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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Technology in many shapes, forms, and devices is already shaping nearly every aspect of your life. How? On your smart phone and tablet with thousands of apps to enhance your work and daily living. On streaming media that lets you watch TV and movies anytime anywhere. On social media where your voice is instantly amplified to reach the world. Think you’ve seen it all? Not! There’s more to come and you’re part of making it happen – right now. Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she speaks with future-focused visionaries on Technology Revolution: The Future of Now.

Episodes

Improve the future of retail with Omnichannel POS solutions

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017. Day 2 will bring new level of thought leadership to Gain new and Valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this Broadcast and Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 17, 201711 min

"FuturesHUB - dedicated technology to help address the refugee crisis"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017. Day 2 will bring new level of thought leadership to Gain new and Valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this Broadcast and Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 17, 201714 min

"New Digital Realties -- Why data governance matters for Live Business"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017. Day 2 will bring new level of thought leadership to Gain new and Valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this Broadcast and Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 17, 201713 min

"How Partners Are Helping SAP Make its Customers Intelligent Enterprises." (Machine Learning GSSP Panel)

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017. Day 2 will bring new level of thought leadership to Gain new and Valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this Broadcast and Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 17, 201723 min

"Positioning SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) on AWS"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017. Day 2 will bring new level of thought leadership to Gain new and Valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this Broadcast and Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 17, 20179 min

"SAP’s tech partners and the value they add to our joint customers in delivering digital transformation"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201720 min

"IoT and digital transformation thought leadership and innovation strategy"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201714 min

"How to use technology to accelerate production and planning" (Callaway Golf - a Lenovo customer)

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201710 min

Huahai Pharma

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201713 min

"Are You Sharing Naked Data?"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 20177 min

How Accenture Liquid Studio accelerates Digital Businesses with Rapid Application Development

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201714 min

"Digital Transformation at a greenfield company in the cement industry"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201716 min

"Transitioning to the Cloud"

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201711 min

"What is Cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and how will it benefit companies in the future?" (customer Mondi and IBM )

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business.Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy.Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness across your organization.

May 16, 201713 min

Machine Learning Trends - Part 2: Harnessing AI

The buzz: “There was more than $300M in venture capital invested in AI startups in 2014, a 300% increase (over 2013)” (Bloomberg).These are exciting times for business! Never has it been easier to harness innovations like artificial intelligence systems to drive productivity gains across your company. Think what you can do with speech and text recognition and visual image processing driving chatbots and digital assistants, and real-time complex data analysis understanding operational systems. Th...

May 10, 201758 min

Machine Learning Trends - Part 1: Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise

The buzz: “It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines” (Ginni Rometty, IBM). Reality check: The human brain is too slow to uncover complex, nuanced patterns in the massive data produced by today’s digital businesses. Why is this an issue? Your company needs to turn that data into intelligent insights to fuel your day-to-day business operations in every line of business, from Finance and HR to Sales and Marketing. The solution? Machine learning can harne...

May 03, 201756 min

Continuous Accounting for Finance: From Bean Counter to Strategic Business Partner

The buzz: “What do you call a financial controller who always works through lunch, takes 2 days off every 2 years...and leaves every night after 10 PM? Lazy” (Accounting Day humor). Good news for corporate accountants. Continuous Accounting can reduce period-end workloads by distributing departmental workloads continuously across accounting periods via automation, integration, collaboration, streamlined processes, and instant insight to the entire business. You gain back time while transforming ...

Apr 26, 201756 min

CHROs and People Strategies: New Year Resolutions and Beyond - Part 2

The buzz: “This is a tricky universe we’re staffing up and engaging…the core goals are the same…human is the bottom line.” (Meghan M. Biro, TalentCulture). There’s no mistake the CHRO agenda is evolving…for the better. From the role of HR in the business to how people strategy is enabled through innovative processing and technology, now, more than ever, the CHRO is evaluating the who, what, when, where, why, and how of structuring and operationalizing the modern organization. Which business tren...

Apr 19, 201758 min

AI and the Conversational Era of Chatbots: Connecting People to Technology -- Part 2

The buzz: “It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much” (Yogi Berra). 2016 was a pivotal year for Global 2000 companies to align practical AI applications and embrace intelligent, conversational technology. As enterprise tech gurus sang the praises of conversational AI’s potential, enterprises were listening with open minds and checkbooks. If you haven’t entered the Era of AI yet, join us to learn how to avoid pitfalls along the way. The experts speak. Gray Scot...

Apr 12, 201757 min

Money's Digital Makeover - Part 2

The buzz: “It is as if every dollar bill in your pocket has a list written on it of all the transactions it was involved in prior to reaching your hands. The blockchain ledger infrastructure has huge potential to simplify” (Ted Halpern, www.nasdaq.com 03/29/17). As the switch to digital money via blockchain technology turns central banks into dinosaurs, many people are skeptical about whether to trust the security and privacy of transactions en route to the blockchain. You don't want neighbor Jo...

Apr 05, 201756 min

Money's Digital Makeover - Part 1

The buzz: “The world is drowning in cash – and it’s making us poorer while fueling a corrupt underground economy.” (K.S. Rogoff, The Curse of Cash). Jerry Maguire’s “Show me the money” is taking on new meaning: India demonetized its largest cash bills, switching to electronic money. Sharing Economy icons Uber and Airbnb don’t accept cash. Brick-and-mortar retailers require advance payment via mobile. Will Blockchain make us cashless soon? The experts speak. Prof. Rajeev Srinivasan, Travancore: “...

Mar 29, 201757 min

Mobile Technology: Dangerous vs Delightful?

The buzz: “It’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone” (B. Newhart). Is mobile technology improving or endangering us? Picture this: While driving or walking, you find a restaurant, reserve a table for six, get directions, text info to your posse–all on your mobile device. But if you or your property are injured in the process, your next query may be: “Siri, where's the nearest hospital or tow truck?”The experts speak. Gavin Quinn, M...

Mar 22, 201756 min

Digital Winners: Making Digital HR Real

The buzz: “High-impact HR organizations focus on continuous improvement, not radical HR transformation” (Stacey Harris). Organizations that fail to continually update their leadership approach are at risk of falling behind, with the pace of business change showing no signs of slowing. Executives of high-functioning “Digital Winners” excel at communicating a company-wide digital strategy, keeping manager and worker skills up-to-date, and streamlining organizational structure. They embrace diversi...

Mar 15, 201757 min

Social Selling and the Golden Rule: Manners Still Matter

The buzz: “We have to remember social over selling” (Viveka Von Rosen). “[Social networking risks]…Trickier to manage are lapses of etiquette, tone and consistency” (Barbara Giamanco and Kent Gregoire). The Golden Rule – “Do to others what you want them to do to you” – still applies in our digital world. Pop quiz for social sellers: Are you aggressively pursuing prospects, inundating them with your ads and trying to get into their newsfeed? Stop! It's time to “play nice” in the digital sandbox b...

Mar 08, 201756 min

You Don't Own Me: But What About My Data?

The buzz: “The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I’m dumping all my smart phones” (John McAfee). We as individuals have welcomed Internet-connected, often mobile devices to help us make daily decisions. But whether asking a chatbot for directions or researching products online, youre leaving digital breadcrumbs that advertisers, manufacturers, and others can capture and analyze to build detailed profiles about your lifestyle. Do you care who sees and uses your private data? Should y...

Mar 01, 20171 hr 8 min

Blockchain Technology: Turning Marketing on Its Head?

The buzz: “Blockchain is much bigger than Bitcoin and its reach is far more holistic.” (forum.daohub.org) In search of the holy grail of a unified customer profile, marketers have built massive databases for up-sells, cross-sells, promotions, retention. But what if the customer forces you to PAY THEM to access and use their data, read your ad, view your video, attend your seminar? Welcome to the new reality of blockchain technology. Best known as the infrastructure for Bitcoin, blockchains are a...

Feb 22, 201757 min

Retail in 5 Years: Digital Dinosaurs vs Survivors - Part 2

The buzz: “Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping” (Bo Derek). Ongoing digital innovations in our hyper-connected world have dramatically impacted consumer buying behaviors and expectations, challenging retailers to change or become obsolete. Smart retailers are already taking action to avoid becoming dinosaurs. But is it too late for the laggards? The experts speak. Brian Kilcourse, Retail Systems Research: “Amazon and online sales is killing traditional ...

Feb 15, 201756 min

Finance Manager's Guide to the Future: Dynamic Planning and Analysis

The buzz: “The modern CFO is often the right-hand man or woman of the CEO” (Fox Business 10/24/13). Your Finance department is at a critical juncture. Gone are the days when CFOs just reported on past results. The modern office of Finance can help navigate your enterprise forward using Dynamic Planning and Analysis technologies to simulate in-the-moment complex scenarios, leverage advanced visualizations and simplify complex predictive analytics. The experts speak. Jeff Hattendorf, Macrospect: “...

Feb 08, 201756 min

Tell Me a Great Story: The Role of Storytelling in Sales

The buzz: “People are hungry for stories. It’s part of our very being” (Studs Terkel). Everyone loves, craves, and has a story. But many companies approach prospects and customers with boring, crammed power point slides devoid of action, conflict and emotion. Did you forget that these people are human? Solution: Frame your information like an action movie–with a hero and a villain–that your potential buyer would watch in a theater, as they munch popcorn. Why? Powerful storytelling can propel you...

Feb 01, 201758 min

Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners: Clear Your Legal Clutter for the New Year

The buzz: “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice” (T.S. Eliot). 2017 brings the opportunity to start with a clean slate, despite your mistakes last year. It’s also a time to pull on your “big girl (and boy) pants” and face the ugly issues you swept under the rug last year…and in years before. We invite small business owners to bravely look in the dark corners you’d prefer to avoid. Why? By shining the light, you’ll build a stronger, more p...

Jan 25, 201757 min