Understand how to consolidate technology vendors without creating concentration risk, by balancing licensing cost, capabilities, contracts, architecture fit, and sourcing governance.
Technical debt is moving from an engineering backlog item to a board-level investment issue that affects transformation speed, cyber risk, resilience, and operating cost. Leaders should decide which debt to remediate, which to accept, and how to measure it consistently.
Resilience planning is moving from isolated disaster-recovery exercises toward business-service continuity, dependency mapping, and impact tolerance. Leaders should test whether critical services can actually be restored within an accepted disruption window.
Learn how to rationalize the application portfolio using business value, technical health, cost, risk, and duplication so modernization, replacement, and retirement become explicit decisions.