Adam Warby
Adam Warby is the CEO of Avanade. Avanade was founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft and today has more than 14,000 professionals in more than 20 countries focused on helping companies realize results on the Microsoft platform. A true global citizen, Adam has lived in both Europe and North America, and frequently travels the globe visiting Avanade customers and regional offices.
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How is Work Getting Done in your Organization?
The lines between work and play, home and office are continuing to blur as technologies make it easier for employees to be productive from virtually anywhere and at any time. As a result, where employees work is fast becoming a dominant topic of conversation for many business executives. In fact, several large companies have recently [...]
Welcome Azaleos to Avanade
Some of you may have seen our news that we have completed our acquisition of Azaleos. Over the past eight years, Azaleos has built a reputation for offering private managed cloud services using advanced technology to remotely monitor and proactively manage email, collaboration, and unified communications systems … at very high service levels that large [...]
Windows 8 Means Big Opportunities for the Long Term
When Steve Ballmer took the stage in March 2010 at University of Washington to make a very public commitment that Microsoft was “all in” when it comes to cloud computing, he marshaled 70% of his global workforce behind this commitment. Around the same time, Microsoft made a similarly huge bet on mobility – overhauling [...]
Innovation Enabling Business Change
September not only marks the beginning of changing seasons, but it also is the start to Avanade’s fiscal year. At 13, Avanade is now a teenager – and as those of you with teenage children can attest, it promises to be a fun, potentially volatile, rewarding and challenging experience all at once! In FY12, [...]
London Olympics: Big Event, Big Expectations
Working in London has given me a first-hand view of the preparations for the 2012 London Olympics starting this weekend, where the world will be watching as over 200 countries go for gold. Four years ago, the 2008 Beijing Olympics set a new standard for future Olympic games with logistical and technical sophistication – [...]
The Challenge and Reality of Big Data
Some things in life are inevitable: death, taxes and the ability of the tech sector to create acronyms and overly-hyped buzzwords. Today, I’m going to address the latest of those buzzwords, Big Data, and by the end I promise to try to come up with an acronym of my own just for fun. Big [...]
Agility to drive costs down?
I recently discussed the role of innovation in helping to differentiate and spur growth. And in my mind, an area of innovation that truly has game-changing impact is agility. Like the word “innovation,” agility is too often used as a buzzword, so what is agility and why is it important? The Oxford English Dictionary [...]
More on CIOs Leading Innovation Agendas
On Jan. 9 , I discussed the importance of CIOs driving innovation by aligning technology to business goals. Avanade’s own CIO, Chris Miller, is a good example of what I mean. As a business technology consultancy, Avanade‘s employees expect a lot from their technology – the software, hardware and services – to enable them [...]
Beyond the jargon, innovation is transforming business
Innovation seems to be the buzzword of the moment. Not just because the stores are full of the most innovative, must-have gadgets for every occasion (check out the latest news coming out of Consumer Electronics Show 2012 for the lastest gadgets) but because business leaders are recognizing it as key to differentiating themselves and driving [...]
Business as usual or something new?
You probably noticed that Nokia launched some really cool Windows Phone mobile devices like the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 in October during Nokia World. I got a hold of the Lumia 800 in the UK. This is an impressive device and I’ve been really satisfied. I think Nokia could have a winner here. Last [...]
