Episodes
Oct. 26, 2016
New Energy Era Prosumers; Utility-Customer Partnerships
The buzz: The Electric Slide. News flash for Utilities: You can no longer be profitable on a one-sided business model providing power to customers. Enter the prosumer. While the consumer is utility-dependent and generates rev...
Oct. 19, 2016
The Future of Designing Innovation - Part 2
The buzz: “Change is the law of life…those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” -JFKennedy. The term “digital transformation” is ubiquitous, but what does it really mean? Easy answer: software ...
Oct. 12, 2016
Learning from The Unicorns: EY Entrepreneur Of The Year
The buzz: 'The unicorn is noble' -German folk song. Wow! Companies led by EY Entrepreneur Of The Year winners are among the most successful in the world, generating 3T dollars in revenue, creating 13M jobs, outperforming the ...
Oct. 5, 2016
Diversity and Inclusion Minus the Blame and Shame
The buzz: 'I’m gonna tell Mom on you.' Women remain under-represented in government, boards, C-suite and influential business roles, often due to unconscious bias. A man named John or David is more likely than a woman to be o...
Sept. 28, 2016
Gender Equity in Business: Is It the Age of the Woman Yet?
The buzz: Mom, are we there yet? We’re seeing a ground-swell of policy and practice discussions and activities about the under-representation of women in the boardroom, C-suite and high-growth entrepreneurship. The Lean-In Re...
Sept. 21, 2016
Digital Manufacturing Part 3: Powering the 5th Industrial Revolution
The buzz: 'Welcome to the future' -B. Paisley. Move over, 4th Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the 5th Industrial Revolution with intelligent robots, 3D-printed human organs, drones fetching warehouse orders, and driverless ...
Sept. 14, 2016
Cloud Computing: Growth, Adoption and SMBs
The buzz: “I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.” -Elizabeth Taylor. By 2019, cloud software delivery will grow to 112 Billion dolars –five times faster than traditional software– leveling the IT playing field. With uneasines...
Sept. 7, 2016
Chemical Industry: Digital Transformation as Success Model
The buzz: It’s NOT like “déjà vu all over again”! -Yogi Berra. Wake up call for the Chemical industry: Digital Transformation is real and more relevant than ever for your businesses. Reality check: Many of them still think of...
Aug. 31, 2016
Templosion, Technology and the Future of Finance - Part 3
The buzz: Knock Knock! Futurist Edie Weiner coined the term ‘templosion’ to describe rapid and massive changes in increasingly shorter timeframes. As the templosive acceleration of digital transformation – Artificial Intellig...
Aug. 24, 2016
Making Cities Safer and Smarter: The Internet of Things- Part 2
The buzz: Living for the City -Stevie Wonder, 1974-. Violent attacks in Florida, France, Texas and Turkey make public safety a top global concern. Can governments protect us in our homes, in public, at work and play? Tech adv...
Aug. 17, 2016
CHROs: Time for a New Conversation - Part 2
The buzz: Talk is not cheap! With dramatic workforce and business changes – multi-generations at work, gender inequity challenges, developing economies and globalization –it’s high time for the CHRO role to evolve. How? For s...
Aug. 10, 2016
Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 4: Dont Make a Federal Case Out of It
The buzz: The Gambler (K. Rogers). Business ownership can be a Coney Island rollercoaster. One moment, an exhilarating ride up; the next, a frightening plummet down. There are thousands of guidebooks, but no one has ever walk...
Aug. 3, 2016
Build A Business, Not Just a Job
The buzz: 'Takin’ Care of Business'. According to Forbes Magazine, 543,000 new businesses launch each month in the U.S. The catch: of the 28 million U.S. small businesses, 22.5 owners are self-employed, average 44,000 in annu...
July 27, 2016
Here's Looking at YOU, Kid: IoT of the Self and CyberCrime - Part 3
The buzz: The Internet of Who (Whom)? The Internet was created in 1969 to facilitate the free flow of information. The IoT inherited this spirit. Fast forward to 2016. With cameras and emerging connected devices collecting an...
July 20, 2016
Radical Resiliency: Start Your Engines, People! - Part 2
The buzz: Stressed? Join the crowd. 78% of employers in the 2013/14 Staying@Work™ Survey said stress is the #1 workforce risk. We have a solution: Radical Resiliency. But individuals, managers and senior executives face tough...
July 13, 2016
Bitcoin/Blockchain: Hype or Hope for a New Secure Cryptocurrency?
The buzz: Show me the money? Our current financial world is rife with inefficiencies: cross-border payments take days and cost money, inter-bank funds are slow, accessing money is cumbersome, trading securities takes time. Ha...
July 6, 2016
Social Selling, Social Media and The Law: How's Your Brand Doing?
The buzz: “We just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water” (Carl Wilson, The Beach Boys). How Social Selling is conducted and how a brand is portrayed in social media – whether undertaken by the PR department, sales f...
June 29, 2016
Behavior Side of Preventive Medicine: Genetic Science and Big Data - Part 3
The buzz: “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” The key to a healthy population is more than an individual’s personal decisions and behaviors. Genetic science says the fault may be in our sta...
June 22, 2016
Social Selling Adoption: How to Make It Happen - Part 2
Social Selling is real - now! How do we know? The numbers. Sales people not using social media missed quota 15 percent more often than peers who do 'Hubspot'.
June 15, 2016
Templosion, Technology and the Future of Finance - Part 2
The buzz: Boom! The speed of technological innovation is leading to a world of 'Templosion’: massive changes happening in increasingly compressed timeframes.
June 8, 2016
Digital Manufacturing: Powering the 4th Industrial Revolution - Part 2
The buzz: Every day is a revolution. Welcome to the future. The upside: The 4th industrial Revolution’s smart factories, connected machines, and IIoT offer limitless possibilities for collaborative robotics, digital twins, an...
June 1, 2016
Digitization: Changing the Utilities Customer Engagement - Part 2
The buzz: Knowledge is power. Reality check for utilities. Digitization and the exponential growth of mobile devices are changing your customer engagement. But still fewer than half of customers are digitally connected with t...
May 25, 2016
Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 3
The buzz: WHY ME? Business ownership is tough, especially when clients push back on your pricing, employees act like four-year olds, vendors don’t deliver as promised. Add to that the fear of growing at a snail’s pace, while ...
May 18, 2016
Becoming Digital, Staying Human: Be True to You and Your Business - Part 2
The buzz: What’s a vacation? Entrepreneurs and business owners have always carried the weight of their company, with precious few days off. Now pressure to “mind the store” is literally always-on, with digital customers onlin...