BylineAugust 2026

What Two Decades in Big Tech Taught Me About Scaling Transformation

A byline drawing on twenty years across AWS, Google, Automation Anywhere and Kyndryl. Pankaj argues that scale is rarely a technology problem but an alignment problem: transformations struggle when strategy, ownership, incentives and execution pull in different directions. With AI, the leadership question is no longer how many pilots have launched, but what has actually changed in the economics and operating model of the business.

“Scale is rarely a technology problem, but an alignment problem.”

Beyond Adoption: Pankaj Kumar on Making Enterprise Technology Deliver

A long-form interview on why enterprise technology fails through organizational misalignment rather than technical deficiency. Pankaj sets out what he looks for in a working partnership — a shared scorecard, field enablement, accountable governance — and argues that as AI systems gain autonomy, institutional trust rather than platform access becomes the scarce advantage.

“Technology leaders still confuse value creation with technology adoption.”

Kyndryl accelerates AWS expertise to drive customer success in 2026

How the Kyndryl and AWS alliance has evolved from a delivery relationship into a transformation-focused partnership, and the part it plays in the modernization initiatives customers treat as most critical.

Reimagining enterprise value with AI: Kyndryl and AWS

On moving enterprises past AI experimentation and into agentic AI running in real, mission-critical environments — and what has to be true operationally before that transition holds.

Inside Kyndryl’s Agentic AI Strategy with AWS

An interview on how the Kyndryl-AWS Business Group is structured, how joint investment is prioritised across agentic AI and modernization, and how a partnership of this size is actually run day to day.

Why Kyndryl’s new AWS alliance leader sees the partnership as a goldmine for growth

Pankaj’s first extended interview after taking over the AWS alliance, setting out where he saw the growth and what he intended to change about how the two companies worked together.

Kyndryl and AWS Sign Expanded Strategic Collaboration Agreement to Advance Agentic AI Adoption Across Enterprise IT

The multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement Pankaj signed with AWS, covering agentic AI adoption, mainframe modernization, joint solution engineering, sovereign cloud, and continued investment in a global team of more than 11,000 AWS-certified professionals.