Episodes
Sept. 26, 2012
Special Encore Presentation: Rise of the Machines: Coming to a smart city near you
M2M. Rise of the machines. The promise of a world of connected devices, where machines of all types and sizes can autonomously communicate with each other. Don’t believe it’s a reality yet? Global M2M revenue is projected to ...
Sept. 19, 2012
Building a Social Community: Tell Me a Story!
Social communities and storytelling. The connection? Ask the experts.Rachel Happe, The Community Roundtable: “Social communities leverage an increasingly expensive asset - people - by allowing them to work out loud, connect w...
Sept. 12, 2012
Factory of the Future: Ready, Set, Now! – Part 2
Factory of the past vs. the future. Does Charlie Chaplin’s struggling Little Tramp in the 1936 film “Modern Times” represent today’s factory worker and the shop floor scenario? No, according to IDC’s Bob Parker. “Recent resea...
Sept. 5, 2012
Right Time Experiences: The “Now!” factor of mobile
Right Time Experiences. Huge business potential for you, but mobile solutions require business insight, technical chops and strong design to get it right.
Aug. 29, 2012
Sweet and Sour of Investing - Part 2
You’re a game-changer! You’ve created the new product or service of the millennium, but have no money to take it to market. Your best options: beg your FFF (family, friends, fools) circle, tap an angel for seed money, or conv...
Aug. 22, 2012
The Future of Digital Marketing: Now!
Digital marketing. Your increasingly digitally-smart customers expect more from your website than being able to buy something. They’re demanding a relevant, personalized browsing experience with new product discovery, researc...
Aug. 15, 2012
Sales Transformation: From approved vendor to trusted advisor
Sales transformation. A catch phrase “for virtually every C-level executive in the race to find answers to questions about sales and earnings growth, positioning and differentiation; even survival,” says Bob Nicols, author of...
Aug. 8, 2012
Rise of the Machines: Coming to a smart city near you
M2M. Rise of the machines. The promise of a world of connected devices, where machines of all types and sizes can autonomously communicate with each other. Don’t believe it’s a reality yet? Global M2M revenue is projected to ...
Aug. 1, 2012
Utilities: Shining the light on smart grid
Utilities. How “smart” are they about the smart meter data they can now read and its value to the consumer? Our experts weigh in. Roque Marinho: “With the smart meter being part of operations...utilities have to cope with the...
July 25, 2012
Retailers we love to love: Building brand loyalty
Retailers: We know it’s tougher than ever to turn customers into loyal evangelists for your brand. The experts say: Christine B. Whittemore: “The winners in retail today are retailers who understand that the customer calls th...
July 18, 2012
Open Government: Game-changer yet?
Open government. Transparency, participation, collaboration. Sounds good on paper, but is it a true game-changer yet? Our experts say: Dr. Natalie Helbig: “Opening government is a perfect storm, but we don’t know whether it w...
July 11, 2012
Risky Business: Time for Governance
Risk. A fact of business life today. What is your company doing about it? Hear what our experts say. Dr. Parveen Gupta: “Today, nothing is more fundamental to business and more vexing to a company’s directors than effective r...
July 4, 2012
Special Encore Presentation: State of the Device: Consumerization of IT 2012
Have your employees demanded a BYOD (bring your own device) policy yet? If not, the writing is on the wall – or on the tablet. Any day now, they’ll be bringing their iPhones and iPads to work. Is this trend a threat or an opp...
June 27, 2012
HR Analytics: How’s Your Human Capital Investment Paying Off?
Today’s the day! You’re hiring a well-vetted, steep-salary C-suite exec and you’re staffing a business-critical new department. Surely your HR folks gave you rock-solid validation for these particular human capital investment...
June 20, 2012
Retail Banks of the Future: For Customers, Not Bankers!
Bankers, listen up: It’s not about YOU anymore. Customers are demanding a hassle-free experience, convenience, faster transaction processing, fair fees. Gone are the days of luring them with a free toaster. Two recent blogs t...
June 13, 2012
Enterprise Mobility: Faster, Please!
Enterprise mobility is an unstoppable force. By 2015, this game-changer could impact over 37% of the world’s workforce - about 1.3 billion people. And by that time, 50% of enterprise mobility applications will be HTML5, predi...
June 6, 2012
Multi-Cultural Marketing: Ready to Reach 50 Million Latinos?
Information is still king. But you’ll need a different mantra to capture the ear and the wallets of the vast Latino market. According to JeffreyGroup president Mike Valdés-Fauli, “Culture is king...
May 30, 2012
State of the Device: Consumerization of IT 2012
Have your employees demanded a BYOD (bring your own device) policy yet? If not, the writing is on the wall – or on the tablet. Any day now, they’ll be bringing their iPhones and iPads to work. Is this trend a threat or an opp...
May 23, 2012
Subsidiaries: No, Virginia, the World Is Not Flat!
Ready to grow your company into a global brand? Good plan, says Emergent Research’s Steve King. “Almost 75% of global GDP growth over the next 10 years is expected to come from emerging market countries. How can you not parti...
May 16, 2012
College News: Going, going, mobile!
Like their grown-up counterparts, college newspapers are in trouble, says campusmediagroup.wordpress.com. “It’s now conventional wisdom that newspapers are dying, and the only debate left is when, not if...Are you with a coll...
May 14, 2012
SAP Game Changers Radio from SAPPHIRE Now 2012
Through the magic of remote radio production, SAP Radio producer / host Bonnie D. Graham interviewed more two dozen attendees at SAP’s Sapphire Now 2012 for this special edition of “Coffee Break with Game-Changers”. Hear note...
May 9, 2012
Part 2: How Smart Is BI Without A Strategy?
On April 4, we explored whether business intelligence, aka “BI”, is an oxymoron or a way to make companies genuinely smarter. Today our experts take a deeper dive into why even the best technical intelligence isn’t really “sm...
May 2, 2012
Great Customer Service: Is Your Call Center Missing the Obvious?
Put on your consumer hat for a minute. Does your personal favorite customer service horror story end with how easily the offending company could have made your experience a dream, instead of a nightmare? Now put on your busin...
April 25, 2012
Mobile Government? Yes! Trends and Realities
We’re spoiled! We’re so accustomed to getting real-time/right-time personal and business information via mobile devices and apps that we now expect similar responsiveness from the public sector. Could game-changing mobility b...