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Kyndryl: Partnership
Kyndryl and AWS expanded their strategic partnership to scale agentic AI across enterprise IT environments. The agreement includes AWS investment in Kyndryl's talent development, joint solution engineering, AI specialisation, and sector-specific modernisation. Kyndryl will also support AWS's European Sovereign Cloud initiative as a launch partner.
Source: Verdict Tech
The leadership read
Alliances like this can broaden consulting commercial leadership bench strength.
Market context: MitchelLake's Talent Market Index sits at 113.4 (Hot), up 13.7 on the prior month; EMEA hiring signal is running steady (-1.5pts).
Kyndryl: 2 signals in the last 90 days — above the Consulting median of 1 across 40 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 2 tracked across 10 days.
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