Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:• The real story behind the supply chain: There are not enough skilled workers in manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and trucking.• Combination of technology and innovative programs: Like apprenticeships, primary school education programs, and recruiting people from other industries.• Geo-political dynamics: LinkedIn pulling out of China, recent investments by the US government to stimulate American ships manufacturing, and 5G development.• Google is an example of a broader trend: This is a deceptively simple observation and one that holds insights for business leaders.The Big Quotes:“It's clearly starting to have an impact as we get a little closer to the holiday season.”“Boy, we had that all wrong. What were we thinking? We're rethinking our strategy but trust me, they are.”“We might break that into four or five that have proximity to final assembly, proximity to customers, proximity to talent, proximity to energy grids.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• The solution is a production database: So there’s a big period of time when I have two different data sources. And you run the report off that database.• We learned about Chesterton's fence: It didn't grow like a weed – somebody put it there. They spent time and money and energy. I say to CEOs boards and my customers ask yourself, why did we do it that way?• Very worried about shadow IT: The CEO and the CIO will come to tell you one thing: this is bad.• Keep the lemmings from running over the cliff: Traditionally, the board of directors and the business people were talking about the same thing – and so were the vendors. Giving them the benefit of our advice.The Big Quotes:“Oracle got it. IBM got it. Microsoft gets it. Some of the other vendors that were more product focused, kind of looked at their product from the wrong end of the telescope.”“They don't want to buy a vendor's product. They want to buy a process solution.”“Do analytics, look at dashboards. They've already seen it 20 times.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• We're not loyal to each other: I think you've got to breathe almost our hearts back into our organizations.• Competitors are very aggressive: And they're enticing them with new programs at 20% rates. The salaries are getting kicked up just because they're paying more.• Blindingly obvious: When we’re in the four walls, we forget the simple things. It’s really a clear and present demonstration of what your values and beliefs are.• Empowerment is about decision rights: I don't feel like I'm making impact. I'm not trusted to do my job.The Big Quotes:“I'm not an Elon Musk fan boy, I think he has good qualities and bad qualities.”“This is how we're enabling you to have more fun.”“Are we so dumb as to think that people can't sense that?”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• “Scaling Up” – by Verne Harnish: The four Ds: drivers, demands, discipline, and decisions.• Growth doesn’t always equal success: For each organization, defining what success means is really important to defining how you can make a decision and make those executions a reality.• The Acceleration Economy Analyst Network: This is a new venture from Acceleration Economy Media, a group of experts creating content from different points of view.• The Acceleration Economy Conference: This will be happening in Arizona in March, as a face-to-face event.The Big Quote:“I personally love that we're able to take some time and recognize those points of view, recognize what others have been doing.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• Your data pipeline is key: A strong data pipeline with a decent model is better than an awesome model with a weak data pipeline• Sit down with the executives: It's relevant at the executive level as well. Guys at the CEO level like Cloud Wars All-Star Tony Uphoff are pushing the envelope through data.• In data analysis, there’s a war for high quality talent: Figure out how to get better candidates into the top of your funnel and move the right candidates through that funnel faster.The Big Quote:“I think this concept of just digital twins in general is something that you're going to see start to radiate across more and more of complex systems.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• Young kids don’t have any money: After spending a hundred thousand dollars on a four year education I’d like to see the universities at least provide a one day seminar and teach them personal skills.• A lot of brilliant minds: Talented people that are in the middle of their career have no idea how to navigate to the next level.• They have to do their homework: I find it very sad that these young people don’t recognize that they have to present themselves.• The video conference is a challenge: If you're feeling stressed take a breath, have fun, enjoy yourself, try really hard to make it a conversation. It’s not always about your skills or abilities. It’s about the personality contest.The Big Quotes:“Look online. Every company has hundreds of openings and there's so many people that are interviewing.”“You need to also recognize that your hope is that you're going to gain one or two advocates out of the interviewers.”“It's hugely important to recognize that you really want to connect with these people that are on the interview cycle.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• Operating solutions to hotels, casinos, and cruise ships: It’s been a brutal 18 months for hospitality – the industry did a very good job early on of shoring up liquidity.• We did quite well during COVID: The vast majority of the partner technologies that were deployed I'd say in the first 12 months of the pandemic were largely focused around mobility.• These are huge numbers: We're talking IT staffs that numbered in the thousands pre-pandemic. I don't see those IT organizations returning to pre-pandemic numbers.• It was hard to get a hotel room: I think the industry's going to have a gangbuster holiday season.The Big Quotes:• “I can tell you in the immediate timeframe, because of the staffing shortages, there's a heavy reliance on technology as an intermediary to facilitate that guest experience.”• “I hope you stayed at a property that leverages our Oracle hospitality technology.”• “It's a really great win-win product, because the traveler is always getting a better product and the hotel's getting more money.”--This episode is brought to you by Oracle.

The Big Themes:• Setting clear project goals and timelines: This will help you measure your progress. Without clear goals and success metrics, it will be difficult to understand if you are on right track.• Make sure you have leadership buy-in: It’s important to get these individuals on board. Leadership support can also ensure you have the right resources.• Select the right consulting partner: They wish they did more research on their consulting partner instead of simply using the first partner that their software vendor recommended.• How to recover: Identify what is happening in real-time and isolate the specific points of failure. Assess the impact on your project and organization.The Big Quotes:“So who knows where the next wave of technology will take us.”“Well, like the age old question, how do you eat an elephant? It's like one bite at a time.”“You want a partner who's not going to bait and switch you and give you wrong the team during the selection process.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• They're looking to modernize everything they do: And whether that's the infrastructure, whether that's how they operate the infrastructure, but it's such a key priority.• I look at this as two layers of that cake: If we go back to the pillars of a modernization, infrastructure, operations, and applications.• And I think there's really three pillars to that: One is certainly modernizing their infrastructure. Two is their operations and how they're interacting with their data. And then three is empowering their modern applications.• If you look at our core storage products: They're designed from day one to be very elastically scalable, non-disruptively so that they can easily be expanded in terms of performance, in terms of capacity.The Big Quotes:“All of a sudden your entire workforce is working from home and there's IT demands that come out of that.”“Maybe there's a hurricane, a data center goes offline. How do I bridge that gap? How do I survive that couple of weeks before I can get back to normal?"“And so I think that's going to continue to increase. And again, that's something that we've invested heavily here at Pure. Because it just fits so well with the core principles of our technology.”

The Big Themes:• You may be hearing about it: The Buy American Act, The Infrastructure Bill, The United States Innovation, and Competition Act.• Based on our Thomas data: We have a few predictions of supply chain disruptions that will impact the consumer economy over the next 12 months.• The woman that created a billion dollar brand called Spanx: She was pretty savvy about design and had at least a functional understanding of some of the engineering requirements.• These key pieces of legislation: Are accelerating the US manufacturing economy and will play significant roles in driving the overall US economy and global security.The Big Quotes:“And all these things arrived for the first time in history, that generation is being hit with product shortages and problems of supply chain, disruption, and ships backed up in harbors.”“If you can, I would wait at least six to 12 months to buy your next car.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.