Strategy on Ilyas Hamdihttps://ilyashamdi.com/tags/strategy/Recent content in Strategy on Ilyas HamdiHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000The AI build vs buy decisionhttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/ai-build-vs-buy/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/ai-build-vs-buy/Build vs buy in AI is downstream of organizational position, not upstream of it. The decision answered without that context is mostly noise.The implicit architecture of every modernization decisionhttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/implicit-architecture-modernization/Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/implicit-architecture-modernization/Every modernization arrives with a stated goal and a much larger implicit one. The modernization that fails is the one where the implicit architecture was never named.The three stages every IDP goes throughhttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/platform-engineering-internal-developer-platforms/Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/platform-engineering-internal-developer-platforms/Most IDPs go through three painful stages: no users, wrong abstractions, and the moment someone realizes it has to be operated as a product.What a cloud architecture review should producehttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cloud-architecture-review-output/Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cloud-architecture-review-output/Most cloud architecture reviews produce a deck that gets filed. A useful review produces decisions framed for the people who can make them.The security posture question most organizations ask too latehttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/security-posture-too-late/Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/security-posture-too-late/Four triggers force the question 'what's our security posture, actually?' Three are expensive. The fourth is the one to engineer for yourself.The postponed decision is now the riskhttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/postponed-technology-decision/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/postponed-technology-decision/The most expensive technology decisions are the postponed ones. They accumulate cost in places that don't show up as line items.What technical leaders get wrong communicating architecture upwardhttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/communicating-architecture-upward/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/communicating-architecture-upward/The same architecture decision can be approved by one audience and rejected by another in the same quarter. Which document each was reading is the difference.