From yesterday's ground-breaking AI innovations to tomorrow's Metaverse, technology is advancing at a never-before-seen rate With new developments fighting for priority in today's modern tech stack, the challenge for leaders is to identify what advancements are relevant today and which are still in the realms of fiction for the foreseeable future. Whether companies call it digitisation or transformation, the vast majority of organisations are moving everything to the cloud at pace. However, having heavily invested a large number of resources into cloud transition, fewer organisations prioritise the subsequent phases that ramp up cloud return. These subsequent phases provide the foundation for cloud ROI – improving operations, forecasts and predictions using ML and data science for revenue. Hyperscalers build products that drive all kinds of business cases, but the benefits cannot be realised without a sound foundational cloud.