference between being on the cloud and leveraging the cloud? Is it possible to lower development costs and decrease time to market? To answer these questions, it’s helpful to turn to digital native businesses (DNBs) as a reference.
Mark Schwartz
AWS Enterprise Strategist
I’m a Mature Cloud Adopter. Now What?
Many enterprises have already become proficient with the cloud. They’ve migrated a substantial portion of their workloads, learned the necessary cloud skills, established an aggressive security posture, and developed at least an initial workable operating model. What’s next? Here are some suggestions.
Digital transformation on ‘Conversations with Leaders'
Listen to executive leaders and AWS Enterprise Strategists, all former C-Suite, discuss their digital transformation journeys.
Recommended reading for C-Suite leading transformation
A conversation with Mark Begor, Chief Executive Officer at Equifax
A conversation with Louise Higgins, Chief Financial Officer for Technology at ANZ Bank
A conversation with Brandon Pulsipher, Vice President of Cloud Operations at Adobe
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