Agile Digital Transformation

Philipp Melab is the lead software engineer at the Switzerland-based digital agency Amazee Labs that specializes in creating high-end digital experiences utilizing Drupal, React and GatsbyJS. Recently, Amazee Labs have put Gatsby to great use on several of their projects for enterprise clients, either integrated with a data source such as Google Sheets or as part of a decoupled CMS solution. In th...

Cyril Coste is one of the top B2B influencers and experts in digital transformation. Based in the UK, he has served as consultant and advisor in many important digital transformation initiatives, in addition to founding and running several initiatives of his own. In the first part of this episode, we discuss the importance of having a growth mindset in business and what it means for a company to b...

Taco Potze is the founder and CEO of Open Social, an open-source SaaS platform for building and managing online communities. In this episode, released just over a week after the launch of Open Social's new website, we talk about the platform's recent developments and their plans for the future. We discuss the choice of open source technologies for the platform, the redesign and the seed...

Sylvain Moreau is the Chief Sales Officer of Drupal projects at the French digital agency Axess, and he specializes in large Drupal websites for institutions. In this episode, we discuss how cultural institutions approach digital transformation. We start off with some of the key considerations of main benefits of digital transformation for these institutions, then Sylvain talks more in-depth about...

Josh Forte is an e-commerce and digital marketing professional and Online Channel Manager at Comporium, a communications and home security company from South Carolina, US. In this episode, we talk about personalization and how it factors into customer experience and digital experience in general. Josh and Tim discuss examples of personalization done right, compare different software for personaliz...

Tom Norman is a community management professional who has been helping people and businesses build online communities for the past five years and now runs the Kickstart Your Community project. In this episode, we dive into the importance of community in the digital sphere. We discuss the emergence of community as a key player of the industry in the past decade and cover some of the key considerati...

Baddý Sonja Breidert is the CEO and co-founder of the European digital agency 1xINTERNET as well as a board member of the Drupal Association. In this episode, we talk about content strategy and its role in digital strategy.  We start with why a content strategy is so crucial at a time when content reigns, then we cover the key prerequisites for devising a content strategy, its value for businesses...

Kaleem Clarkson is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me Inc., a US consultancy which helps businesses optimize their remote employee experience. In this episode, we discuss the remote employee experience, its recent transformations and its value to businesses in times of COVID-19 and the mass digitalization which the pandemic has triggered. Kaleem presents all the key steps of th...

Florian Lorétan is a European technology advocate and public speaker. As the CTO at the digital agency Wunder, he has helped foster a DevOps culture and implement processes to enable his developers to perform better. This is what this particular episode is about, namely, how leveraging DevOps can improve the work of developers by allowing them greater autonomy and enabling them to achieve true mas...

David Biden is the CEO of the UK automation company human+ and the managing director of automation at the recently established technology group Foundry4. In this episode, we discuss RPA, or robotic process automation, and how implementing it in the right way can have organization-wide business benefits. As their name implies, human+ are strong believers in bringing automation closer to humans, so...

Brad Smith is a digital consulting expert from the UK and founder of Succeed Digital Consulting, which helps agencies better position themselves in the market and grow their digital business. In this episode, we discuss how important it is for sales and marketing teams to be aligned and work towards the same clearly outlined goals in order to truly bring value to a business. Brad describes the ste...

Simon Wakeman is the Chief Operating Officer at the UK technology group The Panoply and former Chief Growth Officer at GreenShoot Labs, a digital agency specializing in chatbots and conversational AI. In this episode, we talk about the role of automation in digital transformation, with a focus on conversational AI and similar technologies. We explore how they can help humans perform more efficient...

Vicki Young is the owner and CEO of Nalla Design, an award-winning branding agency from London that has been solving complex branding challenges from companies such as EY and Informa. This episode emphasizes the key role that a company's brand plays in its digital transformation, which encompasses the entire business rather than just being limited to design. Vicki highlights the main benefits...

Julio E. Proano is the senior manager for social media channel strategy at the healthcare company Novartis. He is fascinated by data-enabled technological innovations and consequently a big proponent of data-driven decision making.  This episode explores the importance of being data-driven in a digital strategy, highlights some of the main pitfalls for marketers when analyzing and acting on data,...

William Makower is the founder and managing director of the UK digital consultancy Panlogic Ltd. which has worked frequently with the UK government since the company's establishment in 1999. This episode discusses the lessons that the private sector can learn from the public sector in terms of digital transformation. Due to Panlogic's work within the public sector, William offers first-h...