Digital Transformation with Jack Maher

In this episode Jack & Jack chat with Marina Aris and Catherine Roy, two amazing people that share about themselves and what's behind their successes to date and where they are headed. The Digital Dialog show offers a range of guests the opportunity to share their experiences, their work, their art, their ideas, and their messages with Jack & Jay, the other guests, and the world. This is a forum for feedback and expression. Please visit our show page for more information about the guests, the show, and additional resources: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/f/digital-dialog---featuring-marina-aris-catherine-b-roy

In this episode Jack and Jay speak with Phil LaDuke about his experiences and insights in safety management and how technology can significantly improve how we can make our workplace a safer place. We also speak with Grant Simmons about his experience and work in the digital space at Homes.com and his experience in digital marketing with companies like GE Plastics and many others over the years. Both Phil and Grant are book authors, and have a lot to share with large and small organizations about applying best practices and technology to address business objectives. The Digital Dialog show offers a range of guests the opportunity to share their experiences, their work, their art, their ideas, and their messages with Jack & Jay, the other guests, and the world. This is a forum for feedback and expression. Show Notes & Transcript: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/f/digital-dialog---featuring-phil-laduke-grant-simmons

The Digital Dialog show offers a range of guests the opportunity to share their experiences, their work, their art, their ideas, and their messages with Jack & Jay, the other guests, and the world. This is a forum for feedback and expression. In this episode, co-hosts Jack Maher and Jay Matta speak with Robert "Lion" Wink about his book "Secrets to Non-competitive Government Contracts", and how he can help businesses be competitive for competive opportunities, and non-competitive opportunities to do contract business with the government. Krishna shares about his experiences and opportunities, including insight into his book "How to Find $10K Within 45 Minutes".

We take on how Digital Transformation has been sold to organizations (spoiler: not well done!), and the impacts of digital transformation on the sales and marketing process. Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

As organizations are evolving across most of globe, the rise of the product manager as a critical role becomes more pervasive. What does that role look like, and what do we need to know about what they do? Kwame Egerton II brings his rich experience as a consultant with a tier 1 firm to the table, with a clear view of what success looks like. The Gary Hargraves outlines where the Oil & Gas industry, where like everywhere else disruption abounds. Look at their long term love of big data, and how the gig economy is unlocking opportunities for individuals and organizations alike. Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

The messages we see and hear in the technology marketplace today sound and look expensive, and large scale transformations usually are! But most companies and organizations don't really need to spend big (and hard-earned!) dollars to be successful in our rapidly changing and evolving digital world. Sid & Prashant share their "secrets" of what this kind of change really means, such as being "data driven" and how you can be ready by re-thinking how you define and operate your business (spoiler: it's mostly about people, with a pretty small tech requirement). Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

How we work, and how we interact with our associates is changing, in deep and important ways. We need our associates to be more engaged, for their benefit and for ours. We also want them to be more empowered, and to bring their innovations to the table. This requires a trusting and safe environment, where people feel comfortable sharing ideas and taking good risks in the interest of improvement and innovation. Jason Hollins shares his experience, perspective, and insights on what this means, why it is vital, and what we ca do about it. Jack & Jay wrap up Season 1, and look forward to Season 2 Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

At the core of every organization are people. How we attract and retain people becomes the biggest challenge for most leaders. We speak with two professionals who share how they help with this challenge, and how we can do more with less to leverage our resources AND provide the best environment for our associates to thrive and focus on what they do best. We look at both in-house HR teams and using a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) for an approach with minimum obligation and maximum "bang for your buck". Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

Telisha shares about how data is becoming a key part of healthcare and about how organizations can leverage the data they have in spreadsheets with a business intelligence (or BI) tool that has a relatively easy adoption process because it feels a lot like the spreadsheets to which they're accustomed. She also shares about the interesting overlap between healthcare and education in the data space. Jayashree then helps us break down the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and gets into helping understand where and how tools can help us, and when we don't even need a tool at all. Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

Automated testing sounds awesome and terrifying at the same time. Shadd unpacks it for us, and helps de-mystify what it is and explains it on both technical and functional levels. Michael also goes into the deep end of the technical pool and outlines what automated infrastructure provisioning or Infrastructure as Code is all about. It is an amazing conversation about two things that used to be very labor and cost-intensive. Please visit us, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

Not-for-profit organizations are a very important part of today's society, and they face different issues than most for-profit companies. Being successful generally does not result in getting more resources to work with, and frequently cuts into their operating budget. Applying the concepts of aligning resources with mission AND being able to serve more people and in better ways enables them to do more and provide even greater value to the multiple stakeholder categories with which they interface. Featuring 2 of Andrew Kingery's "20 Laws of Value Creation" Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

How we interact with customers, clients, and prospects is changing rapidly. Keeping up with those changes, and the preferences of today's consumers continues to blend new technology with old ideas. In this show, we hear about a cruise line's approach to improving customer experience and a successful veteran of e-Commerce sharing her lessons learned on selling online. Featuring 2 of Andrew Kingery's "20 Laws of Value Creation. Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

Jack and Jay discuss Digital Transformation, what we think it means, and who we think we're talking to (you, of course!). We talk about the show format, topics well cover, and things that we learned over the course of interviews that we include in these 12 episodes. Preview a few highlights, and what might be different in Season 2. Jess Bodzo, our guest for today's show does a great job of providing an overview of what he sees in macro trends such as working in the soon to become dominant trend of the Gig Economy (and the citizen developer), the culture of sharing that represents the face of technologists today, and how this works for a restaurant, or helping a church connect those in need with resources. Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

Jack and Jay interview Andrew Kingery and Farooq Ali where the discuss the essence of digital transformation; a focus on value and values. Our organizations' purpose is to create and deliver value. How we determine and prioritize value is a manifestation of our values. Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

Jack and Jay speak with James Breunig and Hoda Alshami about Agile, DevOps, and how companies can implement Agile practices without big costs (especially newer and smaller organizations)and technology tools that enable innovation and responsiveness that delight stakeholders even in highly complex technical environments and regulated industries. Please come visit, and see the show page for biographies, transcripts, links to other resources and additional information: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/?blogcategory=Digital+Transformation&blog=y

The Digital Dialog show offers a range of guests the opportunity to share their experiences, their work, their art, their ideas, and their messages with Jack & Jay, the other guests, and the world. This is a forum for feedback and expression. Entrepreneur & Inventor Michael Script and Coach Michael Taylor discuss current business culture, pitfalls and watch items for invention and innovation, the differences between and important parts of intellectual property and emotional property, emotional intelligence, engagement, the role, challenges and opportunities with social media, and opportunities to make tomorrow even better than today. Reach Michael Script via e-mail at mscript@in2capital.com Reach Coach Michael at http://CoachMichaelTaylor.com for his motivation speaking, and for entreprenuership at http://joypassionprofit.com Show Notes & Transcript: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/f/digital-dialog-featuring-michael-script-coach-michael-taylor

The Digital Dialog show offers a range of guests the opportunity to share their experiences, their work, their art, their ideas, and their messages with Jack & Jay, the other guests, and the world. This is a forum for feedback and expression. Dr. Doug Lehrer shares insights and experiences with his Cellular Resonance Technique™, Quantum Medicine and Quorum Nutrition. He discusses unlocking the human body's self-healing capabilities and the importance of our morphogenic field. Elise Krentzel, psyche-archeologist and rennaissance catalyst as well as an author coach to thought leaders and public relations professional by day shares about her unique skills and approach to building brands, especially for those who are giving back to the world. Doctors and other health practitioners can reach Dr. Doug Lehrer by phone at 707-495-500 or through his website at CellularResonance.com to set up a phone consultation to learn more about his techniques for themselves and their patients to achieve better health, happiness, and success. Authors and would be authors can reach Elise via phone at 512-586-4384, or through her website at https://ekpublicrelations.com Show Notes & Transcript: https://standingonshouldersmedia.us/f/digital-dialog---featuring-dr-doug-lehrer-elise-krentzel

Preview of the podcast version of the best selling business book Standing On Shoulders: A Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation. The satisfaction of a book read by the author, with the convenience of a 20-minute podcast format. And at less than the paperback price! The full book is now available for download at https://jack-maher.awesound.com Standing On Shoulders provides leaders with practical, actionable information about the breadth of Agile, Lean, and DevOps topics that are generally dealt with individually; and explains how each of these are necessary but alone are not sufficient to avoid market disruption of your business. The focus of the guide is on how to build an employee AND customer-obsessed culture with an organizational structure that drives speed and efficiency while leveraging technology to enable speed to market that is safer, better and cheaper.

What is Digital Transformation, and Why would I care? Jay interviews Jack to uncover who can benefit from this approach, ranging from small business and non-profits to Fortune 50 companies, and what they can expect from thinking and acting more like Amazon and Google.