Flight Path for
Private Equity
From AWS and Wingspan Equity
Elevating Private Equity: A Joint Offering by AWS and Wingspan Equity
Welcome to the future of private equity technology investments. The Flight Path program, a collaboration between AWS and Wingspan Equity, is designed to drive growth and innovation for PE-backed technology and software firms. This program offers a focused analysis to uncover hidden value within private equity portfolios, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring a robust path to market leadership.
What is Flight Path?
The Private Equity Flight Path program is a unique initiative tailored specifically for private equity technology investors and their portfolio companies. The two-week program aligns leadership teams with a compelling strategic vision, identifies the key risks and impacts to navigate and sizes the Enterprise Value opportunity in both cost and ARR goals. This rapid alignment accelerates growth and innovation, giving firms a significant competitive edge.
Key Features:
Low Touch, Deep Insights
Get the Full Perspective
Best of Both worlds
​ Achieve a fast start to your NorthStar vision with minimal disruption.
Grasp the complete impact on both the business and technology sectors.
Leverage AWS and Wingspan’s expertise and accelerators for a 'right first time' approach.
Lowest TCO
Rule-of-40 Guided
Unlock co-investment programs from AWS and Wingspan for cost-effective transformation.
Understand the required investment and projected outcomes, balancing growth and profitability.
Why Flight Path is a ‘quick ascent’ to Value Creation
In today’s rapidly evolving technology business landscape, digital transformation is not just a buzzword—it’s a critical driver of value creation. By harnessing the capabilities of cloud, data and artificial intelligence into the products and operations, companies can revolutionize their business models, enhance efficiency, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. This transformation enables businesses to innovate continuously, stay agile in the face of market changes, and maintain a competitive edge.
The Challenges of Digital Transformation:
Digital transformation offers immense benefits, but achieving these requires navigating various cross-organizational complexities. Understanding and addressing these complexities is crucial for a successful digital transformation journey, ensuring that your organization can leverage technology to drive growth, enhance customer experiences, and maintain a competitive edge.
Organizations often face strategy ambiguity, where digital initiatives can become fragmented without a well-defined strategy. Resistance to change is another common issue, as transforming processes, systems, and corporate culture is essential but often met with resistance from employees and leadership. Additionally, focusing solely on technical aspects can lead to neglecting customer-centricity, which is crucial for the success of digital solutions.
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​Ensuring a robust and scalable technical architecture is vital for supporting digital initiatives and enabling future growth. Overcoming technical debt—outdated or inefficient systems and processes—is also essential for long-term success and agility.
Effective data management and robust security measures are critical, as complexities like data silos, poor data quality, and inadequate security can compromise sensitive information and decision-making capabilities.
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Organizations must also be cautious of over-reliance on vendors, as relying too heavily on technology vendors without understanding specific business needs can lead to costly implementations that fail to deliver expected results. Finally, addressing talent and skills deficits is crucial, as a successful digital transformation requires a diverse set of skills, including data analytics, cybersecurity, and agile project management. Many companies face a talent gap that poses a significant barrier to effective implementation.
How It Works: The Private Equity Flight Path Program
Embark on a streamlined journey to elevate your technology investments with our Private Equity Flight Path Program. Leveraging the deep technical expertise from AWS, along with the operational knowledge and the proprietary Maturity Model from Wingspan Equity, this expertly designed process ensures minimal disruption while unlocking deep insights for transformative growth. Here’s how it works:
Understand (1 Day)
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Maturity Assessment, As-Is: We begin by assessing your current state to understand your existing capabilities and maturity level.
Envision (2 Days)
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Maturity Assessment, To-Be: Next, we envision your future potential, setting clear strategic goals and identifying the key areas for improvement.
Validate (2 Days)
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Capability Maturity Assessment: We then validate your capabilities against the strategic objectives, ensuring alignment and readiness for transformation.
Conclude (1 Day)
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Final Review and Strategy Alignment: Finally, we conclude the program by solidifying our findings and setting you on a robust path to market leadership.
Value and Benefits:
The Flight Path Program is designed to deliver significant strategic advantages and transformative growth opportunities. By leveraging the combined expertise of AWS and Wingspan Equity, this program provides tailored solutions that drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and position companies for market leadership.
For Private Equity Companies
Rapid Strategy Alignment
Quickly set a precise direction for growth and innovation.
Enhanced Portfolio Value
Uncover hidden value and mitigate risks within your portfolio.
Competitive Edge
Accelerate growth and innovation, Enabling the competitive advantage.
For Technology Companies
Product Modernization
Advance product innovation to establish a strong foundation for progress.
Operational Efficiency
Align business operations with technology to boost performance.
Market Leadership
Position your company as a market leader through strategic digital transformation.
Questions about Flight Path?
Let us know how we can help!
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For questions about the Amazon ISV product transformation program please email isv-transformation-interest@amazon.com, for all other questions please reach out to info@wingspanequity.com.