Introduction: Beyond the Engine Room – Infrastructure as a Strategic Asset In this series exploring the six Modern Business Foundations, we've covered Strategy, Capabilities, Processes, Data, and Applications. We now address Infrastructure – the technological foundation upon which all digital operations are built. Understanding and governing this layer is not optional; it's fundamental to organizational success.

From a strategic viewpoint, infrastructure (servers, storage, networks, cloud services) is far more than just the "IT plumbing" or a line item on the budget. It's a critical determinant of the organization's ability to execute strategy, innovate, manage risk, control costs, and adapt to market changes. Misaligned, inefficient, or insecure infrastructure acts as a drag anchor, increasing operational friction, hindering growth, creating competitive disadvantages, and exposing the business to significant financial and reputational threats. Conversely, well-managed, strategically aligned infrastructure becomes a powerful competitive advantage, enabling speed, resilience, and efficiency.

This article reframes infrastructure through a strategic lens. We'll focus on the key decisions, trade-offs, and governance principles needed to ensure this foundational layer delivers maximum business value, enables agility, ensures resilience, and effectively supports the other five business foundations.

Understanding Infrastructure Components & Models

While deep technical expertise isn't the focus here, a grasp of the fundamentals enables better strategic dialogue and decision-making:

The Core Functions Provided: At its heart, infrastructure delivers three essential services for your digital enterprise:

  • Compute Power: The ability to run applications and process information efficiently. This directly impacts how quickly tasks get done, from generating financial reports to processing customer orders. Provided by servers, whether physical or virtual.
  • Data Storage: Securely holding and providing access to the organization's vital data assets (Part 4). The cost, speed, and security of storage impact everything from operational efficiency to compliance. Provided by systems like SANs, NAS, or cloud storage.
  • Connectivity: Enabling seamless communication and data flow between internal systems, employees, partners, and customers. Network performance directly impacts user experience and process efficiency. This relies heavily on physical network hardware like routers (directing traffic between networks), switches (connecting devices within a network), firewalls (security gatekeepers), and load balancers (distributing traffic), alongside the cabling and wireless systems.

Key Delivery Models (The Big Choices & Their Implications):

  • On-Premises ("Owning"): Building and managing your own data centers and equipment (servers, storage, network hardware). Strategic View: Offers maximum control over data location, security configurations, and performance tuning – sometimes mandated by regulation or unique operational needs. However, it demands significant upfront capital (CapEx), locks the business into fixed capacity for years, incurs high ongoing operational costs (OpEx for power, cooling, specialized staff, maintenance contracts), limits agility (scaling takes months), and places the full burden of security and maintenance internally.
  • Cloud Computing ("Renting"): Utilizing resources from providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service): Renting raw components (virtual servers, storage, basic network). Offers high flexibility but requires significant internal IT skills to manage the operating systems, security patching, and software above the base layer.
  • PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service): Renting a development/deployment platform (includes OS, databases, etc.). Significantly accelerates application development (Part 5) by abstracting away infrastructure management, fostering innovation, but increases reliance on the provider's specific tools and ecosystem ("vendor lock-in" risk). Requires developers skilled in that platform.
  • SaaS (Software-as-a-Service): Renting ready-made applications (Part 5). Simplest model operationally, offering predictable costs and rapid deployment for standard functions (like CRM, HR). However, it provides the least control, limited customization, and places critical business data and processes in the hands of a third party, demanding rigorous vendor due diligence regarding security and data handling.
  • Strategic View (Cloud Overall): Shifts CapEx to more flexible OpEx, enables rapid scalability (up and down) crucial for agility, reduces the need for internal data center management expertise. However, requires strong governance to control costs (usage-based billing can escalate quickly), active vendor management, and a clear understanding of the shared responsibility model for security (the provider secures the cloud infrastructure fabric, but you secure your configuration and use of the cloud services). Example: The cloud provider patches their servers, but you are responsible for patching the operating system you installed on an IaaS virtual machine.
  • Hybrid Cloud (Mixing Models): Combining on-premises and cloud resources strategically based on workload needs. Strategic View: Often the most pragmatic approach for established businesses with existing investments or specific compliance needs. Allows optimizing cost (running stable workloads on-prem, variable ones in cloud), maintaining control over sensitive data, while leveraging cloud for agility and innovation. However, it significantly increases management complexity – integrating environments, ensuring consistent security policies, managing multiple cost models, and requiring broader skill sets internally or through partners.
  • Multi-Cloud (Using Multiple Cloud Providers): A specific strategy, often evolving from Hybrid, where an organization deliberately uses services from more than one public cloud provider (e.g., AWS and Azure and GCP). Strategic View: Adopted to avoid vendor lock-in, leverage specific "best-of-breed" services unique to each provider (e.g., one provider's AI tools might be superior), improve negotiation leverage, or meet complex regulatory/data residency needs across different global regions. While offering benefits, multi-cloud further amplifies management complexity, integration challenges, and the need for consistent security and governance across disparate platforms.
  • Example: A global company might use AWS in North America, Azure in Europe (due to specific data residency requirements or existing enterprise agreements), and GCP for specific data analytics workloads globally, requiring tools and expertise to manage all three environments cohesively.

The Strategic Imperative: Aligning Infrastructure Investment with Business Outcomes

Infrastructure is not an end in itself; it's a means to achieve business goals. Investment decisions must be rigorously tied to strategy (Part 1).

  • Enablement, Not Just Cost: Shift the conversation from "How do we cut IT costs?" to "How does infrastructure enable our strategic priorities?"
  • Growth & Expansion: Entering a new geographic market requires infrastructure presence – cloud regions offer instant global reach compared to building data centers. Scaling to handle a surge in online customers requires elastic compute and network capacity.
  • Example: A retailer expanding internationally uses a cloud provider's global network and regional data centers to quickly establish a localized online presence with good performance for customers in each new country, a feat that would take years and millions via traditional means.
  • Efficiency & Profitability: Can migrating specific applications from aging, expensive-to-maintain on-prem servers to a more efficient cloud PaaS model reduce TCO and improve margins? Can automating manual infrastructure tasks free up skilled staff for higher-value work?
  • Example: Automating server patching saves hundreds of hours of manual IT effort annually, reducing OpEx and minimizing security risks from delayed patches.
  • Innovation & Agility: Does infrastructure allow the business to experiment quickly? Cloud PaaS environments or container platforms allow development teams (supporting Capabilities - Part 2) to spin up test environments in minutes, try new ideas, and deploy successful ones faster, fueling innovation.
  • Risk Management: Investing in robust backup and disaster recovery infrastructure isn't just insurance; it protects revenue streams, customer trust, and brand reputation from the impact of outages or cyberattacks.
  • The High Cost of Misalignment: Investing in rigid, on-prem infrastructure when the strategy demands rapid adaptation creates a significant competitive disadvantage. Overspending on cutting-edge technology for non-critical back-office functions diverts resources from strategic growth areas. Conversely, chronic underinvestment ("sweating the assets" too long) leads to performance bottlenecks that frustrate customers and employees, reliability issues that halt operations, and critical security vulnerabilities that invite disaster.
  • Strategic alignment ensures resources go where they deliver the most business value.

Infrastructure's Impact Across the Business Foundations (Strategic View)

Understanding the tangible consequences of infrastructure choices on the other foundations is key for effective oversight:

  • Impact on Capabilities (Part 2): Infrastructure directly enables or constrains core business competencies.
  • Consequence Example: A financial services firm prides itself on its "Advanced Analytics" capability. If its infrastructure lacks the specialized compute power (GPUs) or fast storage needed to process complex models quickly, this differentiating capability becomes slow and ineffective, losing its competitive edge.
  • Infrastructure capacity planning must anticipate capability growth needs.
  • Impact on Processes (Part 3): Infrastructure performance is process performance.
  • Consequence Example: Slow infrastructure supporting the "Order-to-Cash" process can delay invoicing and payments, directly impacting cash flow and Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) – key financial metrics. Frequent infrastructure outages impacting the "Customer Support" process lead to long wait times, dropped calls, poor CSAT scores, and ultimately, customer churn.
  • Impact on Data (Part 4): Infrastructure choices dictate data possibilities and risks.
  • Consequence Example: Choosing a cloud storage option in a region not compliant with specific data sovereignty regulations (like GDPR) can lead to massive fines and legal battles. Inadequate network bandwidth between data sources and the data warehouse can make timely business intelligence reporting (a key aspect of Data Management) impossible, forcing decisions based on outdated information. Lack of robust infrastructure security directly translates to high data breach risk.
  • Impact on Applications (Part 5): Users experience infrastructure through applications.
  • Consequence Example: Persistently slow performance of the core ERP system (Application) due to under-provisioned servers (Infrastructure) leads to significant productivity loss across multiple departments, user workarounds that corrupt data (Part 4 impact), and potentially requires expensive emergency upgrades or migrations. Unreliable infrastructure causes frequent application crashes, disrupting workflows and requiring costly support effort.

Managing the Foundation: Key Principles for Oversight

Effective infrastructure oversight requires focusing on these critical areas:

Driving Value & Efficiency (Cost Management & Sourcing):

  • Mandate TCO Transparency: Don't accept surface-level costs. Demand a full TCO picture from IT, including personnel time, power, maintenance, support contracts, etc., for both on-prem and cloud. Use this for apples-to-apples comparisons and to identify hidden inefficiencies.
  • Govern Cloud Spend Rigorously: Cloud's pay-as-you-go model needs oversight. Implement mandatory resource tagging (linking costs to projects/departments), automated budget alerts, regular spending reviews, and empower a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) or similar function to drive optimization (using reserved instances, spot instances, right-sizing virtual machines, shutting down unused resources).
  • Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management: Actively guide the On-Prem vs. Cloud vs. Hybrid/Multi-Cloud decision based on long-term strategy, risk profile, and agility needs, not just inertia or vendor hype. Ensure robust vendor management practices for critical cloud providers, including SLAs, security audits, and exit strategies. Regularly evaluate if repatriation makes financial or strategic sense for specific workloads.
  • Measure & Communicate ROI: Insist that major infrastructure investments (e.g., data center refresh, significant cloud migration, network upgrade) have a clear business case demonstrating expected ROI through cost savings, efficiency gains, risk reduction, or revenue enablement. Track and report on the actual results achieved.

Ensuring Resilience & Managing Risk (Reliability, Security, Compliance):

  • Understand What Happens When Infrastructure Fails: Infrastructure outages (server failures, network cuts, storage issues, cloud service disruptions, cyberattacks) can halt critical business processes instantly. This translates directly to lost revenue (e.g., e-commerce site down), operational paralysis (e.g., manufacturing stops), inability to serve customers (e.g., support systems offline), potential data loss or corruption, compliance breaches, and severe reputational damage. Planning for failure is not optional.
  • Distinguish BCP and DR:
  • Business Continuity Planning (BCP): The broader strategy focused on keeping essential business functions operational during any disruption (IT outage, pandemic, supply chain issue). It involves people, processes, and technology.
  • Disaster Recovery (DR): A subset of BCP specifically focused on restoring IT infrastructure, applications, and data after a significant disruptive event (the "disaster").
  • Define Business Tolerance (RTO/RPO) & Invest Accordingly: Facilitate the crucial business discussion to quantify the impact of downtime for critical processes (lost revenue, reputational damage, penalties). Use this to set realistic Recovery Time Objectives (RTO - how quickly must service be restored?) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO - how much data loss is acceptable?) that balance cost and risk. Ensure DR investments align with these business-defined tolerances. Example: A 1-hour RTO for the online store might require significant investment in redundant systems, while an 8-hour RTO for an internal reporting system might be achievable with simpler backup/restore methods.
  • Oversee Business Continuity & DR Strategy Choices: Understand the common DR approaches and their implications, driven by RTO/RPO:
  • Backup and Restore: Regularly backing up data and systems. Lowest cost, but longest RTO (hours to days) as systems need rebuilding/restoring from scratch. Suitable for less critical systems or data archives.
  • Pilot Light / Warm Standby: Maintaining a minimal "skeleton" infrastructure (e.g., core servers, replicated data) in a recovery site, ready to be quickly scaled up. Faster RTO (minutes to hours) than backup/restore, moderate cost. Often used for important but not absolutely critical applications.
  • Hot Standby / Multi-Site Active-Active: Running a fully redundant, live environment in parallel, often in a different geographic location. Traffic can be actively served from both sites or failed over instantly. Offers near-zero RTO/RPO but is the most complex and expensive. Typically reserved for mission-critical systems where any downtime is unacceptable, like financial trading platforms or critical healthcare systems.
  • Demand Rigorous Testing: Ensure comprehensive, documented BCP and DR plans exist. Critically, demand regular, rigorous testing (at least annually) that simulates realistic failure scenarios and involves business users validating the recovered environment. A plan that hasn't been tested is just a theory.
  • Ask: "When was the last full DR test, what scenario was tested, what was the actual recovery time achieved vs. the RTO target, were business users able to perform critical functions, and what improvements were made based on the test?"
  • Example: A DR test reveals that while servers came back online within the RTO, a critical network configuration was missed, preventing users from actually logging into the recovered application – leading to a plan update and re-test.
  • Champion Cybersecurity as a Business Imperative: Security is not just an IT issue; it's fundamental to business survival and trust. Set the tone that security is non-negotiable. This involves:
  • Understanding the Threats: Recognize that infrastructure is a primary target for attacks like ransomware (which can halt operations), data breaches (leading to fines and reputational ruin), denial-of-service attacks (making services unavailable), and insider threats.
  • Prioritizing Proactive Defense: Ensure adequate budget and resources are allocated for essential, layered security measures (strong firewalls, intrusion detection, endpoint security, robust access controls like MFA). Support proactive vulnerability management (finding and fixing weaknesses before they are exploited) and timely patching of infrastructure components.
  • Example: Investing in a robust vulnerability scanning tool and dedicating resources to promptly fix identified critical issues prevents attackers from using known exploits, significantly reducing the likelihood of a breach compared to only reacting after an attack.
  • Fostering a Security Culture: Promote security awareness training across the organization. Simple employee errors (like clicking phishing links) can bypass sophisticated technical defenses.
  • Linking to Application/Data Security: Emphasize that a secure infrastructure provides the necessary foundation for securing critical applications (Part 5) and sensitive data (Part 4). Weak infrastructure undermines all other security efforts.
  • Utilizing Frameworks: Encourage the use of established cybersecurity frameworks (like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework or ISO 27001) to provide a structured approach for identifying, protecting against, detecting, responding to, and recovering from threats.
  • Ensure Compliance Adherence & Understand Shared Responsibility: Verify infrastructure meets all mandatory regulatory requirements (PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.), understanding that non-compliance carries heavy penalties. For cloud, ensure teams fully grasp the shared responsibility model – the provider secures the underlying cloud infrastructure, but the organization is responsible for securing its data, configurations, access controls, and network traffic within the cloud. Assuming the provider handles everything is a common and dangerous mistake.

Enabling Agility & Innovation (Scalability, Flexibility, Future-Proofing):

  • Demand Infrastructure Agility: Challenge IT to adopt infrastructure models and practices (cloud, virtualization, automation like IaC) that allow the business to respond quickly to opportunities and threats. Measure provisioning times – how fast can IT deliver the infrastructure needed for a new initiative? Is it measured in hours/days or weeks/months?
  • Prioritize Modernization & Address Technical Debt: Actively support initiatives to modernize aging infrastructure that creates bottlenecks, incurs high maintenance costs, or carries significant security risks (technical debt). Delaying modernization often costs more in the long run through operational inefficiency, inability to leverage new technologies, and increased risk exposure.
  • Strategic Foresight for Future Needs: Ensure the infrastructure strategy explicitly considers how to support key future business directions and technologies (AI/ML needs massive, scalable data processing and specialized hardware; IoT requires robust network connectivity and potentially edge computing capabilities). Infrastructure choices today should enable, not constrain, future strategic options.

Establishing Control & Governance:

  • Assign Clear Ownership: Ensure accountability exists for critical infrastructure services (e.g., network connectivity, core application hosting), linking IT management to business outcomes and needs. This often involves both IT technical owners and business service owners who understand the operational impact.
  • Implement & Enforce Standards: Support the creation and consistent application of clear, practical standards for infrastructure security, reliability, data placement, technology selection, cloud usage, and vendor management. Standards prevent chaos and ensure consistency.
  • Streamline Decision-Making Processes: Ensure a well-defined, efficient process exists for evaluating and approving significant infrastructure changes, investments, or adoption of new cloud services. This process must involve both IT expertise and relevant business stakeholder input to ensure alignment and manage risk. Avoid decision paralysis but also prevent uncontrolled proliferation of unmanaged tools or services.
  • Invest in the Human Element: Recognize that managing modern infrastructure requires specialized skills (cloud architecture, cybersecurity, network engineering, automation). Address skill gaps through strategic hiring, partnerships, or focused internal training programs. Foster a culture where IT and business collaborate effectively, focused on shared outcomes and mutual understanding.

Initiating Change: A Strategic Action Plan for Infrastructure Oversight

Moving from passive acceptance to active, strategic oversight requires deliberate action.

Here’s a practical approach to initiate significant improvements, focusing on tangible steps and outcomes:

Action Area 1: Establish Clarity & Strategic Context

Action 1.1: Commission a Strategic Infrastructure Baseline Review.

  • Objective: Gain a clear, business-oriented understanding of the current state, costs, and strategic alignment.
  • Specific Steps: Mandate IT leadership, potentially supported by finance and internal audit, to produce a concise report covering: Inventory of critical infrastructure assets (key servers, storage platforms, network segments, major cloud services) including age, support status, primary function/apps supported; Verified Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for these critical assets/services (ensure methodology includes personnel, power, licensing, support, etc.); Explicit mapping showing how this critical infrastructure supports (or hinders) the organization's top 3-5 strategic objectives or differentiating capabilities; Identification of immediate high-level risks (e.g., critical unsupported components).
  • Outcome: A shared, factual baseline for informed discussion and prioritization.

Action 1.2: Formalize Infrastructure Governance Roles & Processes.

  • Objective: Ensure clear accountability and rational decision-making.
  • Specific Steps: Mandate the documentation and communication of clear owners for critical infrastructure services (e.g., who owns the 'Email Service', the 'ERP Hosting Platform', the 'Corporate Network Service' from a business perspective?), alongside IT technical owners. Review, refine, and formally approve the documented process for requesting, evaluating (including business case/ROI, security review, architectural fit), and approving new infrastructure investments, major changes, or cloud service adoption. Ensure it includes necessary business stakeholder input.
  • Outcome: Clear accountability and a defined, transparent process for infrastructure decisions.

Action 1.3: Facilitate an IT/Business Partnership Diagnostic.

  • Objective: Identify specific barriers and opportunities for improving collaboration regarding infrastructure.
  • Specific Steps: Initiate structured feedback sessions (interviews or facilitated workshops) involving key IT infrastructure leaders and representative business unit leaders/users. Focus on understanding perceptions of service levels, communication effectiveness, alignment on priorities, and responsiveness. Identify concrete areas for improvement in communication or joint planning.
  • Outcome: Actionable insights to improve the working relationship and ensure infrastructure better serves business needs.

Action Area 2: Quantify and Prioritize Risk & Resilience

Action 2.1: Drive Business-Focused RTO/RPO Definition & Validation.

  • Objective: Ensure disaster recovery capabilities align with actual business tolerance for disruption.
  • Specific Steps: Lead or sponsor a cross-functional workshop (including business process owners, finance, legal/compliance, IT) to define RTO/RPO targets for critical systems based on quantified business impact (e.g., $/hour of downtime, reputational damage assessment, compliance breach penalty). Review existing DR capabilities and chosen strategies (Backup/Restore, Warm Standby, Hot Standby) against these targets and approve necessary investments or risk acceptance decisions.
  • Outcome: Business-driven resilience targets and aligned DR investment and strategy.

Action 2.2: Institute Rigorous DR/BCP Validation with Business Involvement.

  • Objective: Gain confidence that recovery plans actually work under pressure.
  • Specific Steps: Mandate annual (at minimum) Disaster Recovery tests that include active participation from business users to validate that recovered systems support critical process execution within the defined RTO. Require formal test reports detailing success/failure, actual recovery times vs. targets, data integrity checks, lessons learned, and tracked remediation plans for any issues. Review these reports at a leadership level.
  • Outcome: Verified recovery capability and continuous improvement of DR plans.

Action 2.3: Commission a Prioritized Infrastructure Risk Assessment.

  • Objective: Proactively identify and address the most significant threats to infrastructure stability and security.
  • Specific Steps: Request IT/Security teams (potentially with third-party validation) to conduct and present a formal assessment identifying the top 5-10 infrastructure risks (considering cybersecurity threats, obsolescence, single points of failure, key vendor viability, concentration risks, etc.). This assessment must rank risks by potential business impact and include specific, resourced mitigation plans with clear ownership and target completion dates for the highest priorities. Track progress on these mitigation plans regularly.
  • Outcome: Focused attention and resources on mitigating the most critical infrastructure risks.

Action 2.4: Verify Compliance Posture & Cloud Responsibility.

  • Objective: Ensure infrastructure meets legal and regulatory obligations.
  • Specific Steps: Request formal confirmation, supported by recent evidence (e.g., audit reports, attestations like SOC 2, PCI AoC), that infrastructure components supporting regulated data or processes meet current compliance standards. Explicitly review and confirm understanding of the shared responsibility model for all significant cloud services used.
  • Outcome: Documented assurance of compliance status and clarity on cloud responsibilities.

Action 2.5: Mandate Proactive Lifecycle Management & Technical Debt Reduction.

  • Objective: Avoid risks associated with aging/unsupported infrastructure and plan for necessary evolution.
  • Specific Steps: Require IT to maintain and present (e.g., annually) a multi-year lifecycle roadmap for critical infrastructure components (hardware, OS, databases, key network gear). This roadmap should highlight end-of-support dates, planned refresh/replacement timelines, and associated budget forecasts. Frame this as essential technical debt management and risk reduction.
  • Outcome: Proactive planning and budgeting for infrastructure evolution, reducing emergency upgrades and unsupported system risks.

Action Area 3: Set Expectations for Performance, Agility & Future-Readiness

Action 3.1: Establish and Monitor Business-Relevant Performance Metrics.

  • Objective: Measure infrastructure effectiveness based on its impact on the business.
  • Specific Steps: Work with IT and business units to define and agree upon 3-5 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that reflect infrastructure's impact on critical business outcomes (e.g., response time for core ERP transactions, uptime percentage for customer-facing services, network latency impacting key applications, cloud cost per business transaction). Require regular (e.g., monthly or quarterly) reporting on these KPIs against agreed targets or SLAs.
  • Outcome: Visibility into infrastructure performance through a business lens, enabling data-driven discussions about improvements.

Action 3.2: Set Agility Targets and Champion Enabling Technologies.

  • Objective: Drive improvements in the speed and flexibility of infrastructure delivery.
  • Specific Steps: Define target turnaround times for provisioning standard infrastructure resources (e.g., a new virtual server, a test environment). Champion and potentially fund pilot projects or broader adoption of technologies proven to enhance agility, such as infrastructure automation (IaC), virtualization enhancements, or cloud PaaS/container platforms, where aligned with strategic needs. Challenge resistance to change that preserves slow, manual processes.
  • Outcome: Measurable improvements in IT's responsiveness to business needs.

Action 3.3: Embed Infrastructure Strategy in Business Planning Cycles.

  • Objective: Ensure infrastructure evolves proactively to support long-term business direction.
  • Specific Steps: Mandate that the annual strategic planning process includes a dedicated review of the current infrastructure's ability to support the proposed strategy and identifies necessary future investments. The resulting infrastructure roadmap (covering key initiatives, technology choices, sourcing decisions, and budget estimates) should be a formal, integrated output of the overall business planning process, not an afterthought. Ensure IT leadership responsible for infrastructure is a key participant in these strategic discussions.
  • Outcome: A forward-looking infrastructure plan directly aligned with and enabling the organization's strategic objectives.

Conclusion: Leading the Foundation for Sustainable Success

Ensuring the infrastructure foundation is strategically aligned, financially sound, resilient, secure, agile, and effectively governed is a crucial function demanding strategic oversight. It requires treating infrastructure not as a utility cost to be blindly minimized, but as a critical business asset demanding informed leadership and strategic investment.

By focusing on the key principles – value, risk, agility, and governance – and by consistently asking the right questions and driving action through structured oversight initiatives like those outlined above, the organization can build and maintain an infrastructure that doesn't just keep the lights on, but actively drives efficiency, enables innovation, manages risk, and secures the business for sustained success in a dynamic world.

It's the bedrock upon which strategy, capabilities, processes, data, and applications ultimately thrive.

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