Dale Chrystie, Business Fellow, Blockchain Strategist at FedEx, discusses business opportunities with Blockchain. By allowing digital information to be distributed but not copied, blockchain technology is creating a backbone of a new type of internet. What is blockchain, how is it different than bitcoin, and what are some of the opportunities for business today?  Host, Kevin Craine Do you want to be a guest? DigitalTransformationPodcast.net/guest Do you want to be a sponsor? DigitalTransformationPodcast.net/sponsor

Alex Bates discusses his book “Augmented Mind,” and explores how augmenting humans, combining human intuition and artificial intelligence, will herald an unprecedented era of productivity and financial success. Alex performed DARPA-funded research in neural networks, human memory and computational diagnostics. He is the Managing Director at Neocortex Ventures a firm bringing artificial intelligence and machine learning to the forefront of the industrial market. Listen for three action items you can use today.

Rob Rennie, CEO of Webiplex, discusses integrated business process automation and ways organizations of all sizes and types can build new efficiencies and success. Automated technologies provide great potential to reengineer and improve core business processes. Explore next-generation approaches that make a difference.

Michael Gale discusses his book “The Digital Helix” and ways organizations can capture the advantages of digital transformation. Michael says that only 20% of organizations are getting digital transformation right, but those that do often double their brand value. How can you do it too?

Mike Hoefflinger discusses his book Becoming Facebook and gives us the inside story of the birth and rise of Facebook. Mike was there as a Facebook insider with a front-row seat. Over 1 billion people use Facebook every day and it’s founding is one of the defining success stories of our generation. But for the people who actually molded the $300 billion company, the experience was far more uncertain than we might expect.

Joel Gurin, President and Founder at Center for Open Data Enterprise, discusses the many business opportunities in Open Data. Joel is today’s preeminent advocate and authority on Open Data. He is a former senior advisor at the GovLab at NYU and the author of the book “Open Data Now.” What is Open Data? How can businesses benefit from its use? Where are the opportunities to consider?

Author and futurist Jacob Morgan discusses his book The Future of Work and ways to attract new talent, build better leaders, and create a more competitive organization. His previous book The Collaborative Organization became an Amazon best-seller and he writes a regular column for Forbes.

Brad Murphy discusses his book, co-authored with Dr. Carol Mase, called “The Age of Surge,” and ways companies can successfully navigate digital transformation. Brad says digital transformation is not just about technology and proposes human centered framework for scaling company wide agility.

Dr. John H. Johnson discusses his book Everydata and the misinformation hidden in the data we consumer every day. Listen as he discusses how statistics, political polls and 'big data' are manipulated to mislead. We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. How can we make everyday data work for us…and not against us?  

Marc Vollenweider discusses his book Mind+Machine and a decision model for optimizing and implementing analytics. We hear a lot about Big Data and analytics these days, but how do you use data to really make a difference in the performance of your business? This interview explores how the human mind collaborates with machines to improve things like productivity, time to market, and quality, or to create new capabilities that did not exist before.