Episodes
Dec. 27, 2017
Encore: Game-Changers Crystal Ball 2018 Predictions - Part 2
The buzz: Your crystal ball for 2018 is here! If your #1 business wish this holiday is to know what 2018 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. We’re bringing you predictions from ...
Dec. 13, 2017
Game-Changers Crystal Ball 2018 Predictions - Part 2
The buzz: Your crystal ball for 2018 is here! If your #1 business wish this holiday is to know what 2018 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. We're bringing you predictions from ...
Dec. 6, 2017
Game-Changers 2018 Crystal Ball Predictions - Part 1
The buzz: Crytal ball for 2018! If your #1 business wish this holiday is to know what 2018 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing: predictions from 75 thought leaders about the tech...
Nov. 29, 2017
Today's Digital Disruption: How Leaders Prepare for Tomorrow - Part 2
The buzz: “Companies that view technology as a tool rather than an integrated part of a vastly different business future–risk their very survival” (SAP Executive Study). Welcome to the 4th industrial revolution, with digital ...
Nov. 22, 2017
Encore: Today's Digital Disruption: How Leaders Prepare for Tomorrow
The buzz: "Companies that view technology as a tool rather than an integrated part of a vastly different business future – risk their very survival" (SAP Executive Study). Welcome to the 4th industrial revolution. The economy...
Nov. 15, 2017
Modern Competitive Analysis: Remember Social Media - Part 2
The buzz: “You’ll be in trouble quickly if you assume your only–or biggest–competition looks exactly like you” (Paige Leidig). All brands operate in a competitive global environment. Some prefer to ignore the competition. Oth...
Nov. 8, 2017
Today's Digital Disruption: How Leaders Prepare for Tomorrow
The buzz: “Companies that view technology as a tool rather than an integrated part of a vastly different business future – risk their very survival” (SAP Executive Study). Welcome to the 4th industrial revolution. The economy...
Nov. 1, 2017
Robots at Work: Whose Job Is It Anyway?
The Buzz: “The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.” (Daniel H. Wilson) Headline news: “Security robot 'in critical condition.’” Say what? It’s true. When Washington D.C. security robot “S...
Oct. 25, 2017
Next Wave of Tech at Work: Is Human-Centric AI Possible?
The buzz: “CHROs using artificial intelligence in the workplace…to transform recruiting, HR service centers, and learning and development? I believe the answer is yes” (J. Meister). As AI moves from ideation to reality, busin...
Oct. 18, 2017
Social Selling at the Tipping Point - Part 2
The buzz: “79% of sales people that use social media outsell their peers” [Forbes]. Social selling is at a tipping point, “that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, spreads like wild...
Oct. 11, 2017
Redefining Innovation to the Power of D: Multiple Layers of Diversity
The buzz: “New research provides compelling evidence that diversity unlocks innovation and drives market growth” (hbr.org). With the commoditization of technology, your company may have focused on improving efficiencies. But ...
Oct. 4, 2017
Money's Digital Makeover - Part 3
The buzz: “Today thoughtful people everywhere are trying to understand the implications of a protocol that enables mere mortals to manufacture trust through clever code. This has never happened before” (Don and Alex Tapscott)...
Sept. 27, 2017
Don't Start with Me: Funding Female-Founded Startups - Part 2
The buzz: “Male VCs—obviously most are—are very comfortable now giving female entrepreneurs capital for ‘girl stuff’” (Vivoom). Don’t be fooled. Sexual harassment and discriminatory treatment toward women are not a Silicon Va...
Sept. 20, 2017
Target Incentive and Rebate Programs: Driving Digital Transformation
The buzz: “Motivation is an art, not a science” (Dan Tyre). If you’re regularly paying sales incentives to customers and partners but getting nothing in return, you know the challenges of juggling an array of programs and pre...
Sept. 13, 2017
Innovation Culture: Is Your Business A Split Personality? Part 2
The buzz: “You can invent alone, but you can’t innovate alone” (G. van Wulfen). Business leaders have long pondered whether culture impacts an organization’s evolution and growth. If culture is the “personality” shaping the a...
Aug. 23, 2017
Global Commerce, Tax and Technology: Navigating Rough Waters Ahead
The Buzz: “Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax” (Max Baucus). The confluence of global trade, new technologies and governments' increasing need for tax revenue is impacting the global commerce landscape, challenging you an...
Aug. 16, 2017
Disruptive Solutions Mindset 101
The Buzz: “Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else” (Clay Christensen). Rapid change has forced today’s visionary business leaders to replace conventional growt...
Aug. 9, 2017
Sci-Fi, AI, Wi-Fi: What's the Story?
The Buzz: “Don't annoy science fiction writers…people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you” (John Scalzi). Think a beach day with a sci-fi page-turner is an escape from reality? Not! Sci-fi...
Aug. 2, 2017
Don't Start with Me: Funding Female-Founded Startups
The buzz: “It's actually women who are creating and leading some of the most established and promising companies overall” (@DrewAHendricks). Female entrepreneurs’ accusations of sexual harassment from male VCs and others, are...
July 26, 2017
No Reward Without Risk: Your Company in the Digital Economy
The buzz: “You always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” (Wayne Gretsky). Despite headlines about companies that make regulatory missteps and have lax internal controls, many are still playing catch-up to grasp pitfalls i...
July 19, 2017
CHRO: New Roadmap to the Boardroom? - Part 2
The buzz: “Human resources professionals have long worked to earn a voice in the C-suite and boardroom; yet the Chief Human Resources Officer role remains elusive…many companies still lag in their perception of HR’s value” (B...
July 12, 2017
Humanizing HR: Is Technology the Answer?
The buzz: “While efficiency…is important…[the HR] function has to think of itself as talent consultants not service deliverers.”” (Josh Bersin, Forbes.com) HR evolved in Europe during the Industrial Revolution from an idea by...
June 28, 2017
Social Selling and AI: New Frontier or Pricey Gimmick? - Part 2
The buzz: “We don’t even know If a salesperson replying to us in real-time in the year 2020 would be a human or a robot…AI has already penetrated into our lives with or without our consent” (Mehreen Siddiqua). AI is changing ...
June 21, 2017
HR, Globalization, and Localization: More than Meets the Eye - Part 2
The buzz: “49% of employees feel that a future in which people will ‘work from anywhere in the world’ is now” (ADP “The Evolution of Work” 2016). Reality check: Your company can’t be global without being local. What is your C...