Digital organisations work in new ways that require us all to adapt and develop new skills and framing and making sense of the world.  How to tackle this is one of the more difficult challenges requiring addressing in a digital transformation.Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Micheal Hamman, Teacher and Coach, about different styles of organisation and about how our beliefs can impact how we act.  He also talks about the over emphasis on the engineering mindset, how we need to consider the human technologies and how all of our "human operating systems" may require some new apps.Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about skills that modern leaders need to adopt and what can we learn from each other. TLDR:01:14 Intros02:02 Cloud conversation with Micheal Hamman24:05 Three skills every modern leader needs33:19 Vertical Facilitation!

Dave Snowden, Director and Founder of the Cynefin Centre, discusses making sense of digital complexity and the importance of experimentation in digitalization. Topics include the Cynefin Framework, tips for CEOs leading digital transformations, dangers of generative AI, strategies for organizational resilience, and personal excitement for upcoming trips and professional projects.

AI usability and adoption continues to rapidly accelerate in 2023, but it is important to understand the risks to your business from mis-using AI and best practices for evaluating the right AI tools for the right jobs.Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Michelle Zhou, Founder and CEO of Juji, about her history and take on the progression of AI over the last 20 years, why democratisation of AI is both increases the safety and precision of AI, as well as likely driving the right and best human experiences.  Also, how do you nurture your AI?!Finally, in this weeks Trend, we deep dive on democratised AI by looking at no code AI.TLDR:01:00 Intros02:26 Cloud conversation with Michelle Zhou32:18 No-Code AI41:54 AI Conference!

Platform engineering is a core part of modern digital operating models.  The discipline has been developing over the last 10 years and provides underlying safe, secure and optimised platforms, essential for creative and customer centric innovation.Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Jennifer Riggins, Tech Culture Author about what good platform engineering looks like, why conditions today could lead to good platform engineering practices, how platforms help organisations innovate and deal with technical complexity, how it leads to strong DevOps implementation and how it helps deal with a major issue in tech today, developer cognitive overload.  TLDR:00:54 Intros02:16 Cloud conversation with Jennifer Riggins22:24 Platform engineering in 2023 - doing more with less 32:19 SPRING AT LAST!

Legacy modernisation is one of the most difficult, and often misunderstood, elements of digital transformation.  It can be expensive and very disruptive.  It has more in common with business transformation than cloud migration and can lend itself to risky large scale implementations.Dave, Sjoukje & Rob are joined by John Kodumal, CTO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly, they talk about how greenfield development is increasingly rare, evolving a running system is much more common.  New method and tools are now available to move this past a static or quarterly update, risk heavy process, such as feature management which allows legacy to be modernised with zero outage and switch over risk. In this weeks trend we talk about the emerging field of developer productivity, why it can be helpful, but its also very difficult to do effectively.TLDR:00:50 Intros01:30 Cloud conversation with John Kodumal21:30 Developer Productivity29:42 Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson (book recommendation)!Further Reading:Scaling People:  https://amzn.eu/d/af6XVeN

"Digital transformation" a phrase that has been used for years, often thought to be overused and perhaps hollow, maybe coming of age.  This week we look into this phrase and what its meant over the years, but also try to understand what's changed to make it more material. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Jeff DeVerter, Tech Evangelist from Rackspace about what has made this real in 2023 and what is different organisationally, culturally and technically in a "digitally transformed" organisation.  Also, they try to understand the difference between digitisation and digitalisation, how this may change professions and how this type of transformation can help us become more customer relevant.Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about cloud enabled digital transformation and how cloud fits in.TLDR:01:24 Intros02:19 Cloud conversation with Jeff Daverter22:30 Why Cloud is key in enabling digital transformation 31:40 Going for a nap! 

TelCo is a Sector where Cloud based software defined networks are driving customer expectations combined with potentially providing huge operational efficiencies.  Telcos are increasingly moving their networks to the cloud, recognizing the significant advantages this can provide – 31% of global network capacity is being serviced by cloud today, and this is expected to increase to 46% in the next 3 to 5 years.Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Geoff Hollingworth, CMO of Rakuten Symphony about their experience as a Cloud Native Telco, and what we can learn by looking at what is possible on the other side of cloud transformation.  The team explore what a telco cloud transformation is (is it different from cloud transformation in other sectors?), the operational differences between a Cloud Native and traditional Telco and cloud transformation progress and nuances in the sectorFinally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about the FinOps Foundation and the misconception of FinOps being just about saving money.TLDR:00:52 Intros02:07 Cloud conversation with Geoff Hollingworth35:30 The FinOps Foundation 39:51 Getting some sleep!Further Reading:https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/cloudification-of-networks

Each year Capgemini publishes TechnoVision - a comprehensive prediction of the year to come, along with useful principles that guided both its prediction and use.  It seeks to bring some fresh thinking to the technology business issues of today.  In this special two part episode Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk in detail with the reports leader Ron Tolido and get a special insight into the creation of the work.In this special second episode, the team explore the mindset at the heart of Technovision 2023, helpful to understand the implications of the trends from pt.1, but critical in how you put them to practical use!  They walk through the design principles (Every Business is a Tech Business, Do good, do less, do well, With Open Arms, IQ/EQ/CQ, Trust Thrust and No Hands on Deck) and discuss how they come together to paint a picture of a modern digital business.Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about how code itself can be written to ensure the best and most green performance of your products and platforms.TLDR:01:23 Intros01:51 Cloud conversation with Ron Tolido30:31 The rise of green application development & modernisation37:48 Re-writing my emails in the style of Earnest Hemmingway!Further Reading:https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/technovision-2023

Each year Capgemini publishes TechnoVision - a comprehensive prediction of the year to come, along with useful principles that guide both its prediction and use.  It seeks to bring some fresh thinking to the technology business issues of today.  In this special two part episode Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk in detail with the reports leader Ron Tolido and get a special insight into the creation of Technovision 2023! In this special first episode, the team explore why Scarcity, Sustainability and Uncertainty have influenced so much of the thinking, what impact this has and then walk through the 5 trends at the centre of the report: Invisible Infostructure, Applications Unleashed, Thriving on Data, Process on the Fly and You Experience/We Collaborate.Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about how Microsoft and Google are both racing to bring chatGPT supported product to market.TLDR:01:25 Intros02:00 Cloud conversation with Ron Tolido45:04 Microsoft and Googles move to incorporate chatGPT into their tooling51:09 Surf rock with robots!Further Reading:https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/technovision-2023

Artificial intelligence seems to be being talked about everywhere this year, but is really being leveraged as much as that suggests, and do we really understand what it is, its limitations and its dangers?Dave, Sjoukje & Rob are joined by Tom Godden, Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS about the uptake of AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in businesses today.  They also set out some definitions and how each of the technologies can be effectively used.  Finally, they talk about some real case studies, including pizza cooking and delivery optimisation, a subject close to all of our hearts.TLDR:01:43 Intros03:01 Cloud conversation with Tom Godden32:10 Five predications for AI in 202340:30 Next level technology futures presentations at AWS 2023 events!