Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes: • Taken as directed, you should see a change in your digital transformation in a few weeks – as long as you read the message on the bottle. • It seems like a parlor trick, but with a facsimile of “Bob Evans” people can use AI and not have any idea that you’re an algorithm. • As a master storyteller and as digital leader you need to be crafting a vision of the future – and you need to get it right. • The movie “I Robot” is more prescient than you think. Maybe you should invite the hologram for Happy Hour; they’re great coworkers and not at all judgmental. The Big Quote: “And that's what I encourage every digital leader to be. They need to be a futurist.” This episode is brought to you by BMC Software Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:The industrial sector realizes customer service is not enough—customer experience is the new priority.Everybody codes: some business executives are finding that a base level of coding expertise is helpful in steering digital strategy. Data literacy is rising across all job functions – being able to manipulate and analyze data is becoming a core competence.Where data makes a difference: today, only one in 10 molecules developed by the pharmaceutical industry ever make it out of clinical trials and into the marketplace.It's a wasted opportunity for online learning to be nothing more than a video image of a professor lecturing away. (Tony was raised by academics so he is a huge fan of higher education.) The Big Quote:“Apple is one of the most valuable manufacturers in the world, and so are Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.” This episode was brought to you by BMC Software   Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes: • If you’re a CEO, CFO, CIO, or board member – how “natural” and “normal” are your video meetings? Some suggestions on excellent and inexpensive gear to optimize effectiveness of video meetings. • You wouldn’t fly on a cropduster to meet a big client in person—so don’t use crappy video/audio gear to meet them online. • Embrace the OODA Loop: fighter pilot Colonel John Boyd invented the notion of an OODA loop – we Observe, we Orient, we Decide, we Act. That’s an ideal model for today’s sense-and-respond world. • As budget season approaches, some helpful hints on how to strategically set IT budgets to align with our always-on digital world. The Big Quote: “So over the years, I've amassed a whole bunch of toys that helped me work in what used to be airports. I remember airports.” This episode is brought to you by BMC Software. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

For this episode of Cloud Wars Live, I talked with Oliver Schabenberger, EVP, COO, CTO at SAS.The Big Themes:· SAS and Microsoft have an important strategic partnership. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization. SAS’ vision is to transform the world of data into a world of intelligence.· Digital transformation combined with increased connectivity is driving how to automate and simplify. The deluge of data is all about that.· It's always a technology problem – but it's never just a technology problem. It's a technology, people, and process problem.· Dr. Goodnight, the CEO and founder, will make no layoffs or furloughs during the pandemic, and that will never change.The Big Quote:“What we're seeing right now is a growth of data in two places – in the cloud and on the edge.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:· The New York Times ad begins, “Dear Microsoft, big news and congratulations on today’s announcements. We’re genuinely excited to have some competition.”· The ad reeks of arrogance. And Slack is saying to the European Union, “it’s just not fair the way Microsoft is treating us.”· It’s time for Slack to be part of a different enterprise company, and maybe it’s Oracle, Salesforce – or maybe Microsoft will have pity on them and gobble them up.· The cloud space is only going to get more interesting over the next 12 months, as we rush to reinvent these industries and businesses and reimagine them.· Slack and Microsoft Teams are not anywhere near the same. Sean says, “when I get a link from a company that I’m working with, I grimace. It’s an absolutely terrible product.”The Big Quote:“The sad reality is Slack is worth more inside somebody else's enterprise today than it is alone.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:· It’s a great time to connect with your customers and employees. Try new ideas, try innovation, try creativity, and don’t waste these opportunities.· Jamming 300 people into the same footprint is a myth. There’s not a shred of evidence that the open office makes people more productive.· Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow said there will be times some people choose to work remotely – with childcare, parents, etc. – and sometimes you need to use the office as a “productivity tool.”· Thomas.net is now in the fourth wave of a monthly survey, and a surprising number of manufacturers are reshoring back to North America.· This is going to reshape global manufacturing for decades to come – and not just the areas we think about.The Big Quote: “What we're seeing is more robust hiring than we would have anticipated. Close to 40% of the companies are actually hiring right now.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:· Empathic design is creating a level of engagement for both your employees and your customers so that you are now listening to their needs.· William Gibson wrote a book called “Neuromancer,” and was fond of saying, “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”· You may not have empathy, you may not be able to feel the emotions of people you’re serving, and you may not put yourselves in their shoes – but there are ways to solve that.· A reporter said to Steve Jobs when the iPad came out, how did you know this? And he said, “Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”The Big Quote:"The rigidity of all this structure, which was vital in the industrial age, is becoming this albatross around our necks.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:· There are bottlenecks in the process, the wheels fall off, and the scope keeps changing – this is hard work!· 85% of the time you’re going to be working with the SI partner and not the software vendor themselves –as in SAP, Oracle, Workday, etc.· With rapid deployment you’re not going to get an army of consultants. You’re going to get fewer people – and they’re going to be cross-functional.· Bonnie answers a “Quick Quiz” on how the customer has to have the right expectations, and has to free up the resources to get the job done.· She compares this to a marathon: If you hit a wall at mile 18 it will be bad. But if you’ve done the training ahead of time, it’s going to be amazing.The Big Quote:“You really want to have confidence that the people leading the process have been there, done that, and done it successfully.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:· A billion knowledge workers on the planet, and a quarter to half of us are working from home· The future is not guaranteed to us, our innovations not guaranteed to us, human rights are not guaranteed to us. Our founders expected the citizenry would be much more involved.· What happens to the travel industry, the leisure industry, and caterers, etc.? Where will they all go?· Two million residents of New York City could permanently move out of the city – and they are moving to rural Colorado, Oregon, Maine, and Vermont· Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, has the tallest building in San Francisco – and he has been powerful, courageous, and a very visible leader· Apple’s got the greatest UFO ever invented – what happens to it?The Big Quote: “Silicon Valley is no longer a place – it’s an idea.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

· Who needs to wear a suit?· Digital transformation is rethinking your products, your markets, your customer experience· Why are you running a million row Excel spreadsheet?“The efficiency game is an anchor around your neck that's going to sink you.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Visit Cloud Wars for more.