Reinventing Life and Business with Game-Changers, Presented by SAP

Digital transformation is changing every facet of the way we live and work. Technology is behind everything from automation, to connectivity and the experience economy. Industries and infrastructures know innovation is imminent. Yet only a small fraction of organizations feel they have mastered digital to a point of differentiation from their competitors. Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional coffee break with game-changers for our series on how innovation leaders are embracing digital transformation to redefine their business models and outcomes, no matter the industry, on Reinventing Life and Business with Game-Changers. Let’s discuss the impact digital innovation is having on our world, from boardrooms to bots and beyond, and how a combination of intelligent technologies, services, and industry expertise are helping businesses optimize processes and resources, to ignite innovation and improve every area of business.

Episodes

The Promise of IoT and Connectivity: Big Picture, Big Impact.

October 23, 2019 • 55 min

The buzz: “This is the era of the Internet of Things (IoT)—and it promises to change our lives completely” [www.digitalistmag.com/iot/2017/02/06/promise-of-internet-of-things-04888745). Intel predicts that by 2020 there will be 200 billion connected devices on the Internet of Things. Yes, IoT is already revolutionizing manufacturing, transportation, consumer electronics, healthcare, and construction. But what is its real value for ...

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Future Cities: Role of Technology in Global Urbanization

September 18, 2019 • 54 min

The buzz: “The smart city is a gift, a chance to transform old and slow systems and structures into a smart future.” (J. Nürnberger whatsupgermany.de/smart-city-quotes). By 2025, 4.7 billion people will live in urban areas (Deloitte), with technology playing a key role in the global movement to cities and how cities prepare for this growth. What exactly is a “smart city”: Wi-Fi everywhere, state-of-the-art transportation management...

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The Experience Economy: What It Means for Business and You

August 21, 2019 • 55 min

The buzz: “Welcome to the experience economy, where—as the Harvard Business Review so eloquently put it—a company intentionally uses services as the stage, and goods as props, to engage individual customers in a way that creates a memorable event (Daniel Newman, www.forbes.com). The experience economy is here. It’s live 24/7, it's emotional, it's global, it’s powerful and it's influencing the way we live, work and do bu...

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Blockchain: Endless Application Beyond Procurement and Finance

July 31, 2019 • 55 min

The buzz: “Much of the hype around blockchains has focused on their potential to fundamentally change the financial services industry…our two-year research project…provides strong evidence that the blockchain could transform business, government, and society in perhaps even more profound ways” (D. Tapscott, A. Tapscott). Blockchain, creating trust among multiple business processes and parties, is becoming a cross-industry necessity...

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Predictive vs Augmented Analytics: Finding the Why

July 10, 2019 • 54 min

The buzz: “Data is not like a vitamin that you can just pop in your mouth and be done with it. In fact, data, by itself, is totally useless to your business” (Bill Su). Data analytics is analytics, right? Not quite! Where predictive analytics uses machine learning to predict what will happen, augmented analytics uses machine intelligence to boost human intelligence with the why, so we can work faster and smarter on ever-larger data...

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Automating Your Business and Life: Embracing New Technologies

June 12, 2019 • 54 min

The buzz: “highly-developed gadgets, connected to the Internet, have changed the way we communicate, use humor, study, work, shop, play, and behave” (tech.co/news). Digitalization and innovation are disrupting lives and businesses. How does this impact you? Innovation experts predict by 2020 the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their significant other. By 2030, the largest Internet company will be edu...

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Good Business At the Intersection of Profit and Purpose

May 22, 2019 • 54 min

The buzz: “Smart city applications must be aligned with where a city and its citizens want to go” (Daniele Loffreda). Like never before, businesses are leveraging Intelligent technologies to experience profit and purpose at the same time by helping the world run better, improving lives and growing business. Smart cities are on-board, using IoT, big data and predictive analytics to serve the global massive urban expansion. The exper...

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