BriefingsDirect Podcasts

Explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest fundraiser, the first public screening of Granite Orpheus , a 70-minute independent film made entirely in New Hampshire. Starring Powerhouse co-founder Bryan Halperin, and produced and directed by John Hession and Rick Broussard of Concord, NH-based Resurrection Films, the movie is a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice story inspired by...

Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative's latest Voice of the Actors Podcast. Stay with us now as we introduce and explore the Colonial Theatre's resident theatre company’s latest production opening on May 2, the epic musical extravaganza, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Based on Victor Hugo's 1831 classic novel, this lushly scored production explores love, acceptance, and what it means to be...

Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin , along with Actor and Playwright John Cariani , join moderator Dana Gardner t o explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest production opening in central New Hampshire on February 14, 2025, the unique and quirky romantic comedy LOVE/SICK . ...

Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with The Crucible actor Kenny Aber and Assistant Director Debbi Finkelstein, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest production opening in central New Hampshire on October 11, 2024, the powerful and T...

The next  BriefingsDirect  enterprise architecture (EA) discussion explores how a comprehensive portfolio of open standards and associated best practices powerfully supports digital business transformation. As companies chart a critical course to adopt agility using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven benefits, they need proven and actionable structure to help deepen customer relationships, improv...

Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with Fiddler on the Roof lead Joel Iwaskiewicz and Chava actor Emma Malloy, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest production opening in central New Hampshire on August 9, 2024, the enduring Broadway...

The next  BriefingsDirect expert interview podcast explores best practices for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) with a focus on sustainability and strategic business benefits. As AI rises as an imperative that impacts companies at nearly all levels, proper concern for efficiency around energy use and resources management has emerged as a key ingredient of success -- or failure.  It’s becomin...

The next BriefingsDirect mobile devices security and privacy discussion examines how a new balance needs to be struck between giving users at the remote edge all the productivity they want, while protecting the most sensitive information. Join the podcast now to learn how a Minnesota law firm puts the power of diverse mobility to widespread use and keeps confidential and regulated data under stric...

The next BriefingsDirect IT security best practices discussion examines how a leading German home builder has adjusted to a major economic market disruption. Germany’s home building demand has recently reversed, putting pressure on builders to reduce IT costs while remaining secure. Stay tuned here to learn how a large, distributed workforce can be best supported by IT -- even as business conditio...

The next BriefingsDirect business modernization discussion focuses on how optimizing and automating accounts payable (AP) functions gives businesses improved insights and levers to better transform. We’ll examine how improved control and management over cash flow, payables, and related fiduciary functions elevate overall financial situational awareness. Via adoption of intelligent automation, such...

The next BriefingsDirect security enhancement discussion examines how innovative managers are increasingly benefiting from interactive dashboard analytics. The resulting actionable knowledge elevates security situation awareness to the higher order value of overall business risk assessment and mitigation. Learn how Bruce Auto Group has gained such deep insights -- not only into how its distributed...

The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how the rapid shift to remote work has accelerated a rethinking of security and IT processes at a New York-based publishing organization. Rearchitecting the security posture of a business means adjusting work patterns and IT in ways that both reduce risk and heighten performance. But the trick is to do so without alienating workers...

Amid rapidly growing IT security costs and the added complexity of distributed workforces, the challenges facing IT services providers are clearly outrunning past practices. That’s why more automation, integration, and acquiring security “as a service” are in hot demand. Stay with us now as the next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Heartland Business Systems is seeking...

For managed service providers (MSPs), making the IT infrastructure as invisible as possible isn’t just a “nice-to-have" — it's also elemental to delivering the best customer experience. Securing IT for these tech services and support users is no different. The less complexity and interference with productivity from the underlying security apparatus — the better. The next BriefingsDirect security i...

An underappreciated aspect of enhancing IT security is the impact on an end user’s comfort and trust in the services provided. In the case of health care services and support, making the patient feel welcome and safe can be a game-changer as they seek access to needed services and care. The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Macmillan Cancer Support in the United Kin...

A special breed of company -- even though it has a relatively small number of employees -- does very big jobs with those lean and often distributed workforces. A perfect example of such a concentrated and efficient business is A-Core Concrete Specialists , which builds large and complex structures across the Western United States. When it comes to managing IT, the lean-and-mean mantra also holds t...

We’re all now part of a massive worldwide experiment about the very definition of work. Remote, in-office — or tightrope walking along some sliding scale between the two? How each business and each worker finds the next new work-life balance remains an ongoing "work in progress." In the post-rapid adoption of remote work world -- a full two and half years after the onset of COVID -- there’s no def...

For those tasked with delivering unwavering performance of their apps and data, there have never been more unknowns to account for and manage. That’s because today’s hybrid clouds and mixed-network environments come with a multitude of dynamic variables -- and an unprecedented degree of complexity. Yet modern digital business demands that the entire constellation of these far-flung cloud services,...

The growing prevalence of complex multi- and hybrid-cloud environments has opened a Pandora’s Box of unseen risks around security and performance. But unlike when IT and network operators had the tools and access to track their own internal systems and data, the mixed-cloud model of today is much harder to know and secure. Pandora’s Box is open but observing what’s going on in and around it is clo...

As businesses worldwide seek to maximize their value to their customers and communities, the total value equation has expanded to now include the impact on sustainability for the environment. The ways that companies, along with their partners, suppliers, and employees best manage and govern their resources and assets speaks volumes about their place among peers. And it allows them to take a leader...

The world’s office workers have more clout and influence now than ever over where and how they do their jobs. Those who have worked from home and want to continue are spurring on their employers to do more than just embrace hybrid work. They’re seeking to reinvent the very nature of employment. Stay with BriefingsDirect as we explore new research into how innovations such as contingent labor excha...

Closing the gap between the applications and services a company needs -- and the ones they can actually produce -- has long been a missing keystone for attaining digital transformation. For increasingly software-driven organizations, the speed by which developers produce the needed processes, data flows, and business transactions has been much too slow for much too long. Fast-forward to the pressi...

Just as cloud computing initially seeped into organizations under the cloak of shadow IT, application programming interface (API) adoption has often followed an organic, inexact, and unaudited path. IT leaders know they’re benefiting from APIs -- internal, via third parties, and often outwardly exposed -- they just don’t know where they are, how much they support key services, and how they’re bein...

Predicting the future took on a whole new degree of difficulty the past two years. And while we can’t always know what Mother Nature will throw our way, we can learn from what worked -- and what didn’t work -- in 2021. Clearly, adjusting swiftly to persistent change and leveraging digital -- and often virtual -- tools, environments, and processes were major benefits. Now, how will 2022 shape up as...

Complexity and security challenges can hobble the growth of financial transactions for private-data-laden, consumer-facing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Add to that the need to deliver user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and personalized -- and you have a thorny thicket of software development challenges. So how did streamlined and cost-efficient home-brokerage-enabler Houwze...