PHIL LE-BRUN
CLOUD COMPUTING
“ THE UK NEEDS A CYCLE OF INNOVATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. PEOPLE... MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
PHIL LE-BRUN, DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE STRATEGY, AWS
‘ How can I drive efficiency? How can I make my developer more productive?’ That is great, but that’ s not going to drive business transformation.”
In January 2017, McDonald’ s’ CEO announced targets that seemed impossible to the organisation: 20,000 restaurants with e-commerce and mobile order capabilities, 8,000 locations offering delivery, plus a new customer experience in thousands of restaurants – all within a year.
“ The reaction at the time was,‘ that’ s impossible.’ By the end of the year, we’ d exceeded all those targets,” says Phil.“ There were two reasons for that. One is the cloud: we didn’ t have to go through
PHIL LE-BRUN
TITLE: DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE STRATEGY
COMPANY: AMAZON WEB SERVICES( AWS)
INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY / AI / CLOUD COMPUTING
AWS Director of Enterprise Strategy and former CIO at McDonald’ s, Phil advises C-suite leaders on leveraging cloud and AI for business transformation, sharing insights to drive innovation and strategic tech adoption. technologymagazine. com 43