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Microsoft Business Application Partner Ecosystem with Carissa Allen

Author
Mark Smith [nz365guy]
Published
Mon 18 Mar 2019
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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/77

  • Professional and personal background 
  • Living in Fairbanks, Alaska – childhood, the Northern lights, appreciation for nature 
  • Travel experiences and favourite destinations 
  • Career journey and working in Microsoft 
  • What comes with the role of overseeing Business Application Partner Ecosystem, focusing around customer engagement 
  • Having a fresh look at how Sales is going within Microsoft 
  • Thoughts on how partners/practices that have traditionally done Dynamics based implementation are evolving moving forward 
  • Thoughts on Dynamics becoming broader and practices having mastery in different workloads 
  • What Microsoft Readiness is looking going forward and create a system of “drinking from the firehose” 
  • Changes in the way Microsoft Partner Network type function and what these changes are in the calendar year 
  • How Microsoft deals with Partners feeling of being abandoned by Microsoft after the Dynamics group was moved to Enterprise 
  • Women in technology, a roundtable discussion with women during Dynamics 365 Saturday in Scotland 
  • “All the Voices” — what inspired the piece and her thinking around it 
  • Thoughts on equality and inclusion in tech 
  • Thoughts on diversity and inclusion coming through STEM 

Books Mentioned

“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by N. K. Jemisen  

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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