Agile Digital Transformation

Jeff Kupietzky is the CEO of Jeeng, a privacy-first customer engagement and monetization partner for any kind of content creator. In this episode, we discuss the importance and tactics of driving online customer acquisition and engagement, which has only grown in importance since the start of the Covid pandemic. We talk about the need to focus on both acquisition and engagement, the impact of Covi...

Rahul Bansode is a digital transformation specialist currently working for Kyocera Document Solutions America as Program Manager for Business Transformation. In this episode, we talk about different attitudes and approaches to digital transformation and break down the reasons for either their failure or success. We focus on the key role of the CEO in driving digital transformation initiatives, rei...

Linda Kahangi is the Chief Information and Operations Officer at Nomadix, a US provider of networking technology solutions for hotels and MDUs. IT departments have been heavily affected by the Covid pandemic, especially at those organizations which previously hadn't made a strong effort to digitize. In this episode, we discuss how CIOs can navigate this new digital reality, help their teams s...

Bonnie Crater is the president and CEO of the California-based marketing performance management company Full Circle Insights. The roles and responsibilities of C-suite executives have transformed significantly in the past year, and alignment has never been more crucial to the functioning of a company. In this episode, we discuss what this change means for the Chief Marketing Officer and how they s...

Michael Paige is the Chief Technology Officer of the award-winning digital experience agency R2integrated. As an Adobe Summit and Adobe Virtual Summit speaker with over 25 years of experience in the digital space, Michael has a keen understanding of what works and doesn't work in the digital realm. In this episode, we discuss key strategies and approaches for succeeding with digital transform...

Sophia Matveeva is the founder of Tech For Non-Techies, an online learning community and media company helping non-technical professionals succeed with digital. Coming into tech with extensive business expertise, she has contributed to leading brands such as The Guardian and Financial Times, and has lectured at renowned institutions such as London Business School. In this episode, we discuss how i...

Alex Trup is the co-founder of Rolo Secure Chat, a new messaging app focused on privacy and security, with the chats being End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) by BlackBerry. In this episode, we discuss the importance of customer-first digital marketing and its different elements and approaches. We talk about dark UX patterns, targeted advertising and its evolution, globalization and multinational marketin...

Liliana Ashton is a change and transformation management consultant and the founder of BreatheNow Hub, whose mission is to help companies boost employee wellbeing through breathwork. Having run highly successful digital transformation projects for well-known brands such as Shell and Michelin, Liliana has extensive expertise from a whole range of industries and is now applying the key lessons learn...

Howard Tiersky is the founder and CEO of the digital transformation agency FROM, leading digital transformation influencer and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Being receptive to change is an essential trait of the highly digitalized 21st century marked by huge societal shifts and a rapid pace of technological innovation. Yet as human beings, we have a natural tendency to resist change and...

Aleks Tomczyk is the founder and Chief Operations Officer at Exizent, a UK-based fintech / legal tech company focused on digitally transforming the probate process. In this episode, Aleks tells us more about Exizent, how it was founded and the recent partnerships they've formed with Arken.legal and Experian. We discuss how the integrated Exizent platform will benefit users and help eliminate...

Prateek Dayal is the Chief Strategy and Product Design Officer at Aqilliz, a privacy-focused marketing company specializing in blockchain solutions. The recent updates to privacy regulations, coupled with the drastic increase in digital usage and data due to Covid, have been making people more and more aware of how their data is being used. Brands are keeping up, emphasizing their commitments to s...

Evgeny Shadchnev is an executive coach and founder of Makers, Europe's first developer bootcamp. He makes use of the lessons learned from Makers to help leaders thrive in the digital age. In this episode, we talk about how coaching has evolved in the age of digital transformation, particularly focusing on the impact of Covid and the rise of remote work. We adopt both perspectives, discussing...

Paul Oppong is a project management and business transformation consultant who currently works for Sensei Project Solutions as project and portfolio management consultant. In this episode, we discuss the significant changes of the transformation age and the need for businesses to adapt to these changes. We focus on the field of project management and how it has been particularly effective due to t...

Scott Bales is Vice President of Enterprise Solution Engineering and Delivery at the time intelligence company Replicon.  Overseeing the service delivery group at Replicon, Scott has unique experience from both ends of the spectrum and thus really has his finger on the pulse of the key challenges of service providers and the benefits agility can offer them. In this episode, he talks more in-depth...

Steve Pereira is the founder of the value stream consulting company Visible which helps boost productivity and efficiency of its clients' teams through a framework called flow engineering. In this episode, we diver deeper into the concept of flow engineering, exploring how it compares to similar approaches such as Agile and DevOps, and taking a closer look at value stream mapping which is a k...

Tom Goodwin is Head of Growth at the UK fintech startup Just, the enforcement market integrator who is driving innovation in the debt collection sector. Debt collection is one of the industries which suffered a huge blow with the restrictions necessitated by Covid. Early on into the pandemic, however, Just got the idea of enabling part of the debt collection process to be done through a video call...

Brant Cooper is a renowned entrepreneur and keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Moves the Needle. Dedicated to helping startups and entrepreneurs succeed with digital for over two decades, Brant truly has his finger on the pulse of the most common digital transformation trends and pains, as well as a less obvious but nonetheless im...

Steve Clark is the Head of Digital Growth at Tangent, a Digital Product & Design Agency from London, UK which helps renowned British and international brands realize their digital transformation needs. This episode focuses on Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) and how the field is being impacted by the rise of digitalization and e-commerce usage due to Covid. We discuss how customer experience...

Nick Christensen is the Head of SEO and Analytics at the UK brand performance agency Threepipe Reply and the Managing Partner of their specialist Amazon team Emergent. In this episode, we talk about how and why Threepipe formed Emergent and discuss the specifics of selling on Amazon. We take a look at the differences between Amazon versus other similar platform, the habits and needs of Amazon shop...

Florian Schwendner is the Director of Partner Management for Central Europe at the digital experience company Acquia which is based on the open-source Drupal CMS. In this episode, we talk about why businesses should opt for open-source technologies for their digital presence. We discuss Drupal as the top choice among enterprise open-source CMS, with companies such as Pfizer being strong supporters...

Edmund Frey is the Chief Revenue Officer of Spryker Systems GmbH, a Germany-based commerce technology company that produces the Spryker Cloud Commerce OS. One of the most significant changes we're seeing lately in the digital industry is the explosion of e-commerce that began in 2020 with the Covid-mandated lockdowns. In this episode, we talk more about this, from the history of the evolution...

Mike Taylor is a project manager at Verum Capital, leading blockchain advisory firm based in Zurich, Switzerland which has been bringing the blockchain closer to global corporates, international institutions, governments and start-ups. In this episode, we discuss blockchain technology and how it has evolved and found new uses that address important real-world issues. Mike describes a few of Verum...

Andrew Beaney is managing consultant at Box UK, an award winning enterprise software development company based in Wales, UK. In this episode, Andrew describes a project for a leading UK university which Box UK started working on just before the Covid pandemic hit and in which agile methodologies turned out to be extremely beneficial to the client's team. Kanban was chosen as the most suitable...

Monte Zweben is the CEO of Splice Machine, a data and machine learning company from California, and the host of their ML Minutes podcast. In this episode, we talk about the benefits of machine learning, with Monte giving some great practical examples of ML solving real-world problems across different industries. We also talk about the culture of innovation and experimentation in this field, focusi...

Robert Craven is one of the UK's top experts and speakers on growing digital agencies and the founder of the Grow Your Digital Agency Initiative. Due to the nature of his work, Robert has seen first-hand how digital agencies have been affected by the Covid pandemic and he provides his deep and varied expertise in this episode. We cover the impact of the first wave of the pandemic and the key...