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In this episode, Avanish Sahai and Chris Grusz use the marketplace journey of Amazon Web Services as a springboard to discuss a variety of platform-related topics:The driver of a successful flywheel (2:17)Developing products and fostering selection to match customer demand (5:28)Balancing feature development between both buyers and sellers to maximize value for both (7:45)The advantages offered by a marketplace when co-selling with ISVs (14:56)The Amazon leadership mindset, and facilitating feedback from customers (20:54)Maintaining a long view and finding ways to attract new types of customers (25:32)Offering simplification: the key to successful marketplaces (30:00)Guest: Chris Grusz, General Manager, WW ISV Alliances & Marketplace, Amazon Web ServicesChris Grusz is the General Manager, ISV Alliances & Marketplace. In this role he leads the ISV Partner Development and Marketplace organizations globally. With AWS since 2015, his team is responsible for the adoption of AWS Marketplace - with double digit YoY growth equating to billions in sales on an annual basis, more than 2,000 ISVs and 12,000 software product listings in AWS Marketplace. Chris' team works with all ISVs to adopt various partner programs and co-sell initiatives. In addition, his team also works with customers across Commercial and Public Sector on a global basis, helping them utilize AWS Marketplace to change how they find, buy, deploy, and manage application portfolios running on AWS. Prior to joining AWS, Chris held various leadership roles including Director of Sales, Managing Director and Business Unit Executive for IBM in Sales & Distribution as well as IBM Software Group. Chris holds a BA in Business Administration and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Washington where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.Host: Avanish SahaiAvanish Sahai is a Tidemark Fellow and has served as a Board Member of Hubspot since April 2018 and of Birdie.ai since April 2022. Previously, Avanish served as the vice president, ISV and Apps partner ecosystem of Google from 2019 until 2021. From 2016 to 2019, he served as the global vice president, ISV and Technology alliances at ServiceNow. From 2014 to 2015, he was the senior vice president and chief product officer at Demandbase. Prior to Demandbase, Avanish built and led the Appexchange platform ecosystem team at Salesforce, and was an executive at Oracle and McKinsey & Company, as well as various early-to-mid stage startups in Silicon Valley.About TidemarkTidemark is a venture capital firm, foundation, and community built to serve category-leading technology companies as they scale. Tidemark was founded in 2021 by David Yuan, who has been investing, advising, and building technology companies for over 20 years. Learn more at www.tidemarkcap.com.LinksFollow our guests, Chris GruszFollow our host, Avanish SahaiLearn more about Tidemark
In the immortal words of Charles Dickens, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Covid-19 is challenging businesses and careers at an unprecedented rate. Organizations are transforming to meet previously unfathomable needs of their stakeholders. New skillsets are required to deliver experiences in a virtual world. How are you responding to all these changes? Whether you are a seasoned professional or early in your career, what your business and personal brand project will determine if this is the best or worst of times for you. About Whitney's Guest: Jacelyn Swenson leads Strategic Partnerships and Events for IBM Corporate Communications, working with senior leaders across the business to drive IBM thought leadership. Previously she led global brand programs on the IBM Corporate Marketing team where she created social, digital, and immersive experiences to make the IBM brand more relevant and engaging with its stakeholders. Prior to these roles, she developed community-based marketing and communications initiatives and led global teams that generated award-winning market presence, delivered sales pipeline, and exceeded revenue targets for the IBM Software Group. Ms. Swenson held several marketing and communications leadership positions at GE to help strengthen its brand prior to IBM. She started her career at a worldwide public relations and advertising agency. She has delivered speeches at industry conferences, client events, and academic institutions around the world. WVU Marketing Communications Today is hosted by Whitney Drake from West Virginia University which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel.
Many forces and pressures have been building and creating a desire for remote work, which is the topic of today's episode. When you have a culture of mutual respect, trust, a clear and simple strategy, and outcome-based work, it doesn't matter if your workforce is co-located or distributed around the globe. A culture that celebrates the remote workforce opens itself to a greater pool of top talent which could greatly improve the profitability of the company. When I was thinking about who to interview for this podcast, I couldn't think of a better person than Bernie Spang, who I worked for on a remote team for a little over 2 years at the turn of the century. Bernie ran the WebSphere Studio Tools Marketing team that was part of the WebSphere Middleware Marketing team that was a part of the IBM Software Group. He currently is Program Director, Watson AI-powered virtual assistants, IBM.
My first post of 2019! I'm really excited to kick off another year of interviewing founders, analysts, chief product officers, so on and so forth, with the goal of having you take something away from each one of these pieces and conversations. Today, I'm excited to share the conversation I had with Michael Dziekan, VP & Practice Leader here at Outsell, about the Outsell DataMoney Conference for 2019. Michael is a seasoned technology and data market analyst and a global strategy business advisor who specializes in commercializing the evolving data economy, big data and analytics, IoT, cloud services, and artificial intelligence / cognitive computing in commercial markets. He has extensive large enterprise and tech experience, including at the IBM Software Group and IBM Watson & IoT-Platform (including The Weather Company). Michael has helped shape and inform future strategies, establish functional and industry insight, architect value chain ecosystem advances, and develop differentiated client value. I asked Michael to share what we can expect this year from the DataMoney conference. Why should folks be excited about this third annual event? What will attendees take away? This conversation turned out to be far more than a simple infomercial for an event. Rather, it turned into a summary of everything Michael is seeing in the data, information, and analytics economy and why this event was positioned a specific way as a result. I had a great time diving into this with Michael and I hope that you will join both of us in New York on February 7th!
Here at the Apttus Accelerate conference in San Francisco, I watched Inhi Cho Suh, the GM at IBM Watson Marketing, perform her Quote-to-Cash Innovator session. On stage, she revealed that 92% of purchases today are influenced by social, digital engagement & experience is now the product. But she also warns that although data is the new currency, acting with integrity is a call to action for all businesses She also told the audience that "Don’t use your competitors as the bar against which you measure yourself. Ask yourself, what was the last best experience your customer had? Regardless where hey had it. That’s your bar.” - This really resonated with me and I invited her onto the podcast to tell me more about how IBM is much more than a tech company and were ranked a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for multichannel marketing hubs last month. I also wanted to find out more about how Apttus' intelligent middle office platform will be coming to the IBM Cloud so caught up with her at the event for a quick chat. Inhi Cho Suh is the General Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions. Inhi began her career with IBM in 1998, joining the worldwide customer set strategy team for IBM's Personal Systems Group. She then went on to hold a variety of leadership and management positions focused on strategic growth, development, and marketing. Most recently, Inhi was the Vice President for Big Data, Information, Integration, and Governance in IBM Software Group, responsible for all areas of the business. Prior to joining IBM, Inhi was a consultant in the education sector focused on international student teaching and counseling for university and professional institutions. Inhi received a Bachelor of Science from Duke University and a Juris Doctorate from North Carolina Central University School of Law. She is a licensed attorney in the state of North Carolina.
Welcome Rob High. Rob is an IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Watson Solutions, IBM Software Group. He has overall responsibility to drive Watson Solutions, technical strategy and thought leadership. As a key member of the Watson Solutions Leadership team, Rob works collaboratively with the Watson engineering, research, and development teams across IBM. In this episode we discuss: The definition of cognitive computing How Watson aiding the advancement of health care Chef Watson and recommendation on recipes Advanced cognitive systems and how they're applied across different mediums The future of AI - Should humans be fearful?
Glenn discusses Big Data and Data Sharing with Jeff Jonas, the Chief Scientist of Entity Analytics with the IBM Software Group, Information Management and an IBM fellow.
Glenn discusses Big Data and Data Sharing with Jeff Jonas, the Chief Scientist of Entity Analytics with the IBM Software Group, Information Management and an IBM fellow.
Peter Funke is an Executive Consultant with IBM Software Group’s global sales operations. He presently leads a team which engages with IBM’s large customer base to develop the business cases for deploying social business. Peter and his team engage over fifty customers a year in complex business transformations. He actively works across all industries and functional areas (sales, support, HR, product development, etc) to make visible to his clients their most compelling investment options. Peter also leads a development team that is building visualization tools and techniques to speed adoption of IBM’s emerging technology solutions. The IBM Experience Modeler and IBM’s Business Value Assessment (BVA) method were both built from the ground up under Peter’s leadership. The IBM Experience Modeler provides a means to rapidly prototype and depict complex business processes as they will operate when using the latest Web 2.0 tools from IBM and the marketplace. The BVA is a fast path to building a business case that complements the visual models. This combination provides the organizational consensus needed by most organizations to commit to the significant changes that social business introduces. Peter started his career with IBM in Cleveland, Ohio as a sales representative for IBM’s large systems. He has fifteen years of sales and sales management experience, as well as management experience in IBM’s CIO office where he lead a transformation team that deployed IBM’s first world-wide CRM systems. He has also led services and consulting practices in CRM systems and Systems Management before starting his current practice 10 years ago. Peter has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Princeton University in social psychology. In addition to extensive IBM management training, he has completed several business management programs in financial and senior management issues at Harvard University, Babson College and Wharton School of Management.
Rod Smith, Vice President of Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group, and Jason Gartner, IBM's Director of Java Technologies talk about this week's news on the IBM and Oracle agreement to cooperate on OpenJDK.
David Boloker is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. He joined me to talk about Project Blue Spruce, which he describes as “a telepresence light solution.” This browser-based cooperative platform is built with open source technologies OpenAjax Hub, eJabber, and the Dojo Toolkit, and incorporates freely available IBM video and audio standards. David shares use cases and talks about the small workgroup target audience for Blue Spruce.
Day one at Lotusphere in Orlando. Turbo Todd and I sat down in the product showcase with Gina Poole, VP of Marketing 2.0, IBM Software Group. Gina talks about the growing value of social software in the workplace, challenges that customers face, and how IBM is doing it internally, in particular with BlueIQ, an internal program coordinating the IBM Software Group adoption of social tools like Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, and Rational Asset Manager, as well as pilot work developed in IBM’s Technology Adoption Program and research labs.
Steve Mills, Senior VP and Group Executive, IBM Software Group on smart essential information strategy, making things predictive in real time, and anticipating success.
Steve Mills, Senior vice-president and group executive for IBM Software Group, talks about developerWorks' mission and dW's value to IBM and the global software development community.
Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO of Information Managment for IBM Software Group, previews what he'll be talking about regarding cloud computing at the Information On Demand Global Conference coming up Oct 25-29 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Jeff Jonas is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, Entity Analytic Solutions, IBM Software Group, shaping the overall technical strategy of next generation identity analytics and the use of this new capability in the overall IBM technology strategy. He joins Todd Watson and me for a talk covering relationship awareness around 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, companies becoming smarter even amidst the infoglut, balancing the always connected world with privacy, and more.
dW editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell talks with Senior VP and Group Executive for IBM Software Group, Steve Mills. Steve speaks from his unique vantage point on important trends in software and shares lessons learned from decades of serving clients and customers. He also talks about the experience of heading up IBM's widely distributed software development organization of 33,000 strong.
Eoin Lane, senior solutions engineer with IBM Software Group, talks about a new developerWorks expert space he has rolled out focused on Building SOA applications with patterns and reusable assets. Check out his blog on the same, here.
In this 13-minute podcast, Stephanie Martin, Worldwide Lead for Developer Relations, IBM Software Group and John Andrews, President and CEO of Evans Data Corp talk about the state of adoption of the Java programming language worldwide, how Java stacks up against other languages and platforms, what IBM is hearing from the Java community, and what lies ahead for Java.
This is a recording from the Mass Technology Leadership Council meeting of the CIO panel, moderated by eWeek Editor Eric Lundquist. The panelists were Sandesh Bhat, director of design and technology innovation at the IBM Software Group, Bethann Pepoli, deputy CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and David Webb, CIO of Silicon Valley Bank. They talk about what they do and their role, some about where their budgets are going, how to sell to them, and (at 40:15) about their use of Open Source. Recorded: 2006-02-08 Length: 43.53, Size: 20.0MB