Episodes

Radical Resiliency: Start Your Engines, People! - Part 2
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...
Bitcoin/Blockchain: Hype or Hope for a New Secure Cryptocurrency?
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...
Social Selling, Social Media and The Law: How's Your Brand Doing?
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...
Behavior Side of Preventive Medicine: Genetic Science and Big Data - Part 3
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...
Social Selling Adoption: How to Make It Happen - Part 2
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'.
Templosion, Technology and the Future of Finance - Part 2
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.
Digital Manufacturing: Powering the 4th Industrial Revolution - Part 2
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...
Digitization: Changing the Utilities Customer Engagement - Part 2
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...
Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 3
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 ...
Becoming Digital, Staying Human: Be True to You and Your Business - Part 2
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...
Security Breach Threat Analysis and Intelligence: Just Voodoo or Real?
May 11, 2016

Security Breach Threat Analysis and Intelligence: Just Voodoo or Real?

The buzz: Woo woo or woo hoo? Companies like yours across all industry sectors are trying to deal with almost daily security threats to your networks and devices. Can available Security Incident and Event Monitoring (SIEM) an...
One-Hour Doorstep Delivery: Can It Transform Your Business?
May 4, 2016

One-Hour Doorstep Delivery: Can It Transform Your Business?

The buzz: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Businesses used to focus on the goods they produced. Now that customers in the Digital Ec...
Corporate Social Innovation: Good for Society and Business - Part 2
April 27, 2016

Corporate Social Innovation: Good for Society and Business - Part 2

The buzz: Good, better best. Never let it rest. How can any corporation partner with the right social enterprise to create sustainable and scalable social good to support the world’s future? Hear answers from those in the kno...
Radical Resiliency: Start Your Engines, People!
April 20, 2016

Radical Resiliency: Start Your Engines, People!

The buzz: Bouncing back. Stress is such an epidemic that 78% of employers in the 2013/2014 Staying@Work™ Survey identified it as the top workforce risk factor. Are some of us better equipped to be resilient, while others are ...
The Behavior Side of Preventive Medicine: Workplace, Employees and Pharma
April 13, 2016

The Behavior Side of Preventive Medicine: Workplace, Employees and Pharma

The buzz: “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day…I’m feeling good.” Bravo to your HR for offering employee health strategy programs! That means everyone is so healthy and fit that attendance and productivity are way up. Not so much...
IoT and Healthcare: Bringing IT Home - Part 2.
April 6, 2016

IoT and Healthcare: Bringing IT Home - Part 2.

The buzz: Home is where the heart is… Healthcare is experiencing a major and positive transformation – and industry disruption – largely due to technology advances like the Internet of Things (IoT). In addition to raising the...
Fighting Cyber Crime Part 2: Staying One Giant Step Ahead
March 30, 2016

Fighting Cyber Crime Part 2: Staying One Giant Step Ahead

The buzz: Simon says. Cybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing our country, and has enormous implications for our national security, economic prosperity, and public safety. The range of threats and the challenges they...
Digital Transformation - Changing the Game in the Chemical Industry
March 23, 2016

Digital Transformation - Changing the Game in the Chemical Industry

The buzz: Vite, vite! Chemical industry leaders face new challenges, as digital technologies transform our world and drive innovation at a breathtaking rate. How will you integrate acquisitions to reap promised synergies and ...
Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 2
March 16, 2016

Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 2

The buzz: It’s the law. Attention, female entrepreneurs! As you aspire to become million-dollar women, growth will bring complexity and risk. Legal issues will crop up more often. Penalties for not complying will be more seve...
Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 1
March 9, 2016

Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 1

The buzz: It’s the law. Women entrepreneurs are one of the fastest-growing U.S. economy segments! But you’re also five times more likely than men to shutter your business. Why? A lack business management and legal savvy, more...
Pharma and Preventive Medicine: Future or Failure?
March 2, 2016

Pharma and Preventive Medicine: Future or Failure?

The buzz: “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day… and I’m feeling good.” We know prevention is better than cure. But without a systematic approach, it is still up to each of us to decide whether we choose to live healthy or not. No...
Corporate Social Innovation: Good for Society, Good for Business
Feb. 24, 2016

Corporate Social Innovation: Good for Society, Good for Business

The buzz: It’s all good. Many blue chip companies trace their formal corporate philanthropic programs – giving back to not-for-profits – to post-WWII, the golden age of corporate philanthropy. Today’s spotlight on innovation ...
Beyond IT: Your Fight Against Cybercrime
Feb. 17, 2016

Beyond IT: Your Fight Against Cybercrime

The buzz: Time’s up. Obama seeks over one-third rise in U.S. cyber security funding (Reuters 02/09/16). Why? Brazen cyber criminals are invading an entire supply chain, even stealing and misrepresenting individuals’ health da...
The Rising Billions: Business Networks and the Digital Economy
Feb. 10, 2016

The Rising Billions: Business Networks and the Digital Economy

The buzz: Acting hyper. Peter Diamandis predicts the most dramatic positive change in our global economy will occur between 2016-2020, when 3–5 billion new consumers–who’ve never purchased, uploaded, invented or sold anything...