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According to Gartner, at least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned after proof of concept due to escalating costs, poor data quality, or unclear business value. There are a lot of factors working against them, and too often failure happens when teams are right in the middle of building. They’ve spent significant time, money, IT capacity on something that may very well have been doomed from the start. So how do you know if something is actually worth building with AI or if you should just focus on buying instead? Riley Rogers: Hi, and welcome to the Win/Win Podcast. I’m your host, Riley Rogers. Join us as we dive into changing trends in the workplace and how to navigate them successfully. Here to discuss this topic is Keith Weaver, Senior Director of Global IT and Enterprise Applications at Highspot. Thanks so much for joining us today, Keith. I’d love if you could just kick us off by telling us a little bit about yourself, your background, and your role. Keith Weaver: I have been leading our global IT team at Highspot. I’ve been in IT for, I think, getting close to 20 years now, just overseeing all kinds of different systems and specialties within those systems. Our IT team at Highspot is IT operations, making sure everyone has devices, equipment, all of that globally. We’re now in seven countries. As well as system engineering, making sure everyone has the right tools, that they’re optimized for the business. And then we have specific teams in IT that specialize in financial systems and HR systems. In the world of AI, it’s a whole new world and it’s a lot of fun. RR: So 20 years in IT, you’ve kind of run the gamut. But it sounds like the last two and a half years have crammed almost 20 years’ worth of change into a very short window. When we were planning for this episode, you mentioned to me that you read four or five newsletters every morning just to keep up with the pace of innovation. Can you walk us through why you’re spending so much time learning and how IT has had to evolve to keep up with this pace of development? KW: What I’ve seen is mostly it’s the same things that we’ve done, except it’s done at a much faster pace. It is kind of an unheard of pace that AI is moving. Every day, the reason I read five different newsletters is because there are so many new things getting released, whether it’s a new model or a new tool, and then there are things within the tools that are getting released. Trying to understand all those things, the new protocols that are getting released, the new ways people are building or executing on AI, or the new things people are learning, is just really critical. And all of that is at a speed that we’re just not accustomed to. So I think that the objective of what an IT team does to continue to keep the business unlocked, able to do their best work with the technology and tools while making it secure and scalable, those things are the same. It’s just the speed now that it’s running, and the speed from the business. The business is moving so fast, and their expectation is that IT continues to deliver at that pace. I’ll give you some examples. I get probably, me personally, not my team, but me personally, I probably get 20 to 50 requests for new connections, new skills, new tools every week. That’s in Slack, in Jira. It’s just nonstop, and that’s just unheard of before AI. It just didn’t happen. It would be like, “Oh, we have this big initiative, and we’re gonna do this thing.” And now it’s just like, “Can I have this? Can I have that?” And all good things, it’s just how do we do that, and how do we keep up? RR: So when you have 20 to 50 requests hitting your desk every week, it can probably start to feel a little overwhelming. And I wonder if the folks who are sending these requests your way maybe don’t know the considerations behind every single one of these ideas. I’d love if you could give us a view of what you’re seeing across the industry as both technical and non-technical teams are all noodling on the idea of how to build with AI, how to buy AI tools, how to bring them all together and create a combination that actually works. What are you seeing? KW: Well, I think if you think back a year to a year and a half ago, mostly people were buying tools. Building was… It’s so funny ’cause we’re talking about a year ago or a year and a half ago, but building was much harder. And really with Claude, the Opus class models that came out, it really started unlocking the ability for everyone to start building. And so since then, the conversation shifted from, “Yeah, we can go buy this tool,” to “We can build this internally.” And there’s a lot of excitement to build because building’s fun. The pendulum just swings often on these things, and so we’re kind of in that wave where everyone’s super excited about building something. And I think we’ll end up in a place that is more normalized, where we’re building some, we’re buying some. We’re doing a hybrid approach. I think that is where we’ll end up. It’s just, it has swung really far to, “Look, we can just go build that thing.” RR: So it sounds like we’re kind of in the early phase of a cycle that you’ve seen time and time again, where surrounded by enthusiasm, but maybe we don’t have much direction. And like you said, building is fun, so I imagine you probably hear a lot of, “Hey, look what I built,” or, “Why can’t we just build this?” So when something like that lands in your inbox, what’s the first thing that goes through your mind? KW: If it’s, “Look what I built,” there’s lots of questions, like how is it being deployed? What’s the next step with this? Who’s gonna own it? How is this actually out in the world, and how are we gonna make sure that it’s as scalable and secure? If it’s a conversation, I would say this is more so where we hear, “We want to build this thing,” or, “We can just go build this thing. Why would we buy this?” I think the thing that I would ask is, what is the long-term path for this? Because deploying is just the first step. It’s the iteration. It’s the test. It’s continuing to deploy it. It’s maintaining it. It’s supporting it. It’s the full life cycle of any software project. What resources are gonna do that? How are we going to maintain this and support this long term? Those are usually the questions that I start asking. RR: And you’re quite equipped to speak to the build side of the equation because you’ve done it. You’ve tackled the planning, the deployment, the maintenance, the ongoing support, the full life cycle, like you said, of a software project. And you’ve done it with AI. I’d love if you could walk us through your first test case. Tell us a little bit about what you were thinking going in, and what you learned along the way about what works, what doesn’t, and what was surprisingly difficult. KW: Yeah. So we built an IT AI agent and an HR agent, and we did that with a cross-collaborative team. I think we started it last fall and then deployed it in February or March this year. And I would say the main objective there was not that these are the tools that are gonna change the way we function. The main objective was a learning. It was an R&D investment. So we knew that we had to, as an IT team, be able to help the business deploy these agents, and we found some use cases that we could. The IT one we can own in-house. The HR one, we already collaborate with them very closely on a number of things. So it felt like a good first step for us to dip our toes, learn a lot about how to build these, what works, what doesn’t. And these agents are more than just chatbots. They really were taking actions in tools like Jira and Workday, Highspot itself. And we built them using the Workato platform, and what we learned through it is it was actually really exciting and really easy to get to a place where this mostly works, and this is pretty, it feels like this could be really powerful. That was, like, the first three weeks. The rest of the time was, “Oh, gosh, how are we going to get this thing so that it doesn’t give somebody some really poor answer from a security standpoint or an HR answer that needs to be rooted in truth?” And then how can we make sure that it repeatedly does these actions no matter what people prompt, that it’s really controlled? I often described it to my team like it was training a four-year-old. I have four kids and they’re all older now, but it was like I was back in those toddler stages. Like, “Why’d you decide to do that? That was a bad decision. Stop.” And trying to train it and get it to that point, it just took a massive amount of time. And since we’ve launched it, it’s a lot of resources to read the conversation, understand what was asked, understand what it did and where it went wrong, then refining it, then retesting it, then redeploying it. It’s a cycle. It’s this continual cycle, and that takes a lot more resources and time than I originally thought it would. RR: Ballpark, what did that investment look like? How long did it take you to build? How many queries did you have to manually validate before you trusted the thing? And how much are you still investing today to keep it alive? KW: In the beginning, you just start giving it manual prompts and testing it to see what it does. Then you produce your test cases, and you manually go through those test cases, and every time you make some major changes, you go through those test cases, make sure that it’s still hitting. Because just changing one little thing, for example, if you take a tool and change the prompt or the description of that tool, you actually have to do regression testing on all the things that someone could prompt, because just changing that one little description, the agentic reasoning could choose to use that tool or not use that tool at the wrong places. So it’s really important to do this regression testing. Then we started going through how do we automate some of this testing, and we were able to do some of that. But I think the biggest takeaway is with software, traditional software, you do regression testing, but if you change this bit of code, really that’s what you have to worry about, anything within that bit of code, not the whole stack, not the whole thing. This was, I think, a really big takeaway. We would make a small change, and something unrelated, completely unrelated, would start acting weird. And then you have model changes. You’re like, “Oh, I want to move to the latest model.” Well, that latest model now, the reasoning’s different, how it picks up tools might be different, and so that also has been a challenge. I think over time, especially as the tools evolve, the automated testing will get easier. We can have Claude, for example, go through and give it a bunch of questions, evaluate the responses. But you’ve got to build that too. That’s all something you’ve got to build in order to maintain this thing. RR: Now, you said this project was conceived last fall, launched, not necessarily finalized, ’cause it’s never really finalized, but launched publicly in the February March timeframe. So now we’re almost a year out from initial conception, couple months out from launch. Given your point about things changing so much in the last year and a half, now knowing what the landscape looks like, would you have built differently or would you have built at all? KW: It’s a great question. I think if I go back to my objective that I needed to learn and I needed my team to learn how to deploy these things and the challenges of it, I wouldn’t change what we’ve done, and they’re still deployed in production right now, although we are not spending a massive amount of time making them better. Would I change what I’ve done? No, but that’s because of where my objective was. My objective wasn’t to massively change the HR process or the IT process. It was to learn. And I think that given the right investment, we could move them further along. However, I do not believe that building something that every business has to do, IT and HR stuff, that… all those questions that we get, both of those teams get, are the same across most organizations. Most of the things employees need to do in these functions are the same across all organizations. So I don’t know that I would double down and want to go build the agentic functionality behind IT and HR. What I would want to do is look at our specific processes, things that are unique about our business, not only where we have the information, but what tools we use, and then maybe specific processes of how we do something, and figure out how do I build that piece and tie it into something that’s delivered. And there are so many, just talking about the IT space, there are so many systems right now that have the agentic functionality and give you the ability to tie in all your different tools. So I would probably try to leverage those rather than just building everything from the ground up. RR: As an aside, I will say I have used both the IT and the HR agents. They’re quite cool. The HR one talked me through my vision insurance at 8:00 PM on a Saturday, so thank you for that. Very helpful. So you mentioned that this was something that you and the team invested in as a learning, so you could understand what the process of building an agentic workflow looked like, an agentic tool looked like. So having now seen what it looks like, what must be invested in order to do this successfully, how do you draw the line between what you can build, what you should build, and what you’re better off just buying? KW: I think you should build the things that are unique to your business. You could think about this as your moat, but I think it goes beyond that. It’s where your processes or the way you handle something is very unique. In those cases, it may make sense to build something from scratch. But if it’s not unique to your business, like go back to the HR and IT, most of it’s just not unique. And so in most cases, when you don’t have something unique, then it likely makes sense to buy it, because you get the power of the organization that has built that tool behind it, pushing that tool forward much faster than you’re ever going to push it forward, ’cause we’re just not gonna hire that many engineers to do it. And so if there’s an IT tool out there that is bringing all that agentic functionality to the forefront, then why would I not leverage that, as long as I believe in the company, they have a track record to deliver, and they have the ability to build on top of it for some unique IT process that I have or some deterministic termination workflow that I want to execute. If I can do that, then I would say let me build what’s unique and tie it into something where the base or the product is being delivered. RR: Outside of that uniqueness component, if you’re a GTM leader trying to make that call, what other questions would you be thinking about and asking yourself? KW: I think I would just go back to that uniqueness test. Is this unique to my business? Is this a unique sales motion, a unique thing that we do here because of what we’re selling or how we’re selling that I can’t expect a vendor to build this or be able to deliver it? Or is it roughly the same thing everyone else is doing, the same problem everyone else is trying to solve? There are unique components, ’cause there are always unique components to this, but those unique components can be built alongside or included within that tool. And here’s the wonderful thing, if you just take AI or Claude, for example, we’re using Claude internally, you have a tool that has all the MCP capabilities like Highspot, like Salesforce, and you have some unique process with some maybe even proprietary tool that you want to do. Well, the great thing is you can bring that all into Claude. You can use Workato or build a skill within Claude and use that, whatever you’re building for that unique process, that unique system, and tie it in with those other tools that already are giving you a lot of functionality, and now you’ve expanded what you already had, and you’re spending your time in that uniqueness layer. What’s unique to us? That, to me, there’s value in that, to build there, because you’re not gonna get another organization to spend the time, money, or energy building on that. RR: So it sounds like it kind of comes down to a basic cost benefit call. Is the upfront investment and ongoing maintenance worth what that unique build will actually deliver? KW: When you’re doing the cost analysis, you can’t look at just what it costs to build. You have to look at the full life cycle. An analogy for you is, if you go back, maybe 20 years when SaaS really became a big thing, you had Salesforce kind of leading the charge. In all of the sales cycles, they would say, “You no longer need servers, and you no longer need admins.” The business manages this themselves, and everyone was super excited. Oh, this is gonna, the ROI’s gonna be so great on this. The business is gonna own this. We can move really quickly because we can change workflows and do this stuff and own it all internally. We don’t need an IT team to manage servers, et cetera. And everyone got really excited about this, and I remember all those years ago being like, “Guys, I don’t know if that’s really gonna be true.” So now you fast-forward, and it hasn’t been 20 years. For the last 15 years, we’ve been actually hiring system admins like crazy. We have Salesforce admins, NetSuite admins, Workday admins, Jira admins, and we are spending millions of dollars on these admins to maintain these systems that were supposed to have a great ROI. And I haven’t seen any studies on it, but I bet if we could compare on-prem with old software that we used to buy and put on-prem to SaaS, we would say that it was a lot cheaper to do it. And we’re not gonna go back. We’re not gonna do that any differently anymore, but I think we have to use that same type of lens. The ROI is not just the build. It is how are we gonna maintain this and keep it long term. RR: Yeah, and that’s the pendulum swing you mentioned earlier. Excitement, then reality hits, then we’re back to the next shiny thing. For those in that stage of enthusiasm that maybe don’t know what they’re getting themselves into, what do you wish they understood before kicking off a build or approaching IT with an idea? KW: I think the full cost. That you can’t do the math by just looking at what it costs to build, or that I can get a couple of my key people to go build this thing in Claude, but it’s how are we going to scale this in the organization? How are we going to deploy this thing? How are we going to maintain it? How are we going to support it? Who’s gonna take the support questions at midnight when they come in? And then how are we gonna iterate to keep ahead and make sure that it can do everything that we need it to do and stays ahead of where the business is going? RR: And when you’re having those conversations, at what point should IT actually be in the room? And what happens when you’re not? KW: I think that IT should be brought in the room as soon as a team is saying, “We can build this instead of buying it.” And really, I think that IT is not there, or hopefully we’re not there to say no. We’re there to help shed a light on what it’s actually going to take long term so that we make the best decisions. Because ultimately, I think we understand the technology and we understand the challenges of deploying stuff like this and then maintaining it long term. That’s what we do. And so if we’re in the room earlier, we can at least shine a light on it and give kind of that picture of reality so that we’re making the best decisions and there’s no surprises. Because the worst thing is that decision to build is made, they start building it, they realize they need IT’s help, and IT has a roadmap. We don’t have the resources or the ability to step in and solve this problem. Now you’ve wasted money. RR: Yeah. I saw a really interesting stat from some original research by Influ2. They surveyed marketing and sales leaders that are in the market for technology, and of those leaders, only 10% of them saw the IT perspective as valuable during the evaluation. 38% of them, however, then came back and said our biggest blocker, the number one blocker, in fact, was IT. So that disconnect is very clear, and it’s causing very clear consequences down the line. KW: I think what I would say is the best IT teams don’t want to be blockers. We don’t get excited blocking what the business is doing. We get excited leveraging the technology and moving it forward as fast as possible and seeing the business successful. So that’s what we want to do. It’s really hard when decisions have been made that back us into a corner and we’re like, “There’s no way to scale this, support this, continue this.” And then we’re seen as a blocker, but if we just had the conversation earlier, we could actually mitigate that much earlier. RR: So it sounds like the theme here is that your IT team wants to be a partner, not a gatekeeper or a blocker. And so knowing that, bring them along for the ride. Give them a seat at the table. Your programs, your investments will be better for it. If you had to boil this all down to one tip for marketing, sales, or enablement leaders on partnering with IT as they bring AI into their tech stack, what would it be? KW: I think if you can bring the IT team in and have a forward-looking view over the next year, over the next two years. It’s really hard to look two years out with AI and how fast it’s moving, but over the next year maybe, this is where we want to get. This is what we want to automate. This is what we need to fix. This is what we need to deliver in order to continue to execute on our objectives. If IT is on the same page there, we can be a proactive resource and help to get them there. We read all these things every day, there might be something that I’m seeing in the market or happening that I can bring to the table. Or at very least, when you come to me in six months and say, “Okay, I pulled the trigger on this thing,” we had that conversation. I knew it was coming. I knew the direction we were going, and directionally I was aligned with you, and so now I’m supporting that initiative rather than it being a surprise with no resources. So let us help with the roadmap. I think if we could do that across the whole business with IT, we would win together. RR: The one pretty clear takeaway, I think, whether you build, whether you buy, or whether you land somewhere in between, bring your IT team into the conversation, and you’re set up either way. Keith, last question for you. Just curious, what would you say to someone who looks at this build, buy, blend conversation and asks, “Why don’t I just build Highspot myself?” KW: When you build something as big and as complex as Highspot, there’s a lot of learnings that happen, a lot of iterations, a lot of changes to get to where you are. And trying to build that from scratch is very difficult. And I think the next thing that you may hear is, “Well, we can cobble this together.” I would just say you’re going to maintain that thing that Highspot has a full engineering team to make that as wonderful and as best as it can be. And how many engineers can you staff to do that and keep the velocity of it so that whatever you’re building is gonna move faster and be better than what Highspot’s building? And then what’s that gonna cost you? Going back to that build versus buy, when you start looking at how many engineers it takes not only to build it, but then to maintain it, support it, deploy it, I think the ROI doesn’t pencil out. RR: The moment you throw out the phrase cobble together, I think you’ve kind of already answered your own question. Keith, thanks for the window into a world most of us in go-to-market rarely see. This was a lot of fun, and I’m really excited to share the news. IT is there to help, and when you give them a seat at the table, your AI investments will be better for it. KW: Yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate the time. RR: To our audience, thanks for listening to this episode of the Win/Win Podcast. Tune in next time for more insights on how to maximize go-to-market success with Highspot.

In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Patrick Wild, Head of Global IT, Balluff.Wir sprechen über folgende Themen:Wie gelingt der Einstieg in generative KI im Unternehmen – von der ersten AI-Policy bis zu konkreten Use Cases?Warum hat Balluff zunächst eine eigene KI-Plattform gebaut und später auf Microsoft 365 Copilot gesetzt?Welche Rolle spielen persönliche KI-Assistenten wie Copilot im Arbeitsalltag von Mitarbeitenden?Wie können Unternehmen KI-Tools flächendeckend einführen, ohne Mitarbeitende zu überfordern?Was ist der Unterschied zwischen No-Code-Agenten, Low-Code-Agenten und Pro-Code-Agenten im Unternehmen?Wie sieht eine sinnvolle KI-Governance aus, wenn Mitarbeitende eigene Agenten bauen können?Warum wird der ROI bei KI-Assistenten bald ähnlich selbstverständlich sein wie bei E-Mail oder Internetzugang?Wie kann Agentic AI Geschäftsprozesse automatisieren und echten Business Impact erzeugen?Welche Chancen bietet KI im IT-Service-Management – vom qualifizierten Ticket bis zum automatischen Neustart eines Servers?Was hat Balluff in zwei Jahren KI-Transformation gelernt – und welche Ansätze wurden wieder verworfen?Erhalte jede Woche aktuelle Strategien in dein E-Mail Postfach: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stateofprocessautomation.com/⁠⁠Podcast-Moderator: Christoph Pacher⁠LinkedIn⁠Interviewgast: Patrick Wild, Head of Global IT, Balluff⁠LinkedIn

Host: Chitra Gurjar4 decades and counting, always energized to do something, work is my DNAFrom post and telegraph to giving tuitions to creating her own agency to studyAn advocate for herself, nurturing her desire to serveTurning away “assured” job offers to join Defence Labs as a Scientist at CABSMoved onto a “lesser assurance” to join HPPeople and culture at the heart of her 3+decade stay at HPChallenging status quo, try and fail, Innovation has to be a part of one's daily lifeStay focused on problems that you are solving and layer tools and technology to solve your problemFocus on incremental delivery of valueHolding a people vision through the course of her workStrong belief that “AI will improve the quality of jobs”Learning is a constant - continue to build Apply training and learning programs intentionallyWorking on a market analysis - next gen quoterStrong belief on impact of AI on Healthcare and EducationBelieving that coaching is something everyone should learn, enable people as answers lie within each oneWorking with a non-profit Daksham skills and Dreams DesignsArundathi has been working in technology and leadership related roles for the last 40+ years. Shestarted her career as a Scientist at Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, India.While at DRDO, she was involved in development of Radar transmitter and controller systems.Arundathi joined Hewlett Packard in 1996 and during her 27+ year career in HP and HPE, she hasworked in multiple roles across various business units. Under her leadership, HP rolled out multiplemarket leading internet services related products on HPUX. She was on one of the key leaderresponsible for setting up Global IT teams offshore centre in India in 2004. She has managed a teamof 3000+ technologists delivering for IT, across multiple technologies and multiple business areasenabling HP(E)'s business. She has successfully lead and delivered multiple IT transformationprojects. She has also lead the people transformation to move towards digital technologies inalignment with the market trends and business needs. She has had a short stint of 2 years at EY asthe Engineering leader for India, in Client Technology, building on Product engineering and deliverycapability. In the recent past she was the Global Program Manager for HPE's industry leading NextGeneration IT transformation program. She leads the Global Delivery Services organisation, which isthe internal the delivery engine for GIT. She is also the India leader for HPE's Global IT.Arundathi has led several initiatives in people transformation towards digital transformation,customer centricity and employee engagement. She is passionate about building teams and leaderswho are future proof and future safe. She has a strong passion towards building women leaders intechnology and mentored and coached many women through focussed initiatives. She has also hada stint as the chairperson at HP for Prevention of Sexual Harassment at workplace.Arundathi has as Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics from GovernmentCollege of Technology, Coimbatore and Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology,Madras (IITM). She is a certified coach.During her free time, Arundathi loves to teach, coach, travel and read.

Success trifft Success – diese Folge erzählt gleich zwei Erfolgsgeschichten.  Marco spricht mit Bernd Müller, Head of Global IT der Dr. Beckmann Group, über die Entwicklung eines international wachsenden Familienunternehmens und über eine gemeinsame PowerWeek, aus der eine eigene Success Story entstanden ist .    Bernd gibt einen offenen und persönlichen Einblick in seine Rolle als langjähriger Innovator der Gruppe: Welche Entscheidungen wirklich entscheidend waren, wie Technologie Kultur unterstützt statt sie zu verdrängen und warum erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit immer beim Menschen beginnt.    Gemeinsam sprechen die beiden über das Spannungsfeld aus Tradition, Fortschritt und Digitalisierung – und darüber, wie man im AI-Zeitalter „das Richtige richtig macht“.    Die PowerWeeks werden dabei nicht als klassisches Training verstanden, sondern als Momentum: ein Katalysator für digitale Zusammenarbeit, Klarheit und modernes Arbeiten.    Eine Folge voller ehrlicher Erfahrungen, praxisnaher Learnings und persönlicher Perspektiven – zwei Sichtweisen, die am Ende eine gemeinsam gelebte Success Story ergeben.    Proudly sponsored by Weingut Von Winning mit dem besten WIN WIN Riesling & Kaffee Braun mit einzigartig gutem Espresso aus Aschaffenburg!      Und was genau die PowerWeeks sind und was sie so besonders machen, findet ihr unter: https://kom4tec.de/modern-workplace/power-weeks/   Zitate aus der Folge      Marco    Wenn ich Teil eines Projekts bin, habe ich den Anspruch, aktiv darüber nachzudenken, wie wir die bestmögliche Lösung erreichen können.   Diese Haltung – Verantwortung zu übernehmen statt nur Aufgaben abzuarbeiten – macht am Ende den Unterschied.   Wenn jeder ein Stück dieser Denkweise mitbringt, entsteht in der Regel etwas wirklich Gutes.       Bernd    Meine Philosophie in der IT ist klar: Wenn jemand mit einem Thema oder einem Problem zu uns kommt, hat Hilfe immer oberste Priorität.  Dabei ist es zunächst egal, ob es formal in unseren Zuständigkeitsbereich fällt oder nicht.   Wir lassen niemanden im Regen stehen. Genau das ist auch der Anspruch, den ich an mein gesamtes Team habe.      In den kommenden Podcast-Folgen bekommst du:    Infos und Tipps rund um die M365-Welt und ihre Anwendungen wie Power BI und Power Apps  Inspiration und praktische Tipps für den Kulturwandel für dich oder dein Unternehmen, um immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein  Wertvolle Impulse für ein bewusstes Mindset  Tipps zu praktischen Tools, die deinen Change unterstützen können, egal ob persönlich oder als Unternehmen  Viele weitere Einblicke in die Welt des New Work    Let's connect  Du hast Ideen, Themenvorschläge oder Anregungen zum Thema, dann teile gerne deine Gedanken mit uns und schick uns eine Nachricht an podcast@kom4tec.de oder auf Instagram @kom4tec  Wir freuen uns von dir zu hören.   Follow us!   Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/KOM4TEC/   Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/kom4tec/   LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/10407066/  

Global IT spending is projected to reach its highest level in 30 years, driven primarily by investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services. According to a report from the International Data Corporation, spending on hardware, software, and IT services is expected to rise by 14%, marking the fastest growth rate since 1996. However, the benefits of this spending surge are not being realized by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), as hyperscalers dominate the market by building extensive AI infrastructure and integrated platforms. This shift in control raises questions about the future value proposition for MSPs, who may find themselves increasingly marginalized.Small businesses are experiencing hiring challenges despite a reported increase in job growth plans. The National Federation of Independent Business Jobs report indicates that 33% of small business owners have unfilled job openings, with 19% planning to create new jobs in the next three months. However, 56% of these businesses attempted to hire in November, with half citing a lack of suitable candidates. Compounding this issue, federal statistical agencies are facing significant staffing and budget cuts, leading to a decline in the availability of reliable economic data. This erosion of data could hinder small businesses' ability to make informed hiring and investment decisions.In a notable leadership change, Jim Siders has been appointed CEO of Shield Technology Partners, an IT services platform focused on integrating AI with operational expertise. Siders aims to enhance service delivery through AI innovations, positioning Shield as a vital resource for businesses in sectors like construction and healthcare. This move reflects a broader trend of IT services being restructured as AI-driven platforms rather than traditional roll-ups, emphasizing the importance of operational discipline and clean data in leveraging AI effectively.The episode highlights a concerning trend in corporate spending on AI, where companies allocate 93% of their budgets to technology and only 7% to the people who will utilize it. This imbalance can lead to a decline in trust among employees and an increase in the use of unapproved AI tools, complicating compliance and operational efficiency. For MSPs and IT service leaders, the key takeaway is the necessity to shift focus from merely adopting technology to fostering a disciplined approach to AI integration, emphasizing governance, workflow redesign, and clear decision-making boundaries to ensure that clients can navigate the complexities of AI effectively. Four things to know today00:00 Global IT Spending Hits 30-Year High as AI and Cloud Investments Accelerate, IDC Reports05:24 Small Businesses Plan More Hiring but Still Can't Find Qualified Workers, NFIB Reports08:33 Shield Names Former Palantir CIO Jim Siders CEO as It Builds an AI-First IT Services Platform With OpenAI and Thrive11:19 Deloitte: Lopsided AI Spending, Declining Trust, and Shadow AI Signal a Growing Management Failure This is the Business of Tech.     Supported by:  https://saasalerts.com/mspradio/

This panel explored the critical challenges facing designers, manufacturers, and distributors as they navigate supply chain instability, shifting global manufacturing strategies, recycled content sourcing, and client expectations amid tight deadlines—especially in wildfire-impacted areas like Altadena and Pacific Palisades and features; Melissa Zellner - Director of Marketing | ASSA ABLOY Group,  Anthony Powsney _ Regional Sales Manager | Zip Water, Emile Zmenak, Managing Partner | Urbania Canada and Jay Williams, Senior Director  | The AZEK CompanyKey Themes and Takeaways:Manufacturing Strategy & Location Flexibility:Supply Chain Pressure & Preemptive Planning:Tariffs & Pricing Instability:Communication Breakdown & Trust:Transparent Relationships & Education:Planning for Large-Scale Rebuilds:Resilience Through Partnership:Supply Chain Uncertainty & Design Resilience — A Blueprint for Moving ForwardDesigners today face a reality that feels less like a puzzle and more like a moving target. Supply chains are in constant flux, tariffs are reshaping pricing strategies overnight, and manufacturing must strike a careful balance between cost, speed, and sustainability. In this recent panel hosted by Doctoring Up Design, industry leaders from manufacturing, distribution, and design gathered to talk candidly about what's changing, what's working, and how designers can better navigate a turbulent environment—particularly when working on wildfire rebuilds or urgent residential timelines.Manufacturing Is No Longer Local or Global—It's StrategicThe conversation began with a look at where products are made and how that affects availability and pricing. One manufacturer described their hybrid model: U.S.-grown timber processed and partially assembled domestically, with finishing done in locations like Southeast Asia and Cartagena. Why? Because even with wages at $28/hour and benefits, they couldn't hire enough skilled labor in Central Michigan.“We built a state-of-the-art factory,” one panelist explained. “We had people interested in sawing timber, but no one wanted to stay through the manufacturing process.” That labor challenge forced the company to rethink what “Made in the USA” really means—and how they could still meet that standard while staying economically viable.Recycled Materials & Smart Sourcing Offer New HopeCommunication Isn't Just Important—It's Non-NegotiableRebuilding After Disaster Requires a Different PlaybookBudgeting and Flexibility Go Hand in Hand“We're all going to have to compromise somewhere,” one panelist said. “But when you work with people you trust, you know they'll do everything they can to help.”Final Thoughts: Partnership Is the New Competitive AdvantageUltimately, design is a human business, not just a technical one. Whether it's a manufacturer innovating with 48-hour veneer drying or a showroom that calls to walk you through every option, success depends on real relationships. If one leg of the stool—manufacturer, showroom, or designer—breaks, the whole system collapses.But when all three collaborate, communicate, and plan together, they can weather any disruption—and even build something better than what came before.

After launching a global anti-trafficking movement in his teens, Chris Schrader didn't settle down—he leveled up.In Part Two, the founder of the 24 Hour Race draws parallels between navigating the Gobi Desert and leading high-growth businesses across continents. From dropping out of Harvard to leading expeditions and scaling software companies, Chris shares why building teams isn't about maximizing your strongest players—it's about supporting your weakest. And why sometimes, real leadership means being the “secretary of the team,” not the star.This episode goes beyond business tactics and into the mindset behind meaningful leadership. It's a deep dive into servant leadership, self-doubt, ruthless decision-making, and how to chase your personal North Star—even if you never reach it.Key Highlights of Our Interview:When ISIS Threats and Identity Crises Collide“Some challenges are existential—like not knowing what we are. Others are urgent—like whether to cancel an event after a terror threat.”The Expedition Analogy: Climbing Unmapped Peaks“Trying to grow an organization is like summiting a mountain no one's climbed before—you'll miss things, reroute, and sometimes have to turn back.”The Gobi Desert and the North Star“You navigate by stars knowing you'll never touch them. That's what great goals are—worth chasing even if you never arrive.”The Secret to Team Performance“You're not defined by your best players. You're defined by your weakest. Great leaders either lift them—or make hard calls.”Servant Leadership Isn't Just Humility—It's Precision“As a leader, I'm the expedition secretary. My job is to clear the path so my team can outperform me in every way.”When to Cut Loose and When to Coach“Too many leaders let low performers drag down morale. In expeditions, that mistake can get someone killed. In business, it just slowly kills momentum.”The Myth-Building Side of Leadership“Sometimes leadership means becoming something aspirational—a myth people can believe in. But you still serve the mission, not yourself.”Between What You Want to Be and What You Need to Be“I want to be the first man to circumnavigate the moon. But I need to be a good son, a great partner, a reliable chairman—and pay my sous-vide-powered electricity bill.”The Hardest Impact Isn't Global—It's Personal“It's easy to romanticize Musk or Zuckerberg. Harder? Being the friend who actually shows up. That's the real Paragon of humanity.”_____________________Connect with us:Host: Vince Chan | Guest: Chris Schrader  --Chief Change Officer--Change Ambitiously. Outgrow Yourself.Open a World of Expansive Human Intelligencefor Transformation Gurus, Black Sheep,Unsung Visionaries & Bold Hearts.EdTech Leadership Awards 2025 Finalist.18 Million+ All-Time Downloads.80+ Countries Reached Daily.Global Top 1.5% Podcast.Top 10 US Business.Top 1 US Careers.>>>170,000+ are outgrowing. Act Today.

Willkommen bei unserer Mission New Work. New Rules. - du bist mittendrin!  In dieser Episode tauchen wir tief in die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz im deutschen Mittelstand ein.

Welcome to Top of the Morning by Mint, your weekday newscast that brings you five major stories from the world of business. It's Thursday, July 25, 2024. My name is Nelson John. Let's get started:India's benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty 50 continued their decline for the fourth straight session. Sensex dropped 0.35 per cent while Nifty fell 0.27 per cent.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman faced new challenges as she prepared for her seventh consecutive budget amidst changing political dynamics. The recent electoral results have shifted the political landscape, impacting the government's approach and introducing the pressures of coalition politics. Despite these pressures, the budget focused on maintaining fiscal discipline and promoting capital expenditure-led growth, writes N Madhavan. This was evident in the government's commitment to reducing fiscal deficits and boosting public investment to stimulate economic activity, hoping to catalyze private sector investment. Employment remained a central theme, with the government introducing schemes to enhance education, skills, and job creation, reflecting a proactive approach to harness India's demographic potential. Capital expenditure was maintained at robust levels to ensure continued infrastructure development and encourage state-level spending, which is typically more immediate in its economic impact. Overall, the budget balanced prudent fiscal management with necessary spending on critical areas, aiming to sustain growth without compromising financial stability. This explainer by Mint's senior editor  N Madhavan is the only one you will need to understand the Union Budget of 2024. Click on the link in the show notes to read. The $250 billion IT services sector had a rough start in Q1 FY25, with mixed performances from big names like TCS, HCLTech, Infosys, Wipro, and LTIMindtree. Companies are still holding back on spending, and the much-anticipated boom from AI projects hasn't quite hit yet. For instance, TCS saw a dip in its operating margins and overall contract values, while Infosys actually did better than expected, prompting it to boost its revenue outlook for FY25. Looking forward, there's a cautious optimism in the air. Global IT spending is expected to rise by 7.5% this year, but sectors like banking and financial services are keeping their wallets tight, which affects overall growth. The industry is hopeful for a stronger second half of the fiscal year as companies start loosening the purse strings and AI projects scale up. Mint's Shelley Singh explains whether the IT sector will see a resurgence in the ongoing fiscal year or not in today's Mint Primer. In its first budget after a modest election victory, the BJP-led government is putting job creation at the forefront with new financial incentives to boost formal-sector employment. Details are pending, but the gist is clear: financial perks for hiring and for new employees signing up. However, given the deep-seated issues in India's job market and employers' typical aversion to formalizing roles, it's uncertain how much these incentives will actually move the needle. With three new schemes, the government aims to formalize more jobs, but past patterns suggest a tough road ahead. Real change might need more than just incentives if the underlying issues of job security and employer reluctance aren't addressed. Our partners at howindialives.com take a comprehensive look at the job-creation schemes through charts and numbers and whether these schemes can deliver what they promise. Travelling from airports like Bengaluru, Kochi, or Ahmedabad? It might cost you more, even if your airline hasn't hiked its fares. This is due to increased airport charges, specifically the user development fees, which are passed from the airline to the airport operator and, ultimately, to travellers. Since the start of FY25, 16 major airports across India, including those in cities like Hyderabad, Mangalore, and Chennai, have increased the fee by 2 to 200 per cent, Mint's aviation correspondent Anu Sharma reports. This rise in airport fees adds another layer to the already higher airfares this year, driven by a shortage of available aircraft and a spike in demand. The Centre is committed to maintaining its fiscal deficit below 4.5% of GDP for FY26, continuing its track record of exceeding fiscal projections. Speaking to Mint's Rhik Kundu and Subhash Narayan, finance secretary T.V. Somanathan said this goal, announced during the budget on Tuesday, aligns with the fiscal consolidation path set by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The government aims to cut down the deficit from the 9.1% peak during the pandemic. The capex plan of the Central government will remain at about 3.4% of GDP, consistent with levels from the interim budget, and it may see an absolute increase in FY26. Somanathan indicated that while the percentage of GDP allocated to capex will hold steady, the actual amounts could rise, reflecting the government's commitment to maintaining robust investment levels in the coming years.We'd love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Let us know by writing to us at feedback@livemint.com. You may send us feedback, tips or anything that you feel we should be covering from your vantage point in the world of business and finance.Show notes:Budget 2024-25: The ultimate explainerMint Primer |  IT services: When will the tide turn?Will the budget sops for hiring bear fruit?Why you're paying more for flying from these airportsCentre aims to better fiscal deficit target in FY26: Finance secretary 

Global IT spending is projected to surge by 7.5% in 2024, driven by increased demand for data center systems and IT services, particularly generative AI. The growth forecast highlights the sustained demand for managed services and cloud solutions, indicating a shift towards comprehensive IT management solutions offered by MSPs.Secondly, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is facing a regulatory showdown in the EU as it withholds its new multimodal AI model from European customers due to regulatory uncertainties. This decision reflects a broader trend among U.S. tech giants to withhold products from European markets, raising concerns about data privacy and compliance with GDPR regulations. The move underscores the challenges tech companies face in navigating complex regulatory landscapes across different regions.Thirdly, the podcast delves into the impact of legacy tech upgrades on businesses, with the average company spending $2.9 million on maintaining and upgrading outdated systems. Legacy systems pose challenges for implementing emerging technologies like AI, impacting productivity and hindering innovation. The episode emphasizes the importance of modernization roadmaps and cloud migration strategies to help businesses transition to more agile and scalable IT infrastructures.Lastly, the episode touches on NATO's plans to establish a new cyber defense center in Belgium to protect allied cyberspace operations. This initiative comes in response to the rise in politically motivated cyber attacks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, highlighting the growing importance of cybersecurity in the geopolitical landscape. The establishment of the NATO Integrated Cyber Defense Center underscores the evolving nature of cyber warfare and the need for collective resilience and defense strategies in the digital age. Three things to know today 00:00 Global IT Spending to Surge by 7.5% in 2024, Driven by Data Center Systems and IT Services04:19 Meta's Regulatory Showdown: EU Customers Denied Access to New Multimodal AI Model07:25 Legacy Tech Upgrades Costing Businesses Millions, Hindering AI Adoption and Productivity All our Sponsors: https://businessof.tech/sponsors/ Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/Looking for a link from the stories? The entire script of the show, with links to articles, are posted in each story on https://www.businessof.tech/ Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mspradio/ Want our stuff? Cool Merch? Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com Follow us on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/YouTube: https://youtube.com/mspradio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessoftechBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/businessoftech.bsky.social

For their regular catch-up, Oto speak to the Green Party's Ricardo Menéndez March about the party's executive summary of the independent investigation into former MP Darleen Tana. He spoke to Peter Reynolds, CEO of the New Zealand Disability Support Network to discuss staffing shortages in disability care in wake of the Disability Commissioners report on abuse in disabled care. He spoke to Edward Elder, Professional Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, to discuss the US general elections and the role of party branding in the potential outcome. And he spoke to John Minto from Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa to discuss the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice on Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. Sasha spoke to Gehan Gunasakera from the University of Auckland about last week's Global IT outage and the data sovereignty implications that should be expected of tech companies. And he spoke to Juressa Lee from Greenpeace about a recent study which confirms production of oxygen on the ocean floor from metallic nodules and the importance of ending sea mining.

For their regular catch-up, Oto speak to the Green Party's Ricardo Menéndez March about the party's executive summary of the independent investigation into former MP Darleen Tana. He spoke to Peter Reynolds, CEO of the New Zealand Disability Support Network to discuss staffing shortages in disability care in wake of the Disability Commissioners report on abuse in disabled care. He spoke to Edward Elder, Professional Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, to discuss the US general elections and the role of party branding in the potential outcome. And he spoke to John Minto from Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa to discuss the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice on Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. Sasha spoke to Gehan Gunasakera from the University of Auckland about last week's Global IT outage and the data sovereignty implications that should be expected of tech companies. And he spoke to Juressa Lee from Greenpeace about a recent study which confirms production of oxygen on the ocean floor from metallic nodules and the importance of ending sea mining.

HOT TOPIC Topic: Lesson's from the Global IT crisis Guest: Nkosinathi Ndlovu: TechCentral, journalist

https://youtu.be/NgggZ_3ZBGg In this daily security byte with WatchGuard CSO, Corey Nachreiner, he explains the recent Global IT outage cause by a CrowdStrike update. We also follow-up on RockYou and the RockYou2024 data dump of 10 billion records

UK government and NI Executive 'failed their citizens' with flawed pandemic plans. Also, Global IT outages wreak havoc from Japan to New Zealand, as flights are grounded and businesses impacted - we invite some top experts onto the show for their analysis.

On Today's Show:  Do you keep cash on hand if poo hits the fan? The Global IT outage put a lot of things into perspective this morning! Gen Z's are opting for alternative ways to meet romantic partners instead of the apps... and you'll never believe their top option! Consider us shook - Hello Kitty is not a cat!  New predictions of when "THE BIG ONE" will Hit That and more on today's Nat & Drew Show! 

Global It outage affects airlines, hospitals, media and everyone who uses Microsoft. What's going on!? Andy Baryer - Tech and Digital Lifestyle Expert at HandyAndyMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Microsoft users Friday morning have reported widespread outages as airlines, airports, banks and media companies have suddenly experienced ongoing disruptions that have upended the daily lives of potentially millions of people. American Airlines, United and Delta have asked the FAA for global ground stop on all flights, according to an alert from the FAA on Friday morning. Global IT outages have also been reported in many countries across the world including Berlin Airport in Germany, the London Stock Exchange, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom. It issue stems from Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm that services numerous industries. ABC News' Mike Dobuski has the very latest.

Russia: court sentences US journalist to 16 years in prison +++ Global IT crash caused by antivirus update +++ France: Champagne producers forecast smaller harvest amid decline in demand

Global IT outage affects flights and companies in Singapore; Asian markets fall; Japan cuts growth forecast, prime minister warns of weak-yen pain. Synopsis: Market Focus Daily is a closing bell roundup by The Business Times that looks at the day's market movements and news from Singapore and the region. Written and hosted by: Emily Liu (emilyliu@sph.com.sg) Recording engineer: Joann Chai Pei Chieh Produced and edited by: Lee Kim Siang & Claressa Monteiro Produced by: BT Podcasts, The Business Times, SPH Media --- Follow Market Focus Daily and rate us on: Channel: bt.sg/btmktfocus Amazon: bt.sg/mfam Apple Podcasts: bt.sg/mfap Spotify: bt.sg/mfsp YouTube Music: bt.sg/mfyt Google Podcasts: bt.sg/mfgo Website: bt.sg/mktfocus Feedback to: btpodcasts@sph.com.sg Do note: This podcast is meant to provide general information only. SPH Media accepts no liability for loss arising from any reliance on the podcast or use of third party's products and services. Please consult professional advisors for independent advice.  Discover more BT podcast series: BT Mark To Market at: bt.sg/btmark2mkt  WealthBT at: bt.sg/btpropertybt PropertyBT at: bt.sg/btmktfocus BT Money Hacks at: bt.sg/btmoneyhacks BT Podcasts at: bt.sg/podcasts BT Branded Podcasts at: bt.sg/brpod BT Lens On: bt.sg/btlensonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Patrick Wild, Head of Global IT, Balluff. Wir sprechen über folgende Themen: Wie identifiziert und implementiert man Use Cases für generative KI? Wie kann generative KI die Produktivität in Unternehmen steigern? Was sind die ersten Schritte, um generative KI in einem Unternehmen einzuführen? Wie kann man Mitarbeitern den Umgang mit generativer KI beibringen? Was sind die Herausforderungen bei der Implementierung von generativer KI? Welche Rolle spielt die IT-Abteilung bei der Einführung von generativer KI? Wie wählt man die passenden Use Cases für generative KI aus? Wie misst man den Erfolg von generativer KI in Geschäftsprozessen? Wie integriert man generative KI in bestehende IT-Systeme? Erhalte jede Woche aktuelle Strategien in dein E-Mail Postfach: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stateofprocessautomation.com/⁠ Podcast-Moderator: Christoph Pacher LinkedIn Interviewgast: Patrick Wild, Head of Global IT, Balluff LinkedIn

Digital transformation er som fitness - det stopper aldrig. Dagens gæster kommer fra en over 100 år gammel medicinalvirksomhed, hvor innovation er selve eksistensgrundlaget, når de produkter, der skal bære forretningen om 10 år, bliver udviklet. Så hvordan ser digital transformation ud i en organisation, der altid skal være foran? Lyt med i Dataklubben, der besøger LEO Pharma til en snak om at lede den digitale transformation, nytænke rammerne og sikre datastrategien i en særledes kompetent organisation. Tag godt imod dagens gæster fra Global IT i LEO Pharma - Troels Ravn Bærentzen, Head of Digital Strategy, Partnerships & Analytics og Marie Helene Andersson, Corporate Principal Data Partner. 

In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Patrick Wild, Head of Global IT, Balluff. Wir sprechen über folgende Themen: Welche Ziele sollte man bei der Modernisierung der IT-Prozesse verfolgen? Welche Herausforderungen treten häufig bei der Modernisierung und Automatisierung der IT-Prozesse auf und wie können diese überwunden werden? Unter welchen Bedingungen ist es sinnvoll, IT-Dienste auszulagern? Erhalte jede Woche aktuelle Strategien in dein E-Mail Postfach: https://www.stateofprocessautomation.com/ Podcast-Moderator: Christoph Pacher LinkedIn Interviewgast: Patrick Wild, Head of Global IT, Balluff LinkedIn

Today on our show, we're bringing you the third episode in our special summer mini-series recorded live from the Cannes Lions 2023 International Festival of Creativity. frog was an official partner of the event, where we hosted a cabana along the famed croisette. What ensued was four days of programming that included on-stage panels from our sunny beachside terrace and interviews with expert guests from leading brands in our on-site recording studio.Day Three in the frog Cabana featured conversations on the topic of ‘Expectations for a Connected World.' At a time of eroding boundaries between realms like the digital and physical, product and service, insight and interaction, bringing these worlds together in a seamless way is an ongoing shift, requiring endless experimentation, refinement, launching and scaling of new business models alongside entirely new ways of working.Special thanks to this episode's guests: Chiara Diana, Chief Design Officer, frog; Timo Bularczyk, Director of Global IT, Mercedes-Benz Mobility; Ximena O'Reilly, Global Head of Design, Nestlé & Advisory Council, Design for Good; Christina Schehl, Vice President and Head of Germany, frogBrought to you by frog, a global creative consultancy. frog is part of Capgemini Invent. (https://www.frog.co) Visit us to learn more and stay in the loop of our partnership with Cannes Lions. (https://cannes.frog.co/)Visit frog to learn more about the Connected World (https://www.frog.co/services/connected-world)Read 'Customer-Centricity in the Connected Era: Overcoming Five Common Challenges' in Business Leader (https://www.businessleader.co.uk/customer-centricity-connected-era-overcoming-five-common-challenges/)Download the frog 'The Road Ahead' report. (https://go.frog.co/the-road-ahead)

Global IT industry stands for about 2 % of the global emissions, which is about the same as aviation. But did you know that the IT industry can greatly contribute to bringing down the rest of 98 %? If you wonder how, it basically comes down to IT's two superpowers: transformation and optimization. In the new episode of The Switch Podcast, we talked with Chiara Selvetti-Backéus, Director Sustainable Business at Atea Group, the leading IT infrastructure provider in the Nordic region, about how can the IT industry contribute to a more sustainable world, what is sustainable IT and how can we change the world with our wallet. Tune in for some great insights on sustainable IT from this esteemed sustainability professional!

In this episode, we flip the script on our show and put Brian Hayes, Senior Director, Financial Services Industry Vertical at VMWare in the guest seat. We discuss the digital transformation of the financial services industry. Brian highlights the need for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation, adopt agile methodologies, and cultivate a culture of innovation to stay competitive in the rapidly changing industry.Hayes emphasizes the importance of understanding customers' needs and preferences, using emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain to create personalized, relevant experiences. Brian also acknowledges the challenges of balancing innovation with regulatory compliance and risk management. Ultimately, successful digital transformation requires a collaborative approach, a focus on the customer, and a commitment to experimentation and continuous learning.3 Takeaways:The financial services industry is undergoing a rapid and significant transformation driven by technology and changing customer expectations. Digital disruption is changing the way financial services are delivered and experienced, and financial institutions must adapt quickly to remain competitive. This transformation requires a deep understanding of customers' needs and preferences, as well as the ability to leverage emerging technologies to create new, innovative products and services.To stay competitive, financial services organizations must embrace digital transformation, adopt agile methodologies, and cultivate a culture of innovation. This requires a willingness to experiment and take risks, and the ability to quickly iterate and adapt in response to changing market conditions. Successful digital transformation also requires a collaborative approach, with cross-functional teams working together to develop and implement new solutions.Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are revolutionizing the way financial services are delivered and creating new opportunities for innovation and growth. These technologies have the potential to transform everything from payments and lending to risk management and regulatory compliance. Financial institutions that can effectively leverage these technologies will be better positioned to create new revenue streams, improve customer experiences, and drive operational efficiencies. However, it's important to remember that technology alone is not enough – a successful digital transformation also requires a deep understanding of the business, the ability to navigate regulatory and compliance requirements, and a commitment to developing a culture of innovation.Key Quotes: "Digital transformation is not just about technology, it's about culture and mindset. Financial institutions must be willing to challenge the status quo, experiment with new ideas, and embrace a culture of innovation. This requires a willingness to take risks and try new things, even if they don't always work out. Success in digital transformation also requires a focus on the customer – understanding their needs and preferences, and delivering personalized, relevant experiences that meet and exceed their expectations.""Innovation requires experimentation, and experimentation requires a culture of tolerance for failure. Financial institutions must be willing to take risks and try new things, even if they don't always work out. This requires a culture that values experimentation and learning, and is willing to accept failure as an inevitable part of the innovation process. By fostering a culture of experimentation, financial institutions can create an environment where new ideas can flourish, and where teams are empowered to take risks and try new things.""The future of financial services is all about customer experience and delivering personalized, relevant services at scale. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning can play a key role in delivering these experiences, but they must be deployed in a thoughtful and strategic way. Financial institutions must focus on understanding their customers' needs and preferences, and using technology to deliver solutions that meet those needs. By doing so, they can create differentiated experiences that drive customer loyalty and ultimately, business growth."Best Career Advice:The most important thing you can do for your career is to be a lifelong learner. Keep an open mind, be curious, and never stop learning. Seek out new experiences, challenge yourself, and be willing to take risks. And always remember to stay humble and never stop asking questions.Bio:Brian Hayes, Senior Director, Financial Services Industry Solutions Brian is accountable for the ecosystem, solution, and go-to-market strategy, of VMware's offerings to Financial Services customers globally, working with the broader VMware ecosystem and partners including key global product, applications, and consulting organisations.Formerly a Managing Director within the FS Industry, he brings considerable technology and business experience having held Global IT functional and leadership roles in Retail Banking, Capital Markets and Market Exchanges for such companies as HSBC, Barclays Bank, Morgan Stanley, and NYSE. He has also held General Manager and senior executive positions within the consulting services and systems integrator industry, leading global business lines and global programme delivery teams.Operating globally throughout his career, he has lived overseas in the USA and Japan and for extensive periods lead initiatives and teams in locations as diverse as Brazil, Russia, Holland, France and India.With this knowledge, skillset, and experience, he brings to life to client conversations and connection around not just the technology but also the specific business demands and themes, with relevancy to the broader industry challenges. He also sees the future based around open innovation and the co-creation of effective eco-systems, bringing all parties to the table to drive customer solutions and value creation.—For more information:Follow Brian on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hayes-global-transformation-infrastructure-leadership-innovation-cyber-cloud-digital-delivery/About the HostsMatthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter.Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveler and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

Having real-time access to secure, accurate data is critical in the healthcare industry. From storage and data integration to enabling governance across all of the systems that rely on sensitive patient information, every aspect of data management must be carefully considered when implementing a cloud strategy. Advancements in technology have made it easier than ever for healthcare professionals to access up-to-date information and gain new insights that can improve patient care. In this episode you'll learn: Why the cloud is so important for medical data How to help ensure healthcare data protection The most valuable information uncovered when analyzing healthcare data Some questions we ask: What is it about medical data that surprises you the most? How could advancements in technology help medical data consumption? What tools help you make medical data accessible to everyone in the organization? Guest bio Anders Reinhardt, Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Global IT at Coloplast, joins Patrick LeBlanc on this week's episode of Insights Tomorrow. Anders has supported different business teams with tools and data, from simple upgrades of data platforms to transformations to the cloud. Anders has managed teams of developers, supporters, and sourcing partners working with onshore, nearshore, and offshore teams. Resources: View Anders Reinhardt on LinkedIn View Patrick LeBlanc on LinkedIn Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we're bringing you an episode of It's Political with Althia Raj.  This week on “It's Political,” we mark April's high religious holidays, such as Easter, Ramadan, Passover and Vaisakhi, with a conversation on faith and politics. How it influences MPs' policy positions, where they believe the line between state and church should be drawn, and the impact of political parties using religion as a wedge. First, we'll look at the rising numbers of religious hate crimes and a new report by Cardus that suggests Canadians have polarizing views on religion. Canada's former ambassador for religious freedom, Andrew Bennett, will walk us through his research. Then, we'll hear from Amira Elghawaby, the Trudeau government's recent appointee as Canada's special representative on combatting Islamophobia, on why she believes her role is necessary. After, we'll sit down with Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, NDP MP Daniel Blaikie and Liberal MP Anthony Housefather for a conversation on how their faith influences their politics. In this episode: Mississauga—Erin Mills MP Iqra Khalid, Sarnia—Lambton MP Marilyn Gladu, Mount Royal MP Anthony Housefather, Elmwood—Transcona MP Daniel Blaikie, Andrew Bennet, Cardus' program director of Faith Communities, Amira Elghawaby, Canada's Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia of Canada. Hosted by Althia Raj. Some of the clips this week were sourced from: CPAC, the House of Commons, the Senate, CBC, CP24, BBC, CityNews, CTV, Andrew Scheer's Facebook page, Global “It's Political” is produced by Althia Raj and Michal Stein. Kevin Sexton mixed the program. Our theme music is by Isaac Joel.

They say it's dangerous to talk about politics and religion. We're not listening. This week on “It's Political,” we mark April's high religious holidays, such as Easter, Ramadan, Passover and Vaisakhi, with a conversation on faith and politics. How it influences MPs' policy positions, where they believe the line between state and church should be drawn, and the impact of political parties using religion as a wedge. First, we'll look at the rising numbers of religious hate crimes and a new report by Cardus that suggests Canadians have polarizing views on religion. Canada's former ambassador for religious freedom, Andrew Bennett, will walk us through his research. Then, we'll hear from Amira Elghawaby, the Trudeau government's recent appointee as Canada's special representative on combatting Islamophobia, on why she believes her role is necessary. After, we'll sit down with Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, NDP MP Daniel Blaikie and Liberal MP Anthony Housefather for a conversation on how their faith influences their politics. In this episode: Mississauga—Erin Mills MP Iqra Khalid, Sarnia—Lambton MP Marilyn Gladu, Mount Royal MP Anthony Housefather, Elmwood—Transcona MP Daniel Blaikie, Andrew Bennet, Cardus' program director of Faith Communities, Amira Elghawaby, Canada's Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia of Canada. Hosted by Althia Raj. Some of the clips this week were sourced from: CPAC, the House of Commons, the Senate, CBC, CP24, BBC, CityNews, CTV, Andrew Scheer's Facebook page, Global “It's Political” is produced by Althia Raj and Michal Stein. Kevin Sexton mixed the program. Our theme music is by Isaac Joel. Listen here and follow or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.

Three things to know today Global IT spending to grow 5.5% in 2023, surpassing earlier projections, says Gartner Report warns professional services businesses of deteriorating performance metrics and the need for improved service delivery in 2023 AND ScalePad acquires LifeCycle Insights to expand its product portfolio with vCIO reporting tool and asset lifecycle management solutions   Advertiser:  https://linode.com/mspradio/   Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/   Support the show on Patreon:  https://patreon.com/mspradio/   Want our stuff?  Cool Merch?  Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com   Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mspradionews/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/

My name is Kilian Karrasch and in this episode, I talk to Johannes Reichert, Head of Global IT and Chief Information Officer at Hilti Group.During his career, Johannes drove the global IT agile transformation and large-scale IT projects, introducing not only an innovative CRM system and top-notch ERP functionalities but also developing a microservice-based infrastructure to enable Digital Products in one of the least digitized industries in the world.In our podcast episode, we talk about:his core learnings on launching microservices at startup speed in the corporate IT department?best practices on how to transition a multinational company step-by-step into an agile way of working?how to evaluate the degree of agility needed in large-scale IT projects?and much more…If you enjoyed this episode, please take a minute to subscribe, like, or share this podcast to spread the word, so I can continue bringing you outstanding guests and conversations.

Hanu and Sasi both worked for Cognizant - a Global IT company known for providing U.S. visas to Indian employees. But these immigration papers come with a major catch. As we look deeper into Hanu's professional life - we find out more about Sasi's secret. And we do a deep dive on Hanu's alibi. Is it as airtight as it seems?

Two things to know toda Global IT spending contracts in 2022, but cloud and consulting services remain steady and on the rise AND Companies exploiting federal labor laws with titles instead of overtime pay: Study   Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/   Support the show on Patreon:  https://patreon.com/mspradio/   Want our stuff?  Cool Merch?  Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com   Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mspradionews/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/

In this edition of Unfiltered Stories, Saurabh Gupta, President of Research & Advisory Services at HFS connects with Olivier Gomez, Co-Founder & CEO at IAC.ai - Intelligent Automation, and Alex Teteris, Director, Global IT & Center Technology at IWG plc. Saurabh, Olivier, and Alex cover a range of topics, including: How IWG is driving real business outcomes by leveraging automation? Why are we still pricing efforts? What is IAC.ai doing differently than the rest of the market? What are the outcomes that IWG is trying to achieve with the IAC.ai team? What are the risks and challenges foreseen in this type of pricing structure and how are you trying to mitigate or address them? What's been the success and failures in your engagement journey, so far? What will be the one piece of advice to all our audience (enterprises & service providers) who are listening in on how they reach their automation ambitions?

Kendall Layman grew up hearing the adage that there are only two types of days: good or gooder. However, he came to recognize how hard it was to choose either option in the face of a life-altering event. Now, as Author/Managing Director of Global IT & Corp Facilities at Cobb-Vantress, Kendall focuses on how to navigate life with purpose and be set apart from the crowd. In this fascinating episode, he shares his transition from military to corporate life, technology's front seat in business, and the importance of mentoring the next generation.Guest Links:Kendall's LinkedInCobb-vantress.com Thegooderlifegroup.com  The Gooder Life in Layman's Terms  by Kendall LaymanCredits: Lisa Nichols, Host; Scott Crosby, Executive Producer; Jenny Heal, Guest Coordinator; Morgan Cochran, Marketing Support; Kendall Brewer, Director of Leadership Programs 

Iztik Moshaof, Sr. Director of Global IT at Cybereason, shares Cybereason's Multi-Cloud journey, including AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Microsoft Azure. Keith and Iztik met at VMware 2022 and discuss Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on the set of the CTO Advisor Studio.

Tonia Sideri was a data scientist herself before taking on her role as head of Novo Nordisk's AI and Analytics Center of Excellence. Now she's putting her experience to use helping the Danish pharmaceutical company in its quest to develop medicines and delivery systems to treat diabetes and other chronic diseases, such as hemophilia, obesity, and growth disorders. In a highly regulated industry where failures are costly, Tonia's philosophy is to fail fast through what she calls “data-to-wisdom sprints.” These two-week hackathons enable her group to rapidly test the feasibility of new product ideas with input from their colleagues on the business side. Tonia joins this episode to discuss her team's approach to hypothesis testing, the benefits of incorporating design thinking into building data and AI products, and why she believes empathy is the most important skill a data scientist can have. Read the episode transcript here. Me, Myself, and AI is a collaborative podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Our engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Sophie Rüdinger. Stay in touch with us by joining our LinkedIn group, AI for Leaders at mitsmr.com/AIforLeaders or by following Me, Myself, and AI on LinkedIn. Guest bio: Tonia Sideri is head of the AI and Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) at Novo Nordisk, a global pharma company based in Denmark that develops diabetes care products, as well as solutions that target other chronic diseases, such as obesity, growth disorders, and hemophilia. The CoE is a group of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software developers located within Novo Nordisk's Global IT group who work cross-functionally with the company's machine learning/analytics systems and its machine learning operations platform. Sideri was a data scientist before taking on a management role. She has years of experience in startup incubators and corporate transformation labs, where she helped unlock the potential of data across the banking, pharma, and biotechnology industries and across a variety of business models, including B2C, B2B, and digital native vertical brands. We encourage you to rate and review our show. Your comments may be used in Me, Myself, and AI materials. We want to know how you feel about Me, Myself, and AI. Please take a short, two-question survey.

This week the hosts are joined by Jason Warnke, Accenture's Senior Managing Director for Global IT and Digital Experiences Lead.Thank you to our sponsors, Virbela & Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Novo Nordisk is a global pharmaceutical manufacturer delivering medicine to millions of people around the world living with diabetes and other diseases. This has been the focus at Novo Nordisk for almost 100 years. Recently Novo Nordisk launched a new digital strategy by which the company seeks to be able to leverage opportunities in the digital space to become even better at delivering life-changing medicine to patients. At the same time Novo Nordisk has the ambition to be at the forefront in the revolution of the healthcare industry. Guest: Matt Dugan, Head of Business Innovation Garage at Global IT, Novo Nordisk Host: Kim Stensdal, The Danish IT Society

When you're the CFO of a global manufacturer, the last thing you want for your predicted ROI is a question mark. Peter Riley, former CFO of Global IT for Caterpillar, says the best tech investments are the ones that take the surprise out of manufacturing. In this podcast, he calls out tech investments that are table stakes for manufacturers today.

In this week's Business Insights Vodcast Series, our host Kim Winter is joined by Shahab Wahdatehagh, Vice President of Global Trade Intelligence EMEA at Descartes, a Global IT  company specializing in services for logistics businesses.     Follow Logistics Executive Group - https://www.linkedin.com/company/logisticsexecutive   Connect with Shahab on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/shahab-wahdatehagh-52787a2   Follow Descartes - https://www.linkedin.com/company/descartes-systems-group/  

Tobias ist verantwortlich für Market & Digital Services der Komax Gruppe und Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung. Im Jahr 2017 startete Tobias bei Komax als VP für Global IT und alle digitalen Services und wurde am 1. Juli 2020 befördert. Er ist verantwortlich für alle Verkaufs- und Serviceaktivitäten weltweit sowie - neben dem klassischen IT-Geschäft - für alle digitalen Dienstleistungen, die Komax ihren Kunden anbietet. Vor seiner Tätigkeit für Komax war Tobias 9 Jahre für Hilti im Fürstentum Liechtenstein und 10 Jahre für Continental in Deutschland und China tätig. Tobias besitzt einen Executive MBA von der Kellogg School of Management in Evanston (USA) und der WHU in Deutschland sowie ein deutsches Diplom in Informationstechnologie. Privat ist er verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder im Alter von fünf und drei Jahren. Wertvolle Tipps: Passion und Spass bei der Arbeit ist extrem wichtig. Durchhaltewillen ist immer gefragt. Nutze deine Kontakte. Learn to unlearn - man sollte sich immer wieder neu erfinden. Kontakt zu Tobias Rölz: LinkedIn, Xing, Komax Dieser Berufspodcast richtet sich vor allem an Fach- und Führungskräfte und nicht nur, wenn sie auf Jobsuche sind. Wenn du an Karrierechancen interessiert bist, dann erhältst du für deine Stellensuche viele wertvolle Tipps von erfahrenen Experten. In Interviews kommen erfolgreiche Menschen mit Topjobs zu Wort. Was begeistert sie besonders bei ihrer Aufgabe? Wie haben sie ihre Führungsposition gefunden? Welche Aus- und Weiterbildungen waren für sie relevant? Erfahrene HR Profis informieren dich hier über die sich verändernden Anforderungen im Arbeitsmarkt. Damit bist du immer einen Schritt voraus und der Gestalter deiner erfolgreichen Karriere. CEO's und Geschäftsführer schildern ihren Weg an die Spitze, damit du von den Besten lernen kannst. Sie geben dir viele wertvolle Tipps für deine berufliche Karriere. Weiters sind immer wieder interessante und auch bekannte Redner, Coaches und Trainer dabei. Lass dich auch von ihnen inspirieren und gestalte deine Karriere möglichst erfolgreich. Mein Name ist Christoph Stelzhammer, Inhaber der C. Stelzhammer GmbH veredelt vermitteln und des Berufszentrum.ch. Mitarbeitende zu Höchstleistungen zu bringen und in die richtigen Teams zu integrieren, gehört zu meinen Leidenschaften. Menschen erfolgreich machen und sie dabei zu unterstützen, auf ihrem beruflichen Lebensweg sich selbst sein zu können. Nimm dein Leben in die eigene Hand, folge deiner Bestimmung und lebe deine Talente. Als Fach- und Führungskraft stets authentisch aufzutreten und sich und andere erfolgreich machen. Dafür brenne ich und dieser Podcast ist auch Ausdruck meines persönlichen Lebenszwecks.

As a VP for Vision33, the Global IT professional services powerhouse, Gerard is a firm believer in the promise of tech to transform organisations. But, in helping grow the company to over 450 employees with a roster of blue-chip global clients, he has faced negative stereotypes of what a Newfoundland company is or should be. Carol sits down with Gerard to discuss how superficial views of Newfoundlanders only fueled him to drive harder towards success and silence the naysayers.

About Tony Williams Raré and Global IT: Global IT is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT (Information Technology), and Cloud services provider. For more than 20 years, Global IT has prospered in the Information Technology business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with specialized technical skills from our dedicated employees, a real understanding of the technical tasks, and an unwavering ability to achieve targets and objectives. We've been around for so long for a reason. We're malleable, responsive, and efficient. Our core mission is to ensure that our clients succeed in a rapidly evolving, technology-based world. They thrive when they have the right tools and the most skilled technical personnel. And that's exactly what we provide. A successful and financially sound Private Company, we continue to work hard for our clients while remaining flexible and accommodating. These traits have been with us since our inception, and we intend to keep them. Our core services in the information technology field include: Managed IT (MSP) and Cloud services, and we stand out in this increasingly competitive field. Our customer commitments are typically 1, 2, and 3+ Yrs. with reduced fee renewal options. We have an incredibly low attrition rate maintaining 99+% of our customer base annually. Global IT provides specialized technology consulting on small, medium, and high-level strategic projects, including Infrastructure, software, systems, billing consolidation, ERP development, custom software builds, and specialized extraordinary projects. Global IT utilizes the very best in technology, systems, partners, and network operators. Global IT maintains 100% up-time of their Data Center operations in New York and Los Angeles multihomed, with diverse 10+ Gbps connections into leading fiber-optic networks. Global IT is an American founded, family-owned, small business, and privately held corporation based in Los Angeles, California. Global IT Clouds are multi-homed with priority routing and geographically positioned on the edge of major peering networks. Global IT data center locations are selected based on network performance, uptime, and responsiveness. With access to 200+ peering networks, our Los Angeles Cloud is strategically positioned within the footprint of the 3rd largest data center facility in the world and most significant on the US West Coast. These facility choices provide advantages like minimized costly downtime, bypasses common utilization or aggregation issues, faster connection, and response times from other networks. This, in turn, offers more options and ultimately allows Global IT to have the edge over the competition by providing unbeatable performance, and service. We are industry agnostic and strictly adhere to compliance and standards for businesses. We enjoy building a genuine connection with each client, spending time developing an in-depth belief of their IT requirements, and delivering prompt, cost-effective, professional IT consultation and assistance services tailored to their requirements. We take the appropriate vernacular out of the conversation, understand your necessities and wants, where you are currently at, and where you want to be in the future, this acknowledges us to tailor our solutions to scale for your business now and in the future. With a 24/7 tracking and support service, we can recognize possible issues before they appear, and if they do, we are just a phone call or chat option away.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Colin McCarthy, Vice President of Global IT at Essence. They talk about how SaaS enabled the organization to transition to remote work during the pandemic (10:50), how McCarthy ensures that IT's goals tie to broader business goals (20:30), and why McCarthy believes that future IT job candidates will want to know about your SaaS stack (28:01). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

“It's not personal, it's business.” How many times have you heard that phrase throughout your career? For the longest time, business success has gone hand in hand with a certain degree of toughness and ambition. After all, you've got competition to worry about, revenue goals to hit, and in many cases, investors to answer to. On the turn of a dime, business can become cutthroat. You need to build walls to keep your company secrets safe — because if you don't, you lose and your competitors win. Even within organizations, there is a tendency to separate processes and people and silo data and keep people in one lane or another.But what if there was an alternative? Elastic believes in that different way, and Kim Huffman, the VP of Global IT at Elastic, is helping the team to lean into the idea that an open, supportive, distributed system is the way forward. While most businesses keep a tight lid on their business by employing an aggressive and impersonal approach, at Elastic, everything is out in the open. With a distributed workforce and an open-source mentality, Elastic is giving everyone access to the most precious resource currently available.  But scarcity creates value, so when everyone has access to something valuable, is it still worth as much as we think? When everyone can win, does anyone really win? And with so much out in the open, how is Elastic continuing to innovate in new ways and stay ahead of the curve? Find out on this episode. Main Takeaways: A Share of the Pie: With big world problems to solve, open-source and open innovation has proven to have huge potential, especially in a crisis. Embracing a collaborative approach does not only help to solve problems externally, a seed change from the us-vs-them mindset to a collaborative and open approach could promote similar behavior within companies and ultimately end in happier customers.Honesty Rules: Most people in senior leadership do not have people who hold a mirror up to them and tell them the truth. If you want the leadership team to grow and work toward the same goals, honesty with no repercussions is the route to building trust. Leaders should encourage openness and honesty and open themselves for feedback.Embed Empathy: The dog-eat-dog corporate narrative of the past has given way to the concept of empathy as the secret of business success. It is no longer being regarded as a soft skill.  Human-centric strategies that focus on people first and sharing experiences have become more important.People-Centered Resilience: Building a resilient organization or company that can adapt to a crisis is all about the people. Give people the technology tools, information and support to feel engaged and communicate openly and transparently to build trust. With that kind of culture, employees will buy in, feel personally connected, and work hard when the company sees challenging times.---Business X factors is produced by Mission.org and brought to you by Hyland. For over a decade, Hyland has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms, leading the way to help people get the information they need when and where they need it. More than half of 2019 Fortune 100 companies rely on Hyland to help them create more meaningful connections with the people they serve. When your focus is on the people you serve, Hyland stands behind you. Hyland is your X factor for better performance. Go to Hyland.com/insights to learn more.

Catherine Slayden is the Eloqua Admin for Global IT at Medtronic, a medical device company that is saving lives every two seconds. Catherine shares her experience when it comes to creating a more streamlined training process for Medtronic’s global user base. Prior to this, Catherine was spending over six hours on training tasks a day and it became challenging to manage some of her core work responsibilities. Through this process, Catherine has freed up a lot of her time and she shares some of her key insights on this week’s episode.

Heather Fennimore has been an owner and partner at Humanscale since 1986.  Ms. Fennimore has established a successful sales organization of over 300 sales professionals and managers in the Americas.  She created the Humanscale University Program, the Recruiting Division, Humanscale Consulting, and Customer Service. Currently, Ms. Fennimore oversees Humanscale Global Healthcare and the Global IT distribution organizations, along with expanding Humanscale Consulting globally.  She's the first chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Cornell University's Atkinson Center for Sustainable Futures.  She also sits on several boards and is a member of the Hoover Council at Stanford University. Ms. Fennimore is an avid environmentalist and animal advocate.  She resides in Colorado with her husband. Today, Ms. Fennimore joins me to share her story. She shares what prompted her to found Humanscale and discusses the importance of motivation to want to make things better. She talks at length about her parents and their influence, and she shares her definition of leadership. She also offers her views on women in leadership, and she notes that good leaders know they have more to learn. She talks about the importance of caring in whatever you do, and she shares what she's learned and accomplished in a year of COVID-19. She expounds on her love for the environment and animals and notes the importance of our physical aspect as human beings.   “Caring is the difference between success and failure.” – Heather Fennimore This week on In the Doctor's Chair The story behind Humanscale Why “not bad” isn't good enough when it comes to the environment Speculations on the source of burnout in a job or career What is leadership Women in leadership Why believing you have nothing left to learn isn't conducive to leadership The importance of constant growth in leadership   In the Doctor's Chair  Thanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website. Apple Podcasts I TuneIn I Google Play I Stitcher I Spotify The post Leadership, Being True to Your Purpose, Continuous Learning and Love with Heather Fennimore appeared first on Mark Rowe.

Heather Fennimore has been an owner and partner at Humanscale since 1986.  Ms. Fennimore has established a successful sales organization of over 300 sales professionals and managers in the Americas.  She created the Humanscale University Program, the Recruiting Division, Humanscale Consulting, and Customer Service. Currently, Ms. Fennimore oversees Humanscale Global Healthcare and the Global IT distribution organizations, along with expanding Humanscale Consulting globally.  She's the first chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Cornell University's Atkinson Center for Sustainable Futures.  She also sits on several boards and is a member of the Hoover Council at Stanford University. Ms. Fennimore is an avid environmentalist and animal advocate.  She resides in Colorado with her husband. Today, Ms. Fennimore joins me to share her story. She shares what prompted her to found Humanscale and discusses the importance of motivation to want to make things better. She talks at length about her parents and their influence, and she shares her definition of leadership. She also offers her views on women in leadership, and she notes that good leaders know they have more to learn. She talks about the importance of caring in whatever you do, and she shares what she's learned and accomplished in a year of COVID-19. She expounds on her love for the environment and animals and notes the importance of our physical aspect as human beings.   “Caring is the difference between success and failure.” – Heather Fennimore This week on In the Doctor's Chair The story behind Humanscale Why “not bad” isn't good enough when it comes to the environment Speculations on the source of burnout in a job or career What is leadership Women in leadership Why believing you have nothing left to learn isn't conducive to leadership The importance of constant growth in leadership   In the Doctor's Chair  Thanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website. Apple Podcasts I TuneIn I Google Play I Stitcher I Spotify The post Leadership, Being True to Your Purpose, Continuous Learning and Love with Heather Fennimore appeared first on Mark Rowe.

Heather Fennimore has been an owner and partner at Humanscale since 1986.  Ms. Fennimore has established a successful sales organization of over 300 sales professionals and managers in the Americas.  She created the Humanscale University Program, the Recruiting Division, Humanscale Consulting, and Customer Service. Currently, Ms. Fennimore oversees Humanscale Global Healthcare and the Global IT distribution organizations, along with expanding Humanscale Consulting globally.  She's the first chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Cornell University's Atkinson Center for Sustainable Futures.  She also sits on several boards and is a member of the Hoover Council at Stanford University. Ms. Fennimore is an avid environmentalist and animal advocate.  She resides in Colorado with her husband. Today, Ms. Fennimore joins me to share her story. She shares what prompted her to found Humanscale and discusses the importance of motivation to want to make things better. She talks at length about her parents and their influence, and she shares her definition of leadership. She also offers her views on women in leadership, and she notes that good leaders know they have more to learn. She talks about the importance of caring in whatever you do, and she shares what she's learned and accomplished in a year of COVID-19. She expounds on her love for the environment and animals and notes the importance of our physical aspect as human beings.   “Caring is the difference between success and failure.” - Heather Fennimore   This week on In the Doctor's Chair The story behind Humanscale Why “not bad” isn't good enough when it comes to the environment Speculations on the source of burnout in a job or career What is leadership Women in leadership Why believing you have nothing left to learn isn't conducive to leadership The importance of constant growth in leadership   In the Doctor's Chair  Thanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website. Apple Podcasts I TuneIn I Google Play I Stitcher I Spotify

In our latest episode, we're joined by David Kirby, CEO of Avida Global - British medical cannabis company with cultivation and facilities in Colombia.Join us as we explore the benefits and challenges of cultivation in Colombia, the role of epigenetics systems in cultivation, and how to increase the productivity of plants.About Avida GlobalAvida Global is a producer of high quality, environmentally sustainable, medicinal cannabis. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in London with a dedicated farm in north-east Colombia, a region which boasts optimum conditions for the cultivation of medicinal cannabis.With a team of Globally recognised experts and using the latest state-of-the-art methods and technologies, Avida Global adheres to the highest regulatory, scientific, environmental and ethical standards. The Avida Global Foundation gives back to the local community by making a positive and lasting impact in the areas of education, environment, local enterprise and arts and culture.About DavidDavid Kirby is CEO of Avida Global, a producer of high-quality medicinal cannabis oil. The company is headquartered in London with a dedicated facility in North-East Colombia.David comes from a background of running large businesses and growing new ones. He has had a successful career working for companies such as CapGemini where he was on the UK board and European Management team, and at Shell, where he sat on the Global IT executive team managing a projects budget of over $1.3 billion. He then went onto set up a Venture Capital Firm called Oxalyst Partners before founding Avida Global.Quotables‘Cannabis is a bit like a sponge, it'll soak up anything that's in the ground including heavy metals and pesticides' 09:39‘What I've learned in this market is don't assume anything' 26:10ResourcesFollow David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakirby/?originalSubdomain=ukFollow Avida Global on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avida-global-ltd/Follow Avida Global on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvidaGlobalAvida Global Website: https://www.avidaglobal.com/en/aboutus/

Colin McCarthy, VP of Global IT with over 2,000 End Users Who remembers Joe “Nacho” Nacchio? Manic Miner Windows XP “Net Send” hackers (free burritos) ZX Spectrum to Amstrad PC 164 what?? Make people turn on their cameras because this guy found 12 people instead of 1. Getting into bed with these vendors is worse than a...

This week, Stacey is joined by Harsha Chulki and Stephen Cook. Validation documents are critical to both the internal processes, and external communications, in regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and medical device organizations. Properly recording and managing data is necessary to ensure the integrity and reliability of records. Good Documentation Practices (GDP) lay down the guidelines for preparation, recording, and correction of data as well as the maintenance of the records throughout the lifecycle of a document.Resources for episode:• Compliance Group Webinar Resource: https://www.complianceg.com/webinar • Follow Compliance Group Blogs: https://www.complianceg.com/blog • Annex 5 - WHO | World Health Organization• PQ Forum #10: Technical Writing for Validation• PQ Forum #18. PV Stage 1 Technical Report FormatHarsha Chulki is the Head of Global IT, Quality & CSV at ICU Medical. He is a seasoned IT leader with over 15 years of leadership and program management experience building multiple, high performing teams across multiple industries. Chulki is also the Architect of Integrated IT Compliance model with experience installing centralized controls across IT (GxP, SOX, HIPAA, Non-GxP). He can be reached at harsha.chulki@icumed.comStephen Cook is the VP, QUALITY AND COMPUTER COMPLIANCE at Compliance Group Inc. He has 20+ years of experience in the field of computer systems validation and is an expert on Computer Software Assurance (CSA). He believes that a strong partnership between IT, Quality and the business can lead to creative solutions and that the really good work gets created outside the SOP. He can be reached at stephenc@complianceg.com.Voices in Validation brings you the best in validation and compliance topics. Voices in Validation is brought to you by IVT Network, your expert source for life science regulatory knowledge. For more information on IVT Network, check out their website at http://ivtnetwork.com.

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If there is one thing 2020 made abundantly clear, it’s that the way in which workers operate will never be the same. As employees rushed to set up monitors and home offices in their new environments, businesses across the world were recognizing an inevitable reality:: that this new lifestyle was here to stay.“As this progresses, the next normal is going to be about mobility and flexibility. We've got a taste of this working from home thing that [we’ve] never had before, and they're going to want to do both, which is going to bring on new challenges.”Welcome to the “Next Normal,” where new remote working demands are establishing a host of lifestyle changes for employees, and concurrently creating a larger list of challenges for their employers. On this episode of IT Visionaries, Kim Huffman, the VP of Global IT at Elastic, opens up about distributed workforces and why Elastic believes strongly in them. But she is honest about the obstacles that work from anywhere creates when it comes to managing the endpoints of your fleet, and she discusses how IT leaders can handle the transition.Main TakeawaysKnow Your Fleet: For distributed teams, having an understanding of your endpoints is critically important. You need to always be thinking about where you are most vulnerable at those endpoints, and the points of attack they may be opening themselves up to to understand how they can be as secure as possible. Managing your endpointDrink Your Own Champagne: One of the more important operating principals  at Elastic is its ability and willingness to test its own products in-house. When you beta test your apps with your own team, it affords you the opportunity to fix bugs or breakdowns within the system prior to that product ever reaching the customer.Is This Secure? Just because you are operating on a VPN network, does not necessarily mean your network is secure. Even when you are on VPN, the user is still subjected to various forms of cyberattacks. As IT leaders, it’s important to constantly be evaluating the incoming information from your devices and managing them at their endpoints.---IT Visionaries is brought to you by the Salesforce Platform - the #1 cloud platform for digital transformation of every experience. Build connected experiences, empower every employee, and deliver continuous innovation - with the customer at the center of everything you do. Learn more at salesforce.com/platform

The effects of the coronavirus on technology will be studied for years to come. The ways people responded and new directions companies took are creating a new normal. IT leaders were forced to build more robust, resilient, secure data systems that support remote working. Global IT service providers were on the front lines to help businesses take on challenges brought by the pandemic. Wipro, based in Bangalore, India, touch more than a million users. When a million users needed to suddenly work from home, Wipro made that happen even though they, too, were working from home. Wipro advises companies to take a holistic approach to manage the technical challenges of enabling remote workers during and after the global health crisis. “There is a huge urgency to reimagine the workspace,” said Satish Yadavalli, vice president for global cloud and infrastructure services (CIS) at Wipro Limited. “Because of the lockdown, none of our finance folks could come to the office,” Yadavalli said. “So, we had to deliver them access to all mission-critical ERP and financial tools from home. Within 12 hours, we were able to enable access to all these applications safely and securely to all our finance executives.” Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.

The effects of the coronavirus on technology will be studied for years to come. The ways people responded and new directions companies took are creating a new normal. IT leaders were forced to build more robust, resilient, secure data systems that support remote working. Global IT service providers were on the front lines to help businesses take on challenges brought by the pandemic. Wipro, based in Bangalore, India, touch more than a million users. When a million users needed to suddenly work from home, Wipro made that happen even though they, too, were working from home. Wipro advises companies to take a holistic approach to manage the technical challenges of enabling remote workers during and after the global health crisis. “There is a huge urgency to reimagine the workspace,” said Satish Yadavalli, vice president for global cloud and infrastructure services (CIS) at Wipro Limited. “Because of the lockdown, none of our finance folks could come to the office,” Yadavalli said. “So, we had to deliver them access to all mission-critical ERP and financial tools from home. Within 12 hours, we were able to enable access to all these applications safely and securely to all our finance executives.” Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.

Global IT giant Accenture is double the size of India's largest IT company TCS. Yet Accenture's valuations are comparatively far modest. What explains this divergence? Indian investors are far more excited about the prospects of IT companies than in the US. The difference, it seems, lies in the composition of Indian and US markets.

In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses 'Powering Finance with SAP S/4HANA' and how Finance and IT have been working to together to make great strides in the SAP arena. Featured guests include Andrew Inchley, who leads Strategy for Accenture Finance and Eli Lambert, who runs our SAP platforms in Accenture's Global IT organization.

In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses 'Powering Finance with SAP S/4HANA' and how Finance and IT have been working to together to make great strides in the SAP arena. Featured guests include Andrew Inchley, who leads Strategy for Accenture Finance and Eli Lambert, who runs our SAP platforms in Accenture's Global IT organization.

That the cleantech industry is so dynamic is one of its biggest appeals, and its biggest challenges. At Hyperion our goal is to help the world’s best cleantech companies find the talent to achieve their goals and ambitions, and to help founders towards their desired exit. I interviewed LImejump founder, and former CEO Erik Nygard on a previous episode, at the time Hyperion were supporting him to hire a COO. That process went well, and Cat Newman was hired into the role, so well in fact that she has recently been promoted to CEO as Erik moves on to new pastures, after their acquisition by Shell. It was great to talk to Cat about the challenges of moving from corporate to start-ups, about building structure and process for growth, about diversity and so much more. I hope you enjoy the episode. About Catherine Newman Catherine joined Limejump in February 2020, initially to run the Commercial and Trading teams as COO. In July 2020, Catherine moved into the role of CEO with plans to drive the company’s growth towards becoming the largest transformational player in the global renewable market. Previous to Limejump, Catherine spent 11 years at Gazprom Marketing and Trading. During this time Catherine was in a variety of roles – most noteworthy being COO of Trading and Director of Global IT and Delivery – she also chaired the operating committee. Prior to this, Catherine worked at BP. Even though Catherine has worked in the energy trading space for over 20 years, her career started in bioinformatics at Pfizer – she also spent time enjoying the dotcom bubble. This initial career choice followed her BSc (Hons) in Genetics and MSc in Bioinformatics in 1998, both from the University of Manchester. After the dotcom bubble burst, Catherine moved into energy consultancy where she spent time at most of the major energy players across Europe. In her spare time Catherine enjoys family life, keeping fit, gardening and cooking. She is a mental health first aider and is a strong advocate for keeping ‘the balance’ right in life. Social links Catherine Newman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-newman-london/ LimeJump Website: https://limejump.com/ LimeJump on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Limejump LimeJump on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/limejump/ Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribe I'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated. Twitter https://twitter.com/Cleantechleader Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuide Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/

In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses cloud acceleration and optimization with Merim Becirovic and what this means for Accenture and our Global IT team.

In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses cloud acceleration and optimization with Merim Becirovic and what this means for Accenture and our Global IT team.

In episode 7 we dive deep on how SAP designs and deploys multiple mobile applications for it's 100K+ employees. Tricia Barton from our Global IT team walks us through all the things SAP needs to consider when developing an application. To learn more please go to: https://developers.sap.com/topics/cloud-platform-sdk-for-ios.html https://developer.apple.com/ Tricia can be found on social media here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/triciabarton795 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/triciabarton/ SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/tricia.barton See below for more info on where to find me: SAP Community: people.sap.com/josh.bentley Twitter: twitter.com/bentley_josh LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-bentley/ SAP and AWS Developer info: developers.sap.com aws.amazon.com/developer and here is Rearden’s Music used in the podcast open.spotify.com/artist/7uxGdgqZ9sPuG5ZGJSjmG5 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/josh-bentley/message

Cultural diversity, a start-up mentality and a fast-paced work environment are all a part of the Vonage workplace experience, says Daragh Mahon, Senior Vice President of Global IT & Business Applications. He also shares with Susan Quackenbush, Chief Human Resources Officer, that the company stands out by being quick to embrace new technologies. 

Alex is a 44 years old professional, working as a sales executive in a Global IT company, just beginning podcaster and has been sober for nearly 15 years. He learned his IT skills by himself as his drug and alcohol addiction interfered with his academic path. He is the father of 3 fantastic kids and the husband of a wonderful wife. As an addict in recovery, he started his podcast, named Cold Turkey, to discuss and share what makes someone make a 180 and turn their lives around.In this episode, we focus on the problems encountered when drinking, divorce and different parental philosophies clash.https://www.facebook.com/Podcastcoldturkey/https://www.1000dayssober.com/

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Анна Афонина. HiPoHeads. В рекрутинге с 2011, более 5 из них в IT. С 2015 закрывают позиции в Global IT от уровня Senior до Chief/Head of… Основатель ADD.Network — международной площадки платных рекомендаций. Более 4-х лет ментор и руководитель группы рекрутеров. Коуч менеджерского состава, консультант по выстраиванию команд с нуля. Стремления: 1 человек=1 оффер. Минимум затраченного времени, максимум уверенности в выборе. Андрей Куковеров. Veeam. Senior DevOps engineer, Team lead. Как сманить того, кого всё устраивает? Где искать кандидатов на топовые вакансии? Как правильно говорить о зарплате? Нужно ли вести “правильный” профиль в соцсетях? Срыв покровов, одеял и наволочек. Скачать файл подкаста Добавить RSS в подкаст-плеер. Подкаст доступен в iTunes. Скачать все выпуски подкаста вы можете с яндекс-диска. Url podcast:https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/fs.linkmeup.ru/podcasts/shorts/shorts-V008.mp3

Анна Афонина. HiPoHeads. В рекрутинге с 2011, более 5 из них в IT. С 2015 закрывают позиции в Global IT от уровня Senior до Chief/Head of… Основатель ADD.Network — международной площадки платных рекомендаций. Более 4-х лет ментор и руководитель группы рекрутеров. Коуч менеджерского состава, консультант по выстраиванию команд с нуля. Стремления: 1 человек=1 оффер. Минимум затраченного времени, максимум уверенности в выборе. Андрей Куковеров. Veeam. Senior DevOps engineer, Team lead. Как сманить того, кого всё устраивает? Где искать кандидатов на топовые вакансии? Как правильно говорить о зарплате? Нужно ли вести “правильный” профиль в соцсетях? Срыв покровов, одеял и наволочек. Скачать файл подкаста Добавить RSS в подкаст-плеер. Подкаст доступен в iTunes. Скачать все выпуски подкаста вы можете с яндекс-диска. Url podcast:https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/fs.linkmeup.ru/podcasts/shorts/shorts-V008.mp3

Анна Афонина. HiPoHeads. В рекрутинге с 2011, более 5 из них в IT. С 2015 закрывают позиции в Global IT от уровня Senior до Chief/Head of… Основатель ADD.Network — международной площадки платных рекомендаций. Более 4-х лет ментор и руководитель группы рекрутеров. Коуч менеджерского состава, консультант по выстраиванию команд с нуля. Стремления: 1 человек=1 оффер. Минимум затраченного времени, максимум уверенности в выборе. Андрей Куковеров. Veeam. Senior DevOps engineer, Team lead. Как сманить того, кого всё устраивает? Где искать кандидатов на топовые вакансии? Как правильно говорить о зарплате? Нужно ли вести “правильный” профиль в соцсетях? Срыв покровов, одеял и наволочек. Скачать файл подкаста Добавить RSS в подкаст-плеер. Подкаст доступен в iTunes. Скачать все выпуски подкаста вы можете с яндекс-диска.

Cloud Wars caught up with TJ Graven, Under Armour's Senior Vice President of Global IT, at SAP Sapphire Now 2019 in Orlando. As a long-term customer of Qualtrics and now of SAP, Under Armour is already gaining an enhanced understanding of their own customers through the combination of operational data and experience data: the Xs and Os that make up experience management.TJ and Bob discuss how 21 years of innovation at Under Armour shapes how the company runs today. Plus, TJ shares his plans for increasing transparency throughout the organization, measuring success, and bringing on the right talent in a highly competitive environment.Highlights: ▪️ "Understanding our business deeply allows us to really be thoughtful and anticipate where things are going."▪️ "I don't have a separate technology strategy... Our success is all measured in the same way. It's making our consumers better, making our athletes better."▪️ "Technology's impact on the way we work and the way we live and the way we transact our business is something that you can't expect a single person to see."--Watch more Cloud Wars Live interviews: https://cloudwars.co/visit/podcast/ Read the latest Cloud Wars news and analysis: https://cloudwars.co/visit/articles/CategoryScience & Technology See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Repaso a la actualidad del día. Conexión con Alexandre Mato, corresponsal de Capital Radio en Bruselas. Entrevista con Christian Palomino, vicepresidente Global IT de Meliá Hotels International. Tertulia sobre fondos.

Semi-conducting manufacturing is a very water intense business. Each year, Silicon Valley computer chip giant Intel uses approximately three billion gallons at its campus in Washington County. In this latest Brave Blue World podcast Fawn Bergen, Global Sustainability Program Manager at Intel discusses ambitious water targets and why the company’s in-house water reuse plans will be vital in the future.Support the show (https://www.braveblue.world/)

SCNR broadcasts live from Jump Start 19, Hosted by SMC3. Learn more: www.SMC3.com Featured guest Dr. Manjeet Singh serves as Research Director for DHL Supply Chain. In this role, he’s currently working on a variety of projects including: the development of warehouse improvement plug-in software called I.D.E.A.; the development of a Freight Optimization Tool which minimizes the ship spend by optimal division of routes; and Manjeet is working with the Global IT team on development of ad-hoc warehousing improvement tools. Connect with Dr. Manjeet Singh on LinkedIn and learn more about DHL here: http://www.dhl.com/en.html Hosted by Will Haraway and Scott Luton

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo's guests are Eric Clark, Chief Digital Officer and Kris Fitzgerald, Chief Techology Officer of NTT Data to discuss NTT Data's Open Innovation Contest. NTT Data and its parent company NTT is one of the largest Global IT solutions delivery firms in the world. With over 100 The Open Innovation Contest is a global contest that includes events in 20 cities in 18 regions around the world. The United States Finals will be happening in Menlo Park, CA on January 31st, 2019 and in Boston, MA on February 1st, 2019 with the global finals being held in Japan. The contest encourages startups in many different areas of technology including: AR/VR, Automation, Automotive, RPA, Fintech, Insurtech and Healthtech. Eric and Kris go into the history of the contest as well as how NTT leverages their ecoysystem of tehcnologists, VCs and other stakeholders to promote and cultivate the startup finalists of the Open Innovation program. They also make the point that startups do not wait until the next Open Innovation contest starts to get engaged. Interested companies can begin the application process any time for future consideration. For more information about the NTT Open Innovation contest, please email officeofcto@nttdata.com Listen Friday 1/11/2019 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco Listen and subscribe to the "Silicon Valley Insider" Podcast ahead of time to make sure you don't miss this show. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Silicon-Valley-Insider-Show-with-Keith-Koo-id1100209?country=us iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Android, Spotify (and iTunes): https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology,

Living an authentic life is not always easy. People conspire to keep those who have light down. To keep them in a box that conforms to how others look, dress, act and achieve. So how do you live your authentic life with grace, love, kindness and achievement when there is pressure to stay small and conform? Enter my guest and friend Michelle McBain. I asked her to be the guest on my Christmas show because she has one of the most beautiful spirits I know and a powerful story to share on how she balances life, love, career, health and an active social media life. Listen as Michelle shares with me what balance looks like to her, how she dealt with a boss who wrote on her review that she was bubbly,(which made her question who she was being at work), and how a recent serious health scare just gave her even more reason to be authentically her. Michelle Ragusa-McBain is Senior Director of Technology & Business Sales and Services. She is responsible for leading the team who will grow company service revenue through the successful creation of a SMB partner program services through Office Depot as a key partner through CompuCom GTM strategy, focus on Tech and Business Services, Software as a Service (Saas), Managed Services Provider (MSP), Devices as a Service (DaaS), and other subscription services experiences, aligned closely with Tech Services.  A 13 year Cisco Veteran and proud recipient of the “Cisco World Wide Innovation and Growth Award”. She was recently recognized by SMB Magazine as one of the 150 most influential people in the global IT Business Community, and named in Entrepreneurs Magazine as one of the top 4 people to inspire women to pursue a career in Tech . Michelle sits on the Board of CRN Women in the Channel and serves as Chair of the Executive Council of Advancing Women in Technology for CompTIA. She is also a long standing member of the National Women in Technology Group, where she has given speeches for young women in technology - most recently at NC State & Hofstra University.  As a social media maven, Michelle is a highly visible member of the Global IT community and acts as a connector. She is an avid blogger and has taken her passion for women in technology, world travel, health & wellness to create awareness and inspire others. She graduated cum laude from Manhattan College where she was awarded the Presidential Scholarship Majoring in Global Business and Marketing, and a minor in Peace Studies. Passionate world traveler visiting 83 countries, & 6 continents.

Stephynie Malik went from an entry level salesperson fresh out of college, to one of the youngest Directors in the Silicon Valley at a Publicly Held company, to the CEO of a 500+ person software integrator at the age of 28, to founding a Global IT consulting firm at the age of 32. She's spearheaded and orchestrated multi-million dollar acquisitions, closed global deals and strategic partnerships in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars realm and was successful in single handedly growing her consulting firm into a global leader. As the founder and driving force behind MalikCo, Stephynie Malik brings over two decades of dynamic IT consulting experience to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer. Now, as the founder of Chique Speak, she is making it happen again…  from Technology Consulting to Human Consulting Stephynie Malik is crushing it globally just as we expected her to do!

Stephynie Malik went from an entry level salesperson fresh out of college, to one of the youngest Directors in the Silicon Valley at a Publicly Held company, to the CEO of a 500+ person software integrator at the age of 28, to founding a Global IT consulting firm at the age of 32. She's spearheaded and orchestrated multi-million dollar acquisitions, closed global deals and strategic partnerships in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars realm and was successful in single handedly growing her consulting firm into a global leader. As the founder and driving force behind MalikCo, Stephynie Malik brings over two decades of dynamic IT consulting experience to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer. Now, as the founder of Chique Speak, she is making it happen again…  from Technology Consulting to Human Consulting Stephynie Malik is crushing it globally just as we expected her to do!

Today I talked with Patrick Joyce, Vice President – Global IT & Chief Information Security Officer for Medtronic at the Minnesota Capitol Building about Cybersecurity. We had just participated in a panel during a Cybersecurity Breakfast hosted by MN IT Services. Patrick mentioned in our talk that he reads a number of publications about cybersecurity, including feeds from the NH-ISAC. Here are a few of the publicly available blogs that Patrick follows that he said he'd share with us: https://krebsonsecurity.com/ https://www.schneier.com/ https://www.darkreading.com/Default.asp https://www.csoonline.com/ http://www.itsecurityguru.org/ I also spoke with MHTA Research and Policy Director John Dukich about updates on tech at the Capitol, and shared some takeaways from our Spring Conference Last week. jdukich@mhta.org

From an entry level sales person fresh out of college, to one of the youngest directors in the Silicon Valley at a Publicly Held company (now private), to the CEO of a 500+ person software integrator at the age of 28, to founding a Global IT consulting firm at the age of 32, Stephynie Malik has a tremendous amount of experience and an undeniable track record of success. She’s spearheaded and orchestrated multi-million dollar acquisitions, closed global deals and strategic partnerships in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars realm and was successful in single handedly growing her consulting firm into a global leader. As the founder and driving force behind MalikCo, Stephynie Malik brings over two decades of dynamic IT consulting experience to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer. Now, as the founder of Chique Speak, she is making it happen again… from Technology Consulting to Human Consulting Stephynie Malik is crushing it globally just as we expected her to do! Her creative vision and business acumen have been instrumental in building the highly regarded global business that is MalikCo today. Her entrepreneurial spirit, backed by years of experience in enterprise software and telecommunications companies and her drive to create long-term relationships with clients has helped her forge strong associations with the industry’s most widely respected IT leaders. Stephynie recently founded ChiqueSpeak.com and is in the midst of launching yet another specialty firm designed to ignite men to their true potential on every level. Stephynie Malik does not play small. In her first month in launching ChiqueSpeak, she was inundated with over 400 applications from Executives and Entrepreneurs all over the world. Her coaching style is real… not fluffy. It is proven and tried through all industry leaders and her countless awards speak for themselves. http://www.stephynie.com

This week's African Tech Round-up is dedicated to sharing insights gleaned from the recent Internet of Things World Forum (2017IoTWF)hosted in London. The Global IT and networking giant, Cisco, convened the invite-only gathering to facilitate dialogue among key stakeholders and innovators in business, government and academia and to “bring industry leaders together to collaborate, network, partner and solve the challenges facing IoT”. To ascertain how the trend towards IoT adoption is likely to impact African enterprises and citizens alike we caught up with Dimension Data’s Global Director for the Internet of Things, Anton Jooste, David Meads, who heads up Cisco’s Africa business, Prathap Dendi, who is the general manager for emerging technologies at the application performance management and IT operations analytics start-up AppDynamics, as well as Alan Griffiths of Cambashi-- an analyst specialising in industrial IoT, cloud computing, and their effect on the technical software applications market. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Marcus Shingles Marcus Shingles is the Chief Executive Officer of the XPRIZE Foundation, a non-profit founded by its Executive Chairman, Dr. Peter Diamandis. XPRIZE is the leading expert in designing and implementing innovative models that utilize gamification, crowd-sourcing, incentive competitions, and exponential technologies to solve the world’s grandest social challenges. Prior to XPRIZE, Marcus was a Partner at Deloitte Consulting LLP and leader of Deloitte Consulting’s Innovation Group where he worked with corporate executive teams to better understand and plan for the opportunities and threats associated with disruptive innovation driven by “exponentials” (e.g., 3d printing, block-chain, crowd-sourcing, AI) resulting from the accelerated pace of discovery, invention, and technology. At Deloitte, Marcus also championed the strategic global partnership with Singularity University, and helped establish and lead the Innovation Partnership Program with XPRIZE and SU. Marcus has over 20 years of experience, and prior to his most recent roles at XPRIZE and Deloitte, he was a successful entrepreneur founding a management consulting business working with Fortune 500 leadership teams on innovation, technology, and analytics initiatives. Earlier in his career he was the leader of the Consumer Products CRM consulting practice at Ernst & Young, and he started his career in industry at the Kellogg Company in Sales & Marketing, Global IT, and the Customer Strategy departments. Marcus has published numerous thought-leadership pieces and presents regularly on technology trends, disruptive innovation, and related business and social impact strategies. In his spare time, Marcus has pioneered a program in partnership with the public school system in both Los Angeles and Boston to bring “exponential entrepreneurial” training and contemporary thinking to high school students in currently underserved communities. The program has been implemented as part of a multi-year curriculum in the classroom, designed to teach self-sufficiency and prepare students for an optimistic and exponential future. ABOUT XPRIZE XPRIZE is an innovation engine. A facilitator of exponential change. A catalyst for the benefit of humanity. We believe in the power of competition. That it’s part of our DNA. Of humanity itself. That tapping into that indomitable spirit of competition brings about breakthroughs and solutions that once seemed unimaginable. Impossible. We believe that you get what you incentivize. And that without a target, you will miss it every time. Rather than throw money at a problem, we incentivize the solution and challenge the world to solve it. We believe that challenges must be audacious, but achievable, tied to objective, measurable goals. And understandable by all. We believe that solutions can come from anyone, anywhere and that some of the greatest minds of our time remain untapped, ready to be engaged by a world that is in desperate need of help. Solutions. Change. And radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Call us crazy, but we believe. http://www.xprize.org/

Marcus Shingles is the Chief Executive Officer of The XPRIZE Foundation, a non-profit founded by its Executive Chairman, Dr. Peter Diamandis. XPRIZE is the leading expert in designing and implementing innovative models that utilize gamification, crowd-sourcing, incentive competitions, and exponential technologies to solve the world’s grandest social challenges. Prior to XPRIZE, Marcus was a Partner at Deloitte Consulting LLP and leader of Deloitte Consulting’s Innovation Group where he worked with corporate executive teams to better understand and plan for the opportunities and threats associated with disruptive innovation driven by “exponentials” (e.g., 3d printing, block-chain, crowd-sourcing, AI) resulting from the accelerated pace of discovery, invention, and technology. At Deloitte, Marcus also championed the strategic global partnership with Singularity University, and helped establish and lead the Innovation Partnership Program with XPRIZE and SU. Marcus has over 20 years of experience, and prior to his most recent roles at XPRIZE and Deloitte, he was a successful entrepreneur founding a management consulting business working with Fortune 500 leadership teams on innovation, technology, and analytics initiatives. Earlier in his career he was the leader of the Consumer Products CRM consulting practice at Ernst & Young, and he started his career in industry at the Kellogg Company in Sales & Marketing, Global IT, and the Customer Strategy departments. Marcus has published numerous thought-leadership pieces and presents regularly on technology trends, disruptive innovation, and related business and social impact strategies. In his spare time, Marcus has pioneered a program in partnership with the public school system in both Los Angeles and Boston to bring “exponential entrepreneurial” training and contemporary thinking to high school students in currently underserved communities. The program has been implemented as part of a multi-year curriculum... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Marc van der Heijden,  Vice President of Global IT at Adidas, shares his insights on how Adidas, the global leader in the sporting goods industry, manages its IT project portfolio. Marc van der Heijden, Vice President of Global IT at Adidas, shares his insights on the challenges that organizations like Adidas face in managing their...