Agile Digital Transformation

Chris Byers is the CEO of the no-code workplace productivity platform Formstack which has recently released a report on the state of digital maturity in 2022. In this episode, we begin by discussing the most important insights from this report, leading into the breakdown of the four pillars of digital maturity and how Formstack are approaching it. In the second part of the episode, we focus on no-...

Erez Naaman is the CTO and co-founder of Scopio Labs, a company specializing in hematology that's revolutionizing diagnostics through artificial intelligence and full-field morphology. In this episode, we discuss the topic of digital transformation in diagnostics, with a special focus on the impact and the future potential of artificial intelligence. We talk more generally about laboratory me...

Kavita Ganesan is the founder of Opinosis Analytics and the author of The Business Case for AI , with over 15 years of experience in the field of artificial intelligence. In this episode, we talk about strategies and challenges of implementing artificial intelligence. We go through the history of AI evolution and adoption, discuss the best practices and the role of data, and take a deeper dive int...

Andrew Walker is the CEO of Shift7, a leading B2B digital agency for manufacturers and distributors. In this episode, we explore how manufacturing and distribution are embracing digital transformation. We discuss the most important trends, the differences between B2C and B2B, and the need to focus on the customer experience. Andrew closes with an example of how a toy manufacturing client of theirs...

Vladimer Botsvadze is a leading business & technology consultant as well as the No. 1 digital marketing thought leader who has been endorsed and featured by Forbes, Bloomberg, etc. In this episode, we discuss the importance of leveraging social media for growing a business in the era of accelerated digital transformation and hyper innovation. We cover the strategies and skills for succeeding w...

Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO of the investment management services company IMA and published author of several books, most notably the just released  Soul In the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life . This is a somewhat special episode in that the insights and lessons it conveys can be invaluable for anybody who wants to improve their life, not exclusively in a leadership and/or technology context...

Maziar Adl is the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an intelligent product management software platform for discrete manufacturers. In this episode, we discuss how manufacturing product management is impacted by the ongoing supply chain crisis and the accelerated move to digital, and how product managers are adapting to these disruptions. We discuss the role of agility in this context and explore the...

Steve Hartert has over 30 years of marketing management experience and he is currently the Vice President of Enterprise Operations at the online form builder Jotform. In this episode, we talk about customer experience and the changes it has undergone since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. We discuss the key roles of data and the company culture in providing a good experience to customers, and...

Hemant Elhence is the president of Excellarate, a global technology services company with more than 20 years of experience across major industries. In this episode, we discuss the microservices approach to software development and how companies should go about implementing them to streamline the experiences on the front end. We start with a brief history of microservices-based development before g...

Elad Simon is a former Google executive and the CEO of Craft.io, a product management platform tailored specifically to product managers and product development teams. In this episode, we discuss product management as an integral component of agile digital transformation, which is the result of the increasing demand for top quality software across all industries. We explain the differences between...

Cameron Van Orman is the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Planview, a global leader in strategic portfolio management and enterprise agile planning. Agile has undergone quite a transformation in recent years, going from a purely IT function to now being implemented to some extend in a majority of industries and companies. In this episode,  we discuss how enterprise agility, as well as the w...

Liam Martin is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of the SaaS platform Time Doctor, and the author of the book Running Remote published by HarperCollins. In this episode, we discuss collaboration in the current remote-first, highly digitalized business landscape, with a special focus on automation and asynchronous communication as two trends to keep top of mind.  We also take a look at the...

Ivan Stegic is the founder and CEO of TEN7, a Minneapolis-based technology studio specializing in Drupal, with a mission to Make Things That Matter. In this episode, we talk about one of the most essential people skills and/or leadership traits of the current era – empathy. We start off by defining what it means to lead with empathy and how to display empathy towards external stakeholders – user,...

Rudi Asseer is the CEO at IMI People, the largest mechanical installation company in North America managing over 1000 expert technicians in a human-first environment. In this episode, we talk about how digital transformation can help enhance the culture of a company.  We discuss the importance of people skills and the most essential leadership traits for realizing this, with empathy being number o...

Andre Achtstaetter is co-COO at adorsys, an integration and technology partner that supports banks, financial service providers and FinTechs in creating new digital services in the open finance sector. In this episode, we take a deep dive into two related digital trends which have been gaining a lot of traction recently – cryptocurrency and NFTs. We talk more generally about blockchain and decentr...

Anne Stefanyk is the founder and CEO of the San Francisco based digital agency Kanopi Studios that helps mission-driven clients on their digital transformation journey. In this episode, we discuss digital transformation for nonprofit organizations. We talk about the main pitfalls and benefits of digital transformation for nonprofits, and discuss the key steps they need to take to properly transfor...

Sally Shaughnessy is the Vice President of Client Services at the Denver-based digital consultancy Aten Design Group. Aten has over 20 years of experience working with notable clients from a variety of sectors, and in this episode, Sally shares some of the key lessons and resulting best practices for managing joint projects. We take a look at how to find the right clients and/or agency partners, ...

Lee Frederiksen is an award-winning business strategy expert and a pioneer of research-driven marketing, currently acting as the Managing Partner of the US marketing firm Hinge. In this episode, we discuss the concept of digital maturity, breaking down what it means to be digitally mature and how that differs across businesses and industries. We explore the close connection between digital maturit...

Younes Hairej is founder and CEO of the Japanese company Aokumo Inc. which helps organizations drive innovation and transformation through modern technologies and approaches. In this episode, we talk about the important role of culture for effective collaboration and transformation. We focus especially on the impact of the Covid crisis and the importance of finding common ground with vendors / ser...

Jaime Ramírez is the founder and CEO of Preventor, a US-based company focusing on ID verification and financial crime risk management. In this episode, we discuss financial crime risk management. Jaime talks about when and how he got into this field, and how it has evolved over the years. We place a particular focus on the most recent developments throughout the crisis and take a look at what this...

Heather Smith is the co-founder and CEO of StoryFile, a technology company which enables future generations to connect and interact with their loved ones through their story-telling app.  In this episode, she shares more about the mission and foundation of StoryFile. We discuss the biggest challenges and wins of the StoryFile journey, then talk more generally about the importance of genuine human...

Brad Tornberg is the founder of E3 Consulting Partners and published author of Business Fitness Revolution , as well as a Microsoft Certified professional with over 35 years of experience in management and software consulting. With the major upheavals to work and society, also entailing the great resignation of employees mass quitting their jobs, businesses need to change as well if they want to k...

Raj Sundarason is regional vice president and chief evangelist at WalkMe, leading international Digital Adoption Platform provider. He has over 20 years of experience in driving digital initiatives for a number of notable  brands, which he shares in his just released book The DAP Strategy. A huge societal and business trend that we're seeing this year is the great resignation, realized as hug...

Thomas Young is the owner and CEO of Intuitive Websites, as well as a Vistage speaker and published author of several books. With 25 years of experience in driving business initiatives, often centered around marketing and sales, Thomas truly has his finger on the pulse when it comes to conflict and alignment between sales and marketing. In this episode, we explore this conflict more in depth, with...

Daniel Rayner is the managing director of GBTEC APAC and host of Process Pioneers, a podcast focused on business process management (BPM). In this episode, we take a deep dive into the topic of business process management and its connection to agility and digital transformation. We also explore the impact of Covid on the adoption and perspective of BPM. We close with Daniel's top five takeawa...