Craft your future-ready AI strategy and cloud ecosystem

Wave periods between major innovation in the cloud are growing shorter. We no longer have the luxury of waiting it out, of adopting later. Cloud ecosystems built on strategic foundations create the conditions to absorb successive waves of change.

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Cloud Strategy

Untangling the web as we invest and build technology atop strategic foundations: Executive vision, high-impact workloads, and architecture for a modern cloud ecosystem that aligns technology investment with business outcomes 💡

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AI Strategy

Leading organizations into the “Age of AI” with a strategy built upon five pillars: Data Consolidation and Readiness, Incremental and Differential AI, and Scaling AI across the enterprise (and it’s people). We actually wrote the book on this 😉

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Ecosystem Architecture

Ecosystem-oriented architecture enables highly flexible, almost living and breathing cloud estates knit together across Azure, Fabric, Power Platform, M365, and third-party technologies. You cannot truly scale cloud or AI without it ⛰️

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  • IT + Business Leaders

    Enabling IT and business leaders to become strategic leaders, crafting and executing your organization’s journey in the Age of AI

  • Microsoft Partners

    Enabling partners to build new technology practices, nurture strategic client relationships, and grow your industry profile

  • Investors and PortCos

    Enabling investment decisions, steering portfolio companies, absorbing M&A, and investing smartly in AI + cloud technology

  • Technologists

    Enabling individual technologists through teaching, coaching, mentoring, and insights on strategic and ecosystem architecture

Andrew Welch
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Founder + CTO | Microsoft MVP | Author

Cloud technology leader, founder and CTO of Cloud Lighthouse, Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), speaker, published author, and regular writer of essays and white papers on cloud technology including Strategic Thinking for the Microsoft Cloud, Crafting your Future-Ready Enterprise AI Strategy, and the multi-edition Power Platform Adoption Framework. Andrew works directly with CXOs, Microsoft partners, Microsoft product engineering groups, technologists, and investors to guide cloud strategy and ecosystem architecture. His previous service includes that as CTO, global Vice President, Practice Director, and VP of Operations, and other tech and business focused roles at leading Microsoft partners. He’s led some of the world’s largest Microsoft adoptions on all seven continents (yes, including Antarctica), serving startup to Fortune 100 organizations, public sector agencies, and global NGOs. Based in London and Boston, Andrew makes frequent visits worldwide.

Andrew Welch