Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:Shift in size, scope, and delivery: The pandemic has caused a shift from mega projects to more incremental work. Many large projects were put on hold and have been modified or scaled back.Systems integration market: Their world has been turned upside down with everyone working from home and travel restrictions. How are they coping?No customer conferences to “Press the Flesh”: All in-person events have been cancelled, which has made it difficult for smaller firms to get noticed.How have customer expectations changed: Systems integrators are so busy focused on challenging market conditions – and not focused on internal projects.The Big Quotes:“I think in 2021, the businesses that really stepped up this year are going to see the benefits next year, when things get back on track and we go back to some semblance of normal again.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow, shares insights on the urgency of digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic. He discusses how ServiceNow innovated rapidly to streamline workflows and enhance user experiences. The conversation also touches on growth amid challenges, the alignment of remote work with millennial expectations, and the promising future of cloud computing. Finally, McDermott reflects on his move to California and how the innovation culture there has influenced his personal and professional life.

The Big Themes: Wall Street/Main Street: The software sector had a great year. The markets didn’t correct. Main Street not so much – stores are boarded up and it’s a ghost town. Disney played this perfectly: Netflix and Disney are going head-to-head. Both companies have done well in 2020, but you’re going to see Disney outperform Netflix in 2021. Walmart and Amazon: Does Walmart really want to finance their number one competitor – and does Amazon want that too? Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and AWS: John D. Rockefeller fought hard not to have Standard Oil split apart, but the wealth creation that happened was huge. The Big Quotes: “I still think Amazon needs to spin out AWS. It's crazy that they haven't yet.” This episode is brought to you BMC Software. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Process geeks rejoice! Reimagining business process is the next frontier: New technologies; especially in AI and Machine Learning are enabling a complete reimagining of business processes, way, way beyond simple process improvements. They hold the potential to catapult business performance but require new ways of thinking about business process and how employees work with technology.“Nothing can happen for decades. And then decades happen in weeks.” Quote attributed to Scottish MP George Galloway. The COVID-19 pandemic has radically and irrevocably accelerated pre-existing trends. Eight weeks after the pandemic reached US shores eCommerce grew to 27% of retail, which represents a decade of growth in eight weeks. In essence business leaders are now running against 2030 expectations. This has huge implications for business leaders across most every industry.The pandemic will create a revolution in healthcare: 99% of people accessed healthcare during the pandemic, without setting foot in a doctor’s office, much less a hospital. This forced embrace of telemedicine will drive an explosion of innovation and holds the potential to materially change the burdens of the beleaguered US healthcare system. The Big Quotes:“The data shows maybe I don't need to go to from point A to point B to point C. Maybe I just go from point A to point Z.” This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.  Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:The end of Silicon Valley: Elon Musk and Larry Ellison of Oracle are pulling up their tents and going to Texas.Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom: 2020 entrepreneur of the year: Eric Yuan. This one’s really obvious – he gave Zoom to the schools, and he had the biggest B2C growth stories in the history of the technology industry.Fender’s fabulous fret-filled adventure: Fender thought at the time that there would maybe be 100,000 people. The company set its sights on over 1,000,000 million people. Seven million PR impressions, 1,300 powerful stories, and 140 artists in social shares have resulted in a 150% increase in paid subscriptions.Don’t let them go on CNBC looking like a dork: The bottom line is to make your executives look good – not bad. The Big Quotes:“There's never been a greater time in history than right now – this moment right now to be in the information technology industry.” This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.  Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Strategic planning: Strategic planning is a lot about what you want to do – but also about what you’re able to do.True cloud-native ERP: That includes business intelligence, low-code, data lake – and is different from old-style on-prem ERP. Clients who haven’t seen this are just getting used to it.5G and other advanced networking: The bandwidth is terrific, but latency is the game changer for IoT apps, and other simplified “edge computing.”There are no stupid questions: If someone on CIO’s team makes a CEO or board member feel like he or she has asked a dumb question, get rid of that IT person. The Big Quotes:“How are you enabling? How are you empowering? How are you teaching them to think differently?” This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.   Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:General contractor and owner: Eternal truth: it all comes down to motivating people – from high-tech to one of the most basic human activities, which is building a home.Men and women in uniform: Military members and veterans are great leaders and achievers. Can be enormous assets to businesses looking for character, achievement, team players.Fear kills: The only thing that sells better than sex is fear. Fear of being left out, and fear of not being in the group.The wooly mammoth: Sorry to say but some companies are wooly mammoths from bygone era—they’ve got 2 legs in the tarpit and don’t even realize they’re doomed. The Big Quotes:“You can avoid a lot of the chaos by simply understanding what makes people tick, and how to get the very best out of people.” This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.  Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Apple and a thousand Intel employees: The M1 chipset Apple wanted was a billion-dollar investment in 5G, which they did in 2019. Will Apple use M1 to go up against AWS?The 800-pound gorilla: Microsoft has a culture that looks less transactional and more collaborative. They are a Trojan Horse – and an 800-pound gorilla.Oracle and SAP are back at it again: They’re both creating elegant and powerful new apps for industry-specific solutions in what promises to be a huge new market.Transform the industry: How we can be business partners to transform healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, and mobility – and how to adjust those businesses over the next 12 to 18 months.The Big Quotes:“I literally can't come up with anybody other than potentially Jeff Bezos, who just wants to be CEO of this whole thing, who this isn't a win for spinning out AWS at this point.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.  Visit Cloud Wars for more.