Podcasts about capabilities

In this episode, we welcome Principal Product Manager Debjeet Bagchi for a deep dive into Everpure storage architecture. Debjeet shares his career journey across data protection and storage engineering before moving into core capabilities of the Everpure platform. We explore five powerful features that storage administrators can leverage to optimize performance, lower costs, and simplify daily operations. Our conversation breaks down key technical innovations across both FlashArray and FlashBlade environments. Debjeet explains how Purity DeepReduce delivers advanced similarity chunking for high reduction workloads, while highlighting how File on FlashArray functions as an always on, first class citizen. Our discussion also covers the benefits of moving to the native SMB stack, eliminating forklift migrations through non-disruptive Evergreen upgrades, and automating fleet operations with Fusion. Beyond product features, Debjeet offers practical advice for modern IT practitioners on infrastructure planning and data management. He emphasizes the importance of sizing systems based on effective capacity rather than raw numbers and explains why Purity automates complex resiliency calculations internally. Listeners will also gain valuable career wisdom on building trust through thorough verification rather than making confident guesses. To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/platform.html Check out the new Everpure digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Everpure experts: https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/ 00:00 Coming Up and Intro 04:35 Shifts in Data Management 10:24 DeepReduce in FlashBlade 15:33 FlashArray File Integration 20:27 Upgraded SMB on FlashBlade 23:25 Maximizing Evergreen 29:40 Fusion Automation Across your Fleet 34:47 Hot Takes

The Japanese government Monday held the first meeting of an expert panel on strengthening intelligence capabilities, initiating discussions on formulating a national intelligence strategy.

Andrew Graham says the story for Meta Platforms (META) will be Muse AI, backed by the vast amount of downloads and monetization opportunities it presents. He compares the Mag 7 company's latest innovations to competing AI software and makes the case that Muse and Meta's new VR glasses offer a ramp for the company to capitalize on its massive social media footprint.

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 114 United States Space Force confirms it has weapons in orbit The United States Space Force confirms it has weapons in orbit to protect America's assets in space. Why a moon could not survive in orbit around Venus A new study claims a moon could not survive in orbit around Venus because of the planet's unusually slow rotation. Water discovered near the galaxy's Supermassive black hole New observations of the star IRS 3, located near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole, suggest it's emitting huge amounts of gas and dust, forming an exceptionally large stellar envelope containing water molecules. The Science Report A new study has shown that air pollution isn't just bad for your lungs, it's bad for your eyes as well. The new high-tech sponge made from plant fibres that can mop up an oil spills. Palaeontologists find that Tyrannosaurus rex had around the same body temperatures as humans. A new study shows 93 per cent of Australia's first nations population died in the first 80 years following the arrival of the first Europeans. Alex on Tech: How real is the AI threat.  

Send us Fan MailModern FP&A platforms such as Cube are evolving beyond traditional budgeting, forecasting, and reporting to become a broader foundation for finance operations and enterprise planning. As organizations look to reduce spreadsheet dependency, finance leaders must evaluate more than individual features, considering forecasting agility, collaboration, governance, data architecture, and executive visibility. In this webinar, we explore why FP&A platform selection should be approached as a long-term finance transformation decision rather than a standalone software purchase. We also examine how modern CPM and EPM architectures are reshaping financial planning, modeling, and decision-making across the organization.In this episode, Sam Gupta and Shrestha Dash from ElevatIQ, Andy Pratico from Essential Software Solutions, and Phil Coerper from Ringling Business Solutions conduct an in-depth independent review of a leading FP&A platform Cube.Video: https://www.elevatiq.com/events-and-webinars/cube-fpa-platform-an-independent-in-depth-review/Questions for Panelists?

What if chasing your next promotion is actually holding your career back? In this episode of the Women in Data Podcast, Karen is joined by Diana Lee, Head of AI Science and Capabilities at Compare the Market, to rethink what career progression really means. Diana has built a deliberately non-linear career, moving from investment banking and academia into consulting and then data leadership. But despite her impressive career, she says she's actually less career-focused than she used to be. The difference? She stopped measuring success by promotions, job titles and what other people thought she should want. Instead, Diana focuses on building skills that will make her more valuable over the long term — from communication and stakeholder management to problem-solving and understanding what makes her different. She also shares how to recognise when it's time to leave a role, why your network doesn't disappear when you change companies, and her simple framework for making career risks. If you're ambitious but questioning whether the traditional career ladder is still right for you, this conversation will help you think differently about growth, success and your next move.

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What kind of leader do you need to become now? Leadership has not stood still over the last 12 months. AI is accelerating, workplace expectations are shifting and organisations are navigating growing uncertainty. So this episode explores a deeper question for ambitious professionals - not only what do you want to achieve, but who do you need to become? I reflect on why human capabilities matter even more now, especially confidence, clarity, Cultural Intelligence and challenging conversations, the four pillars at the heart of my work. Plus, in this episode, I share the latest thinking behind the audiobook edition of Become a Global Leader, including why I recorded a new bonus chapter. What you will learn in this episode: The leadership shift from 'what you need to achieve' to 'who you need to become' How AI makes human leadership capabilities more important A new definition for confidence in this context How leaders can create clarity when answers are uncertain How Cultural Intelligence helps leaders develop greater range to respond What recording an audiobook taught me about being human Where do you need to experiment more? Which human capability do you most need to focus on? Resources: Listen to the new audiobook of Become a Global Leader: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Become-a-Global-Leader-Audiobook/B0HGYF1LHR Read the book, Become a Global Leader: https://culturecuppa.com/book/ Follow Victoria on LinkedIn for more global leadership, strategic communication and Cultural Intelligence insights: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-rennoldson Talk to Victoria about you or your team's leadership development: https://culturecuppa.com/contact/ Watch the video of this Episode here: The Human Capabilities Leaders Need Now: https://youtu.be/9yRSNVf_TnE Read this Episode's Blog post here: Who do you need to become as a leader? https://culturecuppa.com/who-do-you-need-to-become-as-a-leader/

Brad Axen, Block's Head of AI Capabilities and the original author of Goose, joins Liam to talk about what actually makes AI useful at work. They cover how Block went from building an early open-source AI agent to MoneyBot, ManagerBot, BuilderBot and Buzz, and why Brad thinks the hardest problems now are memory, access and interface, not just model intelligence. Brad also explains why AI memory should belong to the business rather than a single bot, what ants can teach us about shared memory systems, why "meat proxy" is becoming a new office problem, and how Buzz is testing a multiplayer model where humans and AI agents work in the same space. Key Topics Covered Goose, Block's open-source AI agent, and the Agentic AI Foundation Agents vs. harnesses vs. interfaces MoneyBot, ManagerBot and BuilderBot Why AI memory should belong to the business, not the bot Stigmergy and ants as a model for shared memory Buzz and Block's "multiplayer" approach to AI at work "Meat proxy" and the new office busywork AI can create Why the bottleneck is shifting from writing code to deciding what to build How AI is changing hiring, interviews and day-to-day work The human cost of spending all day working with AI Episode Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:07 What Block actually is 02:40 From CERN to Block 05:19 Building Goose and taking it open source 06:29 Agents vs. harnesses vs. interfaces 10:28 MoneyBot, ManagerBot and BuilderBot 15:56 Memory, access and learning over time 22:53 What ants can teach us about AI memory 26:48 Two versions of where AI could go 28:26 Buzz and the idea of multiplayer AI 29:56 "Meat proxy": the new office problem 35:09 The Buzz case study and a 50% productivity jump 37:06 The new bottleneck now that AI can write the code 49:11 Rebuilding institutional knowledge after team restructuring 52:00 How AI is changing hiring and interviews 57:35 The loneliness of working with AI all day 59:13 Why Brad does what he does Connect with Brad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyaxen/ Partner Links Upgrade your AI toolkit: https://www.theaireport.ai/ai-executive-pass Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe Join the community: https://community.theaireport.ai/checkout/the-ai-report-welcome-gift?coupon_code=WRTH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wie legt ein Konsumgüterkonzern fest, was künstliche Intelligenz im Marketing darf und was nicht? Valerie Schiek ist Chief Digital Officer bei L'Oréal für die Sparte Konsumgüter und verantwortet das Digitalgeschäft der Massenmarken. L'Oréal hat sein Responsible AI Framework 2021 entwickelt, darin steht unter anderem: keine KI-generierten Gesichter, keine KI-generierte Haut. Dass solche Guardrails bremsen, hält Valerie für eine falsche Dichotomie. Aus ihrer Sicht fokussieren sie – und schaffen Zeit, die zurück an die lokalen Teams geht. In dieser Folge erfährst du: → Was im Responsible AI Framework von 2021 steht und warum Leitplanken aus Valeries Sicht fokussieren statt zu bremsen → Wie ein Bild für den Tag und ein Bild für die Nacht entstehen, wo früher der ganze Tag durchshootet werden musste → Wofür L'Oréal die gewonnene Zeit einsetzt: lokale Relevanz, Kreativität, Teambuilding → Wie Teams über L'Oréal GPT an Performance-Daten kommen, ohne ein Dashboard bedienen zu müssen → Die Stelle, an der Valerie dem Host widerspricht: nutzen wir im Unternehmenskontext überhaupt schon mehr als vielleicht 20 Prozent der Capabilities? Über den Gast: Valerie Schiek ist Chief Digital Officer bei L'Oréal für die Sparte Konsumgüter und verantwortet dort das Digitalgeschäft und die Digitalstrategie der Massenmarken – L'Oréal Paris, Maybelline, Garnier. Sie kommt aus dem digitalen Marketing, nicht aus der IT. Angefangen hat sie bei Anheuser-Busch im Social-Media-Management und hat dort das digitale Marketing für eine Business Unit über fünf Länder aufgebaut. 2016 ist sie zu L'Oréal gewechselt, hat während der Pandemie den E-Commerce-Bereich geleitet und war zwischendurch bei Bitburger Digital. MY DATA IS BETTER THAN YOURS ist ein Projekt von BETTER THAN YOURS, der Marke für richtig gute Podcasts.

What if the advice you have been given your entire career - just be more confident, push through the imposter syndrome, act like you belong - is not just unhelpful but actually backwards? Aoife O'Brien has spent 20 years inside corporate organizations, done over 300 podcast episodes, and written a bestselling book, and she has arrived at one very specific conclusion: we have been asking the wrong person to fix the problem. Confidence is not the starting point. It is the output of working in an environment that actually creates the conditions for it. And if your confidence is gone, the first question to ask is not what is wrong with you. It is what is wrong with your workplace.SUMMARY & GUEST INTROIf you have ever been told to just be more confident and wondered why that advice never actually works, Aoife O'Brien has spent years researching the answer - and it is not what most people want to hear. She started her career thriving, working for companies that invested in their people and recognized their contributions. She thought every company was like that. She was wrong. Her last few corporate roles left her hollow and burnt out, passed over for promotions, experiencing misogyny, and watching her confidence erode so completely that it started affecting her life outside of work too. She spent the next several years getting her MSc in Organizational Behaviour, founding Happier at Work, building a top 2% globally ranked podcast (and Business Podcast of the Year winner), and writing Thriving Talent - an Irish Times bestseller that makes the case that the problem with work is almost never the people. It is the environment in which they are asked to perform.INSIDE THE EPISODEThe Moment She Knew She Had to Leave. Aoife was passed over for a promotion that had been promised to her - and found out when a colleague, who had become her new boss without anyone telling her, pulled her into a meeting to ask about her clients. She turned into what she calls a petulant child. She was overloaded with work, finding quiet offices to cry in at night. And then she handed in her resignation letter on the train on the way to work one morning.The Organizational Culture Hangover. A toxic boss does not just affect you in the job you are in. You carry it into the next one. Aoife describes taking a decade to recover from the impact of her first bad experience, and how the doubts it planted followed her into her next role - where she was promoted to senior leadership and told herself every story possible about why she did not really deserve it.We Fix the People Instead of Fixing the Environment. Resilience training. Imposter syndrome workshops. Confidence coaching. All of these put the work on the individual while leaving the environment that created the problem completely untouched. Aoife makes the case for looking at both - what individuals need and what organizations are responsible for creating - at the same time.The Thriving Talent Framework: Psychological Safety, Culture, Drivers, Capabilities, Leadership. Aoife walks through her framework for what organizations actually need to get right. The foundation is psychological safety - without it, nothing else works. Above that: creating cultures that don't just survive but actually enable people to do their best work, understanding what truly motivates each individual, building on real capabilities rather than ego-driven promotions, and leadership that develops people rather than leaving them alone or micromanaging them.86% of People Are Not Fulfilling Their Potential at Work. Aoife ran a LinkedIn survey. Not scientific, she acknowledges, but 86% of respondents said they did not feel like they were fulfilling their potential at work. She breaks down why - including the fact that most people cannot articulate what they are actually good at or what value they bring that is genuinely different from everyone else.If You Can't Leave Yet - Start Planning the Exit. For the woman in a toxic situation who does not have the financial means to just walk out: start making the plan. Stop tolerating it and grinding through quarters hoping it will change. It almost never does. Reach out to your people. Activate your network. And in the meantime, shift the mindset from 'I have to be here' to 'I am choosing to be here so I can fund my exit.'It Was Not Your Fault. The final question Erica asks: what would you tell the woman who is in the toxic situation and wondering if she caused it? Aoife's answer: it is not your fault. This is how the system was built. You did not choose this environment. It just happened to be where you landed.RESOURCES & LINKSBook: Thriving Talent - Aoife O'Brien: https://thrivingtalentbook.com/Happier at Work Website: https://happieratwork.ie/Happier at Work Podcast: https://happieratwork.ie/happier-at-work-podcast/Aoife O'Brien on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifemobrien/ ERICA'S RESOURCES & LINKSStart small with me inside HER Jumpstart:https://her-collective.mn.co/plans/1985289?bundle_token=60b2c61d62213cdbd16d437cdc0e4204&utm_source=manual

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I look at why OpenAI is developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems.Highlights00:04 — Weeks after disclosing that one of its AI tools had escaped a sandbox environment during testing, OpenAI has revealed yet more model safeguards. The company has understandably been under scrutiny in this area since the news broke about the rogue AI.00:23 — OpenAI has reportedly told two House Democrats that it was developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems. We're still waiting to hear more news on what these automated shutdown capabilities might be, but they're clearly a response to a proposed AI Kill Switch Act that would give the U.S. government the power to force the shutdown of any model that put human life or the economy at risk.00:52 — OpenAI could, with these automatic shutdown settings, jump the gun on that act in many ways, future-proofing by building in its own kill switch. And I think this is a really interesting development in this complex battle, or at least discourse, between regulators and AI companies.01:13 — Foreseeing this kind of regulation and acting on it could help steer how that regulation is ultimately set out. That could help set the guardrails in ways that AI companies know won't damage trust or productivity, while boosting confidence from all sides. Let's see what these capabilities turn out to be and how they match up with the proposed act. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

What if the advice you have been given your entire career - just be more confident, push through the imposter syndrome, act like you belong - is not just unhelpful but actually backwards? Aoife O'Brien has spent 20 years inside corporate organizations, done over 300 podcast episodes, and written a bestselling book, and she has arrived at one very specific conclusion: we have been asking the wrong person to fix the problem. Confidence is not the starting point. It is the output of working in an environment that actually creates the conditions for it. And if your confidence is gone, the first question to ask is not what is wrong with you. It is what is wrong with your workplace.SUMMARY & GUEST INTROIf you have ever been told to just be more confident and wondered why that advice never actually works, Aoife O'Brien has spent years researching the answer - and it is not what most people want to hear. She started her career thriving, working for companies that invested in their people and recognized their contributions. She thought every company was like that. She was wrong. Her last few corporate roles left her hollow and burnt out, passed over for promotions, experiencing misogyny, and watching her confidence erode so completely that it started affecting her life outside of work too. She spent the next several years getting her MSc in Organizational Behaviour, founding Happier at Work, building a top 2% globally ranked podcast (and Business Podcast of the Year winner), and writing Thriving Talent - an Irish Times bestseller that makes the case that the problem with work is almost never the people. It is the environment in which they are asked to perform.INSIDE THE EPISODEThe Moment She Knew She Had to Leave. Aoife was passed over for a promotion that had been promised to her - and found out when a colleague, who had become her new boss without anyone telling her, pulled her into a meeting to ask about her clients. She turned into what she calls a petulant child. She was overloaded with work, finding quiet offices to cry in at night. And then she handed in her resignation letter on the train on the way to work one morning.The Organizational Culture Hangover. A toxic boss does not just affect you in the job you are in. You carry it into the next one. Aoife describes taking a decade to recover from the impact of her first bad experience, and how the doubts it planted followed her into her next role - where she was promoted to senior leadership and told herself every story possible about why she did not really deserve it.We Fix the People Instead of Fixing the Environment. Resilience training. Imposter syndrome workshops. Confidence coaching. All of these put the work on the individual while leaving the environment that created the problem completely untouched. Aoife makes the case for looking at both - what individuals need and what organizations are responsible for creating - at the same time.The Thriving Talent Framework: Psychological Safety, Culture, Drivers, Capabilities, Leadership. Aoife walks through her framework for what organizations actually need to get right. The foundation is psychological safety - without it, nothing else works. Above that: creating cultures that don't just survive but actually enable people to do their best work, understanding what truly motivates each individual, building on real capabilities rather than ego-driven promotions, and leadership that develops people rather than leaving them alone or micromanaging them.86% of People Are Not Fulfilling Their Potential at Work. Aoife ran a LinkedIn survey. Not scientific, she acknowledges, but 86% of respondents said they did not feel like they were fulfilling their potential at work. She breaks down why - including the fact that most people cannot articulate what they are actually good at or what value they bring that is genuinely different from everyone else.If You Can't Leave Yet - Start Planning the Exit. For the woman in a toxic situation who does not have the financial means to just walk out: start making the plan. Stop tolerating it and grinding through quarters hoping it will change. It almost never does. Reach out to your people. Activate your network. And in the meantime, shift the mindset from 'I have to be here' to 'I am choosing to be here so I can fund my exit.'It Was Not Your Fault. The final question Erica asks: what would you tell the woman who is in the toxic situation and wondering if she caused it? Aoife's answer: it is not your fault. This is how the system was built. You did not choose this environment. It just happened to be where you landed.RESOURCES & LINKSBook: Thriving Talent - Aoife O'Brien: https://thrivingtalentbook.com/Happier at Work Website: https://happieratwork.ie/Happier at Work Podcast: https://happieratwork.ie/happier-at-work-podcast/Aoife O'Brien on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifemobrien/ ERICA'S RESOURCES & LINKSStart small with me inside HER Jumpstart:https://her-collective.mn.co/plans/1985289?bundle_token=60b2c61d62213cdbd16d437cdc0e4204&utm_source=manual

Saint Lucia's Forensic Science Services is set to highlight its expanded capabilities at the Caribbean Medical Legal Society's 10th Annual Symposium in Trinidad and Tobago. The recently established firearms and tool marks units, supported through equipment donations and specialized training, will be featured alongside the laboratory's work in areas including ballistics and drug chemistry. The symposium is scheduled for November 5 to 7 in Port of Spain.

Don’t get left behind in the AI revolution. Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX: https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ In this powerful episode, Vince Menzione sits down with Rebecca Jones of Bridge Partners and Mark Yaphe, Head of Consulting Partners for AWS, to uncover how AI is fundamentally rewiring the partner ecosystem. They explore the urgent shift from 90% stalled AI pilots to a new era of rapid execution, warning against the trap of “shiny object” syndrome. By unpacking the necessity of a “builder mindset” and a product-focused approach, this discussion reveals exactly what top-performing companies are doing to collapse six-month development cycles into four weeks and secure their place in the 2026 market landscape. Key Takeaways The transition from on-prem to cloud and marketplace is now entirely focused on AI transformation. Top companies approach AI with a product mindset rather than running scattershot pilots. Empowering frontline teams with a “builder mindset” can collapse solution cycles from six months to four weeks. Partners must avoid the $260 billion AI “FOMO” trap by specializing in specific industries and workflows rather than trying to do everything. Evaluating the “highest and best use” of AI models like Claude is essential for managing token economics and ROI. Thriving through AI disruption requires cultivating a strong growth mindset and prioritizing human connection and critical thinking. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags AI transformation, AWS partner ecosystem, hyperscaler alignment, builder mindset, product mindset implementation, Bridge Partners insights, GenAI solution cycles, AI token economics, Claude model utilization, GSI strategy, 2026 ecosystem shift, AI ROI measurement, agentic tools, workflow specialization. Transcript Rebecca Jones and Mark Yaphe AUDIO EPISODE [00:00:00] Rebecca Jones: You can either, um, think about being disrupted or being a disruptor. [00:00:07] Vince Menzione: You can feel it happening. The ecosystem is shifting beneath us the way hyperscalers are partnering, how AI is remaking the channel. And what it means to win in 2026. [00:00:18] Vince Menzione: Welcome to the Ultimate Partner Podcast. I’m Vince Menzi, own your host. [00:00:23] Vince Menzione: And each week I sit down with leaders at the intersection of [00:00:26] Vince Menzione: technology, partnerships and outcomes, the voices shaping how ecosystems actually work. We talk about what’s real, what’s changing, and what it takes to lead in this era where the partner channel isn’t just part of the strategy. It is the strategy because being in the room changes everything. [00:00:45] Vince Menzione: Let’s start. We have another incredible session today, right? So I get to invite another friend of, of ultimate partner who’s been around for a while and, uh, it’s just absolutely amazing. Rebecca has been in the studio, she’s been at, how many of events have you been with? Fourth, fourth one, and I’m gonna have you introduce Mark as well. [00:01:10] Vince Menzione: So come on, on stage. Rebecca. Rebecca Jones to many of you know. [00:01:14] Rebecca Jones: Thank you, sir. [00:01:15] Vince Menzione: Good to see you. Good to see you. And Mark, great, great to have you. I want to have you, Richard, we’ll have you, Rebecca’s gonna introduce you and then we want you to introduce yourself as well, sir. [00:01:23] Rebecca Jones: Wonderful. Well, [00:01:24] Vince Menzione: and another AWS exec. [00:01:26] Vince Menzione: I love this. Like, I know. Yeah, we’re finishing out the day Strong. [00:01:28] Rebecca Jones: Well, Vince, I have to say, you’ve got me, um, the last time we got together, it was the last session before happy hour. So I guess we’re closing. [00:01:36] Vince Menzione: Well, you know, we’re gonna close us [00:01:38] Rebecca Jones: out [00:01:38] Vince Menzione: really nicely. Know we, yeah. We’re serving Bloody Mary’s, by the way, while you’re guys are up here. [00:01:42] Vince Menzione: No. Good. [00:01:42] Rebecca Jones: So, um, we’re so excited to have Mark. Thank you, mark, for joining us here. Um, head of consulting partners for AWS and, uh. We’re gonna close this down, aren’t we? I love [00:01:54] Vince Menzione: it. I love it. Yes. I’m looking forward to it. [00:01:56] Rebecca Jones: Okay. [00:01:56] Vince Menzione: So Mark’s well, welcome. Good to have you. [00:01:58] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. Do you wanna take a seat? [00:02:00] Vince Menzione: Uh, yeah, [00:02:00] Rebecca Jones: please do. [00:02:01] Rebecca Jones: All right. [00:02:01] Vince Menzione: Please do. I’m morphing the pillows up, by the way. [00:02:05] Rebecca Jones: Oh, are you [00:02:05] Vince Menzione: by the way, for those of who don’t know, these got shipped from my house because we got Oh, I was wondering. It’s hard to find, but yeah. Yeah, they’re, we take them from event to event. It’s so funny to have them. But I wanna, well, thank you for both being here. [00:02:17] Rebecca Jones: Yes. [00:02:18] Vince Menzione: I think it’d probably be helpful for those who don’t know, bridge Of course. Maybe just spend a moment because I know you well. [00:02:23] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. [00:02:23] Vince Menzione: And we know the organization well, those of us. Those of us. [00:02:26] Rebecca Jones: But for me, uh, so let me talk to you a little bit about Bridge Partners and my role, um, the company has been around for almost two decades. [00:02:34] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. And so when you think about the transformation that’s happened within the tech industry. And our primary focus is the tech industry. Uh, and within that we focus on enterprise companies and we help them with product go to market and how they scale that through partners. Yeah. Uh, so that’s given us a really interesting and, uh, vantage point around the transformations from on-prem to cloud, cloud to marketplace and now marketplace and the transformation with ai. [00:03:04] Vince Menzione: I feel like you’re the McKenzie of the, of the partner business. Like I, [00:03:07] Rebecca Jones: I like that. [00:03:08] Vince Menzione: Can we get that? [00:03:09] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. [00:03:10] Vince Menzione: I’ll, I’ll, I’ll sign an agreement with you, but I really do, I feel like as we work together, bridge was always like the organization we bring in to help us. Solve the big issues. Yeah. Like that I think about your organization. [00:03:20] Vince Menzione: Yeah. And Mark, talk to me about Global Consulting services. Sure. So is it all GSIs? Is it, [00:03:24] Mark Yaphe: uh, so I head up, uh, global Consulting Partner Marketing. Okay. So I focus really on, on two key categories for the, the more sig larger, uh, GSIs. Uh, I’ve got a team that actually partners very closely with them. Nice. [00:03:36] Mark Yaphe: That helps them develop the right strategies, go to market approaches, nice to unlock the opportunity. And then for the full consulting community, I look at those mechanisms. Go to market approach is leveraging marketplace to help our whole consulting community become successful with AWS. [00:03:51] Vince Menzione: And we’ve got GSIs in the room here, which is kind of cool actually. [00:03:53] Vince Menzione: Yeah. Um, where do we wanna start? Let’s, let’s, [00:03:57] Rebecca Jones: well, yeah, we’ve got a good list of questions to go through. How’s everybody feeling? We’re we’re good? We’re awake. One more session, everyone. Alright. Okay. [00:04:09] Vince Menzione: So Rebecca, uh, across the organizations you work with. What are you seeing from the highest ’cause? I, I say you’re like the McKinsey. [00:04:16] Vince Menzione: What are you seeing from the highest performing companies? Yeah, that they do differently. When it comes to turning your go-to market strategy into outcomes? [00:04:23] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. Um, I will say the most important thing that we’re seeing from companies is they’re asking different questions, fundamentally different questions when it comes to ai. [00:04:34] Rebecca Jones: Interesting. [00:04:34] Vince Menzione: What do you mean by that? [00:04:35] Rebecca Jones: Well, we, we talked a lot this morning about there’s never been higher access, and I’ll say general adoption for tools and technology. There was a great stat this morning. Uh, I think Jay shared that, uh, from MIT. [00:04:50] Vince Menzione: We keep looking there as if he’s still [00:04:51] Rebecca Jones: sitting there. [00:04:51] Rebecca Jones: Yeah, I’m looking. Where was Jay? He, he was all over the place. Um, there was a great stat from MIT that there was, you know, if you looked at last year, 90% of pilots. Were stuck and they weren’t going anywhere. And now that’s dropped down to 70%. So there’s movement and transformation. And so when I think about that, and when I go back to the types of questions leaders are asking, um, that are really moving ahead, they’re looking at operating systems differently and they’re looking at, um. [00:05:25] Rebecca Jones: They’re asking the questions on where should I apply AI within those work streams, um, and within those operating systems, and the way in which they’re approaching that is with a product mindset. So that is fundamentally different than just the scattershot of let’s just do pilots everywhere. [00:05:44] Vince Menzione: Yeah. You’ve talked about product, uh, mindset with me as well. [00:05:48] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. [00:05:48] Vince Menzione: And I think we were gonna talk about builder mindset as well, mark, that that is a kind of a different point of view. When you think about moving from strategy to execution, how does that mindset show up inside teams and organizations? [00:06:00] Mark Yaphe: No, absolutely. Yeah. You know, the notion of the builder mindset is about, uh, taking the notion of innovation and pushing it out to the edge. [00:06:07] Mark Yaphe: Of the organization, um, the greatest ideas for innovation, the greatest things that will help you scale. They’re in the minds of your customers and the people that can best understand them and best address ’em. They’re your teams. Yeah. Your, your customer teams or your technical teams, but unlocking it. You, you want these teams to do more than just have the conversations and understand needs. [00:06:28] Mark Yaphe: You want them to be tooled and equipped to build. Yeah. So the ones that are right in front of the customers. In that moment of need where they say, I’ve got these offerings and these motions, and it gets me this far, but if I could only do a little bit more, I could delight them. I could really power this up. [00:06:45] Mark Yaphe: And so you wanna unlock that. You want to give them the tools to build, to build the POC to address specific, uh, options in the meeting. And then when they’re showing some success, show the rest of the organization how they can scale that. [00:06:58] Vince Menzione: How do you think about, because I think about big GSIs. Having huge organizations like Accenture has half a million people, and then you have customer teams that may not, are, may not be as fluent in the technology side of things. [00:07:13] Vince Menzione: Like how do you make sure that’s getting from the customer all the way to the right people in the organization and driving that loaded question. I know. [00:07:20] Mark Yaphe: No, I, I, um, you, you, you want to think about how that process works. Yeah. And there are parts of the organization. That define how do we get go to market offers in motions out to the field. [00:07:34] Mark Yaphe: Um, and they look at the whole thing and they say, well, how effective are we and how quickly can we cycle through? Yes. These activities. There’s one partner I worked with, um, they looked at this and they measure the cycle time. How long does it take me to get from pushing on an offer? Working with customers, getting feedback, and then creating new updates. [00:07:53] Mark Yaphe: A long, long time ago, like two years ago, this would take, it was a hundred [00:07:57] Vince Menzione: years ago in AI terms. [00:07:59] Mark Yaphe: Well, that’s basically it. This took about five to six months. They get about two revs a year. Now. They literally implemented a geni solution that number one uses geni to push it out to the teams, makes it bespoke on an engagement by engagement basis. [00:08:14] Mark Yaphe: It makes it relevant for their industries and their use cases. And that same tool is the feedback mechanism. So in real time it’s providing feedback. So they’ve collapsed six month cycle times to four weeks. And the punchline here is we talked about builder teams. The people that figured out they needed the solution, built the solution, and piloted the solutions were the builder teams. [00:08:36] Mark Yaphe: They were the people working with the customers. [00:08:38] Vince Menzione: I love it. Yeah, I love it. Anything to add to that? Rebecca, I know you work again, being the McKinsey of the, of the partner world. [00:08:46] Rebecca Jones: Well, I’ll, I [00:08:47] Mark Yaphe: It’s gonna stick, [00:08:47] Rebecca Jones: stick. It’s [00:08:48] Vince Menzione: gonna [00:08:49] Rebecca Jones: stick. You say it three times, that’s stick. No, I, you know, mark just hit on some really important things with the customer mind. [00:08:57] Rebecca Jones: You’re really looking at what outcomes are you trying to drive for those customers and that builder mindset, you, you’re going to hear a lot about that because companies need, as you transform, you really need to be thinking differently. And transformation takes quite a while. And while there is massive opportunity and you see the, the quickness you have to have that long-term vision and then be able to work backwards from that. [00:09:21] Rebecca Jones: And so I couldn’t agree more with the, the focus on customer outcomes. [00:09:26] Vince Menzione: So we’re in a very interesting, I’ll call it, almost a seminal point, although that’s overused in terms of where we are with AI today, right? I you mentioned like two years, feels like 10 years. Yeah. Ago, right? I mean, we’ve seen such transformation happening, but it also doesn’t feel like organizations are keeping, like, I, I feel like small SMBs actually are further ahead because they, they have to be agile, but the bigger organizations are still trying to figure some things out, right? [00:09:53] Vince Menzione: So. What needs to change around organizations, culture management processes? Like how do we bring, how do we bring everyone along on this journey? [00:10:04] Mark Yaphe: There’s a lot that needs to happen. Um, [00:10:07] Vince Menzione: yeah. [00:10:08] Mark Yaphe: One thing that struck, there’s a lot of things I, I wanted to anchor on. One that Yeah, please. It could be a relevant conversation. [00:10:13] Mark Yaphe: Both, um, as part of your, uh, partner organizations delivering outcomes to customers. And, um, it’s about focusing on the business outcomes. It can be very easy, uh, to talk about the technology and the services, but day to day, the sales organization is going into solve customer problems. They’re meeting line of business leaders in specific industries who have very specific business problems to tackle. [00:10:42] Mark Yaphe: And I think one thing that organizations can do is impress upon them that it’s critical to understand. What are the business problems that we solve for our customers that we’re serving? What are those use cases? What are the drivers for it? In the role that I’m doing in an organization, how does that move the needle? [00:10:58] Guest: Yeah. [00:10:58] Mark Yaphe: For the business outcomes, it’s, it’s not dissimilar to other things, and perhaps it’s a little bit of a pivot, but always thinking about business outcomes, I think is, um, a little bit of a change that needs to be instilled within [00:11:10] Vince Menzione: what, what are the best doing better, and where are you seeing the gaps? [00:11:16] Mark Yaphe: Couple of areas, uh, one area, um, nobody knows everything. Yeah. Nobody’s got all the knowledge. [00:11:23] Vince Menzione: Right. [00:11:23] Mark Yaphe: And so rely on your ecosystem of partners and stakeholders. Yeah. Recognize you’ll only have so much information, um, and reach out, whether it’s to your technology partners, your business partners, your hyperscalers AWS to find out what am I missing. [00:11:38] Guest: Yeah. [00:11:38] Mark Yaphe: Um, again, many years, you know, a hundred years ago, two years, two years ago, um. We’d have these conversations about, well, what use cases are you seeing and what business problems are you solving? But, but those would be in scheduled meetings quarterly. Now there are agenda items on weekly standards. [00:11:55] Mark Yaphe: They’re happening every single week. What are you seeing? What are you seeing? And further, I’ve seen some gen AI and agent solutions that actually automate how that information flows to, to make it, to accelerate. [00:12:06] Vince Menzione: Yeah, it’s, it’s absolutely amazing. Yeah. Anything on, I mean, certainly you’ve got a perspective ’cause you’re working with these organizations. [00:12:13] Rebecca Jones: I have a couple thoughts on this specifically for the partner organizations and the partner companies here. I can understand there’s a lot of, you know, we looked at a stat earlier about the AI partner opportunity and it was. $260 billion somewhere in that bracket. And that can create maybe some fomo, you know, maybe, uh, let’s go after everything in this area. [00:12:37] Rebecca Jones: Yes. And not pick and choose [00:12:39] Mark Yaphe: a [00:12:39] Rebecca Jones: shiny object. Shiny object and not prioritize. And it’s actually the opposite. It’s really understanding where your strengths are in the market. Um, who’s in your partner ecosystem? What are you bringing to market? Are you, uh, a tech company that are looking to break? Bridge and bring out services or your services company, and now that can build product. [00:13:01] Rebecca Jones: But really understanding your opportunity. What industry do you play, what specialization do you have? And go really deep and then know how to augment your partners and the ecosystem around you to make you stronger and better for the customer. So with that market opportunity, which is. Tremendous, how do you focus and prioritize? [00:13:21] Rebecca Jones: And that’s where I have observed partners. Oh, I’m a little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit here. And, and, uh, I would be curious, I mean, that’s probably pretty hard for you if a partner shows up and they’re a little bit of everything. [00:13:34] Mark Yaphe: Well, I, I resonated with a point that you made before. Yeah. I, I’ve spent, um, half my time at AWS on the consulting side working with enterprise customers, the us half the partners. [00:13:43] Mark Yaphe: It’s critical that partners understand what’s unique about them. [00:13:45] Exactly. [00:13:46] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. [00:13:47] Mark Yaphe: You it. I mean, everybody here, they’re looking at cloud migrations and modernizations and agentic, but that’s kind of part of the noise. You’ve gotta know what uniquely you do in an organization to deliver value. Are you developing supply chain for transportation companies or drug acceleration pipelines for. [00:14:06] Mark Yaphe: Pharmaceuticals. Yeah. Starting with that anchoring on your differences, I think is, is really important. [00:14:11] Vince Menzione: When I first started in the partner world, that was one of the biggest challenges and dilemmas, and I’m sure you still see it today, where I do all things. You know the partner that does the big SI that does everything, they have all the certifications. [00:14:24] Vince Menzione: I have 10,000 people trained on every technology certification, right. And then like, well what do you do? Like, and they can’t clarify. Right. Have that conversation. [00:14:33] Mark Yaphe: And then how do people, customers, [00:14:35] Vince Menzione: yeah. [00:14:35] Mark Yaphe: Or sales organizations choose you and why. [00:14:38] Vince Menzione: Yes, exactly. Exactly. So how do you get them to show up in that way? [00:14:43] Vince Menzione: Like especially if they’re like, how do you coach them through that? ’cause it feels like it’s still exists, right? This like mentality or this mindset. I can do all things, especially with the shiny objects that we’re facing today. [00:14:55] Rebecca Jones: Mm-hmm. [00:14:55] Vince Menzione: And I feel like we’re almost, I, I almost feel like we’re at a point right now where we were getting clearer and we’ve had so many shiny objects, even just in the last few months. [00:15:03] Vince Menzione: Like you were talking about how like months feels like ears, uh, you know, I’ll, I’ll use the Claude example here. Yeah. ’cause we, a lot of us pivoted and shifted and like, what do I do now as a partner in the room? Again, I think you, you mentioned the solving for business outcomes for client outcomes as opposed to chasing the next shiny object. [00:15:24] Vince Menzione: Like how do you get, how do you coach them on that? [00:15:27] Mark Yaphe: It’s always on the agenda. It’s, it’s day one conversations. Yeah. Who are you? What’s unique about you? How do you deliver value? Which customers do you focus on and with? Which use cases, and if it is a jack of all trades. Then my team, my and my team will help ’em. [00:15:42] Mark Yaphe: We know that down to specific areas of focus. [00:15:44] Vince Menzione: Yeah. So how do partners need to evolve their capabilities? Like how do they, I mean, how do they actually hone in on this? Like, you know, okay, I can state one thing, but how do I hone in on my capabilities, offerings and teams to stay relevant during this time? [00:15:59] Mark Yaphe: Um, what I’m coaching them on right now? Yeah. That’s what I is, uh, use the technology internally. The agentic tools and the gen AI tools are. I’ve been at this for a while, and the tools that exist right now dramatically expand your capability and capacity. So the thing I coach ’em is embed them in your organization. [00:16:18] Mark Yaphe: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Tackle those key things organizationally. You need to change and leverage these tools to help you accelerate. [00:16:23] Vince Menzione: And they’ll help you solve, they’ll help you solve for absolutely any of them. Right. It’s like, it’s like hiring a consulting organization to come in and solve for that. [00:16:29] Mark Yaphe: Yeah. [00:16:29] Vince Menzione: Yeah. How are you thinking through this? [00:16:31] Rebecca Jones: Well, uh, there’s a couple things I’m thinking about. Um, if you start to. I’ll stay with the customer for just a minute because you’re talking about Claude and just the dramatic improvement. [00:16:45] Guest: Yeah, [00:16:46] Rebecca Jones: that’s there. Just with Claude, uh, we start to think about highest and best use of the model because, uh, we had another talk earlier about the economic conditions and the. [00:16:58] Rebecca Jones: And so now we’re asking partners like, right, [00:17:01] Vince Menzione: the tokens. [00:17:01] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. Yep. How do you specialize and be focused by industry, by workflow, by use cases, you’re gonna start to look at what is the ROI of that investment? Is this a good enough? Look at the models, look at how you’re using that, and you’re having a token conversation because the economics might not be there. [00:17:21] Rebecca Jones: And so as you’re a business and a customer looking to transform their organization. They’re going to look across the business and figure out what are the highest and best use cases that should get that focus. And as a partner, if you wanna be in that conversation and really helping that company or that. [00:17:40] Rebecca Jones: Customer transform from where they are. It’s not only industry specialization, but it’s functional and workflow and really helping them understand what they should be using in that particular use case. So specialization is king or queen and that, um, scenario, and that’s where, you know, you ask partners today to specialize because there’s a whole economic conversation coming behind that, around how do you think about the models as that new one shows up? [00:18:09] Vince Menzione: Let’s shift from the technical side to the human side. [00:18:12] Rebecca Jones: Yeah. [00:18:13] Vince Menzione: Super important, right? I mean, we were having this conversation internally, like everybody’s saying, you know, jobs are going away, jobs are going away. I think I, I believe more jobs are gonna happen, but we’ve gotta get humans aligned properly to what their new roles will be. [00:18:29] Vince Menzione: Comments on this one? [00:18:31] Mark Yaphe: I think this is like a classic organizational transformation Yeah. Question. Mm-hmm. Where the 70, 80% of the problems are people process change. Um, I, I think there are these three areas that organizations need to focus on, and I’m gonna sound a little bit repetitive, but one, it’s okay. [00:18:46] Mark Yaphe: It’s, uh, the role of the team members have gotta be focused on outcomes, especially when things are moving quickly and there’s ambiguity. The one way that you can anchor on moving in the right direction is how do I let my customer, so one is outcomes. The second one is the builder mindset. Move from, I’m presenting, I’m hearing, but I’m gonna build things. [00:19:05] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:19:05] Mark Yaphe: And the last one is, uh, inspiring your team, making them competent and confident to navigate ambiguity because that is the premise upon which everybody’s operating. So those three, [00:19:17] Vince Menzione: Rebecca, what capabilities. Would be embodied in, in that organization that Mark describes. [00:19:23] Rebecca Jones: Yeah, I think that the growth mindset, you know, if you can package that around, you can either, um, think about being disrupted or being a disruptor. [00:19:34] Rebecca Jones: And if you have a growth mindset around the opportunity that’s ahead, it’s a whole different perspective of the challenges before you. I love that. And so when I think about what. Capabilities. You know, it’s the critical thinking and the judgment, human connection. We’re all here for a reason. Yes. Right? [00:19:50] Rebecca Jones: Yes, yes. And so as a leader, um, really helping set that tone and letting them see the art of the possible, um, around that vision. But it’s really, if I boiled it down to one thing, it’s having a growth mindset to the opportunity ahead. [00:20:05] Vince Menzione: Well, I wanna open it up. We have about five minutes left. Yeah. And this has been so insightful, but I. [00:20:11] Vince Menzione: I mean, I feel the energy. There’s gotta be some questions out here too. ’cause this, we have two incredible experts up here talking. I mean, and this is such an impactful conversation today. So John’s got a mic and uh, I think we’ve got some questions coming. [00:20:32] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:20:33] Rebecca Jones: this’s [00:20:33] Vince Menzione: a long way [00:20:33] Rebecca Jones: around. [00:20:34] Vince Menzione: Took a [00:20:34] Guest: thanks, long David Younger with. Thank you. That was great, great discussion. So, uh, you, you brought up a key statistic, uh, which is the MIT data and around the, the 90, I think it was 95%. Of, uh, businesses, uh, are not in production. And, and actually they, they went further to say that 95% of businesses. [00:20:56] Guest: Uh, we’re achieving zero ROI. And, and that was about a year ago, right? And now, and now you said the number, I think the number was quoted earlier today too, is, is shifting to about 70% of those, uh, projects in production. I’m curious to, to know as you, and I think you nailed it too, when you talk about product, right, have a product mindset or business mindset, right? [00:21:16] Guest: Not just how can I save money, but how can I actually generate revenue, whether it’s saving money or generating revenue. Where would you say. Uh, what, what percentage of companies you talk to are actually achieving real ROI would you say? [00:21:31] Rebecca Jones: Yeah, that’s a, that’s a great question. Really. Great. So I’ll go back and explain a little bit more about what I mean by product mindset. [00:21:39] Rebecca Jones: So a lot of companies did get stuck or there were just, uh, a. Large amount of pilots happening in the organization. And that’s not a bad thing. ’cause you think about, that’s a builder mindset, go and test and trial. But when you’re starting to look at true business transformation, you really need to think about where that, um, high value use case is. [00:22:00] Rebecca Jones: So a. The product mindset I’m talking about is taking a long-term view of the outcomes you’re trying to achieve and how are you going to measure those? And then look at that workflow, that function, and if you’re an expert in that function, whether that be a sales process or a marketing process, you know what KPIs your business is trying to drive today, and you start to unpack that. [00:22:24] Rebecca Jones: And so we’ve seen and what. Um, the most, uh, accelerated motion is knowing the KPIs and the measures you’re trying to achieve and then working towards that. And from there you can build, right? And you start to think and you have an ecosystem approach to that workflow or work stream. So we have seen, um, everybody wants cost on the system. [00:22:46] Rebecca Jones: Um, we have seen dramatic cost reduction in areas we’ve seen, you know. Two to three times, um, faster time to market. Um, there’s multiple things that we’ve seen as, uh, leaders really start to unpack that, understand what they’re trying to accomplish in the business, and I’m happy to go into greater detail. [00:23:06] Rebecca Jones: I know we have just a couple minutes left, but that’s just the product mindset up. How do you get started and how do you look at that long-term opportunity? [00:23:15] Vince Menzione: Really great answer. Mark, do you wanna add that? [00:23:17] Mark Yaphe: I think if you look at all use cases. Maybe 30% perform. But if you look at this across enterprise, I think each enterprise is finding very specific use cases where they’re driving ROI and and um, and so I think it’s about picking your spots, knowing who you are, identifying the top priority ones, not worrying about the broad enterprise transformation. [00:23:38] Mark Yaphe: Find those areas where you can drive value a little bit. Yeah, [00:23:41] Vince Menzione: that’s great that that’s almost a mic drop moment in my opinion. Yeah. That’s really great. Any other questions? I we’re holding every, oh, we got one in the back. I was gonna say I’m holding people up from happy hour. Yeah, [00:23:53] Rebecca Jones: just, we’ll just bring the cocktails in here [00:23:56] Vince Menzione: pretty soon. [00:23:57] Guest: Uh, Jeremy with Integral, um, um, a money question, something comparable. Uh, activator portfolio, the programs for founder firms that are trying to really get off the ground with new ideas. And there’s some comparable programs, I think with different providers. How much of that is a strategy, and I don’t wanna put you on the spot if activating portfolio aren’t the things you’re covering, but, but that money investment for startups that are trying to grow and really focus on AWS uh, the thousand dollars is the founder version that gets us in and then a hundred thousand dollars. [00:24:26] Guest: It’s a bit difficult to get into. And then there’s bigger ones after that if we attend the schools and all these things. But I’m thinking about as we all are trying to grow and really focus in AWS, which a lot of folks really wanna do with Bedrock and all the things that are kind of cool going on, it’s just. [00:24:40] Guest: Great AI focused conversation, but how is that playing into attracting more of the MSPs that are, that are trying to grow and more of the startups to really funding this idea of, of startup mentality. Hopefully that’s not too off topic, but your, your fair game [00:24:57] Mark Yaphe: was, was the question, how does funding. [00:25:01] Mark Yaphe: Attract startups in specific categories, process. [00:25:04] Guest: I think it’s, it’s about if there’s, uh, the other hyperscalers also have programs comparable. So Microsoft’s program is, uh, 150 grand to to, to build out the founder kind of, and it’s fairly easy to get into. Aw. WS is a bit harder to get into, but is that going to change as far as using that as a, as a key strategy for incubating more and more ideas to accelerate the velocity of everything you guys were talking about? [00:25:25] Mark Yaphe: I’m really not the right person. Definitely outta my wheelhouse on that. No problem. [00:25:31] Guest: Yeah. [00:25:37] Vince Menzione: And we’re about seven seconds away from uh, happy hour. [00:25:41] Rebecca Jones: I know, [00:25:41] Vince Menzione: I know. This was fantastic. I know. It was so great. [00:25:44] Rebecca Jones: Yes. [00:25:45] Vince Menzione: And I think the McKenzie thing is gonna stick. I think it is, it is. [00:25:48] Rebecca Jones: Now, mark, I’m gonna make [00:25:49] Vince Menzione: sure it does. And Mark, it was great to have you up on stage with us today. So, so great to have AWS supporting us and sponsoring the event with us and, uh, and having just this broad audience of people just so interested in. [00:26:02] Vince Menzione: Being in the room and and learning from each of you. So thank you so much today. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. [00:26:09] Mark Yaphe: Thanks for listening to The Ultimate Partner [00:26:11] Vince Menzione: Podcast. If today’s conversation resonated, share it with a partner leader in your network. Subscribe where you listen, and head over to the ultimate partner.com. [00:26:22] Vince Menzione: For show notes related content and the resources for this episode. And if you haven’t already, now’s the time to register for the Ultimate Partner Live Event in Reston, Virginia, October 26th through October 28th. Until next time, keep showing up in the rooms that matter because being in the room changes everything.

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In this dynamic episode of the Developing the Leader Within Podcast, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a special guest, David Olivencia, CEO and general partner of Angeles Investors. David, a bestselling author and Fortune 100 technology executive, shares his insights on leading through the era of AI disruption and exponential growth. He discusses how entrepreneurs can not only survive but thrive by embracing technology, strategic planning, and the power of meaningful networking. David emphasizes the importance of understanding emerging trends and the capabilities that will separate successful leaders from those who struggle to keep up.

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Your SBA profile inside SAM.gov and the Dynamic Small Business Search is the first thing federal agencies pull up about you, and Randie Ward explains how contracting officers instantly tell a novice from a pro by how it's completed. This episode of the Federal Help Center podcast with Randie Ward walks through the exact profile mistakes that hide small businesses from agencies, from the capability narrative to your past performance, plus how to get procurement-ready before you ever ask for a contract. Discover why the Dynamic Small Business Search is where agencies actually find your company and vet you for teaming partners and place-of-performance opportunities Learn why your capabilities narrative must be a delineated keyword list, not long sentences, or the database won't surface you in searches See how the FAA and other agencies read your printed profile in a capabilities briefing and want past performance broken out by prime versus sub role Get the pre-approach checklist Randie uses: capability statement, project sheets, resumes, org chart, and PPQs ready before responding to a sources sought or RFP Understand why small details like a professional email over a Gmail or Yahoo address shape an agency's first impression of your business EPISODE CHAPTERS: 0:00 - SBA profile as your snapshot inside SAM.gov 1:22 - Dynamic Small Business Search explained for agencies 2:09 - How agencies spot a novice contractor profile 2:24 - FAA capabilities briefing prints your profile 3:24 - NAICS codes and SAM data that roll over 3:57 - Past performance broken out by prime versus sub 4:50 - Capabilities narrative mistakes that hide your company 6:01 - Professional email and brand first impressions matter 6:55 - Gathering capability statement, project sheets, and resumes 8:15 - PPQs and raving reviews before you respond Mindy gives you the federal opportunities, agency signals, recompete intel, and pursuit briefs that tell you not just what contracts exist, but which ones to chase and how to win them. Sign up for free Daily Alerts and get opportunities delivered to your inbox before the day starts.

Join Professor Oren Etzioni, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, as he explores the evolution of agentic AI from early software agents to today's autonomous assistants. Discover how natural language breakthroughs have transformed human-AI interaction, the challenges of building digital trust, and why maintaining human accountability remains essential. Tune in for practical insights on effective interface design, ways to bound AI autonomy, and how AI is democratizing cognitive potential and accelerating expert work.

Send us Fan MailSelecting a modern FP&A platform such as Drivetrain is no longer simply a budgeting or software decision. It is a strategic architectural choice that influences forecasting agility, data governance, cross-functional collaboration, and executive visibility across the finance organization. As CPM and EPM platforms continue to evolve, finance leaders must look beyond feature comparisons and evaluate underlying data models, integration strategies, workflow orchestration, and long-term operational fit. In this webinar, we explain why FP&A platform selection should be approached as a finance transformation initiative rather than a standalone technology purchase, highlighting why this perspective is critical for organizations transitioning from spreadsheet-driven planning to scalable, connected, and data-driven finance operations.In this episode, Sam Gupta and Shrestha Dash from ElevatIQ, Andy Pratico from Essential Software Solutions, and Phil Coerper from Ringling Business Solutions conduct an in-depth independent review of a leading FP&A platform Drivetrain.Video: https://www.elevatiq.com/events-and-webinars/drivetrain-fpa-platform-an-independent-in-depth-review/Questions for Panelists?

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For review:1. The US military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday, and Tehran fired missiles and drones in response, as hostilities flared once again.2. Jordan's army says it has intercepted 10 ballistic missiles launched from Iran while three others landed in remote areas.3. A Syrian site held infrastructure “consistent with a nuclear reactor,” the UN nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report seen by AFP on Tuesday, adding that the country's former authorities “failed to report nuclear material, facilities and activities.”4. “Special forces” of the Shin Bet captured the commander of Hamas's internal security apparatus in a “bold operation” in Gaza City on Tuesday morning, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the military, and the domestic security agency.5. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is meeting Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to discuss a Washington-backed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, Fox Business reported on Aug. 31.The two reportedly met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Asheville, North Carolina, marking the first in-person attendance by the Russian finance minister since the outbreak of Moscow's all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022.6. Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Chinese President Xi Jinping could hold a trilateral meeting at the upcoming APEC summit in China, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Sept. 1.Ushakov said the possibility of a three-way meeting between the leaders is being considered ahead of the summit, according to Russian state media.The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is scheduled to take place in Shenzhen, China, on Nov. 18-19.7. Two weeks after the Army picked a winner to provide prototypes for its next-gen wheeled howitzer, the service's fires acquisition shop is now seeking a tracked variant.8. The Army has announced it awarded Georgia Tech Research Institute up to $33.4 million to be the lead weapons systems integrator for the service's Common Autonomous Multidomain Launcher (CAML) prototype program.The CAML program is set to serve as a replacement for the Army's Typhon — its Mid-Range Capability (MRC) long-range launcher — after the service discovered it was too large to operate on the battlefield. 

Elise Barry has observed the shopper's growing control over their journey firsthand, moving from her early days managing spreadsheets on the agency side of ecommerce to her current role leading digital capabilities at Royal Canin. This evolution has placed urgent pressure on brands and retailers to transform the people, processes, and technology needed to support shopping journeys that can range from a single touchpoint to 17. On the podcast, Elise shares her perspective on the transformations necessary to prepare current and future generations of commerce organizations to thrive in this dynamic environment.

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Send us Fan MailSelecting a modern FP&A platform such as Datarails is no longer simply a budgeting or software decision. It is an architectural choice that influences forecasting agility, data governance, cross-functional collaboration, and executive visibility across the organization. As CPM and EPM platforms continue to evolve, finance leaders must look beyond feature comparisons and evaluate underlying data models, integration strategies, scalability, and long-term operational fit. In this session, we examine FP&A platform selection through an architectural lens rather than a tooling exercise, highlighting why this perspective is essential for organizations transitioning from spreadsheet-driven planning to scalable, enterprise-grade finance operations.In this episode, Sam Gupta and Shrestha Dash from ElevatIQ, Andy Pratico from Essential Software Solutions, and Phil Coerper from Ringling Business Solutions conduct an in-depth independent review of a leading FP&A platform Datarails.Video: https://www.elevatiq.com/events-and-webinars/datarails-an-independent-in-depth-review/Questions for Panelists?

This episode is a re-air of one of our most popular conversations, featuring insights worth revisiting. This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and welcomes back Ruben Burdin, Founder and CEO of Stacksync as they together dismantle the myths surrounding zero-copy ETL and traditional data integration methods. Ruben reveals the complex challenges of two-way syncing between enterprise systems like Salesforce, HubSpot, and NetSuite, highlighting how existing tools often create more problems than solutions. He also introduces Stacksync's innovative approach, which uses real-time SQL-based synchronization to simplify data integration, reduce maintenance overhead, and enable more efficient operational workflows. The conversation exposes the limitations of current data transfer techniques and offers a glimpse into a more declarative, flexible approach to managing enterprise data across multiple systems. You won't want to miss it.  Highlights from this week's conversation include: The Pain of Two-Way Sync and Early Integration Challenges (2:01) Zero Copy ETL: Hype vs. Reality (3:50) Data Definitions and System Complexity (7:39) Limitations of Out-of-the-Box Integrations (9:35) The CSV File: The Original Two-Way Sync (11:18) Stacksync's Approach and Capabilities (12:21) Zero Copy ETL: Technical and Business Barriers (14:22) Data Sharing, Clean Rooms, and Marketing Myths (18:40) The Reliable Loop: ETL, Transform, Reverse ETL (27:08) Business Logic Fragmentation and Maintenance (33:43) Simplifying Architecture with Real-Time Two-Way Sync (35:14) Operational Use Case: HubSpot, Salesforce, and Snowflake (39:10) Filtering, Triggers, and Real-Time Workflows (45:38) Complex Use Case: Salesforce to NetSuite with Data Discrepancies (48:56) Declarative Logic and Debugging with SQL (54:54) Connecting with Ruben and Parting Thoughts (57:58) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, customer data infrastructure that enables you to deliver real-time customer event data everywhere it's needed to power smarter decisions and better customer experiences. Each week, we'll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data. RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Large language models (LLMs) are moving beyond simple data extraction to complex, guideline-based triage in emergency stroke care. In this episode, JNIS Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Michael Chen, speaks with Dr. Ayman Meddeb, a senior consultant and interventional neuroradiologist at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. They discuss his latest paper, "Evaluating accuracy and reasoning capabilities of large language models for acute ischemic stroke management" (https://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2026/06/23/jnis-2026-025429). Please subscribe to the JNIS podcast on your favourite platform to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, you can leave us a review or a comment on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/4aZmlpT) or Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3UKhGT5). We'd love to hear your feedback on social media - @JNIS_BMJ.

Mary Kissel discusses the strained US-South Korea alliance, where disagreements over military funding have prompted Seoul to seek independent nuclear-powered submarine capabilities. She characterizes North Korea as a reckless actor that has committed tens of thousands of combat troops and ballistic missiles to aid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kissel critiques the "transactional nature" of current diplomacy, noting that contradictory signals toward Kim Jong-unundermine national security strategies. Regarding Oman, she defends the nation as a moderate partner vital for counterterrorism and the release of detained Americans, viewing Trump's threats to bomb the country as an expression of frustration over Iran. Kissel also highlights political successes in South America, where center-right victories in Colombia and Chile represent a return to capitalist principles and closer ties with the US. She concludes by noting that environmental factors like El Niño will soon challenge regional stability in Brazil. (4)

Send us Fan MailMany growing eCommerce businesses reach a point where their existing software can no longer keep pace with increasing operational complexity. Lightweight applications often lack the capabilities needed to support higher order volumes, expanding sales channels, and more sophisticated inventory and fulfillment requirements, while traditional ERP systems can be overly complex, costly, and difficult to implement. As the business scales, disconnected systems, manual processes, and fragmented data become increasingly common, reducing visibility across operations and making it harder to respond quickly to customer demand. The result is slower decision-making, operational inefficiencies, and shrinking margins at a stage when agility and scalability are essential for continued growth.In this episode, Sam Gupta and Shrestha Dash from ElevatIQ, Andy Pratico from Essential Software Solutions, and Phil Coerper from Ringling Business Solutions conduct an in-depth independent review of a leading FP&A platform Fulfil.IO.Video: https://www.elevatiq.com/events-and-webinars/fulfil-io-ai-powered-ecommerce-operations-platform-review-independent-in-depth/Questions for Panelists?

Carlos Escapa is a venture partner at Across Legal and Masia VC, an AI expert, investor, and former technology leader at Meta and Amazon AWS. He is also the co-author of The AI Driven Business: Leading, Competing and Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Greg and Carlos discuss why AI adoption is primarily an organizational and talent challenge rather than a pure technology play. Carlos argues companies need a “talent flywheel” to complement their  “data flywheel,” CEO-led change, and strong data culture; many pilots fail when organizations can't adapt roles, workflows, and governance. They discuss continuity vs discontinuity in AI (transformers and reasoning as shifts), agentification vs automation, and the risks of vibe coding: including security, maintenance, and tacit-knowledge dependence.  Carlos emphasizes that value accrues mainly to applications powered by proprietary data and better data infrastructure (catalogs, access, ontologies), not necessarily frontier model vendors, and has an optimistic view on the relevance of enterprise SaaS due to efficiency and cost. Their conversation also highlights burnout, mental health, and the need for more humanistic workplaces as AI scales. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: Is AI really a technology problem? 02:29: AI is not so much a technology play. When we talk about digital transformation, we say that in our classes, right? It is much more of a mindset, and getting an organization and people prepared for the adoption of the technology is something where most companies lag behind. And, you know, truth be told, when you have such new technology as AI, and big data have been, it takes a while for the organization to catch up. Automation makes humans more vulnerable 22:20: The more you automate these low-level tasks, the more important it's going to be to drive what makes us really human, all this creativity, the ability to dream, and to do more together. What can't AI do? 23:02: Let's not exaggerate what artificial intelligence can do. It's a very limited technology. It is a wonderful technology, but it has a lot of limitations. And one of these limitations is that it does not understand cause and effect. When we have a world that is changing so rapidly, the sort of changes that we are experiencing at the moment are unprecedented in history. Data culture drives AI success 27:30: The companies who have proprietary data are the ones that are making the biggest value capture in the market at the moment. But I think yes. So the answer would be yes, as long as they have the data culture inside of the company. Show Links: Recommended Resources: Satya Nadella Vibe Coding Marc Benioff Amazon Web Services Warren Buffett SAAS - Software as a service What is a Data Lake Kimi K3 Jensen Huang Guest Profile: LinkedIn Profile AAE Speakers Profile Across Legal Profile Masia VC Guest Work: The AI Driven Business: Leading, Competing and Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence If you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like: 672: Vivienne Ming - Robot-Proof Yourself: Navigating AI's Impact on Work and Life 487: Gary Marcus - Challenging AI's Capabilities 497: Arvind Narayanan - Spotting The Difference Between AI Innovation and AI Snake Oil 476: Juan M. Lavista Ferres - AI's Potential for Positive Social Change Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Max severity SAP Commerce Cloud flaw now targeted in attacks New Mirai variant adds stealth capabilities to botnet code Shell investigates potential incident after Clop data theft claims Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-sap-commerce-flaw-exploited-mirai-boosts-capabilities-shell-investigates-breach/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Your GRC team is dealing with more and more frameworks, vendors, and risk. The board wants it all in one place, but your compliance data lives all over. Vanta's agentic trust platform connects compliance, risk, and trust at enterprise scale and delivers a 526% ROI over three years. 16,000+ companies trust Vanta, including Snowflake, Atlassian, and Ramp. Visit Vanta.com/CISO to learn more.

In a world of infinite gaming and entertainment possibilities, how does a centuries-old game stay so popular? Chess.com co-founder and CEO Erik Allebest joins Sarah Guo to explain how the evolution of technology has kept people coming back to chess, even when machines can beat us at the game. Erik talks about how the desire to build a MySpace-like community for chess led to the purchase of a domain name from a bankruptcy sale back in 2005, and scaled into a community with 10 million daily active users and 250 million total registered members. He also discusses the growth of the cultural relevance of chess, how investments from private equity firms General Atlantic and CVC helped grow and strengthen their platform, and how Chess.com is leveraging AI both within the business itself and to make a better product for its community. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @chesscom | @erikallebest Chapters: 00:00 – Cold Open Trailer 01:05 – Erik Allebest Introduction 01:48 – Chess.com Today 02:57 – Buying and Scaling Chess.com  06:29 – Competition and Growth 11:52 – Chess and Cultural Relevance 14:32 – Private Equity Investment 19:31 – Playing Games Amid Evolving Tech 25:09 – Tech, Skill Distribution, and Expertise 28:40 – Chess and Cheating 31:20 – What Makes Chess Special 33:17 – Chess.com Future Vision 34:54 – Founder Advice 36:48 – AGI/ASI Predictions 40:02 – AI Investments at Chess.com  42:13 – How AI May Change Product at Chess.com 43:27 – Poker Rating Algorithms 46:07 – Conclusion

In Kim on a Whim, co-host Kim St. Onge and host Marc Cox analyze emerging 6G wireless communication standards, focusing on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC). The hosts discuss ambient radio frequency reflection technologies capable of tracking indoor positioning, motion, and biometric markers through obstacles without active device connections. The conversation evaluates consumer privacy implications, signal isolation methods such as Faraday shielding, and potential public safety applications, including autonomous vehicle obstacle detection and search-and-rescue operations. Additionally, Kim and Marc examine municipal governance, regulatory guardrails, and transparency standards surrounding Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera networks across local police departments. Hashtags: #KimOnAWhim #6GTechnology #ISAC #Privacy #FlockCameras #TechPolicy #ALPR

Moments of great transformation, chaos, and opportunity, as we are in now, require thoughtful and transformational leadership. Now in her 11th year at Danone, Jennifer Angelus has elevated her career from an associate manager of shopper insights to now leading the digital, agentic, and brand.com strategies as the Sr. Director of Digital Shelf, Ecosystems, and Capabilities at Danone. Jennifer graciously agreed to share with our community how she inspires cohesion, connection, and scale to serve the consumer and drive growth.

Federal contract opportunities are scattered across SAM.gov, agency forecasts, expiring contracts, and more than 70 other places, and the contact who decides an award is often findable before the solicitation ever posts. Randie Ward, a business development specialist, walks through how to identify the right program manager or small business specialist, pull contacts from industry day PDFs and free tools, and start the relationship before the RFP goes live. What you'll learn in this episode: The 70-plus places federal opportunities hide, and why SAM.gov alone leaves wins on the table Why industry day PDFs are contact gold mines and how to work through them Who to approach first inside an agency, and why the small business specialist opens the door How to find a hidden program manager's email using free ZoomInfo Light in under 15 minutes How to read an agency budget to learn what work is funded before it is advertised Chapters: 0:00 - Industry day PDFs as agency contact gold mines 0:52 - Small business specialist as your first agency contact 1:25 - Contracting officers, program managers, and who protects whom 2:51 - LinkedIn outreach that lands meetings with directors 3:42 - Free ZoomInfo Light to find a hidden decision maker 5:11 - Reading agency budgets to find funded work early 6:12 - Why program managers are harder to find than officers 7:33 - Capabilities briefings and reasons to keep reaching out Mindy gives you the federal opportunities, agency signals, recompete intel, and pursuit briefs that tell you not just what contracts exist, but which ones to chase and how to win them. Sign up for free Daily Alerts and get opportunities delivered to your inbox before the day starts.

Welcome to the Win Cycle Podcast! On this episode, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon discusses the importance of adaptability, or "being changeable," in the context of AI-driven change. He emphasizes that adaptability is a trainable skill, not a fixed trait, and highlights four key capabilities: clarity, capacity, learning velocity, and recovery. Dixon shares insights from his work with athletes and leaders, noting that adaptability is crucial for thriving in an ever-changing environment. He stresses that recovery is not a reward but an integral part of the work, essential for maintaining high performance. Dixon encourages deliberate training to enhance adaptability and leverage change as an opportunity for growth.   Purple Patch and Episode Resources Hiring Purple Patch Coach: https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/careers-page  Fast Track Run Squad: purplepatchfitness.com/fasttrackmarathon Check out our world-class coaching and training options: Tri Squad: https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/squad 1:1 Coaching: https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/11-coached Run Squad: https://www.purplepatchfitness/com/run-squad Strength Squad: https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/strength-1 Live & On-Demand Bike Sessions: https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/bike Get a free needs assessment and learn more about our programs: https://purplepatchfitness.simplybook.me/v2/#book/service/19  Live in San Francisco? Explore the Purple Patch Performance Center: https://center.purplepatchfitness.com  Everything you need to know about our methodology: https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/our-methodology Amplify your approach to nutrition with Purple Patch + Fuelin https://www.fuelin.com/purplepatch Get access to our free training resources, insight-packed newsletter and more at purplepatchfitness.com  

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Jean-Christophe Lanoix is the founder of Turboconsultant. He spent seventeen years at Hinicio, a strategy consultancy specialising in hydrogen — joining as an intern, rising to Associate Director and leaving in 2024, two years after the firm's exit. He now builds the system he wishes he had had. Introducing Turboconsultant An execution layer for solo consultants: a virtual team of AI agents spanning the whole practice — business development, research, methodologies, marketing and content, deliverable production, quality control, meetings and follow-up, admin. The consultant directs. The agents execute. It installs as a plugin on Claude Cowork and turns a generalist agentic workspace into a consulting-grade one. Three things separate it from a general-purpose assistant. Personalisation. A one-time onboarding hands it the consultant's own methodologies, templates, frameworks and voice. What comes out arrives in their template, follows their methods, and reads in their words. Quality control. Every document it produces passes three layers of audit before it leaves — sources traced, figures recomputed, claims contested by models outside the system. That is where AI hallucination and error get caught. Data walling. Nothing moves from one engagement to another, and the models do not train on client work. And it is one system rather than a patchwork of tools: the whole practice runs in a single environment that sharpens with every engagement. The net effect, measured on the existing user base, is a 25x on average, while improving the general quality of the work. Demonstration of Turboconsutlant  Both cases are invented, and so is the consultant behind them — a generic profile carrying no proprietary methodologies, no past deliverables, no writing to learn from. The engagement starts the way a real one does: a request for proposal lands by email. Everything that follows comes out of that one document and public sources. The proposal — thirty minutes The system interviews the consultant first — how they want to work, whether they know the client, who delivers, what their day rate is. Then it writes, in their own template: context, the question behind the client's question, objectives, approach and methodology, scope in and out, work packages, data room requirements, timeline, budget options, next steps. The consultant reviews and signs off. Nothing leaves unvalidated. Without AI, a proposal of that depth is several man-days.   The methodology section — six work packages mapped onto one governing question. Pricing the work — three options, fees, payment terms. A commercial proposal, not an analysis. The kick-off pack — fifteen minutes One instruction produces the whole pack: the client kick-off deck, an internal briefing note — assumptions, questions to ask, objections to expect, the landmines — and the data room request list in Excel, item by item, with what each one unblocks and the date it is needed by. In a firm, this is junior work. A solo consultant has no junior. It costs them half a day to a full day, every time. The work-package sequence agreed at kick-off, and the date after which the analysis stops waiting for client data. The First Deliverable — forty-five minutes The pattern holds whatever the sector: the research, the market sizing, the model underneath, and a deck of exhibits in the consultant's own consulting-grade template — each exhibit carrying one argument, each figure carrying its source. This is where the consultant sits as a director rather than an executant: give the instruction, let the team execute, come back and review. It is also where the system refuses to please. Here it tested the client board's own headline figure instead of repeating it, and the deck says why. Forty-five minutes for a work package that is easily five to ten days of work without it. An exhibit from the first deliverable — the sizing funnel, in the consultant's template. The economics behind it, recomputed from the model that sits under the deck. Quality control — three layers, then a loop Nothing reaches the client before three independent passes. Layer 1 — sources. Every claim and every figure traced back to where it came from, the source assessed, each one rated: verified, probable, or not established. Layer 2 — internal audit. An isolated sub-agent reviews the finished document against a purpose-built grid and rebuilds the Excel model from its own inputs. Same family of model, so it catches the obvious: the unsupported claim, the figure that contradicts the model, the page that does not carry its title. Layer 3 — dual external audit. Two models from outside the system, independent of each other and of the one that did the work. No shared bias, and two verdicts to compare. This is where the qualitative control happens. Here the two disagreed — which is itself the finding. Then the loop. The consultant asks the system to integrate the findings and audit again, and iterates. Half an hour takes a document from roughly 85% client-ready to something that needs only a final human review. The three verdicts on the first draft, as returned — including the external model that said HOLD. Everything from both engagements is published Every file is downloadable, unedited: the proposals, the contract, the kick-off packs, the deliverables, the Excel models, and the three audit reports in full — including the one that said do not ship, and the revised deliverable it forced. A second engagement, in a different sector, was launched live during the recording; it landed after the recording stopped, and its files are there too. Access the files: turboconsultant.com/unleashed Timings above are the elapsed time of each task on this run, not a benchmark. Watch the video:  Listener Offer Are you a good fit? ·       You consult on your own — strategy or management? ·       You want to scale without compromising quality? ·       Consumer AI gets you a draft, not a deliverable? Three yeses? Thirty minutes with me, free. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you. → https://calendly.com/jcl-turboconsultant/unleashed?month=2026-07  Or skip the call and start now — Unleashed listeners, neither code expires: ·      UNLEASHED_TC — Turboconsultant, €399/month instead of €499 ·      UNLEASHED_AUDIT — AI-First Audit, €200 instead of €300 Timestamps 04:02: Turboconsultant's Features and Benefits  07:32: Onboarding and Personalization Process  12:24: Demo of Turboconsultant's Capabilities 23:42: Kickoff Meeting Preparation and Work Package Execution  43:45: Quality Assurance and Iterative Improvement 50:07: Additional Features and Conclusion Links: Video permalink: https://umbrex.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Jean-Christophe-Lanoix.mp4 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-christophe-lanoix-93119018 Company website: https://www.turboconsultant.com Files from this episode: https://www.turboconsultant.com/unleashed This episode on Umbrex: https://umbrex.com/unleashed/episode-656-jean-christophe-lanoix-turboconsultant-running-a-solo-practice-on-ai-agents-end-to-end/ Unleashed is produced by Umbrex, which has a mission of connecting independent management consultants with one another, creating opportunities for members to meet, build relationships, and share lessons learned. 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August 2 2026; 7am: President Trump has once again pulled back from threats to escalate US strikes in Iran, cancelling a planned attack that was expected this weekend, saying that Mideast allies reached the “perimeters of a deal” to end the war.  Mara Karlin, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities in the Biden administration, joins “The Weekend” to discuss. For more, follow us on social media: Bluesky: @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social Instagram: @theweekendmsnow TikTok: @theweekendmsnow To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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When every marketing decision has to pay off this quarter, growth starts losing its owner.  That's the uncomfortable read from the latest CMO Survey. Under pressure, CMOs are making perfectly rational moves. Safer bets, tighter proof, more focus on the customers already in hand. The danger is what those choices start to signal. If every case for marketing comes back to pipeline now and near-term ROI, the function that should be finding growth can get managed into something much smaller.  In this episode, Drew sits down with Christine Moorman, founder of The CMO Survey and professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, to unpack what the spring 2026 results say about marketing's next move. The data points to rising AI value, a stubborn talent gap, and underfunded marketing capabilities. Running through it all is one warning CMOs cannot afford to ignore: Safe can get small.  Three Findings CMOs Need to Take to Heart:  Short-termism is narrowing marketing's role  AI value is rising faster than team readiness  Capabilities matter, but investment is lagging  What You'll Learn:  Why safe bets can defend marketing today and shrink its role tomorrow  How metrics shape what the C-suite believes marketing is for  Why AI success depends as much on talent and training as it does on tools  How CMOs can prove value beyond pipeline, from customer relationships to durable growth  Listen in for a clear read on the latest CMO Survey, from why safe can get small to how CMOs can use better metrics, stronger talent, and AI-ready capabilities to reclaim the growth agenda.  For full show notes and transcripts, visit https://renegademarketing.com/podcasts/ To learn more about CMO Huddles, visit https://cmohuddles.com/

In this episode of the Celebrate Kids podcast, Dr. Kathy delves into the impact of smartphone use on children's mental health, particularly those under the age of 13. Citing a significant study published in the Journal for Human Development and Capabilities, she discusses how early smartphone exposure is linked to suicidal thoughts, emotional regulation issues, and lower self-worth, especially in girls. The study, which analyzed data from nearly 2 million individuals across 163 countries, highlights the detrimental effects of social media, sleep disruptions, cyberbullying, and strained family relationships associated with early smartphone use. Dr. Kathy emphasizes the importance of observing children's behaviors and interests to guide their development, advocating for mindful engagement and opportunities for discovery away from screens.

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Bridget Toomey. The Houthis have declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, targeting ports and vessels in the Red Sea to demand compensation for the civil war. While their missile capabilities rely on Iran, the Houthis have refined domestic drone production using Chinese components. Shippers are already rerouting around Africa, as even the threat of sporadic attacks makes transiting the Bab al-Mandeb a risk global enterprises are unwilling to take. (9)1962 SOVIET EMBASSY YEMEN

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