Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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.” Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:• Every industry: Think about how each one of them accelerated or propelled what they would have taken years to get to in a very, very short period of time.• Some businesses have opened, some have closed: But one thing it's really taught us is we're able to touch billions of people in meaningful ways, across a broad spectrum.• Constantly engaging with your customers: And the more you own your customer’s success, the more rewards you will see for your engagement.• That's what you purchased: Today, you purchase a car that's convenient and that meets your sustainability, and is the next generation and it's driven through software.The Big Quotes:“But it's incredible how human beings have been able to cope with this and continue to cope with the scenarios around it in every place around the world.”“And so we have to work every day, really hard to make our customers successful.” Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:• IBM support is a differentiator: Upstart cloud vendors are in an IaaS arms race. Legacy enterprise IT clients have been with IBM clients for 50+ years.• Board of duty of care: The board’s overarching mandate is to protect shareholders over the long term. Boards have two main fiduciary duties: Loyalty and care.• Cybersecurity and obsolescence risk: What is the age of IT components vs. current – years matter less than generations.• The right CIO: The CEO gets the CIO they settle for. And CEOs should lobby for QTE—qualified technology expert—on the board.The Big Quotes:“We can't get people. We can't get stuff. We can't get network capabilities added because everybody's out of everything.”“We are now 20 months into a pandemic where we sent the office workers home. Microsoft just the other day said, ‘We're not coming back for a while.’ ““So you can be a higher margin, higher stickiness, higher customer satisfaction in a company and survive for the long run.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:• This thing called fog of war: And the fog of war is you don't know everything. And then as soon as the bullets start flying, you actually know less because it's like this aperture shrinks.• Half the Fortune 500 will be replaced by other companies: We have the highest churn rate in the history of the list.• Most of our corporations are run by terrible leaders: They have the technical background, but just look at our firms, look at how tone deaf they are.• It's a fantastic world: It's the standards that you have to live up to. And in the exploration of this conversation, we can get to the heart of why leadership is so difficult.The Big Quotes:“I think we've lost the societal grit to do good leadership to the extent that we need to, because it's so freaking hard.”“When you learn leadership, there's fundamental principles that are at play here, and sometimes they're in conflict.”“Not the placards that the typical HR department puts on the walls, which are meaningless and senseless. A waste of print dollars.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software. Visit Cloud Wars for more.