Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:
• We're not loyal to each other: I think you've got to breathe almost our hearts back into our organizations.
• Competitors are very aggressive: And they're enticing them with new…

The Big Themes:
• “Scaling Up” – by Verne Harnish: The four Ds: drivers, demands, discipline, and decisions.
• Growth doesn’t always equal success: For each organization, defining what success means i…

The Big Themes:
• Your data pipeline is key: A strong data pipeline with a decent model is better than an awesome model with a weak data pipeline
• Sit down with the executives: It's relevant at …

The Big Themes:
• Young kids don’t have any money: After spending a hundred thousand dollars on a four year education I’d like to see the universities at least provide a one day seminar and teach t…

The Big Themes:
• Operating solutions to hotels, casinos, and cruise ships: It’s been a brutal 18 months for hospitality – the industry did a very good job early on of shoring up liquidity.
• We did qu…

The Big Themes:
• Setting clear project goals and timelines: This will help you measure your progress. Without clear goals and success metrics, it will be difficult to understand if you are on righ…

The Big Themes:
• They're looking to modernize everything they do: And whether that's the infrastructure, whether that's how they operate the infrastructure, but it's such a key priority.
• I look at t…

The Big Themes:
• You may be hearing about it: The Buy American Act, The Infrastructure Bill, The United States Innovation, and Competition Act.
• Based on our Thomas data: We have a few predicti…

The Big Themes:
• Every industry: Think about how each one of them accelerated or propelled what they would have taken years to get to in a very, very short period of time.
• Some businesses have…

The Big Themes:
• IBM support is a differentiator: Upstart cloud vendors are in an IaaS arms race. Legacy enterprise IT clients have been with IBM clients for 50+ years.
• Board of duty of care: …

The Big Themes:
• This thing called fog of war: And the fog of war is you don't know everything. And then as soon as the bullets start flying, you actually know less because it's like this aperture…

The Big Themes:
• The Ambassador: Excited about the project and are telling everyone about it. They’ll be the first ones that post their go-live badge on LinkedIn. They’re also rolling-up their sle…

The Big Themes:
• It just doesn’t magically happen: It’s not the data you already have, this is one of the hard lessons that lot of folks think.
• DataStax fits into that equation: And this is one of t…

The Big Themes:
• You've got great leaders at the top of the house: In both those companies you really understand innovation.
• One of our venture companies: We sold a company to a publicly trade…

The Big Themes:
• A fascinating cultural shift: The millennial generation’s increasing dissatisfaction with “knowledge work” and the increasing interest in wanting to make things.
• The cultural …

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• Accenture ransomware: Accenture’s response – they quickly detected, defended, and repaired. So far, it appears to be only a low-value material leaked.
• The New Digital Edge: McKinsey art…

The Big Themes:

• The “T” in Teamwork: Why employees with breadth and depth are imperative for harmonizing organizational goals and culture. We call this the acceleration economy.
• We are launching a bran…

As President of SAP S/4HANA, Jan Gilg oversees development of SAP's flagship ERP product, digital supply chain, and industry solutions. In this conversation, Jan discusses how the shift to a digital …

The Big Themes:

• Like Goldilocks' testing out the three different sized chairs: This one is too big, this one is too small—this one is JUST RIGHT. Mid-size businesses need solutions and partners that a…

The Big Themes:

• You must preserve the core of your business: Leadership is about to make the investments, provide the autonomy, create the innovation culture and align it to your overall strategy.
• The …