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Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

 Bob Evans

Cloud Wars analyzes the major cloud vendors from the perspective of business customers. In Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans talks with both sides about these profoundly transformative technologies, and with monthly All-Star guests from across the business community about the trends impacting how the world lives, works, plays, and dreams. Visit https://cloudwars.com for more.

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Average duration
27 minutes
Episodes
535
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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Talent War: Don’t Let Bots Call the Shots! | Fitzgerald on Talent

Talent War: Don’t Let Bots Call the Shots! | Fitzgerald on Talent

The Big Themes:

  • Cool technology, but: You don’t want AI bots running your show. Many companies are defaulting too quickly to technology. “Old-fashioned” personal engagement is essential.
  • Looking for th…
00:30:38  |   Mon 02 Nov 2020
Leadership in Times of Crisis | Uphoff on Industry

Leadership in Times of Crisis | Uphoff on Industry

The Big Themes: • Metrics that matter: As the ability to track most anything as “data” accelerates, there’s a lag between technology’s ability to capture data and people’s ability to understand the d…
00:44:44  |   Wed 28 Oct 2020
Good, Fast, or Cheap – You Can Pick Only Two | Tinder on Customers

Good, Fast, or Cheap – You Can Pick Only Two | Tinder on Customers

The Big Themes: • Good, fast, or cheap – you can only pick two: Don’t shortchange your project results by not investing enough in user training and adoption activities. • Garbage in – garbage out: Th…
00:30:53  |   Mon 26 Oct 2020
Don’t Let Technical Debt Swamp Your Recovery!! | Sadin on Digital

Don’t Let Technical Debt Swamp Your Recovery!! | Sadin on Digital

The Big Themes: • Microsoft told 160,000 employees: You have the permanent right to work from home. All the big tech companies are starting to adapt because a lot of their workers can work from anywh…
00:38:21  |   Mon 19 Oct 2020
Will Oracle or Salesforce Buy Slack? | Ammirati on Innovation

Will Oracle or Salesforce Buy Slack? | Ammirati on Innovation

The Big Themes:
• The power of the network effect: Will it trigger next wave of M&A for software companies?
• A crisis is a terrible thing to waste: This crisis has been a great accelerant – and …

00:32:36  |   Mon 05 Oct 2020
Digital Transformation: Embrace the Disruption! | Tinder on Customers

Digital Transformation: Embrace the Disruption! | Tinder on Customers

The Big Themes: • Home projects vs. digital transformation projects: There are going to be challenges along the way—here’s how to keep calm and soldier on! • Embrace the disruption: Enjoy the journey…
00:32:39  |   Mon 28 Sep 2020
The Gift of Speed | Uphoff on Industry

The Gift of Speed | Uphoff on Industry

The Big Themes: • Cheaper, faster, better: Technology is making all of our companies much more agile. And that’s what’s allowing all our companies to reshore. • Great jobs in manufacturing: There are…
00:37:13  |   Mon 21 Sep 2020
Speed, Flexibility, Helicopter-Installed Mainframes | Sadin on Digital

Speed, Flexibility, Helicopter-Installed Mainframes | Sadin on Digital

The Big Themes: • The new, new normal – and the new abnormal. How many meetings have we had where somebody had a cat sitting on their head? • CIOs must drive speed, flexibility and innovation across …
00:34:59  |   Tue 15 Sep 2020
Crazy: Oracle Woos TikTok, Harvard’s Big Gap | Ammirati on Innovation

Crazy: Oracle Woos TikTok, Harvard’s Big Gap | Ammirati on Innovation

The Big Themes: • Six months ago, would anyone on the planet believe that 20% of incoming Harvard freshmen would defer? Great example of the crazy times we’re in! • Sean’s message to those and other …
00:30:25  |   Tue 01 Sep 2020
How to Win CFO Support for Digital Transformation | Tinder on Customers

How to Win CFO Support for Digital Transformation | Tinder on Customers

The Big Themes: • Bob poses the challenge: “My CFO is a real hard ass, and I think he or she is gonna really put me through the ringer. How do I turn her/him into a passionate advocate?” • On big pro…
00:40:17  |   Wed 26 Aug 2020
The Robots Are Coming—For Us? | Araujo on Transformation

The Robots Are Coming—For Us? | Araujo on Transformation

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 …
00:28:46  |   Mon 24 Aug 2020
Data Culture: “In God we trust, all others bring data”

Data Culture: “In God we trust, all others bring data”

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 …
00:39:38  |   Thu 20 Aug 2020
CXOs: In a Video World, Don’t Look Like Sci-Fi Creature!

CXOs: In a Video World, Don’t Look Like Sci-Fi Creature!

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 vide…
00:43:28  |   Mon 17 Aug 2020
SAS and Microsoft: The Operating System for Digital Transformation

SAS and Microsoft: The Operating System for Digital Transformation

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…

00:41:13  |   Mon 10 Aug 2020
Why Slack’s Whiny Lawsuit vs. Microsoft Will Backfire

Why Slack’s Whiny Lawsuit vs. Microsoft Will Backfire

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 arro…

00:47:11  |   Wed 29 Jul 2020
Remote Work and the Myth of the Open Office

Remote Work and the Myth of the Open Office

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 t…

00:40:00  |   Mon 27 Jul 2020
Empathic Design in Age of Relentless Disruption

Empathic Design in Age of Relentless Disruption

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…

00:33:42  |   Wed 22 Jul 2020
Rapid Deployment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Rapid Deployment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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 a…

00:33:28  |   Mon 20 Jul 2020
Can Apple's Giant UFO Adapt to Remote-Work World?

Can Apple's Giant UFO Adapt to Remote-Work World?

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 …

01:03:40  |   Wed 15 Jul 2020
Some Companies are Going to be Flattened

Some Companies are Going to be Flattened

· 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 efficien…

00:52:32  |   Mon 13 Jul 2020
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