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For as long as she can remember, Sarah Sedgman has been fascinated by the intersection of learning, creativity, and innovation. Growing up in the countryside—where she and her brother would invent and build things just for fun—she was surrounded by a family of educators and entrepreneurs who encouraged her to think differently.That curiosity shaped her career path, leading her from instructional design to the C-suite, where she spent years driving global learning strategies for some of the largest technology companies in the world—Cognos, IBM, PTC, and Kinaxis. No matter where she went, one challenge remained:Training programs were slow to develop, costly to execute, and struggled to keep pace with business needs.Instead of waiting for a solution, Sarah built one.As Founder & CEO of LearnExperts AI, she is transforming how organizations create training by automating the instructional design process, cutting development time by 67% and unlocking knowledge at scale. With LearnExperts' LEAi platform, companies can instantly convert raw content (presentations, documents, videos) into structured, high-quality learning materials for eLearning, microlearning, instructor-led training, and more.This episode is for you if:You're committed to building a meaningful life by blending art, entrepreneurship, and wellness.You're looking for inspiration to tackle fear, overcome challenges, and commit to your craft.You're fascinated by how culture and heritage shape creativity and resilience.Connect with SarahLinkedIn: Sarah SedgmanLearnExperts Website:https://learnexperts.ai/Connect with NaomiWebsite: www.naomihaile.comLinkedIn: Naomi HaileInstagram: @naomiahaileTwitter: @naomiathaileYouTube: Naomi Haile
On this episode of Innovation Storytellers Show, I'm joined by Bobbie Carlton, an award-winning marketing, PR, and social media professional who is transforming the way we think about public speaking, storytelling, and women's visibility in innovation. As the founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Mass Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women, Bobbie has dedicated her career to breaking barriers and creating platforms that amplify diverse voices. In our conversation, Bobbie shared her fascinating journey from broadcasting to global PR at Cognos and her transition into entrepreneurship. She revealed her passion for storytelling as a catalyst for innovation and her mission to eliminate the all-too-common “manels” (all-male panels) that dominate tech and innovation conferences. Through Innovation Women, she's redefined public speaking as a tool for visibility and career advancement, positioning it as a gateway for women to claim leadership roles, board positions, and career-changing opportunities. Bobbie also unpacked the art of memorable storytelling, emphasizing the power of refrains and structure in capturing an audience's attention. She spoke candidly about the common mistakes speakers make, such as telling overly lengthy or irrelevant stories, and offered actionable advice to start stories closer to their conclusion to maintain impact and clarity. We also reflected on our shared roots in PR, reminiscing about the clip books and envelope-stuffing days that shaped our understanding of the evolving communication landscape. This conversation is a masterclass in using storytelling as a tool for innovation and a reminder of the importance of making stages more inclusive. How are you using storytelling to spark innovation and amplify voices in your field? Share your thoughts after tuning in!
Send me a Text Message hereFULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/599 Ever wondered how a technologist with decades of experience balances a vibrant personal life and a transformative career? Our latest episode features Mark Slosberg, the mastermind behind Hanging Valley Enterprises. With a rich history in the tech world and 42 years of marriage, Mark shares his love for cooking in a kitchen tailored for two type-A chefs, his passion for smoking meats and fish, and his joy in hosting family pizza nights. Outside the kitchen, Mark and his wife are committed hikers and gardeners, transforming their property near Seattle into a low-maintenance haven filled with native plant species.Mark's professional journey is equally compelling. He recalls advocating for SQL Server 2008 at Chevron and spearheading the Microsoft practice at PwC, which significantly integrated Power BI and early PowerApps adoption. His story doesn't end there; after leaving PwC, Mark took on groundbreaking projects using PowerApps and Azure AI, including a successful application for a major seed distributor. His insights reveal how these tools have revolutionized business processes and data management, providing a unique perspective on the evolution of technology in consulting.In a detailed case study, Mark illustrates the power of custom solutions in business technology. He recounts developing a seed distribution app for an agriculture firm struggling with an outdated JD Edwards system. By prototyping with Power Apps and Power BI, Mark's team enhanced data access and streamlined sales operations. Furthermore, he shares a transformative experience with a billion-dollar firm, where leveraging SQL Server and standardizing data views turned around an underperforming Cognos implementation. Tune in to learn how integrating Power Apps with JD Edwards using APIs can revolutionize backend operations and ensure long-term system efficiency.Resources Mentioned First solution in the Microsoft AppSource online solution catalog - https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365/hangingvalleyenterprisesllc1645487787841.salesenable 90 Day Mentoring Challenge 10% off code use MBAP at checkout https://ako.nz365guy.comSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening
This episode features an interview with Gabrielle Boko, Chief Marketing Officer at NetApp. Gabrielle has over 22 years of experience in technology marketing, connecting customer success to innovative experiences in software applications and cloud services, digital strategy and marketing, customer storytelling and experience, AI and Big Data and funnel management. Prior to NetApp, she led organizational transformations and built high impact teams for companies like HPE, Sage, SAP and Cognos.In this episode, Kailey and Gabrielle discuss AI as a competitive differentiator, NetApp's brand refresh and the sustainability of AI.-------------------Key Takeaways:Championing data security and bias reduction in AI helps us be more responsible with tech and become better humans.When customers are at the center, we can advance things like sustainability and ethics without sacrificing other areas where we need to be successful.Customers don't like brands to make quick assumptions about them. They want effortless interactions they can see value in.-------------------“Customers are looking for simplicity. They're looking for simplicity and engagement. I think digital has already elevated that. Adding AI on top of digital allows us to take simplicity to a new level. Which is reduction of costs or how to think about content in a really personal way.” – Gabrielle Boko-------------------Episode Timestamps:*(02:38) - Gabrielle's career journey*(09:54) - AI's impact on sustainability*(16:15) - The biggest challenge of building a best in class customer experience*(19:38) - How Gabrielle defines “good data”*(22:02) - Gabrielle dives into NetApp's rebrand*(41:01) - Changes in customer engagement in the next 6 to 12 months-------------------Links:Connect with Gabrielle on LinkedInConnect with Kailey on LinkedInLearn more about Caspian Studios-------------------SponsorGood Data, Better Marketing is brought to you by Twilio Segment. In today's digital-first economy, being data-driven is no longer aspirational. It's necessary. Find out why over 20,000 businesses trust Segment to enable personalized, consistent, real-time customer experiences by visiting Segment.com
Mark Emond is the Founder and CEO of Demand Spring, an integrated revenue marketing consultancy working with B2B marketers in building and implementing the marketing strategies and technology stacks that drive transformation and top-line results. The firm works with organizations ranging from high-growth Series C companies to Fortune 500 organizations. Before founding Demand Spring, Mark spent 15 years in marketing leadership roles at IBM, Cognos, Watchfire, and Corel. He also serves and supports the development of young people as the VP of Competitive, Player and Coach Development with West Ottawa Basketball, the Head Coach for the Capital Region's female team at the Ontario Summer Games, and the Head Coach of the U16 Girls West Ottawa team. In this episode… Marketing is the backbone of any successful business, but it's not always easy to get it right. So, where can you get the partner you need to take your marketing to the next level? According to industry expert Mark Emond, understanding your customer's buying journey is the key to building effective marketing strategies that drive results. By analyzing customer behavior, identifying key touchpoints, and optimizing marketing strategies, companies can create tailored marketing solutions. However, given the complexity of the process, many businesses lack the expertise required to achieve this. With years of experience in content, digital marketing, and technology, Mark shares how he's built an integrated revenue marketing consultancy to help businesses transform their marketing practices and deliver exceptional customer experiences. In this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Weisz chats with Mark Emond, Founder and CEO of Demand Spring, to discuss how companies can take their marketing practices to the next level. Mark talks about Demand Spring, identifying buyer journeys to create targeted content, marketing strategies for financial services, and the main challenges CMOs face in B2B marketing and how to overcome them.
Karen Fowlie is the VP, Product Services & Operations for Qlik. She has also held leadership positions at IBM and Cognos. Karen talks about how she has transitioned into different roles in her career and explains how some of the pressures placed on localization teams have helped her professional development. Topics included transitioning into non-loc roles, the importance of demonstrating the value of loc across the enterprise, how to build a culture of continuous improvement, how to empower your team, developing professional relationships, and tips for maintaining a work-life balance. Karen also gives her book and movie recommendations and shares tips on how to survive a tornado. Book RecommendationDare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Dr. Brené Brown
In this episode of NZ Business Owners, host Ryan J Melton sits down with Mohit Nain, a highly experienced and accomplished accountant. With a diverse background in the freight, environmental services, hospitality, and transport industries, Mohit brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. Throughout the conversation, Ryan delves into Mohit's professional journey and highlights his strong skill set in various accounting domains. From his proficiency in SAP, PowerBI, Cognos, Microsoft AX Dynamics & D365, Xero, MYOB, and RMS, to his strategic implementation of operational processes, Mohit's abilities as an accounting professional shine through. The discussion further explores Mohit's contribution to improving costing processes, managing financial accounting, ensuring tax compliance, and handling commercial audits. Listeners will gain valuable insights into his expertise in budgeting and forecasting, management accounting, and country-by-country reporting. With his current role as a Financial Controller at DHL Express and previous positions at EnviroWaste, SkyCity Entertainment Group, and GS Ltd, Mohit's experiences are varied and offer unique perspectives on financial management in different industries. He shares anecdotes and valuable lessons learned from his roles as an Accountant, Assistant Accountant, and Accounts Payable Administrator. Tune in to this episode of NZ Business Owners to gain deep insights into the world of accounting and finance across multiple industries. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned business owner, or simply curious about the financial aspects of different sectors, Mohit Nain's expertise and experiences will provide you with valuable knowledge and inspiration. linkedin.com/in/mohit-nain-ca-7b47a0132
Kirk Munroe is a business analytics and performance management expert. He has held leadership roles in product management, marketing, sales enablement, and customer success in analytics software companies including, Cognos, IBM, Kinaxis, Tableau, and Salesforce. Kirk has a passion for... The post Episode #234: Kirk Munroe appeared first on PolicyViz.
Kirk Munroe is a business analytics and performance management expert. He has held leadership roles in product management, marketing, sales enablement, and customer success in analytics software companies including, Cognos, IBM, Kinaxis, Tableau, and Salesforce. Kirk has a passion for coaching and mentoring people to make better decisions through storytelling with data. He is currently one of the two owners and principal consultants at Paint with Data, a visual analytics consulting firm. Kirk lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Episode Notes Kirk | Web | Twitter Book: Data Modeling with Tableau: A practical guide to building data models using Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop Kirk Munroe: 4 Common Tableau Data Model Problems…and How to Fix Them Related Episodes iTunes Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Google Podcasts PolicyViz Newsletter YouTube Sponsor Are you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today! New Ways to Support the Show! With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization podcasts around. You can support the show by downloading and listening, following the work of my guests, and sharing the show with your networks. I'm grateful to everyone who listens and supports the show, and now I'm offering new exciting ways for you to support the show financially. You can check out the special paid version of my
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Tabb. Chris is the Co-Founder & CCO at LEIT DATA. In this episode he schools me on the modern data stack and gives me a great look into the history of data and data management.He started his career in the Business Intelligence/Analytics domain 30 years ago. Beginning at Cognos in the 90's working in the back office before becoming an expert in all their products, and leaving to become an independent BI consultant in 1998. It is safe to say he loves Data and always hasHe followed the evolution of the analytics industry, working hands-on with all the technologies in the ecosystems: - Databases, ETL/ELT, BI/OLAP /Visualisation Tools, Big Data Technologies, Infrastructure On-premises / Cloud across many vendors, some old some new.Nowadays he works at a more strategic level providing Technical Roadmap, Vendor Selection, Migration Strategies, Data Management, Data & Application Architecture, but still likes to keep hands-on with products in the Data Eco System.Chris's Links:Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-tabb-datatips/?originalSubdomain=ukSki Event - https://skiersindata.com/Leit Data - https://www.leit-data.com/
Darryl Praill is the Chief Marketing Officer of Agorapulse, a social media marketing platform. Darryl is a high-tech marketing executive with over 25 years of experience spanning startups, re-starts, consolidations, acquisitions, divestments and IPO's. He has been widely quoted in the media including television, press, and trade publications. He is a guest lecturer, public speaker, and radio personality and has been featured in numerous podcasts, case studies, and best-selling books. Praill is a former recipient of the coveted Forty Under 40 Award and has held senior executive roles in leading companies including Sybase, Cognos (now IBM), webPLAN (now Kinaxis), and CML Emergency Services (now AIRBUS). He has raised over $50 million in venture funding across multiple organizations and consulted with world-class corporations including Salesforce, SAP, and Nielsen. In this episode, he shares how we can use soft leadership skills to empower teams and drive growth. Insights he shares include: The biggest challenges with revenue growth for companies in the B2B spaceThe place for soft leadership skills for today's executive leadership teamsIs revenue growth the by-product of a handful of attributes? If so what are theyWhat does it take for a CRO to be successful todayIs there a correlation that can be drawn between how tasks are executed and the manner in which leaders develop relationships in and out of a teamHow to build psychological safety in conversations with othersHow to better understand people's motivations in their roles and responsibilitiesDarryl's take on experiential learning in the context of leadership developmentHow best to tackle revenue growthand much much more ....
In this episode, Matt Florian of Comerit rejoins Mustansir Saifuddin to discuss the importance of managing organizational change as enterprises take on cloud based analytics. It's not enough to choose an analytics tool. Successful companies take the time to look at how organizational change gets to be addressed; from awareness, decision making, implementation, and finally institutionalizing it. His key takeaway: Not addressing a change strategy will inherently increase your risk of not achieving your objectives for your cloud analytics initiative. Matt has more than 25 years of leadership in data and enterprise architecture in numerous industries. He has successfully delivered enterprise data transformation projects for government, telecommunication, retail, manufacturing, and financial services sectors. Matt began consulting focusing on data warehousing in telecommunication for national providers. Over the course of his career has consulted for Oracle, IBM, and Unisys across many industries. His leadership, experience, and clarity of technical topics earned him the trust of client executive leadership. Matt's talent to develop and lead teams is the key to his successful delivery of projects for clients. Connect with Us: LinkedIn: Matt Florian Mustansir Saifuddin Innovative Solution Partners Twitter: @Mmsaifuddin YouTube or learn more about our sponsor Innovative Solution Partners to schedule a free consultation. Episode Transcript [00:00:03.390] - Mustansir Saifuddin Welcome to Tech-Driven Business, brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. In this third episode of a multipart series, I welcome back Matt Florian of Comerit. Listen in as Matt and I discuss the importance of addressing organizational change. When you pursue a cloud analytics initiative, we'll drive into real-life scenarios to highlight the value of alignment of business and .IT [00:00:35.440] - Mustansir Saifuddin Hello Matt, welcome to Tech During Business. How are you man? [00:00:39.370] - Matt Florian I am doing very well. Mustansir, how are you sir? [00:00:43.840] - Mustansir Saifuddin Wonderful. Thank you for joining us today. [00:00:48.490] - Matt Florian I'm happy to be here, happy to join you once again. These have been fantastic talks and look forward to more. [00:00:56.360] - Mustansir Saifuddin Awesome. So I'd like to continue our discussion. I know we started this conversation some time ago where we dived into transitioning to cloud data warehouse and also looked into hybrid environments and some of the benefits that customers are reaping going that route. So today I would like to focus on organizational change in cloud analytics and why are they so important in the whole cloud journey? How does that sound to you? [00:01:29.020] - Matt Florian It sounds great. It's a conversation, a topic that is too often overlooked. So let's get to it. [00:01:36.640] - Mustansir Saifuddin Absolutely. So I think let's start with the basics, right? I mean, can you help explain the role of organizational change when it comes to cloud analytics? Can you just simplify that? [00:01:49.690] - Matt Florian You know, it's such an important piece on the cloud analytics and like I said, it's not discussed often enough. Being in IT for over 25 years, and you and I have both been around the block quite a bit and worked with different companies of all shapes and sizes. And their failures in analytics always come down to a very common thing, and that is they didn't incorporate the change, the organizational change that is part of it. And organizational change is very difficult in and of itself. Right. The study of literature says that the estimates of organizational change initiatives failed 60% to 70% of the time, and that's something that hasn't changed since the 70s. It's just a consistent theme. So lack of having good engagement, bringing in experts like you and I to go and do this and then relying on us to actually convey it, well, that's a big cost. Because if we don't have managers involved in organizational change and institutionalizing that is who they are, then going to the cloud is not going to solve your problem. [00:03:05.590] - Mustansir Saifuddin Absolutely. I think that being said, I know that's one of the biggest, bigger challenges especially is outside the realm of the technical delivery of objects. Right. But when you think about organizational change, what are some of the critical or change management components that customers get to have in place? Would you be able to dive into that detail about some of the critical change components that are very important? [00:03:39.560] - Matt Florian Sure. Organizational change, it's a body of knowledge that has been built up by business schools and organizational psychology has studied us and has given us a breadth of knowledge to build from and we have frameworks to work from. As a matter of fact, I think if you went and searched on Amazon today, you'd probably find 1000 books published in the last three or four years that talk about organizational change and how to succeed and everybody's opinion on it and what it comes down to. But I think that when you think about organizational change and you spoil it down and boil down what those 500 books, I have to say it really comes down to four really critical phases. That is awareness, making the decision to do something, implementing it and then institutionalizing it. And those are the four key phases of organizational change. [00:04:45.490] - Mustansir Saifuddin That's good to know and those are important areas, right? Especially when it comes to something that is new and it's very broad. When you talk about cloud analytics, we are talking about a lot of different things in play. So when you mentioned those critical change components, right, is there an example that you can share with us about any one of those? [00:05:16.910] - Matt Florian Yeah, so awareness really starts off with business and IT both come to an agreement, a recognition that there's a problem. And the problem is that you'll see when it comes to analytics are problems like we're not achieving our organic growth metrics, we're not lowering the cost, we're not gaining insights, we're reacting instead of being proactive and respond to the market. And those are all pieces of awareness. And awareness can also be that we're not making bright investments in technology. The business has been implementing different data visualization and analytics tools all across and nobody has a common platform. So as a result, spending a lot of money on a lot of different tools that are telling you different stories and those all can lead into that awareness. With awareness we have a problem, we're not achieving our goals, we're not controlling our costs, we need to do analytics better. And that really they can lead into decision, right? And those are all problems that everybody's seen, it's nothing new. And then the decision part then is, well we got to do something about this. And where I think a lot of companies stumble is that they jump to the decision and say, we're going to go cloud analytics. [00:06:49.390] - Matt Florian Well, cloud analytics is not a decision, it's an architecture, it's a technology. But the decision really needs to be a collaboration between the business and IT on what that vision is. Because they went and started using other analytics tools for a reason, they went outside and did things differently for a reason. There's a need that wasn't being met. So jumping to analytics and cloud analytics isn't the answer, it's creating a shared vision is the answer. What do we want this new vision to look like? And that very well could be cloud analytics. But it's cloud analytics and other things and other things in the cloud. So that really drives into that decision. We're going to do something and we now have a shared vision of what that is. We shared the architecture and our solution and how we're all going to do this. And we're going to achieve this within some set budget, which then drives us an execution go to do it. And execution still requires a whole lot of communication, though, because during execution, we may have had a great plan of what our decision was, but the execution comes down and we have to start making changes and adjustments and react to different things along the way. [00:08:07.470] - Matt Florian So we need to continue to communicate because we have a shared vision. We have to keep that vision alive. Everybody still has to be on board when we get done with this development that they're going to go, this is what I wanted, this is great, I want to be part of this. Then you get to that institutionalization. And this is where I think you and I both have seen these projects stumble hard, is the consultants get done, we leave, and the business is like, well, what do I do with this? How do I work this? And you know what? That's all right. I'm just going to go back to Excel. And they didn't institutionalize the change and all the work that you did and the business along that path, they need to develop their champions and they need to develop a pipeline of champions because the business owns that institutionalization side. [00:09:02.810] - Mustansir Saifuddin Absolutely. I think, and that's really the key message that you mentioned over here. Especially, a lot of times we see when you go into these kind of conversations, one of the biggest challenges that organizations face is these silos, right? These business units doing their own thing based on their comfort level, based on a tool they were exposed to. And those silos need to be broken down in order to have a cohesive approach in terms of going to a cloud analytics approach, right. So that takes me to my next segue question. Can you share a success story on a particular cloud analytics project where you have gone through the cycle? And what are some of the implementation steps? The right steps, I'll call the right steps to address that organizational change in that case. Can you share? [00:10:03.340] - Matt Florian Yeah, well, I'm glad you asked for a successful one. They are the hard ones to pull out of the hat sometimes because some projects are kind of a mixed bag of what success is. But we worked with a client just a few years ago on a self service project and doing a big move into cloud analytics space. And that project began not with a move to say we're going to do cloud analytics. That project began with the question from the IT department of what is our current visualization tools that are out there? What are people using? So we did a survey of the business and evaluated and analyzed what the different business practices and organizations are coming back with. We're using to look at the data because business assumed, IT assumed, we got this big cognitive implementation. People are just hitting this thing all the time, they're using it everywhere. And the reality was that according to the business, they were using their cloud, their Cognos to download large data sets and analyze them in other tools. So we found Tableau, we found Power BI, we found Looker, we found Alterix and we found a whole lot of Excel. [00:11:31.460] - Matt Florian And as I said, the business had a need and the existing structure wasn't working. So that led to that awareness and having that discussion with the business leaders of what's going on. And IT led awareness like, well, we really do need to standardize in what we're doing. Everybody has a favorite, but it's costing a lot of money. So, working with the business, we built again, that shared vision. That said, there's a lot of people that like Power BI in that particular case. And you're already a Microsoft shop, you have a large Microsoft presence in Azure. So let's move your warehouse over to Azure and let's build a new vision of what analytics looks like and start freeing up data as data sets. So we built this model, this vision that IT would get out of the business of creating reports. And they would serve data, they would have data products. And in return, business would go and learn how to create their reports and consume the data that they needed so that both sides are being met. And the business was very much behind it. So when we built, we continued to work with the business on what this build looks like, what data sets are going to look like, and having very early testing in it, they're starting to build excitement and getting encouragement with it. [00:12:56.550] - Matt Florian And organizational change was a big part of this in my communication with the IT and the business owners. So we went on a roadshow, we would go and have host lunches with business stakeholders and people that are going to consume the data and say this is what the vision looks like, this is what the future is going to be, see how you can do all this stuff. And we let them go and hammer away on playing with dashboards and creating their own reports and creating excitement that says oh my God, I can go do this, I can make this happen. And when it finally came time to deploy and started deploying out different models, the business was on it and they picked up and they picked up their own community of practice, continued having champions of the data and continued to be champions of Power BI and build their own communities. And that institutionalized that change into their organization. So every now and then you'll have other trickles of Alteryx or Tableau come in from an outside consultant, but organizationally, they viewed themselves as a Power BI shop. And that's how they see themselves and that's how they react. [00:14:07.690] - Matt Florian And to this day, they still view themselves that way. And so it's like a good example of change, organizational change that took hold to support the deployment of a cloud analytics solution. [00:14:21.560] - Mustansir Saifuddin That's awesome. I think that the key takeaway for our listeners from this example seems like you completely flip the conversation. Make it more like ownership factor moves towards the business versus IT, and then business kind of took it on themselves to move forward with this approach, which is definitely the way to go forward. [00:14:47.210] - Matt Florian With cloud analytics, IT is just an enabler of that data. The actual consumer and taking action that's business; business needs to be very much part of this. [00:15:02.510] - Mustansir Saifuddin Absolutely. I think that kind of takes me to a conversation which is very critical, especially on some of these projects. Right. When you talk about cloud analytics, what are some of the cost implications when you don't have the right organizational change strategy in place? Because that's always on top of the mind of folks. What can go wrong, especially from a cost perspective. Can you share an example of this? [00:15:34.960] - Matt Florian Sure. Did you ever hear about that bridge in Alaska that they built? They built a bridge in Alaska. It's called the Bridge to Nowhere because it just built and then funding stopped. It actually ends in the middle of nothing. It doesn't connect with anything. That's exactly what happens; what will happen and can happen with an analytics project if you don't have organizational change. You run a high risk of putting a lot of money and a lot of time, investment and energy into building what could be a very transformative tool to the business to achieve goals and their objectives. And it goes nowhere. And that investment is just lost. You'll have no ROI on it because nobody uses it. And nobody uses it because that whole user experience of the business consuming the data wasn't taken into account and how they're going to change. You're asking people to stop using Excel to analyze every little thing and instead be analytics minded. That's a major shift. And it's not a badge against Excel. Excel does great things. I use Excel to do some analytics all the time. But to drive the business and to make shared collaborative decisions, you need a tool that's more informative than Excel, and you need a shared vision by the business of what it's going to be important. [00:17:10.240] - Matt Florian So if you're going to go and say, I want to take an analytics journey, the first question you have to ask is why and who's on the journey with you? And if you don't if you don't take business on that journey, then it's a bridge to nowhere. [00:17:26.960] - Mustansir Saifuddin A great example, for sure. I think that's in time and time again, a lot of folks forget about that and they want to go to the decisionmaking or the actual execution part, which is definitely very important. But without having that upfront work, which seems like this example you very clearly articulated, you will not be able to reach the goal that you set out for yourself. So I think that takes me to my closing question on this topic. What is one takeaway, one key takeaway that you want our listeners to leave with today? [00:18:11.060] - Matt Florian The key takeaway is that if organizational change is not part of your plan, it's not part of what's incorporated, then you might as well just put it straight over into the project risk register; that you run the risk of not achieving your project objectives. Because without it that's some semblance of this, you are going to run a high risk of not succeeding and having cost runovers by redoing things because the business was not fully on board. The business had an idea of what they wanted. But you and the business aren't in alignment on what the shared vision is and what it's going to actually take in order to make it happen. So if you don't want to run that risk, incorporate it, make it part of the project, and you will mitigate the risk. There's no risks, but you'll mitigate that. [00:19:11.660] - Mustansir Saifuddin What a great advice. I think I love that. I think that's one thing that if folks pay attention to it very upfront in the journey, they will pay dividends down the road. So thank you for sharing that. So I think with that, I like to thank you, Matt, for joining us. Again, look forward to more conversations on this topic. [00:19:34.010] - Matt Florian Thank you, I look forward to as well. As always, great talking to you Mustansir. [00:19:43.460] - Mustansir Saifuddin Thanks for listening to Tech-Driven Business brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. Matt shared the value of addressing organizational change as enterprises get ready to take on cloud analytics initiatives. His main takeaway if organizational change is not part of your plan, you run the risk of not achieving your project objectives. We would love to hear from you. Continue the conversation by connecting with me on LinkedIn or Twitter. Learn more about Innovative Solution Partners and schedule a free consultation by visiting Isolutionpartners.com. 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Gene Villeneuve is a software executive with over 25 years of experience running small to large teams at Tehama, Cognos, OLAP@Work, and IBM. Coaching, mentoring, endurance sports, and business are his passions. Gene is semi-retired and now offers advising or mentoring engagements with individuals or team. His passion for cycling has kept him levelheaded throughout his career and now offers more fulfillment now that he has more time to do the things he loves. Tune in to today's episode to learn about the risks that paid off and the discipline that has led Gene Villeneuve to be successful and now semi-retired and living his life to the fullest. Quotes: “That's how I got into cycling, that's always been a core aspect of my personality. Not only is it a way to de stress after a long day, but it just becomes something else, in addition to family and in addition to work, and it is something else, that's your own.” (2:16-2:43) “I think when it comes to the professional sort of things, it's always, the curiosity, the willingness to take risks and the third one is always be driven to help others be successful as well.” (6:40-6:57) “Where I became unique and different is, is that I became an enabler for those sellers. I would have people telling me you're actually on the phone or in people's offices trying to get those issues resolved within IBM, and other sales leaders didn't actually do that for us.” (14:38-15:18) Links: Gene Villeneuve LinkedIn Gene Villeneuve Website Empellor CRM LinkedIn Empellor CRM Website Empellor CRM Twitter
For someone who never expected a career in business, Rob Ashe has held a lot of prominent roles. He was CEO of Cognos, general manager of business analytics at IBM, and is currently a board member at Shopify and several other companies. In this episode of Digging Deep, we go back to the beginning, when his family of nine shared a three-bedroom house and he shared a bed with a sibling. Rob shares stories of trying out for the Olympic basketball team and his road to becoming an accidental CEO. And for the first time he shares details of a major health scare on the day he became Cognos CEO, why he's donating to a new hospital in his home of Ottawa, and his entire philosophy about philanthropy. It's a story of authenticity, perseverance, and a little bit of luck.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi, and welcome to the Sales Enablement PRO podcast. I am Shawnna Sumaoang. Sales enablement is a constantly evolving space and we're here to help professionals stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices so that they can be more effective in their jobs. Today I’m excited to have Terry Bird from Vonage join us. Terry, I would love for you to introduce yourself, your role, and your organization to our audience. Terry Bird: I’m Terry Bird, I am the vice president of enablement at Vonage. I’ve been here just under a year now. Prior to that, I was with IBM for around 13 years in various roles, many of them in and around the sales enablement space, and actually came to IBM through the acquisition of Cognos. So my background is in financial performance management and analytics. SS: I’m very excited to have you here, Terry. Now, part of your background and your expertise is around leading teams across very diverse geography and cultures. I’d love to get a sense from you, what are some of the key things that you consider when you’re creating enablement programs for audiences, especially across different geography? TB: Good question. I’m a big fan of design thinking. One thing I try to do and I always encourage my teams to do is really think outside in. A big premise of design thinking is really understanding the experience that your audience has, what they’re thinking, what they’re feeling, what they’re saying, and what they’re doing to help inform what you do to help improve their experience. So definitely putting ourselves in the shoes of the audience is a very important thing. Many of the folks in my enablement team and enablement teams that I’ve worked in in the past actually come from sales or from technical sales, so from the field in some way, shape, or form, and having that experience really helps us to understand our audience. Beyond that as well, I think it’s very important to have a really good geographic spread in terms of the team that you have. It’s something we’ve certainly worked on in the past 12 months since I came into Vonage is making sure that we have that geographic footprint with the enablement team. I’m very used to working with a global team that has that presence throughout different regions and markets that we operate in. So really having that outside-in perspective is very important in how we align what we do. SS: I couldn’t agree more. In your experiences though, what are some of the key challenges that can occur in leading enablement efforts across the globe? TB: Well, yeah, of course, it’s a global effort and that means that we have 24 hours of timelines to deal with. I certainly don’t work a structured 9-5 role, having a global role within Vonage and having had a global role for many years of my career, I’m very used to working in a way that allows us to connect around the clock. That means being able to sometimes be on late or very early to have calls with teams in the Asia Pacific for example, or it can mean having different times of your day to try and align our audience. One of the biggest challenges when you have a team with folks in the US or North America and in Europe and somewhere in the Asia Pacific that you’re trying to get on at the same time, that’s always going to be a short straw for somebody in the middle of their night, but I try not to make too much of a habit of that. Like I said, having a footprint in the team where you can have a presence globally, always helps to address that. Of course, timelines are one thing, but we also have cultural and regional considerations that we have to appreciate at all times. Sometimes messaging that is very suitable for the North American market may need to be very different for our market in the Asia Pacific so you have these cultural business considerations and language considerations that we have to adapt for at all times. Our business can be very different in different geographies, you have different competitors, and different industries are prevalent in different geographies, so there’s not a one size fits all in terms of what we do with regard to enablement programs. There will be a core of content and messaging for sure, but it can only be truly effective with a geo footprint when we start to adapt it for their particular go-to-market models, that particular cultural appreciation. SS: Yeah, that absolutely makes sense. What are some of the ways in which you’ve overcome some of those challenges as you’re building your global programs? TB: It is always an interesting challenge to work with other organizations or other teams around the organization to help them shape that appreciation of the audience. I think typically a key role of sales enablement will be helping other teams, such as product management, product marketing, engineering teams, in bringing our products to market to really not be led by our features and functions and really understand the audience from a sales enablement perspective. Those will be our sales teams, our technical sales teams, and other customer-facing teams, like professional services etcetera, and of course our business partners. If we go to market with partners and help them to understand that language that we use is very important. I think sometimes we have to help some of those teams, especially if they’re predominantly based in one geo, like North America for example, to use language that is truly universal and can be understood around the globe. I also think it’s very important, and this is something that myself and other teams I’ve worked with for a number of years have really focused on doing, is when we produce things like customer-facing pitch decks or sales enablement decks, for example, to really understand that actually we have many parts of our audience that where English isn’t their first language and therefore to help them, simple things like scripting, comprehensive scripting of slides in clear English is really going to help those audiences. We would love to be able to translate and localize every single piece of content that we have and that isn’t always possible from a budget and time perspective. So being able to do things like comprehensive scripting, and very clear scripting helps our audience where English isn’t their first language to take that localize it and understand it because it’s one thing being able to watch a subject matter expert from different geo present a piece of content either in a live or prerecorded state, but having the script and quite often close captioning will help open that up and make it reusable and digestible for those teams to go and localize it themselves. I do think that having that local footprint and being able to connect at their local level helps with that. I was lucky enough when I came into Vonage to actually be handed some headcount to hire as well. It was very clear that we had a gap from a sales enablement perspective in connecting very locally with our audience in Asia Pacific. So one of the people we hired actually spent many, many years of their career working in Singapore and is bilingual in English and Chinese and forged a very good connection early on during the interview process with some of our sales leaders in Asia Pacific. Now that person is giving us a true local presence but also bidirectionally is able to bring back and translate very effectively the needs of the local audiences in our Asia Pacific region. I think again it all comes back to that design thinking and that outside in appreciation of the audience, their particular needs, and the experience they have on a day-to-day basis. The more things we can do to connect with that closely all the time will only help us overcome those challenges. SS: Absolutely. Now you mentioned briefly earlier that oftentimes across various geography, there are also slightly different business needs or business plans or go-to-market plans? I’m curious to understand, do you also need to engage different business partners to ensure that your programs are successful, and who would you say are some of those core partners in building out your global programs? TB: In terms of business partners in this context I’m going to frame that in terms of partners within our business. Obviously, they will go-to-market business partners as well and we do have some that are kind of software or tool based in terms of vendors that we work with. The partnerships within our business from a global perspective are very important and Vonage truly is a global company and it’s made up of a legacy of organic growth, but it’s also made up of some quite significant acquisitions over the past few years. Those acquisitions actually have a very geographic spread from Europe and the UK to Asia Pacific itself. One of our most recent acquisitions was actually based in Asia Pacific. We also have a strong footprint in Israel, for example, with some of our AI capabilities. I think very naturally Vonage has a very global spread and a very global culture, but in terms of what we do from a sales enablement angle, some of my key partners within the business that I work with would certainly be regional VPs of sales. Vonage is split across three major regions, as many companies are, but I know everybody has kind of variances on this, but from an Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific perspective. I have peers who are sales leaders and technical leaders for the business. I talked to them and worked with them almost on a daily basis and in some way, shape, or form of the conversations that we have. Something else we’ve done to really amplify and extend the reach of that ongoing conversation is to implement a program called SEAT. SEAT stands for our sales experience activation team. That team is really made up of a core number of sellers and other roles from across the business and different go-to-market functions that represent all of those geographers we meet on a structured basis once a month but we have a very open and ongoing communication channel through tools like Slack for example. We’re always listening to their needs. They’re very open with us. We’ve implemented that program on a rotational basis, so it’s a 6 to 9-month membership to keep the engagement and the involvement fresh, we try not to overload them with too many things in terms of the conversation, but the feedback and the engagement that we get from them is very high quality in terms of helping us to understand what’s working and, sometimes also of course what’s not working and where we can make refinements and advancements. That’s just a really good example of just how we’re actively connecting at the local level. I’ve seen in the past examples where there’s a headquarter-driven approach to push out content and we just hope it’s going to get good leverage and a good footprint across the globe and that’s not always the case. So being proactive and being ahead of those conversations, connecting with our audience on an ongoing basis around the globe and across different parts of the business is very important. We can’t talk to everybody all of the time but finding a good balance in terms of having structured interlocks and also good feedback mechanisms, good abilities where anybody can ask questions and those be routed to the right people to answer perpetually is a very good practice and that’s something I think Vonage is very good at in terms of keeping that 360-degree process open. SS: I love that and I love that communication is really at the core of everything that you guys do. To build on that a little bit, how do you continue to create strong relationships with your business partners so that you can really solidify the credibility of your programs and to the point, you made a moment ago, really helped to improve that scalability? TB: Yeah, it’s an interesting one, I think I kind of talked a bit about this in that last answer, but we’re doing a lot of things all of the time and sales enablement is such a universal topic in terms of content that you’re delivering, training and activation that we’re delivering, it also covers technology in the way that we deliver tools to our sales teams to leverage every day. Also, the way that we communicate. Communication is a huge part of effective enablement and it’s very easy for communications from a number of functions to overwhelmed sellers and for it to just be noise every day. So we’ve really focused on four key themes in what we’re doing with our sales enablement strategy and very sharp and curated content that’s intuitive and easy to access, like structured skills and training curriculum now where we’ve also started attaching badges to that, so trying to pivot to an aspirational learning culture and a way to measure skills growth and then the text stack that we put in the hands of our sellers. There are many, many tools out there that cover all kinds of activities, from prospecting to outreach to engagement to negotiations, competitive research, etcetera. I think the best technologies are the ones that you can put in the hands of sellers often in a mobile experience and bring intuitively and intelligently the most relevant content and messaging to them in the context of what they’re doing and ultimately streamlining communications and having a really clear message. It’s great having that connection and understanding the feedback, but it’s how we act on it in terms of delivering sharp content that’s globally applicable and can be localized very easily through technology that makes that very agile and easy to access and with communications and messaging that is very crisp and clear and really consolidating communications to a way that sellers can focus on a particular funnel and understand what’s important to them from a personal perspective. Otherwise, it just all becomes noise and they just switch off and enablement becomes almost null and void in terms of an exercise. It’s great building great content, but the way that you deliver it is very important. The way you communicate is very important. All of those things when we build them of course then give us data and data informs us how effective a piece of content data is around skills and learning, where do we have gaps and where do we where can we proactively take enablement steps and then tours around digital adoption and tools around click-throughs on communications. All of that data gives us an insight into what’s working and what’s not working. That’s very important. So, constantly learning from that data in real-time allows us to get those insights, and that feedback that allows us to improve all the time in terms of what we’re doing and that’s really what we’re doing in enablement is constantly improving. SS: Terry, I think that’s fantastic. I am curious to get your perspective, obviously, we’ve been working in either hybrid or virtual work environment now and as you know, a lot of organizations try to figure out how they really do kind of a transition from in-person or hybrid, what has been your approach to leading global teams and how has that evolved over the past few years? Do you think it might continue to evolve in the coming year? TB: Where do we start with that one? I mean, I come from a place where even with a global team, traveling a lot and travel was kind of frictionless and seamless and we would be getting together at least every quarter and when we’re delivering events like new hire boot camps or sales kickoffs, the team is generally seeing each other face to face multiple times through a year in full or in part. There was a time when I was driving up and down from my house in Bristol to Heathrow a couple of times a month to travel around the world somewhere to be in person with teams and that makes engagement and having that relationship very easy. Then, of course, the world changed and for a good couple of years I didn’t travel at all and it’s only really starting to just get going again now, of course nowhere near like it was before the pandemic and certainly since I’ve been in Vonage. I joined in late 2021 and there are members of my team who I’m very close to, who I’ve never seen face to face and won’t for a while yet. So the way that we engage as teams globally has changed fundamentally. I think technology has caught up to help with the way that we engage. Obviously, Vonage is in the business of unified communications, so if we can’t find ways to communicate and collaborate digitally, then there’s something wrong. So luckily our own backyard is technology that can help us collaborate very closely as a team, but it’s still very difficult when you don’t have the ability to connect face to face to overcome some of those challenges. Engagement is a critical word in terms of how we’re coming together as teams and that’s not just meeting in virtual environments and discussing in virtual environments. I think sometimes we have to get away from work completely and take extra lengths to really understand each other as people and how we interact as a team and interact with each other. Engagement activities that are completely non-work related are very important, focusing on digital teams and virtual teams and how we collaborate is very important. We have some very important program management and collaboration tools, without naming names specifically too much that really facilitate us coming together and working in a very agile and connected way, and of course, talking. I mean we have to talk to each other all of the time and really make sure that we’re connecting on a human level. I’m also a big ally and advocate for our ERGs within Vonage. I was a big diversity ally in IBM as well. I think it’s so important for people who work together in any organization in virtual teams to connect as human beings as well as colleagues within a business of course. So that’s incredibly important. Now, will things change? They’re starting to change again. I don’t think we’ll ever see a working environment as it was three years ago with the ease of travel. Companies have adapted in terms of their expense models and their operating models and how people connect. I think we’re much more thoughtful now about travel and when we get together face-to-face sales kickoffs and other events like that, I think we will gradually come back to be hybrid models. I think there will always have to be a combination of live in-person and virtual now, just because of the global nature of things like the pandemic and of course the way that business has changed for us. Something we’re experimenting with ourselves now as a team is really true hybrid events, true hybrid events where you can have a face-to-face audience and a virtual audience where the virtual audience hasn’t got an experience that is just being fed over a camera from a live event that’s happening in a room. I think you have to find ways to truly engage with that virtual audience in the same way as if you were looking at someone who sat in front of you and that’s something we’re really experimenting with now in our team and we’re hoping to get some success with that. We’ll see what happens with sales kickoff 2023 in terms of how that plays out for planning, which of course, it won’t be too long before our thoughts start to turn to that now. SS: Absolutely. Agility is completely key as we go into the coming years. Well, Terry, thank you so much. I really enjoyed the conversation today. Thank you for sharing your expertise. TB: Thank you. It’s a pleasure. SS: To our audience, thanks for listening. For more insights, tips, and expertise from sales enablement leaders, visit salesenablement.pro. If there is something you'd like to share or a topic you'd like to learn more about, please let us know we'd love to hear from you.
Carter chats with technology M&A expert Michael Tedesco about Elon's Musk's bid to buy Twitter. What are the obligations of Twitter's board? What are Elon's options? What's likely to happen next? This episode is your opportunity to hear from an expert. Michael Tedesco is one of the top Technology dealmakers of his generation, with 23 years experience advising CEOs and boards of companies at all stages of their lifecycle. Based in Silicon Valley since 2001, he has advised on 100+ completed M&A and financing transactions with aggregate value in excess of $100B. This includes many of the highest profile, transformative transactions in Technology such as the Peoplesoft takeover defense and subsequent sale to Oracle; EDS sale to HP; IBM's acquisitions of Cognos & PWC Consulting; and the HP/Compaq merger. Such advisory roles were recognized five times for the Investor Dealers Digest Technology Deal of the Year. Find him on Twitter at: @WellspringGP And at Momentum Cyber at MomentumCyber.com The video version of this episode is available here: https://unsafespace.com/ep0760 Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Other video platforms on which our content can be found include: LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@unsafe BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/unsafespace/ Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Censorship-averse platforms: Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Locals: unsafespace.locals.com Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Censorship-happy platforms: Twitter: @_unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Support the content that you consume by visiting: https://unsafespace.com/donate Finally, don't forget to announce your status as a wrong-thinker with some Unsafe Space merch, available at: https://unsafespace.com/shop
Carter chats with technology M&A expert Michael Tedesco about Elon's Musk's bid to buy Twitter. What are the obligations of Twitter's board? What are Elon's options? What's likely to happen next? This episode is your opportunity to hear from an expert. Michael Tedesco is one of the top Technology dealmakers of his generation, with 23 years experience advising CEOs and boards of companies at all stages of their lifecycle. Based in Silicon Valley since 2001, he has advised on 100+ completed M&A and financing transactions with aggregate value in excess of $100B. This includes many of the highest profile, transformative transactions in Technology such as the Peoplesoft takeover defense and subsequent sale to Oracle; EDS sale to HP; IBM's acquisitions of Cognos & PWC Consulting; and the HP/Compaq merger. Such advisory roles were recognized five times for the Investor Dealers Digest Technology Deal of the Year. Find him on Twitter at: @WellspringGP And at Momentum Cyber at MomentumCyber.com The video version of this episode is available here: https://unsafespace.com/ep0760 Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Other video platforms on which our content can be found include: LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@unsafe BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/unsafespace/ Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Censorship-averse platforms: Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Locals: unsafespace.locals.com Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Censorship-happy platforms: Twitter: @_unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Support the content that you consume by visiting: https://unsafespace.com/donate Finally, don't forget to announce your status as a wrong-thinker with some Unsafe Space merch, available at: https://unsafespace.com/shop
In this episode we chat with Monica McEwen, Managing Director for Government and Public Services Strategy & Analytics team at Deloitte. She talks about use cases in government for AI & Analytics, how to make a career change in the pandemic, and how to find mentorship & sponsors. About Monica McEwen Monica is a Managing Director in the Government and Public Services Strategy & Analytics team at Deloitte. Monica is a thought leader with experience helping government agencies with their most challenging analytics & data challenges. Prior to joining Deloitte, Monica has spent the last her career working for software companies (ThoughtSpot, Qlik, Cognos) and supporting Government Agencies. Monica loves to work with clients on their most challenging data problems and brings the perspective of solving business problems combined with technology. Overview Learn the key points along Monica's journey that has gotten her to where she is today. She answers some questions like " What are the types of problems governments are looking to solve with analytics?" and "What advice do you have for those looking to work in the public sector? ". She shifts into the great resignation and how many people are searching for change. Monica shares how she has dealt with change in the past and gives advice for those facing a mid to quarter life crisis and want to make a change. In addition, Monica shares the power of mentorship and tips on how you can find a mentor. Seeking a mentor or mentee? We are here for you! Check out more information about our mentorship program below: https://www.womenindata.org/mentorship Social Handles Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmcewen2006/ Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support
Array Cast - February 19, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Bob Therriault for collecting these links.[01] 00:01:43 TryAPL.org https://tryapl.org/[02] 00:02:20 J promotional video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV936cVrN0I[03] 00:04:30 BASIC computer language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC[04] 00:05:04 Commodore Pet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET[05] 00:05:50 Nascom One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nascom_(computer_kit)[06] 00:06:44 I.P. Sharpe Associates https://aplwiki.com/wiki/I.P._Sharp_Associates[07] 00:11:26 Gitte Christensen Episode 12 ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode12-gitte-christensen[08] 00:13:20 Futhark Computer Language https://futhark-lang.org/[09] 00:19:50 Smalltalk Computer Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk[10] 00:20:13 Romilly Cocking Presentation Dyalog '08 https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog08/?v=thr-7QfQWJw[11] 00:20:52 OS/2 operating system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2[12] 00:21:37 ODBC https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/odbc/microsoft-open-database-connectivity-odbc?view=sql-server-ver15[13] 00:21:45 AS400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AS/400[14] 00:23:45 Adaytum Software https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Adaytum_Software[15] 00:25:22 Cognos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognos[16] 00:26:45 Simcorp APL Italiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCorp[17] 00:33:49 John Scholes https://aplwiki.com/wiki/John_Scholes[18] 00:34:00 Geoff Streeter https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Geoff_Streeter[19] 00:34:00 Pete Donnely https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Pete_Donnelly[20] 00:34:31 "Mastering Dyalog APL" 1st edition PDF: https://dyalog.com/mastering-dyalog-apl.htm[21] 00:34:50 Rodrigo Girão Serrão Episode 20 ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode20-rodrigo-girao-serrao[22] 00:35:30 John Daintree https://aplwiki.com/wiki/John_Daintree[23] 00:35:50 ASP.NET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET[24] 00:38:08 Dyalog Problem solving competition https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Problem_Solving_Competition[25] 00:59:32 Roger Hui Episode 13 ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode13-roger-hui[26] 00:41:50 Functional Conf https://functionalconf.com/[27] 00:41:55 LambdaConf https://lambdaconf.us/[28] 01:00:43 Aaron Hsu Codfns https://www.sacrideo.us/projects/[29] 01:03:06 APL2000 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL2000[30] 01:06:00 MicroAPL documentation https://microapl.com/apl_help/[31] 01:11:25 Link presentation https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog21/?v=K_-E1tnH06k[32] 01:14:31 Nick Nickolov https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Nick_Nickolov[33] 01:16:38 Dyalog Careers https://www.dyalog.com/careers.htm
Diana, Ben und Kai sprechen über die gängigsten Mythen über IBM Cognos Analytics, die sich teilweise hartnäckig am Markt halten und doch eher ein Relikt aus früheren Tagen sind. Jetzt endlich mal entmystifiziert und auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht. In dieser Episode könnt ihr für euch mitnehmen: • Was ihr beim BI or DIE IBM Month zu Cognos Analytics lernen könnt • Die Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen Planning Analytics (TM1) und Cognos Analytics verstehen • Was der Zusatz "with Watson" bedeutet und was er möglich macht • Die TOP 5 Mythen ausgesprochen und entmystifiziert - 1. Mythos: Cognos Analytics ist altbacken & old-fashioned - 2. Mythos: Cognos Analytics kann kein Self-Service - 3. Mythos: Cognos Analytics ist viel zu kompliziert - 4. Mythos: Cognos Analytics ist nicht mehr strategisch für die IBM - 5. Mythos: Cognos Analytics ist zu teuer und eignet sich nur für große Unternehmen Diana Bengel arbeitet seit 8 Jahren bei IBM, davon 2 Jahre im Software-Bereich Data & AI. Nach berufsbegleitendem Bachelor- und Masterstudium bei IBM, betreut Diana derzeit namhafte, deutsche Retail- und Logistik-Kunden bei Ihrer Data & AI Reise. Speziell der Business Analytics Bereich, rund um IBM Cognos Analytics und IBM Planning Analytics, erfährt große Beliebtheit. Privat verbringt Diana Zeit mit Freunden und Familie, verreist gerne und ist in ihrer schwäbischen Heimat in der Nähe von Stuttgart verwurzelt. Benjamin Heckert arbeitet seit 14 Jahren bei IBM, seit 2017 im Software-Bereich Data & AI. Nach dem berufsbegleitenden Studium "International Business Administration" hat Benjamin unterschiedlichste Vertriebsrollen bei der IBM innegehabt. Seit 2017 ist er vertrieblich für das Analytics & AI Portfolio zuständig und betreut namhafte Versicherungskunden in Deutschland. Die Themenvielfalt reicht dabei vom Standardreporting, über Planungs- und Simulationsprozesse, bis hin zum Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz. Benjamin wohnt vor den Toren Berlins. Wenn er nicht gerade für den nächsten Marathon trainiert, oder auf dem Rennrad sitzt, versucht er viel Zeit mit seinen beiden Kindern zu verbringen und interessante Orte zu bereisen.
Christoph und Kai sprechen über den anstehenden BI or DIE IBM Month und geben Insights in das Konzerncontrolling der Deutschen Bahn mit Hilfe von Planning Analytics (TM1). Christoph ist im Konzerncontrolling der DB AG als Leiter der "Systeme & Verfahren" im Bereich "Planung und Berichtswesen" tätig. Gemeinsam mit seinem Team verantwortet Christoph die (Weiter-)Entwicklung und den Betrieb der TM1-Datenbanken und IT-Tools für die konzernübergreifenden Controllingprozesse (Planung, Vorschau und Reporting) des DB-Konzerns. Aktuell treibt Christoph federführend die Umsetzung des konzernweiten Roll-outs von IBM Planning Analytics als neue TM1-Frontend Generation für mehr als 10.000 User im Konzern voran. Aus dieser Rolle heraus hat sich in den vergangenen 2 Jahren eine sehr enge Zusammenarbeit mit den IBM-Entwicklerteams in den USA/ Kanada entwickelt, mit dem Ziel das Produkt aus der Praxissicht der DB voranzutreiben. In dieser Episode erfahrt ihr: • Was ihr vom BI or DIE IBM Month erwarten könnt • Einen Überflug über die Planung und das Berichtswesen im Konzerncontrolling der Deutschen Bahn • Welche Rolle Planning Analytics (TM1) aus Sicht des Fachbereichs spielt • Warum die IT-Entwickler der TM1-Datenbanken und der Fachbereich gemeinsam vorgehen • Wie die Kommunikation der Ergebnisse von interaktiven Dashboards bis zu Excel automatisiert funktioniert • Warum die DB als größter Kunde auch mit den IBM-Entwicklerteams zusammenarbeitet und mitgestaltet • Erfolgsfaktoren konzernweiter Roll-out von IBM Planning Analytics als neue TM1-Frontend Generation für mehr als 10.000 User
Array Cast - October 30, 2021 Show Notes00:00:00 Roger Hui: https://apl.wiki/Roger_Hui00:00:00 Eric Iverson: https://apl.wiki/Eric_Iverson00:00:00 Eric Iverson's announcement: https://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2021-October/059091.html00:00:00 J: https://apl.wiki/J00:00:00 Ken: https://apl.wiki/Ken_Iverson00:02:24 Dyalog '21: https://www.dyalog.com/user-meetings/dyalog21.htm00:02:24 Memorial service: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_8FG81Ze1aM00:02:51 Morten Kromberg: https://apl.wiki/Morten_Kromberg00:02:51 Dyalog Ltd.: https://apl.wiki/Dyalog_Ltd.00:04:11 Gitte Christensen: https://apl.wiki/Gitte_Christensen00:04:59 John Scholes: https://apl.wiki/John_Scholes00:04:59 Dan Baronet: https://apl.wiki/Dan_Baronet00:05:53 Pearly gates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearly_gates00:06:22 Galactic Emperor: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/50_49.htm00:06:22 Monument quality code: https://forums.dyalog.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1638&p=6456&hilit=monument#p645300:06:58 Rob Hodgkinson's response: https://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2021-October/059124.html00:08:50 I.P. Sharp Associates: https://apl.wiki/I.P._Sharp_Associates00:09:51 Arthur Whitney: https://apl.wiki/Arthur_Whitney00:11:30 Adaytum: https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Cognos-acquires-Adaytum-and-bolsters-performance-management-agenda00:12:16 Jsoftware: https://apl.wiki/Jsoftware00:13:05 Cognos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognos00:14:24 Dfns: https://apl.wiki/Dfn00:14:24 First axis emphasis: https://apl.wiki/Leading_axis_theory00:14:24 Sharp APL: https://apl.wiki/Sharp_APL00:15:59 Ravel: https://apl.wiki/Ravel00:15:59 Table function: https://apl.wiki/Table00:16:35 Identity functions: https://apl.wiki/Same00:16:35 Take: https://apl.wiki/Take00:16:35 Take: https://apl.wiki/Drop00:16:35 Take: https://apl.wiki/Index_(function)00:16:59 Dyadic Iota: https://apl.wiki/Index_of00:16:59 Rank operator: https://apl.wiki/Rank_(operator)00:16:59 Key operator: https://apl.wiki/Key00:16:59 Tally: https://apl.wiki/Tally00:16:59 Function trains: https://apl.wiki/Trains00:16:59 Where: https://apl.wiki/Where00:16:59 Interval Index: https://apl.wiki/Interval_Index00:16:59 J forums: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Forums00:17:47 Over and Atop: https://apl.wiki/Function_composition00:17:47 Unique Mask: https://apl.wiki/Unique_Mask00:17:47 Under: https://wiki.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Under00:17:47 Obverse: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/codot00:18:21 APL2: https://apl.wiki/APL200:18:56 Tacit programming: https://apl.wiki/Tacit_programming00:18:56 Stencil: https://apl.wiki/Stencil00:19:49 History of Programming Languages: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/HOPL00:19:49 HOPL APL paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/338631900:20:30 Roger's presentation: https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.2.html00:21:57 Total Array Ordering: https://apl.wiki/Total_array_ordering00:21:57 Jay Foad: https://apl.wiki/Jay_Foad00:23:02 Structural Under and Mathematical Under: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/spec/inferred.html#under00:23:02 APL360 https://apl.wiki/APL36000:25:11 Tacit modifiers: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fork#invisiblemodifiers00:28:41 Henry on this podcast: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode-06-henry-richs-deep-dive-into-j00:30:14 HOPL video: https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.2.html00:31:26 J wiki: https://code.jsoftware.com00:31:41 Essays: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays00:31:41 Papers: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/00:36:47 Hook Conjunctions?: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Hook_Conjunction%3F00:38:54 Wikipedia contributions: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Roger_Hui00:39:37 Jim Brown: https://apl.wiki/Jim_Brown00:40:53 88 Hats: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/88_Hats00:41:39 Catalan numbers video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL275xqeqDUOiOQb8Vic-E_ocq10EC_ELQ00:43:44 Phrasal Forms: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/fork.htm00:47:06 Jokes We Told Each Other: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Jokes.htm00:50:49 APL Puns: https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2015/12/apl-puns/00:50:49 NASA oral histories: https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/SMD/MorrisonDD/MorrisonDD_5-9-17.htm00:53:14 Edits on tiny symbols: https://code.jsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Roger+Hui&namespace=6&tagfilter=&start=2021-07-12&end=00:56:31 Richard Stallman: https://apl.wiki/Richard_Stallman01:01:51 Paw and Hoof: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLDictionary1.htm#tab101:02:22 Log symbol: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Natural_Logarithm01:04:06 RIDE support for ``ewok ``wookie ``r2d2: https://github.com/Dyalog/ride/commit/d9e7d5c546c9951b2aaea9f7594150d04b2f81b9
Over the last ten years, the insurance industry has been utterly transformed by an array of technological advancements, but perhaps most profoundly by the amassing of publicly available digital data. It has quickly become apparent that such information can drive business intelligence, which can subsequently drive customer engagement, which in turn drives sales growth. Are you interested in the potential of data collection, analysis, and interpretation for your own business, but unsure of where to start? In this episode, we're excited to be speaking with Andrew Yates, Founder and CEO of Artesian, a business intelligence software provider. In conversation with Boston Tullis' Sarah Myerscough, he explains how data has redefined the buying cycle, the selling cycle, the customer journey, and customer expectations. It is this latter element which recurs throughout the episode, as Andrew explains how businesses must adapt to fulfil constantly evolving customer expectations in light of an increasingly digitised world. Quote of the Episode “We've got to be knowledgeable about our customer, we've got to anticipate their need, and we've got to be ready to guide them, but at the same time, there will still value in that interaction if we get that right… there's still no substitute for, you know, getting to know your customer and getting it right.” Despite his role as a leading digital business intelligence provider, Andrew Yates remains certain that a carefully designed and unique customer journey is essential for maintaining and boosting your sales. He advocates the utilisation of technology for learning all that you can about your potential customer, in order to immediately solidify your reputation as a well-researched and trustworthy business partner. Andrew argues that, given the development of social media and a breadth of online data providers, it is a fundamental expectation of all customers that you should be well-informed about them before even meeting them. Thus, he suggests that using the available technology to acquire and interpret such information is not only time-saving, but can also accelerate your sales. Key Takeaways Andrew suggests that the time for data conglomeration software such as that provided by Artesian isn't in the future – it's right now. Not only does this technology save time, but it also assists you in fulfilling the expectations of your current or potential customers. Therefore, in order to compete in the market, this type of data collection and interpretation will soon become vital. However, when you accumulate data, it needs to be carefully condensed and purified. Andrew compares it to crude oil, which only becomes truly valuable once it has been refined. This type of process is offered by services such as Artesian, which will become increasingly efficient in identifying important areas of consideration when forming new customer relationships in years to come. Andrew suggests that this data can become almost predictive, enabling brokers to be well-informed about companies or clients which will soon need to update their insurance, and act accordingly in a manner advantageous to both parties. Furthermore, this technology is easily accessible for an array of businesses, regardless of size or scope. Everyone can take advantage of it, and indeed, it will most likely become standard procedure across many industries over the next decade. Best Moments/Key Quotes “I expect someone that's trying to sell me a product or a service to have done the research on my company or me. I just expect that now… This is the now, it's not the future… you've got to kind of get with it.” “I remember having a conversation with a gentleman, and he was what you'd call an old school broker. I remember him getting really upset with me about this idea… He said, “We don't need to do research, we just build relationships.” And of course, he was right. But the beauty of what we do, and how simple we make that and how we make that work on an iPhone, is that anyone can take advantage of it. So, if you're running a successful regional, even dare I say, kind of lifestyle business, this is for you.” Resources https://artesian.co/ Insurance Insider article about the Superscript-Amazon partnership: https://www.insuranceinsider.com/article/2942huwbmlq6oncnfbpc0/amazon-teams-up-with-superscript-to-offer-insurance-to-uk-smes Artesian-DueDil Merger Announcement: https://artesian.co/artesian-duedil-merger/ About the Guest Andrew Yates is the Founder and CEO of Artesian, a sales intelligence solutions provider. The company recently merged with DueDil, a business intelligence platform focused on SME onboarding. He previously worked for Cognos, also a business intelligence software company which now a part of IBM. Andrew Yates' LinkedIn Profile: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/apgyates About the Host Sarah Myerscough is the Sales and Marketing Director of Boston Tullis Group. The founder of The Insurance Brokers Podcast, she brings a wealth of marketing experience and a fresh perspective on marketing in the insurance sector. Boston Tullis works with insurance brokers to offer solutions to business development ceilings, particularly in the rapidly developing fields of video marketing and thought leadership. If you would like Sarah to help you develop an integrated marketing strategy, using state of the art concepts, then please book a free 20 min call via Calendly. Website: https://bostontullis.co.uk/ Evaluation Link: https://s.bostontullis.co.uk/s/podcastevaluation
Walid S. Saba is the Founder and Principal AI Scientist at ONTOLOGIK.AI where he works on the development of Conversational AI. Prior to this, he was a PrincipalAI Scientist at Astound.ai and Co-Founder and the CTO of Klangoo. He also held various positions at such places as the American Institutes for Research, AT&TBell Labs, Metlife, IBM and Cognos, and has spent 7 years in academia where he taught computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, theUniversity of Windsor, and the American University of Beirut (AUB). Dr. Saba is frequently an invited speaker at various organizations and is also frequently invited to various panels and podcasts that discuss issues related to AI and Natural Language Processing. He has published over 40 technical articles, including an award-winning paper that was presented at theGerman Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2008. Walid holds a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science as well as a Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI/NLP) which he obtained from Carleton University in 1999. 00:00 intro 01:00 Language as a mental construct, PAC, Subtext in Sentences 06:28 OpenAI's Codex Platform, Below Human Baseline Performance of NLP 18:00 Comprehension vs Generation, Search vs Context 19:20 Sophia the Robot, Shallow ethics in AI and Commercialisation of Academia 27:40 Bad Research Papers, Facebook runaway train & AI Godfathers Cult. 32:30 AI leaders and Profiteering, Unethical Behaviour of Influencers. 37:50 Non-Verbal Component of Natural Language Understanding, Prosody and Accuracy Boost 41:33 Ontologik's NLU Engine, Adjective Ordering Restriction Mystery 43:58 Ontological Structure and Chomsky's Universal Grammar, Discovery vs Creation 45:31 Entity Extraction and How Ontologik's Engine tackles this Problem 47:50 Language Agnostic Learning, Foreign Language Learning, and Pedagogy of Linguistics 54:00 First Language, Blank State and Missing Sounds in Some Languages 55:20 Real-time Language Translation Engines, AR/VR Aids and Commercial Utility 01:01:00 Sentiment Analysis, Language Policing & Censorship 01:04:00 Ontological Structures, Gender Bias and Situational Paradox 01:09:00 3 Foods for Rest of the Life & Fad Food Indulgence 01:11:00 Inspiration for Getting into the Field, Career Ideals & Cultural Influence 01:15:30 Epistemology, IQ and The Bell Curve 01:17:00 Einstein's IQ, Haircut, Social Skills, and Success Rubric 01:22:00 Attracting Brilliant Talent Around the World, Ivy League PhDs & Standardised Testing 01:28:40 Unsupervised Learning, Accuracy & Comprehensibility in NLU 01:30:20 BF Skinner, Pavlovian Dogs, Skinner has been Skinned. 01:37:50 Human Behavioral Biology, Endocrinal System similarities with Humans yet they don't learn Languages. 01:45:30 Language as an expression of Genetic differences, Big Five & Phenotype. 01:49:40 IBM Watson Personality Insights, Text-based personality Inferences. 01:55:30 Long Short Term Memory Issue in Ontologik's Engine, Computational Complexity, Timeline for Release
Christoph ist Senior Inhouse Consultant für Business-Intelligence-Projekte bei der DB Systel, dem IT-Dienstleister innerhalb des Deutsche-Bahn-Konzerns. Seit nunmehr zehn Jahren beschäftigt er sich nahezu ausschließlich mit der wohl bekanntesten funktionalen Datenbank am BI-Markt: IBM Cognos TM1 (oder neuerdings Planning Analytics). Neben dieser Tätigkeit ist Christoph noch als Dozent im Bereich Business Intelligence an verschiedenen Hochschulen tätig und publiziert gelegentlich. In dieser Folge lernt ihr: • Warum man sich als TM1-Fanboy outet • Wie New Work in ein traditionelles Unternehmen passt • Wie Data Driven die Deutsche Bahn ist • Wie interne Projekte laufen
Hey everyone, today we are joined by one of the greatest minds in Marketing automation-- Pierce Ujjainwalla. Pierce started his career in lead gen at Cognos and IBM, working in some of the largest Salesforce and Eloqua instances in the world. He then spent a few years in startups leading teams that implemented instances of Marketo. Pierce has become a 4X Marketo champion and one of the first original champions, he's also a frequent speaker at the annual Marketo Summit. In 2013, he founded RevenuePulse, known today as one of the top Marketo agencies in the world. He's also the founder and CEO of Knak, an enterprise no-code email and landing page creation platform for marketers. He's recently also become a podcast host, launching the Unsubscribed podcast. He lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife and 2 kids. Fierce Pierce, it's an honor to have you on the Humans of martech!--Here's what we covered:Creation of Knak -- what problem did you see in the market?Email design -- is it truly the most difficult coding challenge? Why is it so hard to solve? How is Knak's approach to email difference and so compelling?Is no code the future of marketing? How can marketers prepare for this future? Creativity in marketing and how it is currently under attack?Email and landing page templates, and why they are dead? Drink your own champagne day at Knak. Unsubscribed podcastTalk to us about your process for booking guests on your show and your journey to becoming the Joe Rogan of Marketing podcasts. Knak pagesEarlier this year the team stepped out of just email land and entered the world of CRO and landing page building. Walk us through that big change in GTM strategy and how the new product adoption has gone so far?Knak released its annual email benchmarksTalk to us about the process of building that research and what we're some of the coolest insights?HTML in emailsOne of the longest standing debates in email marketing is HTML vs plain text. With huge research studies done by Hubspot promoting less HTML in your emails and tools like convertkit that (used to anyway) have a strong stance against html templates.Knak is a no-code email builder. Are most of your customers designing heavy html emails and do you disagree with the stance of going plain text over html?Last questionPierce, you're a founder and CEO, you run two companies, you're a prominent martech figure but you're also an avid traveller, you ski, golf, play hockey--you're a lawn care nut and you have two amazing kids…How do you find a balance between everything going in your life and how do you remain happy?--Pierce on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pujjainwalla/Pierce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marketing_101✌️--Intro music by Wowa via UnminusCover art created with help via Undraw
Anatoly Tulchinsky is one of those individuals in the data space who has got it all covered! Along with the full spectrum of technological knowledge, skill, and expertise, Anatoly accumulated extensive business acumen and industry knowledge throughout his 25 years of career. With his specialization in data monetization, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Anatoly has been working as Senior Director – Applied AI Solutions, Head of Data, Analytics & AI Practice at CGI. Established in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With a presence across 21 industries in 400 locations worldwide, CGI provides comprehensive, scalable, and sustainable IT and business consulting services. Before joining CGI, Anatoly worked on numerous top technology positions at SMITH, IBM, and Cognos. He is the key creator and patent holder for IBM Watson Analytics technology. He partnered with IBM Research and drove some of the latest innovations into the Watson Analytics product. Also, developed Watson cognitive assets that use machine learning to self-learn and self-optimized in real-time. At Cognos, he created and patented a unique model-driven approach for implementing and maintaining analytical applications, which generated $2.8 million in sales in the first year and $6.2 million in the second year. Anatoly holds a total of 16 product patents in use today. He also regularly speaks at global conferences and summits. In this exclusive episode, Anatoly shares with us some valuable insights on: Latest technologies in data analytics that are enabling multifaceted business use cases. Use of data in customer personalization in B2B and B2C. Analyzing customer behaviour patterns from the company perspective in the B2B space. Government of Canada Scale AI program for Industry innovation. Impact of the program on future generations and better business outcomes. How other governments can replicate the same results. A high-level explanation of the organizational data strategy for the C-level. Importance of data governance in the overall strategy. How large part of the data cleansing can be automated with technology invented by Anatoly for IBM Watson. Go to market strategy for digital products or SaaS – the four aspects to consider Using data and analytics to incorporate customer understating into developing digital products - moving marketing into product development. General AI vs Narrow AI and what lies in the future. If you are in the C-level or in a leadership role or you have a digital product in the market, this is the episode you should not miss. DataAnalytics, DataScience, BigData, ArtificialIntelligence, MachineLearning, BusinessAnalytics, CustomerExperience --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/analyticsshow/message
Dave Laverty has more than 30 years of marketing executive experience in hi-tech, which includes roles such as the CMO for IBM as well as Cognos. In this episode, Dave answers the age-old question of how to better align and marketing, and skills that CMOs, and really all marketers, need to know now more than ever. Key Takeaways: [2:55] What has stayed a constant in B2B marketing throughout the years? [4:10] Data gives us an individual look at our buyers and to customize relevant services for them. [6:00] Customized data is only going to get better with the introduction of AI and machine learning. [7:25] What skills do CMOs need today, more than ever? [12:40] What are some of the barriers to becoming a data-driven organization? [15:45] One thing that IBM does well is its brand perception and the value that they have in the market. [16:50] Brand and culture need to be one and it is the heart of what makes good companies great. [18:55] Dave notices that a lot of companies really struggle with alignment in their organization. [25:25] What smart questions should marketing departments be asking from their team/company? [30:25] How do teams bridge the gap between marketing and sales? [36:15] What advice does Dave have for new marketing leaders? [41:15] Put company strategy and your execution plan on a single page. [44:45] Get to know your buyer; when they go to bed at night, what’s on their mind? And how does your brand relate to their problems? [49:50] How did Dave go from C-suite executive to a board advisor? [54:10] Strive to surround yourself with smart people. [55:00] Be honest with your staff. If they’re doing a great job, let them know. Mentioned in This Episode: Demandspring.com Dave Laverty Dave on LinkedIn
Joe Koufman has always been a connector of people. In his 20+ years working in marketing and business development, he has built out a large and distinguished network of corporate and agency contacts.Joe founded Setup in early 2014 to help marketers level up. Today, Setup connects marketers with agencies, talent, and resources to fill gaps.Prior to founding Setup, Joe spent six years as SVP of Marketing and Business Development at Engauge (acquired by Publicis Group in 2013 and merged with Moxie), focusing on landing marquis clients such as Hershey's, Cisco Systems, AMC Theatres, Chick-fil-A, Newell Brands, and Turner Broadcasting. Before Engauge, Joe spent eight years leading strategic accounts for KnowledgeStorm (acquired by TechTarget in 2007) such as Computer Associates, Cognos (now IBM), and Oracle.In this episode, we discuss Joe's journey from managing big-brand retail to forming a business around his passion for matchmaking. In addition, he shares several entrepreneurial tips, including: (1) don't do it, unless you are 100% committed, and (2) find your tribe.
How to nurture an environment that leads to success! Mark Emond is the founder and President of Demand Spring, a B2B Marketing Consultancy. Prior to this he was a technology marketing executive with IBM, Cognos and Corel. Mark explains why having a great company culture is so important. We'll also take a look at his highest highs and his lowest lows along the way.
We’d all like to know the immediate future. Marketing veteran Darryl Praill predicts what will occur in the world of sales in this episode of Funnel Radio. This short episode is for C-Level executives, specifically sales managers and salespeople. About Darryl Praill Praill is the host of the hugely popular podcast, INSIDE Inside Sales on the Funnel Radio Channel. He also serves as Chief Marketing Officer of VanillaSoft, is a high-tech marketing executive with over 25 years’ experience spanning startups, re-starts, consolidations, acquisitions, divestments, and IPO’s. He has been widely quoted in the media including television, press, and trade publications. He is a guest lecturer, public speaker, and radio personality and has been featured in numerous podcasts, case studies, and best-selling books. Praill is a former recipient of the coveted Forty Under 40 Award and has held senior executive roles in leading companies including Sybase, Cognos (now IBM), webPLAN (now Kinaxis), and CML Emergency Services (now AIRBUS). He has raised over $50 million in venture funding across multiple organizations and consulted with world-class corporations including Salesforce, SAP, and Nielsen. He is a Computer Science graduate from Sheridan College. Funnel Radio Channel is hosted by James Obermayer, which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel.
When Mohit Daswani stepped into the CFO office of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based ThoughtSpot this past January, he ascended to something more than just another finance leadership position inside a SaaS start-up. Daswani was joining an influential class of CFOs distinguished by their ability to communicate a vision that connects not just with investors, but also with other CFOs. This is a cohort widely visible within the realm of business Intelligence, or BI, the space where finance leaders frequently shop for new technologies and tools to analyze their business data while surveilling the messaging of BI’s latest class of CFO thought leaders. From the perspective of ThoughtSpot, which raised $248 million in late-stage funding last August, the world of BI is now colliding with the world of artificial intelligence and moving the competitive state of play from visualization to real-time data delivery. “This is just a very different offering and value proposition from the current state of BI,” explains Daswani, who was previously the head of finance and strategy at payments company Square, Inc. “This is about giving business customers not just a static dashboard, but also the ability to query the data in real time and create a natural language search on the front end,” adds Daswani, who quickly lists Walmart, 7-Eleven, Celebrity Cruises, and Hulu as ThoughtSpot customers. For some BI watchers, Daswani’s arrival is a feat of fortunate timing, perhaps matched only by that of those executives who once occupied the CFO office at such companies as Cognos and BusinessObjects, the pioneering BI technology companies that many credit with having helped to launch the first big wave of wide-scale BI tool adoption. Then came Tableau, with its powerful visualization tools that indoctrinated even more CFOs into the ranks of the BI faithful. Acquired by Salesforce last June for $14.6 billion, Tableau was a property whose sale became a milestone that few BI watchers could ignore. Add to this, Google’s purchase last year of Looker, another visually driven developer, and it’s clear that visualization is now in BI’s arsenal, says Daswani. “If I’m a CFO or marketing lead, I no longer have to enlist a data scientist to go build a query or dashboard for me,” notes Daswani. “We're talking directly to that decision-maker and company and saying, ‘How do we make your life easier? If you're a CFO, you need to understand what's going on with working capital, because you're managing your cash flow. Let us make it easier for you to do that directly,’” reports Daswani, who these days is busy standardizing work flows and procedures in preparation for ThoughtSpot’s much anticipated IPO. “The Valley is building a lot of great companies right now. I’ve met with many of them over the past few years, but ThoughtSpot stood out for me in multiple dimensions,” says Daswani. Still, ThoughtSpot has company. Among those companies now amplifying the messaging behind BI’s next big wave to both investors and CFOs are Celonis, Sisense, and DataStax.
Cognos Analytics er IBM's AI-drevet business intelligence platform, der understøtter hele analysecyklussen, fra opdagelse til operationeliseringen. Bliv klogere på, hvordan du kan bruge det i dine projekter og hør også, hvordan Smukfest anvender Cognos Analytics til at få unik indsigt i realtid om købsadfærd på barer og restauranter, publikumssikkerhed og publikumspræferencer.
Cognos Analytics er IBM’s AI-drevet business intelligence platform, der understøtter hele analysecyklussen, fra opdagelse til operationeliseringen. Bliv klogere på, hvordan du kan bruge det i dine projekter og hør også, hvordan Smukfest anvender Cognos Analytics til at få unik indsigt i realtid om købsadfærd på barer og restauranter, publikumssikkerhed og publikumspræferencer.
Cognos Analytics er IBM's AI-drevet business intelligence platform, der understøtter hele analysecyklussen, fra opdagelse til operationeliseringen. Bliv klogere på, hvordan du kan bruge det i dine projekter og hør også, hvordan Smukfest anvender Cognos Analytics til at få unik indsigt i realtid om købsadfærd på barer og restauranter, publikumssikkerhed og publikumspræferencer.
Of course, marketers control the lead generation budget and this contributes to sales, but does marketing really control the wealth goals of the company? Darryl Praill, CMO of VanillaSoft and host of the popular Inside Inside Sales podcast says, “it depends.” They have the talent and the skills, Darryl says, but whether they have the will to use these is another matter. Ultimately, he says they are the builders of wealth, pound for pound when measured against the employee count of marketing versus that of sales. This statement can also be said of other departments, says Darryl, but marketing sets the strategic direction of the company, produces the product specifications that customers need, and generates demand. Darryl, however, still puts a “but” into the interview when he cautions that not every marketer is using their talents and skills as well as their competitors. About Darryl Praill Darryl Praill, Chief Marketing Officer of VanillaSoft is a high-tech marketing executive with over 25 years’ experience spanning startups, re-starts, consolidations, acquisitions, divestments and IPO’s. He has been widely quoted in the media including television, press, and trade publications. He is a guest lecturer, public speaker, and radio personality and has been featured in numerous podcasts, case studies, and best-selling books. Praill is a former recipient of the coveted Forty Under 40 Award, and has held senior executive roles in leading companies including Sybase, Cognos (now IBM), webPLAN (now Kinaxis), and CML Emergency Services (now AIRBUS). You may also like these with Darryl Praill on Inside Inside Sales The 4 Ways Buyers Are Evaluating You Karen Dunne-Squire and Darryl Praill Embrace the Suck Dale Dupree and Darryl Praill “How to Become Somebody that People Want to Buy From” – Anthony Iannarino Podcast and Darryl Praill About VanillaSoft VanillaSoft, the industry’s most successful sales engagement platform, helps sales development teams engage over 15,000,000 contacts every month. Used standalone, or in combination with existing traditional CRM systems, VanillaSoft empowers sales reps to respond to new leads faster, interact with leads more consistently, across more channels, and generate more qualified sales opportunities. Globally, thousands of users employ VanillaSoft’s queue-based sales engine and intellective routing to implement sales cadence automation resulting in substantial gains in speed-to-lead, persistency, productivity, and revenue-per-rep. VanillaSoft is a privately held company headquartered in Plano, Texas, USA. To learn more, visit www.vanillasoft.com. ___________________________________________ SLMA Radio is hosted by James Obermayer of Funnel Media Group which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel. Funnel Media Group is the sponsor of SLMA Radio
Gene Villeneuve is the Chief Revenue Officer at Tehama, a company that provides secure and compliant cloud VDI, enabling quick onboarding, managing, scaling, and auditing of global workforces. Gene has more than 25 years of experience in running large and small teams in companies such as IBM, Cognos, Business Objects, and OLAP@Work. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Management, Marketing, and Economics from the University of Ottawa. Gene joins me today to highlight the importance of securing your business in the cloud. He shares why small and large companies need to be proactive in protecting their critical assets. He shares how Tehama virtual rooms put a secure fence around your sensitive data, making it safe and accessible by teams anywhere in the world. Gene also highlights the damage a data breach can cause and how vital it is for companies with global workforces to protect their data. “Whenever you’re engaging people to work on mission-critical, data-sensitive systems, if they’re not in an enclosed space, you want to be able to engage those people in a way that’s extremely secure.” - Gene Villeneuve Today on I’m A Millionaire...So, Now What: How Tehama creates secure virtual rooms in the cloud to tackle cybersecurity. Understanding what deep forensic auditing is. How the geographic nature of teams requires cloud-based security. The typical client of Tehama. The damaging effects of data breaches. The pricing structure for virtual rooms. Why companies are hiring talent on a global level. Gene Villeneuve’s Fun Frank Advice for Self-Made Millionaires & Wealthy Families: Even if you are a small organization, Tehama can give you a solution that has no files on your laptop. When you log in to Tehama, you get access to all your files without risking someone accessing your data. Resources Mentions: Cybersecurity Theft, Threat, or Breach: Isn’t not IF, it’s WHEN. with Patricia McLeod, Corporate Director Cybersecurity: Is your business at risk? with Catherine Evans, Senior Vice President, National Cyber Practice Leader at Marsh Cybersecurity: Who is keeping Canada's internet safe? with Byron Holland, CEO of CIRA (Canadian Internet Registry Authority) Cybersecurity with a twist of Entrepreneurism & Employee Engagement with Mathew Lafrance, President & CEO of GRADE-A Connect with Gene Villeneuve: Tehama Pythian Gene Villeneuve on LinkedIn Join me for Elevated Conversations: Cybersecurity: Securing your Business in the Cloud Join me on October 16, 2019 at 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Eastern for the exclusive, invitation-only event: Elevated Conversations: Cybersecurity: Securing your Business in the Cloud with special guest, Gene Villeneuve, Chief Financial Officer of Tehama.io, to learn more about the cybersecurity landscape and how you can secure your business in the cloud. Email Colleen.Campbell@RBC.com to request your exclusive invitation today! Book Your Prosperity Discovery Session Today! Are you ready to double your net worth? Ready to create your roadmap to riches or get your financial life back on track? Join me for a Prosperity Discovery Session today! Let’s unlock your roadmap to riches so you can begin to live your life to the fullest. To book your Prosperity Discovery Session, email me at colleen.campbell@rbc.com to request a free questionnaire and let’s begin your roadmap to riches now! Spots are limited, so book your Prosperity Discovery Session today! Subscribe to the I’m A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast! Thanks for joining us for this episode of I'm A Millionaire, So Now What Podcast - the show bringing you inspirational stories, practical strategies, and fun, frank advice for self-made millionaires and wealthy families. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave a positive review. Don’t forget to share your favorite episodes with other wealthy families and self-made millionaires on social media!
Episode 25: IBM Cognos Analytics – a New Paradigm for Business Intelligence Guest: Gus Slaughter Back in the early 2000s Cognos was the leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms. In July 2008 Forrester Research recognized Cognos Business Intelligence as the most modern and scalable BI platform on the market. Cognos BI brought “pixel perfect” push and pull reporting to the enterprise on a robust platform that ensured data security and responsiveness, even with large numbers of users. Valuable as this is, businesses today crave ever-increasing levels of agility, and the old model of IT-maintained and administered analytics has given way to expectations of self-service convenience. In short: business users want to work directly with their data! New players have entered the BI market catering to these expectations, but finding the right balance between ease-of-use, technical skills and data integrity is not easy. In this week’s podcast Gus Slaughter, QueBIT Business Intelligence and Data Management sales lead makes the case for how IBM Cognos Analytics introduces a whole new paradigm for self-service BI, by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help business users bridge the technology gap in a variety of ways.
Todd LaFavers has been a long time solutions engineer in the data analytics space, from his days with Cognos, Oracle, and now ThoughtSpot. Todd spent part of his career focusing on value engineering, and has more recently become a proper “sales guy” at ThoughtSpot, both of which we explore in this episode.
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Pierce started his career at Cognos, which went on to be acquired by IBM. Pierce then joined two start-ups that both went on to have successful exits where he led and implemented Marketo. He then founded Revenue Pulse, a Marketo consultancy and Knak, a SaaS application for enterprise email creation.
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the network continues to grow the popularity continues to grow I checked out trays chow down again just as last week I'm a terrible cook you know this I'm getting a a nice girl sets a big green egg yeah green egg having him come in the worst on the grill but now I follow directions I can actually what makes food the people will eat not just the menagerie of animals that is charred remains and I you know is less easily but no it's is a lot of fun but Trey shot out is got great information check them out on the spinning networks money.com has a full lineup of his ally would be all the times that I realize there are a lot of people who catch the repeat go to spoony.com and you can see for all of the shows but definitely trays chow down where it finishes and where it re-airs throughout the week awesome the one of things only try with you okay right now just I realize I think one of the things we should do is continue to grow intellectually okay you know that I like to read the daily stoic every day they always have quotes from scholars Jeff Solomon read you a quote but I want you to tell me which scholars said this okay this sounds hard yes it's gonna be really difficult okay I am probably in the sky flying with the fish or maybe in the ocean swimming with the pigeons see my world is different I'll give you a hint okay who loves lasagna oh is this this is God belittling this little why I should've known that now yeah yeah I know that's good he had a real Jesus movement sounds like lasagna I got in real Jesus move in silence like lasagna yeah man I got as deep on lyrics sure that's funny so what do you what you are going on as best we can mass past weekend was the beer I have a stuff like essay on repeat but where were back into into basketball and hip so that a couple times I have said that 12 times the exact I know no doubt and debit actually this last Sunday because of basketball the boys missed they miss their traditional celebration with with mom so Marie and the boys went drove I went drove vast electric go carts which we are introduced to backhaul crewmen knock her out in California I think you may miss that woman I want to go with them in thesis racetrack called K-1 and I have one now here in Dallas and that means great they loved it K-1 the one that so I did one when I was it I was given a lecture at ECG I went to the morrow and ready one and it's it's basically a tract that has light turns that little beat dips up the down it's not just a straight flat what was this one that is deathly not flat but I don't think it has any bridge volley or anything else I can think it's all routine S-curve about it but it is deftly technical and of course the boys and Marie came back and they send in one's great number to their surprise at the max speed limit is 45 and Max said my youngest he said that's scary scary dad but nope I really want to be out jet when you were almost tight turns like that oh yeah yeah for sure so the great Mother's Day no not typical but really not typical she liked do I do things are adventurous so that was that it was deathly fun for them speaking of carts do you remember when our good friend Russ ironic Dr. Veronica San Antonio which were to be seen next week sure he called into the show when we were talking about Lou Gehrig's disease and you know the effect is that dying of that right one of his good friends their son was a go Carter like always the child became really good when on the circuit and now like races for Porsche no way is like a 18 or something cool scratches will tell Mac to stick with it just seemed it seems so hard and I know it's it's a career pathway that I'm completely ignorant to I don't know how they how they get to that point where was someone said when I want you to drive for my team even though I'm pouring millions of dollars in this car in for a crew and equipment etc. that just seems it seems while was not sunny like okay you look it's you wonder how people end up in certain sports like for instance Tim Duncan was when he was a swimmer yeah you know if Michael Phelps didn't jump into the pool what would you be doing in certain countries they certainly communist countries were back in the day when they would find Olympic athletes they would like looked like you you're to be a power lifter based on X, Y, and Z user to do this I don't know yet so that give you a Tim Duncan is doing now no I believe that he has been training as an MMA fighter post-NBA career no way I yeah I'm certain I read that somewhere but yet that's that's what he spends his time doing is its MMA training etc. mean so from awesome swimmer if I remember correctly story about Tim Duncan I don't think that he I think that he really played competitive basketball until was a very late team and then went on to and he and Junior hide in play and then he did start planes like his junior senior high school maybe I do it one time I don't member the whole sword hung up as I was we lived in San Antonio I saw San Antonio and I had the David Robinson and Tim Duncan team and they were just an incredible team to watch so focused individual for sure how you know what I did not tell you crazy story so you knew I was in San Antonio two weeks ago the family okay I taste funny story sup with a family and we use over and lift whenever we go on vacation it just it just takes away the anxiety of having to wonder where you can go and even though you may be familiar with and it was a town just is easier nobody can hop in a you joy your conversation you go out to eat happen to a new girl after something some kind of rideshare something like that well after one of the games we often do one of these ride shares and were going back to our hotel which is down in downtown San Antonio which is going through a great renovation of of Regent application and it didn't do a lot clean up I mean there's cities do that they Evan flow and San Antonio is kind of on the uptake right now so it is starting to really kinda come together but we stayed at this new hotel that just open nothing months ago and were making our way down the road and the traffic jam begins to kind of near Jack is bottlenecking because there's construction and we see seal vacationers tourists like to know what they are what parts on a cousin over in downtown will probably like Riverwalk area area now, probably like two blocks away from Riverwalk itself where where we are on the car but you can see tourists making their way to the Riverwalk area and I believe our hotel backed up to it so about 2 1/2 three blocks away from our hotel's hotels nice really nice well so on one side you see tourist making away on the other side you see where the the economic developer has a quite started but it looks like to get some preparations forward to redoing the road and there's just a group of just random folks I'm okay and one gentleman grabbed my attention because he stood out and is wearing on the tour side are only not on the terrace okay he looked like he knew where he was but not everyone else really knew if he knew where he was whole and he had a tie-dye shirt on and it was his kind dirtying in and tatted me up that happens on our tattered tatted but that tattered and I hit on some camo shorts and lots of keys like EEE can probably open up most of the doors and Senate just like on the changes this is a big ring and a Dave they look very noisy I can tell of it was that was an alert bell that he made for himself or he really had access to lots and lots of places but since we this gigantic ring of keys and he's kind of looking at some of the key master from the court or Ghostbusters it doesn't really matter and at this point he's looking it away and were stopped in traffic which is bottlenecked as a red light and he's, looking closely cars and then kind of checking them out now and I'm still not thinking too much of it but I did I just noticed you like holding keys up to I think this will work to put my name in there now it it it what wasn't quite like that but then suddenly he just decides to make his way in there's just these two trash cans there's a black one as a blue and but that they are identical and in shape and whatnot but it's the big metal was a kind bow out there there meant to be on the sidewalk easy for passage and you throw garbage and it will he walks past the black one with intent and then dips his head down into the blue which was the second with complete intent and he's only in there for half a second because he reaches in and he grab something right away so he it appears to me he knows this is in there and is he brings it up he's holding a handle and he's basically shaking off will looks like trash can juicer trash can do what I want to it's it's it's a really really rare fruit but and in most urban settings you'll find this this trashcan fruit in you and then you can squeeze the juice yes you can always squeeze the trashcan or as later my my my family decide that I think that's just blood because what it will hence was a no go was a hammer it was about 18 inches long and then he picks it up and looks at it turns it from side to side glances that all of the cars and then sets the hammer down and put his hands on his hips and so the key master of San Antonio yes nothing happened was trash Nancy standing there and then all of a sudden he just bypasses and realizes that he remembered where he left that hammer he said I guess he was in the marinating and I'm not really sure what was going on but it was read it was really interesting because then I found myself feeling like a fish in a fishbowl I we hopped out I don't know what we do and why is he looking at our car was he looking at the other cars what to do with those keys once you hammer how do you know is in there what's that juice so anyway I just I found myself wondering what puts someone in that situation but he had he had no conversation with anyone around it is probably 5 to 10 people walking passing by and then is he just kind of zoning out scanning vehicles watching them bottleneck he just decided well it's time on going to go ahead and pulled his hammer out and he didn't go and do anything with it he just stared at cars every set it down and then kept staring at the hammer and then staring at cars and then finally we moved hello you guys in traffic I saw is bottlenecked seriously in any way we we've gone from two lanes down to one but finally the light turned green and slowly we made our way and have I was happy-seemed like a bully expecting Russ to call in again like this will go much so here in San Antonio you know hammering like little back story here because words do filled in that or just maybe he's looking for a second nails I don't know he's looking for something it's given given the door to open given some construction project to do he's ready he's ready to build really quick that it's funny that you brought the goober live thing because on the news this morning they were talking about how certain industries just disrupt everything what we know that with completely disrupted the whole transportation sure catches whatever everything well because of the Over and lift drivers now in certain airports will do this in certain places this whole article came out about how at the Washington airport I think with the Reagan airport Washington broom lift drivers would get together and they would all turn off their apps for two minutes and what that would do is in the algorithm of bring with okay it would show that there is a lack of drivers in that area and increase the fair yeah so they were genius they would all do it together at the same time so that they could increase their fares you know how it says oh fair increased high-volume time it's a really highborn time that you have a lack of drive right and so they all get together it's technically illegal in the Buber and lift driver handbook handshake whatever it is the cheater there been other things that happened in Newbern lifts the would that be considered price-fixing I'm here 100% is considered price-fixing that means what would it be on the action of the other drivers are doing I'm just curious because their action at the one putting in the algorithm for the fair increase it's technically over and lift or any of the others who are doing that they are there calculating it by their scarcity so these drivers are just on their there free to turn their phones on and off the other actually saying that what the will do that but here's the here's the quote every night several times a night to relive drivers at Reagan National Airport simultaneously turn off the rideshare apps for a minute or two to trick the app into thinking that there are no drivers available creating a price search when the fair gets high enough they all agree it's time and they turn it back on so they probably are just sitting there searching to see what the cost is everybody sit there waiting and it's like old hold go to Braveheart and that's nice now that's really interesting but I mean if you think about it I mean that's that's the access that's it's the loop all right that's what everyone does they find loopholes they find it the path of least resistance there thereafter to make money I mean that's some of them that's that's their job that's just but it drives me nuts because I mean you know I've been to let conventions like that like natural Expo West or when thousands of people suddenly walked out of the building with some massive conference and you go to that group or a new light the fair just quadrupled oh yeah just coming that's nuts we've been that even the Lubbock and so I've gone out there to either sport and I met the one driver low but by the way the wind so I I've been out there for for game day now for it to take the ball game or even basketball and when it's not you want to take an Uber you can go from one side of town to the other it's very easy drive people drive friendly at their it's super super easy is never congested you can make one side of the other in about 10 minutes no matter where you are there may be $10 at most but on game day you can easily see it going just from being at the campus which is around the 4th to 19th area and then head over to 50th you may see the fair as much is 35 bucks just to get your going to meet people for for dinner whatever after a game but yeah that's I always wondered that because it's not it's done at the hard to hail the Uber why the fair increases it silly just because you can because that's really what it is why think I think it all comes down to that I think the algorithm sure that is basically there's a load a need or the drivers are being used up the fair will increase I think is to incentivize other drivers that are on break or whatever to down and out to get out and do that and I don't know I've never lived under the rug she had friends who been in between jobs and it's been it's been great for them to be able to supplement income is really some I don't know do do Cooper drivers airlift drivers get like in an alert that taxpayers are increasing they wanted turn your the cab I don't owe very much like John Wick with the assassins when the yeah they tell about the alert's time it's time to go back in business and help in my car so what what is happening in the Brown household at the moment well we got kind of proud of Lucas tonight he is being inducted into the national honor Society who is nice this is interesting right over here in Colleyville which means I don't have to go to farm and hang out here just work here in this lovely Fort Worth area no joke what I meant drag a five minute drive yeah it's nice for you Lloyd is complaining that it's at 5 o'clock in Colleyville and like to meet you there it's so proud little guy doing the title of the Internet and, she's she's been Judy named Shiva name to the list man so the school this public school the school that Carly goes to has some really smart kids and it is very proud of Carla she got always wish of this presidential award right and they gave always other awards and this is it the school goes up to the eighth grade and one of the awards that they gave was the when Duke invites kids to take the SAT tips five tips are some general but it's the real SAG that I get in there put the same pools although the high schoolers they had at the school seventh and eighth graders they had like 12 of a score over the 95th percentile 95th percentile compared to high school senior US why probably US white while yeah that's why I'm so proud of of my daughter for you and straight A's in school that is academically extremely competitive wow well that's that's just a curiosity so I your and your oldest Lucas he's been doing home so now for this last year so that he could do the touring that he needs to do for tennis house that has a working out for him both working out that's why were doing this over here it's actually considered great by public school but does everything online) it's just because of his schedule it's just one of those things you can't miss is what schools he doesn't so great I call it was actually pretty well known throughout Texas for their curriculums that's really interesting they seem really innovative account on top of it it's a little so far it's worked really well in ways they don't like it and that's also siding the usual stuff so I think next year when he goes to high school he's going to try and integrate himself a little bit with some of the extracurricular type stuff but there's something that will and in that makes sense though so he can be he would be involved kind in the club activities of people his own peers and have some more social interaction but it's not like you didn't have any this last year he's got on me I hear you bring it the same names over and over again that is a tennis cohort said he sees on the road Weatherby from the West Coast or down to Florida he just sees them sets kind of his colleagues the moment it's pretty much the colleagues I mean everybody get out to some of the basketball menu guys do is run these different circles and sure you know you just end up becoming friends the parents become friends know the boys liked (different ages notes it's the beauty of life just can't get yourself exposed to get out there little bit speak of exposed your boys are not should say speaking of exposure that's all that is all right yeah well I was always dance up that I had a great time seeing your family at generosity feeds once told him about the man Ronco blending while huge contact that we met out at dead baby bathwater and note big shout out to Hollis Mladic for knowing exactly who to who would include net group so ill for the listeners Dr. Brown here is he doesn't say to himself as one of the most altruistic people without ever saying it and basically we took the company they were starting here we have that I don't have the sick as I have it tattooed on my lower back but debit for the CBD and the research and are trying to heal we always want to find the best avenues to give back to the public and sometimes weekly letter window when we do it sometimes we don't but this last week it was really cool we get to talk about a little bit because it took a lot of pictures and his generosity feeds and Rocco Bundy with mod pizza they go to a lot of different urban areas I think almost every weekend and they recruit people to come in and pack meals in this last Saturday it was Saturday Saturday yeah we we packed 11,000 meals for needy children in 44 minutes 44 minutes in the DFW area what something I did not know is that one in five kids the only food that they get is actually at school in certain in certain urban areas because of the the lunch program that's the only meal that they get so that they may go the whole weekend without food that's what this is for us to stick food in their backpacks so that they can eat there was a really cool thing and actually when I was even also equally impressed with was the quality of the ingredients they were pulling out to make those suits that were on the go that it wasn't just beans and it wasn't just beef it was high quality beef broth Max etc. they they want to feed the kids a nutritious meal when not to say hello a look we give them some rice the complex Caritas like that you have the protein you've got a the rule base for the libido fat that's awesome was I totally agree and pack and that those you are doing doing charity like that once in a while just remind you that there there are people out there that are quiet but they may not be getting the the basic needs of life that it was it was a lot of fun Ron thank you so much for the invitation and of course he's he's been a great template on showing us what we can do to engage in more charity getting back with the companies and we we plan to take full opportunity to do so that was a quick half-hour next time I will 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a huge discount you to save money right there your home your phone for you looking at what I'm laughing because remember okay the top of the hour I said I want to be more intellectual with you which scholars said I'm probably in the sky fly with the fish or maybe in the ocean swimming with the pigeons Jesse my world is different I give you a hint that I said has something to do with lasagna will my wife Loida just texted me and she said with that I thought it was Garfield legal scholar Garfield right you actually probably on equal footing just in two different ways I got the logical thing to say he did a political basis is a lazy cat what you think about that is that is AAA really really lazy cat that made his own cartoon no being that lazy is pretty successful towards Casca but you know you're not lazy I know you have a research topic that you want to get to I do want to get to that but first I want there's some cool stuff that's happened in the news recently I was forwarded an email that House Bill 3703 in Austin patients will now be able to have access to the states medical marijuana program if they been diagnosed with medical seizures multiple sclerosis terminal cancer incurable Alzheimer's Parkinson's Huntington's autism and Lou Gehrig's disease and we we often talk about Alzheimer's Lou Gehrig's disease and autism we talked about that a lot so this is this bill did pass in Austin yesterday I think is what passed those pretty one thing the people were little upset about is that they did not allow PTSD which is honestly very very common but PTSD know that is interesting do you think that what number one the exclusion of it it just this is a unique to the medical field either legislators are elected to make these decisions don't you think it's kind of strange though that probably there's a lack of expert opinion in helping shape things and applied to someone who would have the knowledge to do that you got elected person who has any idea what their background is in essentially they are the ones determining what the best sciences to make a decision for who can have access to something so I had a patient that is a patent attorney and there's some patent laws that her changing and she got together with a bunch of other patent attorneys and other offices and they got hold of the senator into I think I would get this wrong but basically to have a lunch with him to explain why the bill that's presented is not a good one and it will lead to patent issues Robert has a little date they hide stuff and that it cost like $50,000 to have lunch with oh my educate go to okay yeah but I mean what is the money go to the coast to the campaign or to go through whatever but the whole point is is who gets to the person that makes the vote just as make sense it's that's tough and you know the whole PTSD thing that's what my actual article is on but it's it's pretty thick it's pretty cool to get into that but there's a reason why I really do think that we need other treatments for these diseases that right now in the medical field we don't have good treatment for and people are self-medicating all over the place onto a quick story before you get that research his adjuster mommy and I did not share this with you this last week but you know that I do I blocks for another friend of mine now ophthalmologist Dr. Rogers Eckhart fantastic out the mobs by way of indenting so we had a patient who came in older German served Vietnam service country proudly he's basically been relegated to the VA for his his healthcare to get chronic pain my pain issues this particular patient did and he came in with some bad pain so he couldn't get under control and the person overseeing his care at the VA has determined now that he will not refill the OxyContin or wherever he was on I can't protect which one it was a HUD known size hardcode on hydrocodone that he was currently on he's not getting any more because they felt like it it it kept increasing hey base was getting diminishing returns they just are stopping it for a while will basically what that did is it allowed his blood pressure to increase to Heinz where we could do the procedure so this poor man it is relying on the VA etc. he begins to pour his heart out to me says I've gone to the VA I tell them I am in pain and they're telling me that all I'm trying to do is raise the dose I have no interest in quota quote being high or anything else like that and then he went on to tell me something did just Kelly shattered and shatter me when I hear you talk about the marijuana lawn it's great that they're opening up access but he went on to tell me that 3 1/2 years ago he had gone out of state to Colorado with his family and was able to obtain marijuana legally in Colorado and that his pain threat or is is obtained for the threshold I guess technically in his in his description, went up the threshold went up and the pain went down any had great comfort he was able to sleep for the first time and will able to go to the bathroom without issues and so when I hear that and he returns here and he said he was then worn by the VA when he began to talk to his doctor about it if he were to test positive he may be kicked out of the availability to get his hydrocodone here while he still in Texas it just what what kind of service are we allowing these people to get this poor man now he couldn't get his it will be good to scatter so I mean if you stop and think about that this is the problem when I went to medical school we were told you can you have to know one of the five things you have to make sure that you take care of it's a vital sign pain is now vital sign I what is your pain level if you're if you have somebody was in pain you are obligated to treat that paint and we were told that don't worry you can get people Vicodin all this other stuff because is always a real pain there will be no addiction issues that is not true not true at all we learn that one like right now were still learning it that's also excited to see that Denver at least decriminalize the use of soul Sieben yeah because there are trials going on right now silicide is extremely effective in PTSD and you and I had a long talk with Dennis McKenna right and that psilocybin is the actual molecule bits and mushrooms the people described as mushrooms the hallucinogenic mushroom but that civil Sieben really does some interesting neurologic stuff and somebody was a huge part of that is Joe Rogan Brian I was listening to item number which one it was Joe Rogan was on and that they kept talking about doing suicide and in various doses and how micro-dosing is actually something that a lot of people are doing a lot of very successful CEOs are doing so it was with Jorge my hospital is an MMA fighter name in MMA fighter they were talking about where Jorge did some bro science it took a little too much mushrooms is pretty funny episode but I always get back to this we we create this problem and then what would you do is were just going to say no not to give you anymore because we know like almost everything else that you take caffeine included I can have 67 cups of coffee and I'm perfectly fine because I drink a lot of coffee my receptors down regulate the response to which that's can happen with opioids this can happen with everything and when somebody needs more to achieve the same pain level is not necessary that the third seeking more for the addiction property you literally will start having pain at the same dose I have to keep going up and then we withdraw people get into note they go through withdrawal it's a legitimate addiction go through withdrawal and then nearby Gustavus of compensatory mechanisms that basically just like this gentleman was experienced with high blood pressure now we can't his vision now suffers his quality of life is going down because he's in chronic pain he's having to be wheeled around by his daughter it's in she's in tears as were saying it's just not safe to do your eye right now we wanted someone so badly to do it but high pressure hi ocular pressure and blood pressure can lead to a rupture and then he would just lose vision in his eye altogether so unfortunately we had to just reschedule high blood pressure due to withdrawal symptoms distribute an anxiety component to maintain component to it and when you say that you can't sleep sleep is the most important medicine the one thing if I can get one thing for all my patients to do get a good night sleep because so much stuff goes on that heals your body that makes you better while you can sleep so that's one of the reasons why I'm so adamant that when we launch this health box the D had health box you we will make sure the people can heal their brains get some sleep there to have more energy all of it works together if we can get people feeling better definitely and hereby to touch on that PTSD did it before you get to that hinge is one second one more thing on the veterans here's what I think some people forget whenever the federal government prevents us from doing research on a particular substance it's just that means there is no innovation it's really legally allowed to be had so keep in mind that most of the movement for us to move forward to have evidence-based practice or protocols I should say using medical marijuana helping states like Colorado and California kind of set us on the track way were we can start looking at THC and other substances came from Israel because we prevented it from happening here but they were specifically interested in taking care of people that serve their military which is everyone has to do two years over there we should be taking better care of our veterans here they have sacrificed their time and for the most part several years of earning power to simply serve their country and it just doesn't make sense that when it comes time to take care of them in and I'm in a situation where they are in direct need and we've essentially used them as a country to serve us why we turn them away it just doesn't make sense that we did that's that's the system that they have to exist we were talking there is a friend of mine and Rich Hagedorn out of vogue in Omaha Nebraska one from the date he's part of founding member of soldier Valley spirits words they actually get proceeds to veterans so they got their own there making different whiskeys winning awards doing that kind of stuff and they give a certain percentage all the time to our veterans which is cool and it's only veterans that work so super cool I wish to have them on yeah I know he's really really really funny guy super high-energy two quick things on the opioid thing To do so in the news yesterday that a small study came out oh New York Northeast I can't remember see it's not ethical is Mount Sinai I think him on Mount Sinai where they took a small number of people that were heroin addicts and they actually gave them marijuana okay CBD CBD I hope to see I haven't read the article just on the news I want I need to get that article and they it really helped with OP addiction so we got that question brought up in one of the shows about does does CB do you know you always be careful about making claims but when a study comes out because I'm not making a claim I'm referring to the study the study showed that they were able to get some of these opioid heroin addicted people off of heroin using CBD now I did not see it but it does sound incredibly annoying but that's just have to be no topic for a show to follow up with because I don't know but it sounds incredible and just think four years ago that kind of research wouldn't exist certain that stateside no effect on the news director talk and that most of the research coming out of Israel or Canada now now since Canada's the get into a little bit direction looking at it what was the name of the person that emailed you about have you ever heard of narcotic bowels that was David David H LLC last name on it that's what something you give me permission to do but to David and what he did as he specifically brought them into our attention at David thank you this was an awesome email basically saying that articles date back to 1987 and then several of them the NIH has posted two articles on it and then nine 2007 they were even revised in 2017 and it's a condition called NBS or narcotic bowel syndrome just like I Dr. Brown said coming there's a there's actually a lot of legitimate research that behind it and his his claim here is by physicians and pharmacist are completely unaware of it even being a problem but I mean you are you being a G.I. maybe you did know by this moniker but you kinda seem the symptom occur I have I've had a couple patients and you're almost chasing me almost on the acculturation of the Dragon because this is fascinating you can be taking opioids for let's say back pain the motor vehicle accident you get the chronic back pain drawn opioids and a very weird thing can happen this narcotic bowel syndrome actually when you're on opioids it can actually change the motility of the intestines and we know that which is motility you can allow bacteria to grow which means you can have more gas produced and it actually causes something called hyperalgesia so your visceral sensitivity goes up in a paradoxical way song to say this again you take opioids for back pain but your gut actually ignores the opioids and hurts worse so I've had people on opioids and they look like their pain seekers is like my belly really hurts and you realize we could get you off these opioids and that's what I've done with about four patients the whole point was trying get them off cold and in the medical terms called opioid induced hyperalgesia so it's a characterized by paradoxical response people that are getting opioids suddenly now what's interesting is that doesn't just happen in the gut we have a term for there is a possible tapping other places in your body words like oh now this art will all be lowering the pain threshold in other places where what happens what happens acutely and that in hospital course would be blood have too many opioids one of the first things I complained about it it almost always starts with the nose but it can spread out to the body that's the itching you have had this conversation before many times the first thing that's prescribed to them is Benadryl and unfortunately it's not a histamine mediated itching response at all that will do nothing you need to use unfortunately to offset the opioid drug yet to get a opioid mix agonist antagonist did like it like a new vein or something like that to make the itching stop because the Benadryl simply will just stop histamine makes him tired so that it is fall asleep itchy and you not really doing anything unfortunately it can take someone to another state where since the opioid suppress respiratory drive and not being awake actually will drive down your respiratory rate as well that's a natural response that you get rest so it's just a bad combination Ali around when especially when in today's day and age mostly outside of anesthesia trained people the first thing people reach for is not an all an opioid agonist antagonist to handle it when you and I had a conversation first I thought of I was an intern in San Antonio how about 2 AM called by a nurse we give this patient's pain medicines and I was itching everywhere 0.5 Benadryl what he is normally your intern I learned something early on this is advice to anybody that's doing a career when you find someone who's been doing it a lot longer knew no matter what their title is listen little. I've always so we had to rotate with the military in the military you know if you go in as a doctor you automatically going as a captain so your officer right but you do whatever that master sergeant says yeah so I made my life real easy but when I was at the VA in the ICU I would just I would defer to the nurses that were there for 30 years be like you teach me even do a little longer I've been here a week elevating that eight years but you're exactly right maybe we we didn't want us coming up through the anesthesia training I can remember you would have's fantastic scrub techs have done lots more hearts and I had time and they were there great onset of ALU but you just listen to them because they help you but it makes sense so when I first came in the practice of I was doing a lot of L2 lot ERCP's at medical city Plano :-) RCB is yes it's where it's it's called an endoscopic retrograde calendula pancreas talk big sculptors through the scope that you just go down like an endoscope and you go up into the liver and into the Pancras thank goodness it was fun at that time it was that Dr. my partner Dr. Goldschmidt and now we have Dr. Ackerman who are both experts in it so as it turns out it's a skill yeah but the more you do the better you get but is pretty funny because the ERCP team that was there you know I'm your new and you try to act like you know what you're doing and you like to know get me the jagged whatever and something else but you had a thousand hot water so I was always trust in this nurse had he has been there forever and he would hand me the stuff and he's hilarious is from the Philippines get a real call nature and so what you do is you get into the you get into the bile duct and you cut so you can pull stones out and do stuff like that and Moses said I no longer do ERCP skills we got better experts doing it but I'm doing it and I'm making this cut and I look over at Henny and I'm like that's that's good right knee goes I think you need a little bit more and know it in the just red blood everywhere you go Steph was too much but in the next hour trying to stop the bleeding sores like that run like yeah well you ask the experts are there for a reason people to specialize and thankfully they do give enough time to tackle this will I just want to bring up another interesting news stories uncovered were kind of all over the map here but a story just came out today a woman from Greenville South Carolina is suing Burger King because she claims that she was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome after suffering symptoms since eating improperly cooked food at the restaurant she's asking for $330,000 for medical expenses missed work medication gas mileage as well as public embarrassment excessive weight loss and additional damages while all I mean a lot of different things to think of their I may not obviously probably most fast food I don't want to name Burger King specifically the probably most fast food is not the best kind of food to eat but I think most of us should know that I now what he think well what I think is really interesting to me is that we know that 20% of people that have a gastroenteritis no matter what the cause of right May not a big burger again maybe it was whatever the matter what the cause 20% of them will actually develop a disk motility meeting your intestines will not move very well allow bacteria to grow and then you suffer all the symptoms what is striking is she's been doing this for years was several years before that she said that this happened in she was then labeled as debt as irritable bowel that's lysine clinical the time literally all day long people, no I meant I was perfectly fine I traveled somewhere and I came back we talk about veterans there's a lot of people that when they do a tour someplace else they get sick select 20% of the Dr. Mark Pimentel I still think he's doing the study is doing a study on veterans a comeback and the burden of irritable bowel syndrome people get labeled is actually something fixable and that's how we develop ultra until summer in the story and I'm like I was poor woman just a doctrine to yeah ors I fax and depending on what type of bacteria is an ARM is going to call an audible here I think we had to move your study to that to the next half hour so we have enough time that takes me to another topic one of the places that actually carries her KB ending CBD had a question and she her name is Jacqueline up in Oklahoma and she was asking me what is the connection of why people may suffer insomnia and I'm I know you have talked about a couple different mechanisms mechanisms but also thought about another one I want to run this by you so whenever we have inflammation some a marker histamine right so histamine of courses is something that basically races whenever we have cutting abrasion we have in it an insult we can have history right this minicourse is one of those that works in awake center that keeps us awake so if we have chronic inflammation just like we were talking a while ago when you give someone Benadryl they don't necessarily need it you're blocking histamine they get tired if you have chronic inflammation you have this you have a meta-chemical messenger in your body that circulating that your body is producing being histamine making you stay awake and alert because technically your body thinks it's under distress needs to go and do something about it so until you can basically control and slow down inflammation and get some level of handle on that it would seem yet another natural reason why it would make sense to have a healthy Indo cannabinoids system to slow down the histamine response so the you don't have over information yet and I think it's it's that such is his remember the histamines be released by the mast cell right and that's part of a cascade of inflammatory markers there's all kinds Tina fell for aisle 12 mile 23 all these things were learning more and more about and last week was a little bit before we discussed how when you have leaky gut you can have leaky brain your blood brain barrier action becomes permeable to these inflammatory molecules these inflammatory molecules can then reside in the hippocampus which is your sleep center and you don't sleep well and then it becomes this horrible cycle which many Americans are actually a stress is a good thing acutely acutely rise your body adapts to chronic stress no that's really were talking about we just talked about the gentleman that was that the VA chronic pain chronic inflammation chronic stress that's that's the problem stressors are not bad at all when you work out to grow muscle you if you think hard and then you take of you know you rest and then your brain rearranges but I like the histamine example only because for some people that are new to learning why inflammation may be tied to their insomnia most people have at least either experience or had a close one experience taking something like Benadryl diphenhydramine and they get sleepy it's because you're blocking histamine but it think of the thought about that and I guess with your anesthesia training you certainly are much more knowledgeable about the depths of sleep and the stages of sleep and things like that because you have to make sure that somebody doesn't run away bad bad luck there is that's so funny you're going on this route this morning when I was working out I was listening to I listen to a podcast called health hacker members name but he had his guess today was a MD called Dale Broadus he wrote a book it's all about preventing Alzheimer's so Alzheimer's and dementia is becoming one of the leading causes of burden on the US and death and all the stuff she showed something which is really interesting bit typically in the US we start becoming ill around 40 restart in diagnosed with chronic illnesses in the UK it's around 50 so what he was saying is that we may be living long but are six times longer here which ultimately the longer your sick so if you have chronic diabetes if you have sleep issues if you have all the stuff you decrease BD NF which is a substance that cleans up your brain and what he saying it was it's a very interesting podcast is basically everything you said you need to fix your gut you need to sleep well need to protect your brain all those things that we always talk about because this is the burden it's going to happen if you don't do those things properly and he was talk about doing a like this cog not Skippy the colonoscopy to do a Cognos copy periodically you go in and you check different markers insulin levels hemoglobin A-1 C and things like that in a bunch of others but I thought it was just an interesting term I think your parents called us to be like that we don't think any of going in and having a colonoscopy because now it's normal for everybody at one time it wasn't we should be doing Cognos could be in trying to alter the course what interesting well it's a really cool idea especially if you could tie it back to what the cause was what causation was met with the that's exactly was talking about unfortunately you have pain I give you opioids let's go back to the root why do you have the pain man there is the music hey that was at its first hour of getting project episode 12 in the books like us and share on iTunes and on YouTube we will be back in just a moment this is the only 24 hour take anywhere platforms dedicated for food and fun we're spooning our town hall.com, there are downed trees and power lines homes and businesses damaged or destroyed after tornadoes right parts of Missouri overnight they capital Jefferson City was hard-hit often Thompson lives there and says his apartment complex suffered heavy damage through formal offices all look over the one billing that may save one story and I willingness to story this one going one story now my building my room every PC rocket windows blown out a tornado killed three people in Golden 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me thinking about how you saw that guy in San Antonio with all the keys and he just walked up to the trash cow handout cameraman cameraman and you're trying to do a back story for likewise he otherwise indicates why you will regret it now I doing other things I want to tell you a story and then I want you to tell me the back story okay okay this is an NLP exercise whose Robert Seale Dany Michael Barnhouse stuff yeah signed neurolinguistic programming and what that is certain words or certain sounds are certain memories will create emotions around this time okay I just want to back so I just want to know what's actual happen you sitting there and out of nowhere a woman runs up to another woman and slaps her that's it tell me what happened to me why Tillie what's going on with that scenario well I can't believe you don't remember because the woman that was sitting there had basically commandeered the other woman's vehicle from Walmart and had parked it in the wrong spot and it was totally and the woman came in and did the slapping told her that he I think you forget the you were on a boat in Africa oh that slapping yeah yes that slapping incident yet that was the woman who was supposed to fed the lions but because she didn't the woman he came in and slapped her family was bit by few liens and that she was upset that since the one who just sitting there didn't feed them she basically allowed the lines to go hungry and they went after humans wow that so it's because somebody did not do their job properly and that affected her so she was slapping her out of revenge he has a sad day that everybody was okay but you know it's it was very scary interesting nice boat ride out thinking I would I do remember that so that that is your take if you ask a bunch of people gotten you get all different kinds of sorrows yours interesting with the with the.feeding the lion of the lining to the people that's convinced but yours is a story of basically it's of violence right what really happened is that you are on a boat in Africa a mosquito landed on the cheek and she went over and killed the mosquito because that is a malaria infested area and she saved her life it wasn't a violent act she was actually protecting that woman so there's two things of this number one the neurolinguistic programming your prior history of anything like that filled in the gaps right if you're in that area and you witness that you probably think old the woman will save the woman's life sure because we can't have the mosquitoes passing malaria anyway you told it out I immediately place them into an adversarial role between each other no doubt I was doing a NLP lecture which is with this came up and the guy actually open the lecture with that just I just for listeners I had no idea what he was going to tell me to step down, that you just left field which is all about that leads into something super super cool okay so today the story came out about malaria I and for the first time ever a vaccine is been developed okay so were sitting here were like malaria whatever malaria affects nearly half the world's population and a new vaccine may be able to actually stop us and save millions of lives and malaria is one of the reasons why certain countries can't get out of economic crisis because it kill so many people kill so many kids it's super scary I didn't mean one site and I was thinking about it because the NLP story exactly that with the guy said in the lecture by and then I read this article malaria no like others fits perfect and your data into your hammer man story malaria really is humanity's curse we don't think about it in the US but it kill so many people in fact when you look at the world's dangerous animals like always but homes yes mosquitoes only one yeah mosquito rains me they kill more people because of malaria then every other thing that's out there job and about volunteerism when people go to Africa and they you can take I think it's an antimalarial pill I don't know about it but I know that you basically stock up on it and then you take it and then you go and then one of the most important pieces of equipment is the mosquito nets around where you sleep so that you don't get malaria but before you get really deep in their always wondered of taking care of the few young kiddos who had sickle-cell anemia here stateside and usually not not a good situation and but that being said if sickle cell anemia they think was an adaptation mutation so that humans could survive that's an exposure to malaria epigenetic thing where you're at in the environment your genes turned on so that if if you have sickle cell I wondered is the survival from malaria it does do that offset like if if those same kids were exposed to true malaria with that allow me to have a never and never quite figured out why the adaptation is so beneficial because in most cases not every case but in most cases the lifespan is rather short do you know what is really cool is if you get an international infectious disease doctor start asking questions like that it's really wild especially if they get an epidemiology background as well right so you got an ID that deals with stuff like that and they can explain that's a little bit out of the scope of my medical practice not interesting thought but it's fast and because this up I guess in Afr
Bobbie Carlton Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights and Innovation Women, has been called Boston’s Innovation Den Mother and the Startup Fairy Godmother. She’s an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. She speaks regularly on marketing, public speaking and women’s issues. Her humorous approach and fiery “let’s make something happen” brand is supported by the real world results she helps drive: 1200+ new products launched, $3B in funding, and 1000+ women speaking at conferences and events. Currently a “parallel” entrepreneur (instead of a serial entrepreneur), Bobbie has spent the last 10 years building her own businesses as well as supporting client and community efforts. Previously, in addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, she headed global PR at Cognos and PTC, both publicly-held enterprise software companies. In 2006 she switched gears, joining a startup focused on supporting self-esteem and positive role models for preteen girls through a social network and book series. In 2010 she was called one of the “ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community”. She’s also received numerous professional awards: Marketing Sherpa Viral Campaign of the Year, several PRSA Silver Anvils, Mass High Tech All-star, Boston Business Journal Woman to Watch, PR News Gamechanger award and Boston’s “50 on Fire.” Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC @MassInno @WomenInno or @CarltonPRM Listen to another #12minconvo
Bobbie Carlton has graciously offered Resiliency Ninja listeners a 25% discount on their annual membership to Innovation Women. www.innovationwomen.com Use the code NINJA On the heels of International Women’s Day, Bobbie Carlton and I talk about the gender gap in the professional speaking industry. Even in 2019, corporate event planners are defaulting to mainly male agendas and aren’t sure where to find qualified, dynamic female speakers for their events. Well, there are thousands of us and Innovation Women is one place to find a listing of professional female speakers. Public speaking is a key factor in advancing your business and your career, but fewer women get asked to speak and more women turn down invitations. Women are often in the dark about how the professional speaking game works. Connect with Bobbie and I on social media and let us know: Why are men still dominating the professional speaking industry? What can we do to balance the gender gap? Here’s a formal bio on Bobbie Carlton: Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights and Innovation Women, has been called Boston’s Innovation Den Mother and the Startup Fairy Godmother. She’s an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. She speaks regularly on marketing, public speaking and women’s issues. Her humorous approach and fiery “let’s make something happen” brand is supported by the real world results she helps drive: 1200+ new products launched, $3B in funding, and 1000+ women speaking at conferences and events. Currently a “parallel” entrepreneur (instead of a serial entrepreneur), Bobbie has spent the last 10 years building her own businesses as well as supporting client and community efforts. Previously, in addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, she headed global PR at Cognos and PTC, both publicly-held enterprise software companies. In 2006 she switched gears, joining a startup focused on supporting self-esteem and positive role models for preteen girls through a social network and book series. In 2010 she was called one of the “ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community”. She’s also received numerous professional awards: Marketing Sherpa Viral Campaign of the Year, several PRSA Silver Anvils, Mass High Tech All-star, Boston Business Journal Woman to Watch, PR News Gamechanger and Boston’s “50 on Fire.” Follow Bobbie on Twitter as Twitter.com/BobbieC Twitter.com/@MassInno Twitter.com/@WomenInno Twitter.com/@CarltonPRM We'd like to be able to offer a discount to an Innovation Women membership. Get the first year for 25% off (normally membership is $100/year) by using the code NINJA (all caps) on the website. Sign up at InnovationWomen.com and use the code inside to Become a Speaker. Members get invitations through the site as well as a weekly email with more than 100 speaking opportunities they can apply for. Connect with me, Allison Graham at: www.r-ninja.com https://twitter.com/allisondgraham https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisongraham https://www.instagram.com/allisondgraham http://a.co/d/aNNhV1I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to 10x the impact financial auditors can make, and my guest is Robin Grosset, CTO at MindBridge Ai.Robin has a track record as an entrepreneur having worked in and founded successful software startups. This resulted in him joining IBM in 2008 through the acquisition of Cognos, where he was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer. He has over 20 years commercial experience in the field of Business Analytics. He was formerly the technical lead and chief architect for Watson Analytics, a ground breaking cognitive analytics system. Robin holds many patents in the areas of analytics, data processing and security. Today he leads the development of the next generation MindBridge Ai Auditor that helps professionals detect and prevent financial anomalies, including fraud. He’s created a vision around Human Centric AI, and shared that vision recently at TEDxOttawa.This triggered me, hence I invited Robin to my podcast. We explore the challenges in the financial auditing practice, and how, even after decades of automation, much of the practice is still very manual and sample based, leaving huge opportunities for fraud. Beyond that we discuss why a human/machine approach will always provide the optimal combination to create exponential impact. Here are some of his quotes:T“The existing ways that people were analyzing or auditing financial transactions were inadequate.So typically they would use rules based systems to do this.With the rules based system, you're only going to catch something, you're going to find something that you anticipateSo, you have to imagine the circumstance to find the rule and then it will work it will never find anything you don't anticipate.We think it's a significant problem in the world. There's a group called the ACFE, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and they estimate the amount of fraud, misconduct, irregularities that are caught each year. They say that that's about $200 billion a year. But they also estimate the amount we don't find. So, these are not detected by any method we have today. And that amount is about somewhere north of $3 trillion per year. So, if you put that number in perspective, that's a little under $500 for every person on the planet”During this interview, you will learn three things:Why human-centric AI is the key to take the impact and insight of virtually any solution to a different levelHow to overcome inertia for AI driven innovation, especially in an industry that’s sceptical by designThat to truly disrupt an industry you need to avoid looking at the conventions and existing standards See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Gus has been a Qlik Partner for 8 years and focuses on Qlik sales even though previously they were a Cognos partner. He regularly has a stand at the annual Qlik tour and sees so much value in reaching out via this very popular event.
When Maxime worked at Facebook, his role started evolving. He was developing new skills, new ways of doing things, and new tools. And — more often than not — he was turning his back on traditional methods. He was a pioneer. He was a data engineer! In this podcast, you'll learn about the rise of the data engineer and what it takes to be one. Written by Maxime Beauchemin: https://twitter.com/mistercrunch Read by Abbey Rennemeyer: https://twitter.com/abbeyrenn Original article: https://fcc.im/2tHLCST Learn to code for free at: https://www.freecodecamp.org Intro music by Vangough: https://fcc.im/2APOG02 Transcript: I joined Facebook in 2011 as a business intelligence engineer. By the time I left in 2013, I was a data engineer. I wasn’t promoted or assigned to this new role. Instead, Facebook came to realize that the work we were doing transcended classic business intelligence. The role we’d created for ourselves was a new discipline entirely. My team was at forefront of this transformation. We were developing new skills, new ways of doing things, new tools, and — more often than not — turning our backs to traditional methods. We were pioneers. We were data engineers! Data Engineering? Data science as a discipline was going through its adolescence of self-affirming and defining itself. At the same time, data engineering was the slightly younger sibling, but it was going through something similar. The data engineering discipline took cues from its sibling, while also defining itself in opposition, and finding its own identity. Like data scientists, data engineers write code. They’re highly analytical, and are interested in data visualization. Unlike data scientists — and inspired by our more mature parent, software engineering — data engineers build tools, infrastructure, frameworks, and services. In fact, it’s arguable that data engineering is much closer to software engineering than it is to a data science. In relation to previously existing roles, the data engineering field could be thought of as a superset of business intelligence and data warehousing that brings more elements from software engineering. This discipline also integrates specialization around the operation of so called “big data” distributed systems, along with concepts around the extended Hadoop ecosystem, stream processing, and in computation at scale. In smaller companies — where no data infrastructure team has yet been formalized — the data engineering role may also cover the workload around setting up and operating the organization’s data infrastructure. This includes tasks like setting up and operating platforms like Hadoop/Hive/HBase, Spark, and the like. In smaller environments people tend to use hosted services offered by Amazon or Databricks, or get support from companies like Cloudera or Hortonworks — which essentially subcontracts the data engineering role to other companies. In larger environments, there tends to be specialization and the creation of a formal role to manage this workload, as the need for a data infrastructure team grows. In those organizations, the role of automating some of the data engineering processes falls under the hand of both the data engineering and data infrastructure teams, and it’s common for these teams to collaborate to solve higher level problems. While the engineering aspect of the role is growing in scope, other aspects of the original business engineering role are becoming secondary. Areas like crafting and maintaining portfolios of reports and dashboards are not a data engineer’s primary focus. We now have better self-service tooling where analysts, data scientist and the general “information worker” is becoming more data-savvy and can take care of data consumption autonomously. ETL is changing We’ve also observed a general shift away from drag-and-drop ETL (Extract Transform and Load) tools towards a more programmatic approach. Product know-how on platforms like Informatica, IBM Datastage, Cognos, AbInitio or Microsoft SSIS isn’t common amongst modern data engineers, and being replaced by more generic software engineering skills along with understanding of programmatic or configuration driven platforms like Airflow, Oozie, Azkabhan or Luigi. It’s also fairly common for engineers to develop and manage their own job orchestrator/scheduler. There’s a multitude of reasons why complex pieces of software are not developed using drag and drop tools: it’s that ultimately code is the best abstraction there is for software. While it’s beyond the scope of this article to argue on this topic, it’s easy to infer that these same reasons apply to writing ETL as it applies to any other software. Code allows for arbitrary levels of abstractions, allows for all logical operation in a familiar way, integrates well with source control, is easy to version and to collaborate on. The fact that ETL tools evolved to expose graphical interfaces seems like a detour in the history of data processing, and would certainly make for an interesting blog post of its own. Let’s highlight the fact that the abstractions exposed by traditional ETL tools are off-target. Sure, there’s a need to abstract the complexity of data processing, computation and storage. But I would argue that the solution is not to expose ETL primitives (like source/target, aggregations, filtering) into a drag-and-drop fashion. The abstractions needed are of a higher level. For example, an example of a needed abstraction in a modern data environment is the configuration for the experiments in an A/B testing framework: what are all the experiment? what are the related treatments? what percentage of users should be exposed? what are the metrics that each experiment expects to affect? when is the experiment taking effect? In this example, we have a framework that receives precise, high level input, performs complex statistical computation and delivers computed results. We expect that adding an entry for a new experiment will result in extra computation and results being delivered. What is important to note in this example is that the input parameters of this abstraction are not the one offered by a traditional ETL tool, and that a building such an abstraction in a drag and drop interface would not be manageable. To a modern data engineer, traditional ETL tools are largely obsolete because logic cannot be expressed using code. As a result, the abstractions needed cannot be expressed intuitively in those tools. Now knowing that the data engineer’s role consist largely of defining ETL, and knowing that a completely new set of tools and methodology is needed, one can argue that this forces the discipline to rebuild itself from the ground up. New stack, new tools, a new set of constraints, and in many cases, a new generation of individuals. Data modeling is changing Typical data modeling techniques — like the star schema — which defined our approach to data modeling for the analytics workloads typically associated with data warehouses, are less relevant than they once were. The traditional best practices of data warehousing are loosing ground on a shifting stack. Storage and compute is cheaper than ever, and with the advent of distributed databases that scale out linearly, the scarcer resource is engineering time. Here are some changes observed in data modeling techniques: further denormalization: maintaining surrogate keys in dimensions can be tricky, and it makes fact tables less readable. The use of natural, human readable keys and dimension attributes in fact tables is becoming more common, reducing the need for costly joins that can be heavy on distributed databases. Also note that support for encoding and compression in serialization formats like Parquet or ORC, or in database engines like Vertica, address most of the performance loss that would normally be associated with denormalization. Those systems have been taught to normalize the data for storage on their own. blobs: modern databases have a growing support for blobs through native types and functions. This opens new moves in the data modeler’s playbook, and can allow for fact tables to store multiple grains at once when needed dynamic schemas: since the advent of map reduce, with the growing popularity of document stores and with support for blobs in databases, it’s becoming easier to evolve database schemas without executing DML. This makes it easier to have an iterative approach to warehousing, and removes the need to get full consensus and buy-in prior to development. systematically snapshoting dimensions (storing a full copy of the dimension for each ETL schedule cycle, usually in distinct table partitions) as a generic way to handle slowly changing dimension (SCD) is a simple generic approach that requires little engineering effort, and that unlike the classical approach, is easy to grasp when writing ETL and queries alike. It’s also easy and relatively cheap to denormalize the dimension’s attribute into the fact table to keep track of its value at the moment of the transaction. In retrospect, complex SCD modeling techniques are not intuitive and reduce accessibility. conformance, as in conformed dimensions and metrics is still extremely important in modern data environment, but with the need for data warehouses to move fast, and with more team and roles invited to contribute to this effort, it’s less imperative and more of a tradeoff. Consensus and convergence can happen as a background process in the areas where the pain point of divergence become out-of-hand. Also, more generally, it’s arguable to say that with the commoditization of compute cycles and with more people being data-savvy then before, there’s less need to precompute and store results in the warehouse. For instance you can have complex Spark job that can compute complex analysis on-demand only, and not be scheduled to be part of the warehouse. Roles & responsibilities The data warehouse A data warehouse is a copy of transaction data specifically structured for query and analysis. — Ralph Kimball A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and non-volatile collection of data in support of management’s decision making process. — Bill Inmon The data warehouse is just as relevant as it ever was, and data engineers are in charge of many aspects of its construction and operation. The data engineer’s focal point is the data warehouse and gravitates around it. The modern data warehouse is a more public institution than it was historically, welcoming data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to partake in its construction and operation. Data is simply too centric to the company’s activity to have limitation around what roles can manage its flow. While this allows scaling to match the organization’s data needs, it often results in a much more chaotic, shape-shifting, imperfect piece of infrastructure. The data engineering team will often own pockets of certified, high quality areas in the data warehouse. At Airbnb for instance, there’s a set of “core” schemas that are managed by the data engineering team, where service level agreement (SLAs) are clearly defined and measured, naming conventions are strictly followed, business metadata and documentation is of the highest quality, and the related pipeline code follows a set of well defined best practices. It also becomes the role of the data engineering team to be a “center of excellence” through the definitions of standards, best practices and certification processes for data objects. The team can evolve to partake or lead an education program sharing its core competencies to help other teams become better citizens of the data warehouse. For instance, Facebook has a “data camp” education program and Airbnb is developing a similar “Data University” program where data engineers lead session that teach people how to be proficient with data. Data engineers are also the “librarians” of the data warehouse, cataloging and organizing metadata, defining the processes by which one files or extract data from the warehouse. In a fast growing, rapidly evolving, slightly chaotic data ecosystem, metadata management and tooling become a vital component of a modern data platform. Performance tuning and optimization With data becoming more strategic than ever, companies are growing impressive budgets for their data infrastructure. This makes it increasingly rational for data engineers to spend cycles on performance tuning and optimization of data processing and storage. Since the budgets are rarely shrinking in this area, optimization is often coming from the perspective of achieving more with the same amount of resources or trying to linearize exponential growth in resource utilization and costs. Knowing that the complexity of the data engineering stack is exploding we can assume that the complexity of optimizing such stack and processes can be just as challenging. Where it can be easy to get huge wins with little effort, diminishing returns laws typically apply. It’s definitely in the interest of the data engineer to build [on] infrastructure that scales with the company, and to be resource conscious at all times. Data Integration Data integration, the practice behind integrating businesses and systems through the exchange of data, is as important and as challenging as its ever been. As Software as a Service (SaaS) becomes the new standard way for companies to operate, the need to synchronize referential data across these systems becomes increasingly critical. Not only SaaS needs up-to-date data to function, we often want to bring the data generated on their side into our data warehouse so that it can be analyzed along the rest of our data. Sure SaaS often have their own analytics offering, but are systematically lacking the perspective that the rest of you company’s data offer, so more often than not it’s necessary to pull some of this data back. Letting these SaaS offering redefine referential data without integrating and sharing a common primary key is a disaster that should be avoided at all costs. No one wants to manually maintain two employee or customer lists in 2 different systems, and even worse: having to do fuzzy matching when bringing their HR data back into their warehouse. Worse, company executive often sign deal with SaaS providers without really considering the data integration challenges. The integration workload is systematically downplayed by vendors to facilitate their sales, and leaves data engineers stuck doing unaccounted, under appreciated work to do. Let alone the fact that typical SaaS APIs are often poorly designed, unclearly documented and “agile”: meaning that you can expect them to change without notice. Services Data engineers are operating at a higher level of abstraction and in some cases that means providing services and tooling to automate the type of work that data engineers, data scientists or analysts may do manually. Here are a few examples of services that data engineers and data infrastructure engineer may build and operate. data ingestion: services and tooling around “scraping” databases, loading logs, fetching data from external stores or APIs, … metric computation: frameworks to compute and summarize engagement, growth or segmentation related metrics anomaly detection: automating data consumption to alert people anomalous events occur or when trends are changing significantly metadata management: tooling around allowing generation and consumption of metadata, making it easy to find information in and around the data warehouse experimentation: A/B testing and experimentation frameworks is often a critical piece of company’s analytics with a significant data engineering component to it instrumentation: analytics starts with logging events and attributes related to those events, data engineers have vested interests in making sure that high quality data is captured upstream sessionization: pipelines that are specialized in understand series of actions in time, allowing analysts to understand user behaviors Just like software engineers, data engineers should be constantly looking to automate their workloads and building abstraction that allow them to climb the complexity ladder. While the nature of the workflows that can be automated differs depending on the environment, the need to automate them is common across the board. Required Skills SQL mastery: if english is the language of business, SQL is the language of data. How successful of a business man can you be if you don’t speak good english? While generations of technologies age and fade, SQL is still standing strong as the lingua franca of data. A data engineer should be able to express any degree of complexity in SQL using techniques like “correlated subqueries” and window functions. SQL/DML/DDL primitives are simple enough that it should hold no secrets to a data engineer. Beyond the declarative nature of SQL, she/he should be able to read and understand database execution plans, and have an understanding of what all the steps are, how indices work, the different join algorithm and the distributed dimension within the plan. Data modeling techniques: for a data engineer, entity-relationship modeling should be a cognitive reflex, along with a clear understanding of normalization, and have a sharp intuition around denormalization tradeoffs. The data engineer should be familiar with dimensional modeling and the related concepts and lexical field. ETL design: writing efficient, resilient and “evolvable” ETL is key. I’m planning on expanding on this topic on an upcoming blog post. Architectural projections: like any professional in any given field of expertise, the data engineer needs to have a high level understanding of most of the tools, platforms, libraries and other resources at its disposal. The properties, use-cases and subtleties behind the different flavors of databases, computation engines, stream processors, message queues, workflow orchestrators, serialization formats and other related technologies. When designing solutions, she/he should be able to make good choices as to which technologies to use and have a vision as to how to make them work together. All in all Over the past 5 years working in Silicon Valley at Airbnb, Facebook and Yahoo!, and having interacted profusely with data teams of all kinds working for companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Uber, Lyft and dozens of companies of all sizes, I’m observing a growing consensus on what “data engineering” is evolving into, and felt a need to share some of my findings. I’m hoping that this article can serve as some sort of manifesto for data engineering, and I’m hoping to spark reactions from the community operating in the related fields!
These weekly podcast interviews are an informal glimpse into the life and decision-making processes of someone who is changing the world. From the arts to academia, corporate technology to community wellbeing, radical business to local politics, we are continually exploring the motivations and behaviours of people who are following their instinct to improve a system. In this chat, always possible chief exec Richard Freeman, talks to Dale Roberts about big data, eavesdropping on customers and the ambition of some technologists to make customer service and sales less about process and automation and more about listening to what people actually need. Richard asks about whether corporate surveillance of our social media chatter can ever be a good thing and who owns the ethical code behind this, if indeed there is one? The implications for this technology are overwhelming, with already demonstrably positive applications in improving cultural understanding and software that translates emotion and subtext rather than just words. Dale Roberts is Vice President of Professional Services for global software and analytics company Clarabridge. A well-known author, commentator, columnist and speaker, Dale is a critical adviser to some of the world's biggest companies on how to improve the customer experience using social and digital insights. Prior to this role, he was co-founder of Artesian Solutions, a pioneering tech business focused on social customer relationship management - and a Director of Services for business intelligence giant Cognos. Dale's first book, Decision Sourcing, is a commentary on the impact of social media on corporate decision making and his most recent, World of Workcraft, is a study on engagement, motivation and digital humanism in the workplace. Dale has been identified as one of the most influential thinkers in big data and analytics by Analytics Week, and often contributes his ideas to business and technology publications including Wired and ClickZ. --- Useful links: - www.clarabridge.com - www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6EjBwrdHgE --- You will find more ideas and discussion about critical decision-making on topics as wide-ranging as economics, music, pre-school education, virtual reality and international aid at www.alwayspossible.co.uk/podcasts
Join me as I chat with my colleague and Cognos guru John Frazier about the latest release of Cognos, leading up to the anticipated release of the next version, 11.0.7, near the end of Q3. The latest version of Cognos (11.0.6) debuted on March 21, 2017. You can sign up for a perpetually free trial […]
Vijay Sikka is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the 12 years old Sikka Software Corporation. Under Vijay's leadership, Sikka Software Corporation has become the premier cloud based business analytics and optimization platform company and a SaaS based market leader for dental industry with growing presence in veterinary, optometry and audiology industries in the United States. Sikka Software Corporation has 20,900 installations and is experiencing strong growth and will be looking for investments to fund that growth. Vijay is a healthcare informatics expert with more than 25 years of software development and quality experience including large scale projects with National Institutes of Health, Glaxo Smith Kline, Roche and UCSF affiliates. In 1996, Vijay founded IBrain Software, Inc., a business intelligence company that competed with Business Objects, Cognos etc., and served as IBrain CEO until its acquisition in 1998 by Entigen Corporation, that later became part of Roche. In 1999, he co-founded Bodha.com which later was acquired by Peregrine. Vijay's book, Maximizing ROI in Software Development, was published in 2004 by Taylor and Francis International and is available for purchase from Amazon and other book stores in hardcopy and for eBook readers. Vijay is a speaker and a continuing education registered provider in California. www.SikkaSoftware.com
This week's episode features my conversation with the great Jit Saxeena, founder and CEO of Applix and Netezza, Boston startups he led through successful IPO's before being acquired by Cognos and IBM, respectively. The secret of his remarkable success? The desire to zag when others zig, and the conviction to follow through. This week's second segment features a conversation on venture boards, including Jit's best advice on how to be a better board member, the right way to leverage a board as CEO, and what makes for a healthy board culture.
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Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 236! SPaMCAST 236 feature my interview with Peter Taylor, Ron Rosenhead and Vicki James's we discussed their new book, Strategies for Project Sponsorship. Sponsors are not necessarily born to the role and unless we want to take pot luck we better understand what makes a good sponsor. Vicki James, PMP, CBAP (Seattle, WA, USA)http://www.project-pro.us Vicki is passionate about learning and sharing best practices in project management and business analysis. Certified in both project management (Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute since 2005) and business analysis (Certified Business Analysis Professional from the International Institute of Business Analysis in since 2010) provides a broad view to support project governance and processes. Vicki spent 11-years in the public sector successfully delivering projects to support governmental operations. Today she provides private consulting to government and private industry clients in addition to writing and presenting on all things project. Vicki is a contributor to The Complete Project Manager (2012) by Randall Englund and Alfonso Bucero as well as a popular blogger and Tweeter. Peter Taylor, PMP (Coventry UK) http://www.thelazyprojectmanager.com/ Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management. His background is in project management across three major business areas over the last 26 years, MRP/ERP systems with various software houses and culminating in his current role with Infor, Business Intelligence (BI) with Cognos, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor. He is a professional speaker as well as the author of ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ (Infinite Ideas) and ‘Leading Successful PMOs’ (Gower) and ‘The Lazy Winner’ (Infinite Ideas). Previous Appearances: Lazy Project Manager - SPaMCAST 158Project From Hell - SPaMCAST 194 Ron Rosenhead (London, UK) http://www.ronrosenhead.co.uk/ Ron Rosenhead is known for his highly practical approach to life alongside project management. Over 25 years as a trainer and consultant with the last 17 years specializing in helping organisations to increase the probability of project success. He has personally trained,coached over 10,000 people in the project management world; some project managers, others project sponsors. He has worked across sectors: financial services,public sector, engineering, pharmaceuticals, universities, car retailing, It etc. He is a professional speaker and author of Deliver that Project (an e-book), is a regular blogger and tweeter. Ron regularly writes practical project management training materials which are in use all over the world. Appreared on SPaMCAST 152 talking about project management Order the book at http://strategies4sponsors.com/ The Daily Process Thoughts is my project designed to deliver a quick daily idea, thought or simple smile to help you become a better change agent. Each day you will get piece of thought provoking text and a picture or hand drawn chart to illustrate the idea being presented. The goal is to deliver every day; rain or shine, in sickness or in health or for better or worse! Check it out at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." NOW AVAILABLE IN CHINESE! Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail: +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWV One more thing! Help support the SPaMCAST by reviewing and rating the Software Process and Measurement Cast on ITunes! It helps people find the cast. THe Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network. Listen to the SPaMCAST and othe great podcasts, like Day In Tech History a podcast on tech hitory 365 days a year at http://www.techpodcasts.com/ Next:The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an essay on the role of product owners!
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 158! The SPaMCAST 158 features my interview with Peter Taylor. We discussed his book The Lazy Project Manager. Peter and I discussed how to be an effective and effiecent project manager and still have a balanced life! Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management. His background is in project management across three major business areas over the last 26 years, MRP/ERP systems with various software houses and culminating in his current role with Infor, Business Intelligence (BI) with Cognos, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor. He is also an accomplished communicator and leader and is a professional speaker as well as the author of ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ (Infinite Ideas) and ‘Leading Successful PMOs’ (Gower) and ‘The Lazy Winner’ (Infinite Ideas). More information can be found at www.thelazyprojectmanager.com and www.thelazywinner.com – and through his free podcasts in iTunes. Also, if you are interested in getting published, check out the ‘Get Published’ site – www.pmpublished.com Peter's email address: Peter.Taylor@infor.com Special Offer: Peter has also provided two copies of The Lazy Project Manager for Software Process and Management listeners. I will draw two names at random (not random names) on November 27th and Peter will send the winners a copy. To participate send an email to spamcastinfo@gmail.com with the subject line "Lazy Project Manager." Include you full shipping address. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail: spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail: +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWV Next! SPaMCAST 159 will probably feature an essay on systems think but it might be an essay on the impact of fear . . .either will very interesting!
Securabit Episode 75: Booze over IP February 9, 2011 Hosts: Anthony Gartner – @anthonygartner http://anthonygartner.com Chris Gerling – @chrisgerling Christopher Mills – @thechrisam Jason Mueller – @securabit_jay Andrew Borel – @andrew_secbit Tony (myne-us) – @myne_us Guests: Mike Dahn twitter: @mikd Joe Gottlieb Twitter: joe_gottlieb General topics: Mike:Bsides origins and other. http://chaordicmind.com/blog/ Joe: Open Security Intelligence http://www.opensecurityintelligence.com/ On Monday, February 14th, SIEM and log management vendor SenSage will introduce the Open Security Intelligence forum to the security community to become involved in. The concept of the community is to share best practices in open security analytics to improve our collective security defenses. Specifically, Joe Gottlieb, President and CEO of SenSage would like to discuss: - Current challenges with today’s SIEM tools, which are a decade old - Why security analytics needs to be ‘open’ - Why integrating business intelligence tools (i.e. Pentaho, Microsoft Exchange, Cognos, etc.) with SIEM tools can create useful dashboards that help security analysts mine huge data stores for the ‘needle in the haystack’ information they need - Why ‘security quants’ (analysts that can look deep into the data and develop complex yet useful SQL queries) will become the next role in the SOC - The benefits of joining the community and sharing best practices The community will be hosted on a web portal – www.opensecurityintelligence.com – that is under development and will be discussed in our Feb. 14 release. Also, Joe is also giving a talk at Security BSides SF on 2/14 at 3pm PT on this very topic. --HBGary Federal http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/02/hbgary-federal-hacked-by-anonymous/ --Nasdaq attack does not yet have reports of how they where attacked. The comment on the website was for the 1999 attack where someone defaced the nasdaq website. Quotes from http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/technology-risk-management/229201267 The operator of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange said it found "suspicious files" on its computer servers, in a Web application called Directors Desk which is used by members of corporations' boards of directors who want to share information and files. "What seems most likely is that the web servers were compromised in an attempt to use them to inject malicious software into their clients," commented one reader of the nakedsecurity.sophos.com blog. --Bsides http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage to contact: info (at) securitybsides dot org -or- call 415-742-1739 --Exploit developers corner Looking for exploit developers! If you have recently published an exploit or have a previously published exploits you would like to talk about contact us at feedback@securabit.com or can contact Tony (myne-us) directly on IRC at freenode #securabit to have a small interview about your discovery. List of common questions. -How did you find the vulnerability? -What is your goal in vulnerability research? -How did you go about disclosing the vulnerability and how did the vendor respond? -And more... !!Caution!!: No undisclosed vulnerabilities (0 day)! These vulnerabilities need to be reported to the vendor and patched or exceed a time period where vendor did not patch. If interested in releasing exploit on the show that is fine if can show proof you disclosed to vendor or see the proof of concept already posted on exploit-db or have a CVE. Us:NetWitness Spectrum at RSA http://www.netwitness.com/products/spectrum.aspx Use our discount code "Connect_SecuraBit10" to get 10% off of ANY training course. The discount code is good for all SANS courses in all formats. Upcoming events RSA Conference 2011 (14 -18 Feb 2011) #BSidesSanFrancisco (14 - 15 Feb 2011) #BSidesCleveland (18 Feb 2011) #BSidesHalifax (5 Mar 2011) #BSidesGSO Greensboro, NC (9 Mar 2011) CanSecWest2011 (9 - 11 Mar 2011) #BSidesAustin (11 - 12 March 2011) http://www.keepsecurityweird.org/ BlackHat Europe 2011 (17 - 18 Mar 2011) #BSidesChicago (16 - 17 Apr 2011) #BSides London, (20 Apr 2011) #BSidesROC Rochester, NY (21 May 2011) #BSidesDetroit (3 - 4 Jun 2011) Links: http://securabit.com Chat with us on IRC at irc.freenode.net #securabit iTunes Podcast - http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/securabit/id280048405 iPhone App Now Available - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/securabit-mobile/id382484512?mt=8
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There is no doubt the speed of change in the media space is blinding. New tools become available to marketers and individuals alike nearly every week. If you have ever felt like it is hard to keep up (and I know I have) then this book is for you. Admittedly, Paul Gillin wrote this book for the 90% of marketers still trying to figure out social media, I can tell you it makes and excellent resource for even the most polished social media expert. Paul covers topics like how to sell your social media program to by making a strong case, how to be a good listener using DIY tools across many types of media, how to find and court influencers, how to make social media worthy content and measuring results. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of his book and really enjoyed reading because it gave me ideas I can put into play immediately. Check out my podcast with Paul as we discuss some of the Secrets of Social Media Marketing. Secrets of Social Media Marketing – a podcast with Paul Gillin About Paul Paul is a veteran journalist who’s always been fascinated by the leading edge of technology innovation. Paul is a veteran technology journalist with more than 24 years of editorial leadership. Paul was founding editor-in-chief of TechTarget, one of the most successful new media entities to emerge on the Internet. Previously, he was editor-in-chief and executive editor of Computerworld . Currently, he writes the social media column for BtoB magazine. His critically acclaimed new book,The New Influencers, is about the changes in markets being driven by the new breed of online publishers. Published by Quill Driver Books in spring, 2007, it is in its third printing. His second book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing, will be published in the fall of 2008. Paul specializes in advising business-to-business marketers on strategies to optimize their use of online channels to reach buyers cost-effectively. He is particularly interested in social media and the application of personal publishing to brand awareness and business marketing. Paul is an accomplished speaker and media spokesman. He has keynoted more than a dozen technology conferences, including annual user group meetings for IBM, Oracle, Cognos, Business Objects and J.D. Edwards. He has also spoken at scores of other events about technology trends and social media. His ability to translate complex technology topics into plain English has made him a favorite source for journalists. He has been widely quoted in newspapers and on the airwaves, including appearances on CNN, PBS, Fox News and MSNBC. Paul is a research fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and he chairs the social media cluster of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. He blogs at www.paulgillin.com. The post Secrets of Social Media Marketing – a podcast with Paul Gillin first appeared on Marketing Darwinism.
There is no doubt the speed of change in the media space is blinding. New tools become available to marketers and individuals alike nearly every week. If you have ever felt like it is hard to keep up (and I know I have) then this book is for you. Admittedly, Paul Gillin wrote this book for the 90% of marketers still trying to figure out social media, I can tell you it makes and excellent resource for even the most polished social media expert. Paul covers topics like how to sell your social media program to by making a strong case, how to be a good listener using DIY tools across many types of media, how to find and court influencers, how to make social media worthy content and measuring results. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of his book and really enjoyed reading because it gave me ideas I can put into play immediately. Check out my podcast with Paul as we discuss some of the Secrets of Social Media Marketing. Secrets of Social Media Marketing – a podcast with Paul Gillin About Paul Paul is a veteran journalist who’s always been fascinated by the leading edge of technology innovation. Paul is a veteran technology journalist with more than 24 years of editorial leadership. Paul was founding editor-in-chief of TechTarget, one of the most successful new media entities to emerge on the Internet. Previously, he was editor-in-chief and executive editor of Computerworld . Currently, he writes the social media column for BtoB magazine. His critically acclaimed new book,The New Influencers, is about the changes in markets being driven by the new breed of online publishers. Published by Quill Driver Books in spring, 2007, it is in its third printing. His second book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing, will be published in the fall of 2008. Paul specializes in advising business-to-business marketers on strategies to optimize their use of online channels to reach buyers cost-effectively. He is particularly interested in social media and the application of personal publishing to brand awareness and business marketing. Paul is an accomplished speaker and media spokesman. He has keynoted more than a dozen technology conferences, including annual user group meetings for IBM, Oracle, Cognos, Business Objects and J.D. Edwards. He has also spoken at scores of other events about technology trends and social media. His ability to translate complex technology topics into plain English has made him a favorite source for journalists. He has been widely quoted in newspapers and on the airwaves, including appearances on CNN, PBS, Fox News and MSNBC. Paul is a research fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and he chairs the social media cluster of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. He blogs at www.paulgillin.com.
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