Episodes

The buzz: Future of Insurance. According to a survey from SAP and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), long-standing insurance companies are struggling to keep pace with strong competition from other industries that offer advanced consumer-facing insurance capabilities. Can traditional insurers survive? It may depend on how well they embrace analytics and learn to incorporate data from M2M and IoT. brbr The experts speak. Anthony O’Donnell, Insurance Innovation Reporter: “Now Harrison was prep...

The buzz: Travelers’ TMI “The customer is #1” is a customer service industry mantra and mandate, particularly for business-to-consumer

The buzz: IP Security Are market globalization and new competitors grabbing your customers’ heads and wallets?

The buzz: Your business in 2015. What hot business trends should you focus on this year? We asked three visionaries to share

The buzz: Credit cards. With headline-topping credit card breaches at Target and Adobe, merchants are on high alert to safeguard their systems. A data breach is costly: lost customers and profits, a tarnished reputation, substantial fines.

The buzz: Your business wish list. Still wishing for a crystal ball to see what 2015 may bring for your company, industry and the world? We’ve got the next best thing. Completing our three-part Predictions 2015 Special, today 14 thought leaders will share their insights on the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2015 and beyond – bringing our total to 41 speakers. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for SAP Game-Changers Radio 2015 Predictio...

The buzz: Your business wish list Wishing and 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 our three-part Predictions 2015 Special, you’ll hear 40 thought leaders’ insights on the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2015 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us on Dec. 17 for SAP Game-Changers Radio 2015 Predictions – Part 2 live, with Kerry Brown, SAP...

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, and Jan. 7, you’ll hear a total of more than 40 thought leaders’ predictions on the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2015 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us on Dec. 10 for SAP Game-Changers Radio 2015 Predi...

The buzz: Your business wish listWishing and hoping for a crystal ball to see what 2015 may bring for your company

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, and Jan. 7, you’ll hear a total of more than 40 thought leaders’ predictions on the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2015 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us on Dec. 10 for SAP Game-Changers Radio 2015 Predi...

The buzz: Industrial Internet.The world as we knew it a few years ago has changed. The Internet of Things or Industrial Internet

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.

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 new product’s life cycle, detecting existing unknown issues, and keeping pace with increasing regulatory requirements. Can advanced analytics help proactively identify safety issues before lives are lost and injuries are sustained, launch recall campaigns sooner, and better pr...

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? The food, fashion, high tech products and automotive industries face similar challenges. Will Life Sciences solve it first? The experts speak. Eric Newmark, IDC: “The life science industry has dragged its feet for the last two decades with item-level serialization, keeping i...

The buzz: Banks.Since the financial crisis, banks have been working harder to rebuild customer trust and improve relationships, even offering interactive online communications

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 mentoring practices building a diverse leadership or cloning “desirable” stereotypes? Do you support reverse mentoring in a multi-generational workforce? The experts speak. Brian Moran, Brian Moran & Associates: “Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to t...

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 we’ll explore how pharma and medical devices companies are working to surmount health market hurdles andprepare for a healthier global future. How soon can they glean life-saving insights by connecting the dots scientific, clinical, genomic, and patient therapy data? Will n...

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 climbing aboard the mobility bandwagon. But with only a few developers offering mobile HCM – most limited to slim, basic process steps – HR is not finding the easy-to-use functionality and consumer-centric, gamified look-and-feel needed to engage younger employees. How soon ...

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

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.

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.

The buzz: Pharma.Populations are aging. Chronic diseases are increasing, with new strains emerging at an alarming rate.

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 experts speak. Pamela Weiss, Appropriate Response: “In a real sense all life is inter-related. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” (Dr. Martin Luther King). Marc Le...

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 platform makeover? Are you prepared to shift into a totally customer-focused culture? Is the right talent on board yet? Before your marketing organization can play well and win big in this burgeoning arena, you need to know what future success will look like. The experts speak. Flo...