The greatest gift to the business: A strong technology architecture
McKinsey
JUNE 4, 2025
Starbucks Coffee Company CTO Deb Hall Lefevre explains why architecture is strategy for modern businesses looking to compete in the technology age.
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McKinsey
JUNE 4, 2025
Starbucks Coffee Company CTO Deb Hall Lefevre explains why architecture is strategy for modern businesses looking to compete in the technology age.
McKinsey
JUNE 5, 2025
discusses how companies can easily modernize their technology architecture and accelerate their agility through composable tech stacks. The CEO and cofounder of tech start-up Conscia.ai
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We are shifting the previous thinking around building a massive, centralized environment to developing a broader data-mesh environment based on a composable, flexible architecture. You can see that linkage between value and infrastructure with our data strategy, which weâve shifted since Iâve been here at Analog Devices.
International Coach Academy
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Vantage Circle
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