The New C-suite examines the policies, technologies, and collaboration frameworks required to balance the speed of technology adoption with the security and scalability requirements of IT. As technology democratizes across the organization, how will your organization prepare for a world where consumer technologies may be more powerful than those in the enterprise? How will you harness the innovation without suffering from an external disruptive force? Will you develop digital artisans who can navigate business and IT?
Research agendas focus on end user computing and CXO leadership in an era of digital transformation and digital business. The infusion of digital DNA and a ubiquitous digital society will require a new set of hybrid-skilled CXO's who have achieved digital mastery in addition to traditional business skills.
Here's a look at some of the key takeaways in 2024 from the CXOs in the BT150 based on our numerous interviews and monthly calls.
Matt Garman Has Positively Impacted AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted over 70,000 attendees at its 13th annual reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2nd to 6th, 2024. Since its humble beginnings in 2012 when there were 6,000 attendees, this event has been on the must-attend list developer and innovation focused business and technology leaders. After losing three years of momentum, AWS finally found the right replacement for Andy Jassy with Matt Garman as the new AWS CEO. This year’s announcements showcase significant product investments that will provide a stronger roadmap of how AWS will support AI startups and enterprises moving fast into AI. Overall, announcements from reinvent reflect a deep customer understanding.
Expect Regulations For National Security, But Overall Lighter Regulatory Framework
For the most part, tech has done well regardless of presidential administrations due to the light regulation of the overall industry. This has allowed large digital giants to emerge and dominate global markets across a multitude of industries. Amidst a national security backdrop and increasing capital required in the tech arms race, government has been hesitant to over regulate.
Enterprise software will be volatile in 2025 as customers increasingly question value, complain about upsells and added charges and assess whether agentic AI provides an abstraction layer to their existing applications.
Constellation Research's Connected Enterprise 2024 spurred big ideas, a community of tech leaders and dozens of takeaways. It's a fire house of information designed to get you thinking about what's around the corner. Here are the takeaways.
Sunitha Ray, Field Operations CTO at Shopify, says there's a big difference between enterprise AI and generative AI and business leaders need to know the use cases and potential returns on investment for each category.
