Episodes
Dec. 24, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: SAP Game-Changers 2015 Predictions – Part 1
What’s at the top of your business wish list this holiday season? If you’re hoping for a crystal ball to see what 2015 may bring for your company, industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. On Dec. 10, Dec. 17, an...
Dec. 17, 2014
Game-Changers 2015 Predictions – Part 2
The buzz: Your business wish listWishing and hoping for a crystal ball to see what 2015 may bring for your company
Dec. 10, 2014
SAP Game-Changers 2015 Predictions – Part 1
What’s at the top of your business wish list this holiday season? If you’re hoping for a crystal ball to see what 2015 may bring for your company, industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing. On Dec. 10, Dec. 17, an...
Dec. 3, 2014
Industrial Internet: Real-Time to Grow Your Business – Part 3
The buzz: Industrial Internet.The world as we knew it a few years ago has changed. The Internet of Things or Industrial Internet
Nov. 26, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Retail Relevancy: Distinction Trumps Differentiation
The buzz: Retail.Retailers: If you’re not making each customer’s experience more engaging, exciting and fulfilling than your competitors are, help is here.
Nov. 19, 2014
A Matter of Life and Death: Advanced Analytics and Product Safety Recalls
The buzz: Our safety. Product safety recalls are in the news so often that our reactions of shock and fear have been replaced by, “What now?” Manufacturers clearly need help identifying potential safety issues earlier in a ne...
Nov. 12, 2014
Counterfeit Medical Products: Stop the Madness
The buzz: Counterfeits, “Quality has its price” is especially true for drugs and medical devices, where counterfeiting is a $Billion market. How to protect consumer safety and stem revenue losses facing honest manufacturers? ...
Nov. 5, 2014
Financial Fast-Forward: Defining A Best Practice Bank
The buzz: Banks.Since the financial crisis, banks have been working harder to rebuild customer trust and improve relationships, even offering interactive online communications
Oct. 29, 2014
Mentoring Done Right: Everybody Wins! Part 3
The buzz: Mentoring. Great mentors can be invaluable to the success of individual employees, as well as to your entire organization. Are only a few employees, perhaps mainly one gender, privileged to have mentors? Are your me...
Oct. 22, 2014
Pharma and Technology – Part 2
The buzz: A healthier future. On Pharma and Technology Part 1, we discussed the need for pharma to move quickly to introduce safe, cost-effective drugs that respond to cancer, Ebola, and other chronic and urgent diseases. Now...
Oct. 15, 2014
Trends in HR Mobility: Apps on the Go
The buzz: HR – There’s an app for that. Just six years after first-generation iPhones debuted, smartphones pervade every corner of our work, personal, and emotional lives. As demand for corporate mobile apps escalates, HR is ...
Oct. 8, 2014
Banks Embracing Technology: Fast Enough for Regulators?
The buzz: Banking.Triggered by the financial crisis and subsequent regulatory changes, banks are moving toward a new paradigm of simultaneously and proactively managing risk
Oct. 1, 2014
Retail Relevancy: Distinction Trumps Differentiation
The buzz: Retail.Retailers: If you’re not making each customer’s experience more engaging, exciting and fulfilling than your competitors are, help is here. Hints: Find your own retail niche. Leverage that distinction across your business.
Sept. 24, 2014
Retail Update: Winning the Hearts, Minds, Wallets of Fashionistas .
The buzz: Retail.As NY Fashion Week ends, fashion retailers are under more competitive pressure than ever to deliver great “retail therapy” experiences that consistently meet or exceed customers’ expectations.
Sept. 17, 2014
Pharma and Technology: Higher Outcomes, Lower Costs
The buzz: Pharma.Populations are aging. Chronic diseases are increasing, with new strains emerging at an alarming rate.
Sept. 10, 2014
Balance at Work: The Business Case for Health
The buzz: Balance. Whether you call it work-life balance or integration, some days it seems impossible. How can you be calm, centered, productive, happy amid 24/7 work distractions and deadlines, family and sleep demands? The...
Sept. 3, 2014
Up Skilling for Marketing in the Cloud: Are You Ready? Part 2
The buzz: Cloud and Marketing. Breaking news! The cloud brings one of the biggest opportunities for the future of marketing. But it comes with big challenges. Have you begun developing a digital marketing strategy and platfor...
Aug. 27, 2014
Fighting Fraud: Predictive Technology to the Rescue? Part 3
The buzz: Fraud.As hard as you work to implement effective anti-fraud processes, voracious and savvy fraudsters are working even harder
Aug. 20, 2014
Analytics in Insurance: Dinosaur or Dynamo? Part 3
Today’s buzz: Insurance. Along its paper-to-digital journey, the insurance industry has attained sophistication in the use of some analytics tools. But the industry overall is still a laggard when it comes to adopting an inte...
Aug. 13, 2014
Grow Your SME Business: Smart Tips for Entrepreneurs – Part 2
The buzz: SMEs. If you’re the entrepreneurial founder or leader of a small-to-midsize company, your commitment is tested daily. After engaging investors and building a core team, your challenges can include scaling technology...
Aug. 6, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Frictionless Customer Experience: War Stories from the Trenches
Today’s buzz: Customer experience. Is technology the magic bullet to help you give customers everything they want and more – and thus ensure their loyalty? Not quite. Technology can indeed give you real-time insights to be re...
July 30, 2014
Unleashing Unlimited Human Potential
Today’s buzz: Potential Is your company still operating by Industrial Era standardization, predictability, top-down authority? Enough! Progressive organizations are using a connected, collaborative, creative model to unleash ...
July 23, 2014
Future of Make for Me: The Luxury of Customer Centricity – Part 2
Today’s buzz: You - again! Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849). Early-days “Make for Me” industrialization was humming along until Henry Ford car-jacked it to launch the “Any color you...
July 16, 2014
Industrial Internet: Real-Time to Grow Your Business – Part 2
The buzz: 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to the Age of the Smart Factory, where a new generation of systems delivers real-time awareness and dynamic interactions among machines, systems, assets, people and things – aka Th...