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The cloud is revolutionizing how businesses create value, but only when tech organizations, and the business, understand how to use it and change how they operate.
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Everything is better as code: Using FinOps to manage cloud costs
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Turning cloud cost principles and policies into code that’s integrated into the engineering process could generate almost $120 billion in value.
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Building an engineering culture and resilient technology
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Successful technology leaders partner closely with the business on IT strategy, gen AI use, and product development.
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Ending the confusion in cloud transformations: The dashboards and metrics everyone needs
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A cloud transformation has a much greater chance of success if companies know what to track—and how to track it.
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The state of cloud computing in Europe: Increasing adoption, low returns, huge potential
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Overcoming the challenges to capturing cloud value, particularly those that are unique to European companies, requires a five-pronged...
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From legacy to cloud: Lessons learned
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The journey to cloud is complex, demanding leadership, careful planning, and an agile approach to the unexpected.
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Getting ahead in the cloud
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There is $3 trillion worth of business value at stake for companies that successfully use cloud technology—yet many are still in a fog. Here’s a clear path toward cloud adoption.
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Cloud Value Radio
Lessons from leaders on their cloud journeys.
Three elements for capturing value
Capturing the potential value that has eluded many companies requites a cloud transformation engine that is made up of three reinforcing and constantly evolving elements:
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Security as code: How to embrace the cloud securely
Kate Smaje, senior partner and global leader of McKinsey Digital, and Rich Isenberg, partner at Cloud by McKinsey, are joined...
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Insights to impact
Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs with William Forrest, senior partner.
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Cloud value in cash management
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A recent webinar highlights how banks can unlock significant value and competitive advantage through cloud.
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Establishing the next-generation infrastructure organization to support hybrid cloud
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Transforming to a next-generation infrastructure model can unlock significant value.
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Top cloud myths debunked
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Companies that effectively understand and counteract common myths about cloud will derive the greatest rewards from their move....
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What is cloud computing?
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Cloud computing allows companies to store their infrastructures remotely via the internet, ultimately reducing costs and creating...
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The Middle East public cloud: A multibillion-dollar prize waiting to be captured
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Middle East organizations can learn from early cloud migrators how to capture more of cloud’s value.
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Lessons from a successful cloud journey: Empathy, community, and a smart approach to value
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In this interview, the CIO and the director of infrastructure and user services group at the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Africa’s leap ahead into cloud: Opportunities and barriers
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Early indications hint at an impressive surge into the cloud by some African businesses—and the potential to unlock much...
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Building the cloud-ready enterprise network
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Global technology trends are forcing organizations to rethink how to operate efficiently and securely. Network modernization...
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In search of cloud value: Can generative AI transform cloud ROI?
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New ROI analysis highlights what it takes to capture the value of cloud computing, and what role generative AI can play.
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Cloud-powered technologies for sustainability
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AI, machine learning, the Internet of Things, and other technologies can play a critical role in decarbonization, and the cloud...
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It’s time for cloud tech to meet operational tech at industrial sites
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Industrial companies can overcome many of the blockers to the cloud—if key elements of site-level architecture are in place....
Interview - Cloud Value Radio
Cloud as the ultimate digital enabler
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Elevance Health’s chief technology officer of platform modernization and cloud enablement discusses how the company uses...
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The new era of resiliency in the cloud
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Companies can protect their value in the cloud by having a better understanding of what really matters.
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Banks’ core technology conundrum reaches an inflection point
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The founder and CEO of Thought Machine talks with McKinsey about how advances in cloud-based solutions are helping banks meet...
Interview - Cloud Value Radio
A cloud migration in wartime
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Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine’s CTO discusses migrating to the cloud under the most traumatic conditions possible—a full-scale...
Interview - Cloud Value Radio
Focusing on developer experience and embedded security for cloud
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Asurion’s CIO explains how the company’s timely decision to go cloud-first allows the company to move fast, drive...
Interview - Cloud Value Radio
Migrating two banks to the cloud after a merger
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Truist’s chief information and experience officer discusses the post-merger cloud challenges.
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Bringing data platforms to cloud
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Data transformations can be enabled and significantly accelerated by cloud.
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Projecting the global value of cloud: $3 trillion is up for grabs for companies that go beyond adoption
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New research reveals where value in the cloud lies—and details scenarios that highlight that cloud adoption alone isn’t...
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More for less: Five ways to lower cloud costs without destroying value
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Companies can often find significant savings in their cloud programs—if they know where to look.
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Five learnings from CTOs and tech leaders on their cloud strategies
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Recent interviews with tech executives and cloud-program leaders at 50 companies show a gap between cloud aspirations and cloud...
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The future of automotive computing: Cloud and edge
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The rise of 5G and edge computing will create new opportunities along the automotive supply chain. How can semiconductor companies...
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What every insurance leader should know about cloud
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Successful cloud migrations depend on knowing where the value for insurance lies in cloud and on business and IT working together....
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Three big moves that can decide a financial institution’s future in the cloud
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There’s big value potential in the cloud, but financial institutions with a piecemeal migration strategy may be missing...
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Getting the most from cloud services and containers
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Containers have their place in a successful cloud strategy, but businesses shouldn’t overlook the value that CSP-specific...
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Cloud in China: The outlook for 2025
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What will drive China’s next wave of cloud adoption? Successful enterprises will focus not on moving to the cloud but on...
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The cloud as a strategic ecosystem for innovation and growth
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In this interview, Deutsche Börse’s chief information officer and chief operating officer explains how the company’s...
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Cloud economics and the six most damaging mistakes to avoid
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The value potential of cloud is enormous, but only for companies that understand—and adapt to—the realities of cloud...
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It’s cloud time for boards—in seven charts
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These seven charts can help boards shape their business’s cloud strategy.
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Cloud foundations: Ten commandments for faster—and more profitable—cloud migrations
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Cloud migrations flounder quickly unless organizations invest in building the right cloud foundations.
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The business value of innovation in the cloud
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In this interview, TrueBlue’s chief technology and information officer explains why migrating to the cloud was always about...
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Six practical actions for building the cloud talent you need
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Despite a shortage of cloud talent, top companies are finding ways to get past table stakes and build the capabilities needed....
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The benefits of being a cloud trailblazer
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To meet an SEC demand for greater transparency, FINRA chose the road less traveled—public cloud—and reached its goals...
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Boards and the cloud
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A shift to the cloud requires boards to weigh numerous implications, from the technology infrastructure to cybersecurity.
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The case for cloud in life sciences
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As cloud technology matures, life-sciences companies are generating new paths to business value beyond the cost efficiencies...
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Cloud 2030: Capturing Poland’s potential for accelerated digital growth
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Widespread adoption of cloud technology across Polish companies and public institutions could generate value equivalent to 4...
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Cloud-migration opportunity: Business value grows, but missteps abound
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Companies aim to embrace the cloud more fully, but many are already failing to reap the sizable rewards. Outperformers have shown...
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Cloud cost-optimization simulator
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This cloud cost-optimization simulator details the range of levers that can be used to substantially reduce costs for one illustrative...
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Fast forward: How cloud computing could transform risk management
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Cloud-based computing will provide tangible benefits for banking risk management functions, but risk leaders face significant...
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Security as code: The best (and maybe only) path to securing cloud applications and systems
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Managing security as code enables companies to create value in the cloud securely.
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What payers and providers can learn from successful cloud transformations in other industries
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Cloud transformations can create value, but requires engagement from the entire healthcare organization.
Interview
Lessons from a high-ROI cloud transformation journey
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Some roadblocks on the cloud journey aren’t apparent until it’s under way. CUNA Mutual’s CIO and its vice president...
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Four ways boards can shape the cloud agenda
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Cloud can become an important source of strategic advantage for businesses. It’s time for boards to get involved.
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SaaS, open source, and serverless: A winning combination to build and scale new businesses
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Three tech approaches can rapidly accelerate business building for established companies that learn how to use them.
Interactive - McKinsey Quarterly
Five Fifty: Cloudy with a chance of billions
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The latest forecast calls for industries to capture billions in value from cloud. But not every company will join in the profits....
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Building a cloud-ready operating model for agility and resiliency
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Four operating-model changes can help companies accelerate the journey to cloud.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs
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Cloud has immense potential, but most companies are only scratching the surface. Recent research clarifies where the value lies—and...
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Clearing the air on cloud: How industrial companies can capture cloud technology’s full business value
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The industrial application of cloud technology is widely seen as very promising, so we went to the front lines and conducted...
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McKinsey acquires Candid Partners, a leader in cloud consulting
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With the recent acquisition of Candid Partners, we welcome 100+ senior cloud experts—developers, engineers, agile coaches—into...
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Agile’s next level: ABN AMRO’s hybrid cloud–DevSecOps transformation
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Transformation success requires thoughtful mastery of multiple disciplines and coordination of many moving parts.
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Unlocking value: Four lessons in cloud sourcing and consumption
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Companies that are successful in sourcing and managing the consumption of cloud adopt a more dynamic, analytical, and demand-driven...
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How public-sector tech leaders can speed up the journey to the cloud
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Moving to the cloud is fraught with challenges. By answering five questions up front, public-sector leaders can ease and accelerate...
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Debunking seven common myths about cloud
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Common misconceptions about cloud are holding companies back from capturing the full benefits available.
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Making the cloud pay: How industrial companies can accelerate impact from the cloud
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The cloud’s real value goes far beyond IT: it can help industrial companies reinvent how they develop, deliver, sell, and service...
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How CIOs and CTOs can accelerate digital transformations through cloud platforms
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To capture the real value from cloud, companies need to focus their investments and build a cloud-ready operating model.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Three actions CEOs can take to get value from cloud computing
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Leaders need to accelerate their journey to the cloud in order to digitize quickly and effectively in the wake of COVID-19.
Blog Post
How the cloud has moved advanced analytics from exclusive to accessible
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Harnessing the benefits of advanced analytics is easier than most traditional companies think. Three key commitments can help....
Interview
Deutsche Börse unlocks the benefits of moving to the cloud
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Businesses that approach their cloud migration from purely a cost angle are missing its full value. Deutsche Börse’s...
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Unlocking business acceleration in a hybrid cloud world
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Companies that have moved operations to the cloud still aren’t achieving the desired operational agility. A renewed focus...
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Making a secure transition to the public cloud
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As enterprises scale up their use of the public cloud, they must rethink how they protect data and applications—and put...