Tom Keane on the Critical Need for Better Digital Governance Like the internet, cloud technologies have fundamentally changed the way the world works. Tom Keane, a former senior tech leader at the Microsoft Corporation, was a key player in the cloud revolution that brought cloud computing to the world. By building fast, well-performing, and cost-effective cloud solutions for everything from gaming and entertainment to health care, finance, utilities, governance, and more, cloud-based services such as those provided by Azure — Microsoft’s cloud computing platform — have become a standard feature of the world’s most recognizable and successful businesses. Azure powers enormous percentages of global gross domestic product and is operated from hundreds of data centers in 60+ regions and 30 + countries. In building it, Tom Keane and Microsoft provided a useful case study on the importance of effective governance and sound digital transformation planning. Keane, a recognized leader in the digital sovereignty, cloud computing, and cybersecurity fields, says that, while well-performing and effective digital infrastructures are known to support economic growth and generate jobs, there are countless obstacles and pitfalls when it comes to getting it right. Mismanagement, poor interoperability, and the ineffective or incorrect identification of priority […]