Digital Transformation Podcast

Olivier Blanchard discusses his book " Human/Machine " and the future of our partnerships with machines. Olivier is a senior analyst with Futurum Research, where he focuses on the impact of emerging and disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, smart automation, edge compute and robotics. Listen for three action items you can use today. Host, Kevin Craine D...

Kyle T. Westra discusses his book " The New Invisible Hand " (an Amazon best-selling new release) and five technological revolutions that are shaping industry and the economy today. More than 50% of small businesses fail in their first four years. At the same time, the lifespan of large companies is shrinking. Explore the factors that are disrupting the marketplace and what you can do react to com...

Praveen Seshadri , founder and CEO of Appsheet , discusses no-code app development. With a no-code approach, anyone on your team can make custom business applications, and deploy those apps in real time to enable a more agile, innovative and high performing workforce that will digitally transform your business. Listen for three action items you can use today.  Host, Kevin Craine Do you want to be...

Billee Howard discusses using neuro-powered marketing and advertising technology to quantify, measure + understand human thought…and with that understanding design better business strategies. Billee is Chief Strategy Officer at Centiment.io and the author of the book " We-Commerce: How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy ." Listen for three action items you can use today. Ho...

Ray Rothrock discusses his book " Digital Resilience " and what executives, business owners and technical experts should know about potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities and breaches in network and data security. Ray is the CEO at RedSeal, a leader in network modeling and cyber risk scoring. He's got a masters in nuclear engineering and an MBA from Harvard. Host, Kevin Craine Do you want to be a...

Seth Mirren discusses his book The Power of Positive Destruction and ways to turn a business idea into a revolution. Seth is a global business leader and philanthropist who reinvented how Wall Street uses technology in 1985 when he founded his first company, Merrin Financial, and launched the industry's first electronic order management system. This revolutionized trading by transforming the proce...

John Rossman discusses his book T he Amazon Way and the leadership principles that helped the company dominate the online marketplace and become one of the world's most disruptive companies. An Amazon insider, John was responsible for launching the third party selling business which today is over 50% of all Amazon units.

Richard Chasdi discusses his book " Corporate Security Crossroads " and how to respond to corporate terrorism and cyber-threats. Richard is professor and associate director of the Center for Complex and Strategic Decisions at Walsh College. He serves on the editorial board of Armed Forces & Society and Perspectives on Terrorism. He received his master's from Boston College and his doctorate in pol...

Dale Chrystie , Business Fellow, Blockchain Strategist at FedEx, discusses business opportunities with Blockchain. By allowing digital information to be distributed but not copied, blockchain technology is creating a backbone of a new type of internet. What is blockchain, how is it different than bitcoin, and what are some of the opportunities for business today?  Host, Kevin Craine Do you want to...

Alex Bates discusses his book " Augmented Mind ," and explores how augmenting humans, combining human intuition and artificial intelligence, will herald an unprecedented era of productivity and financial success. Alex performed DARPA-funded research in neural networks, human memory and computational diagnostics. He is the Managing Director at Neocortex Ventures a firm bringing artificial intellige...

Rob Rennie , CEO of Webiplex , discusses integrated business process automation and ways organizations of all sizes and types can build new efficiencies and success. Automated technologies provide great potential to reengineer and improve core business processes. Explore next-generation approaches that make a difference.

Michael Gale discusses his book " The Digital Helix " and ways organizations can capture the advantages of digital transformation. Michael says that only 20% of organizations are getting digital transformation right, but those that do often double their brand value. How can you do it too?

Mike Hoefflinger discusses his book Becoming Facebook and gives us the inside story of the birth and rise of Facebook. Mike was there as a Facebook insider with a front-row seat. Over 1 billion people use Facebook every day and it's founding is one of the defining success stories of our generation. But for the people who actually molded the $300 billion company, the experience was far more uncerta...

Joel Gurin , President and Founder at Center for Open Data Enterprise, discusses the many business opportunities in Open Data. Joel is today's preeminent advocate and authority on Open Data. He is a former senior advisor at the GovLab at NYU and the author of the book " Open Data Now ." What is Open Data? How can businesses benefit from its use? Where are the opportunities to consider?

Author and futurist Jacob Morgan discusses his book The Future of Work and ways to attract new talent, build better leaders, and create a more competitive organization. His previous book The Collaborative Organization became an Amazon best-seller and he writes a regular column for Forbes.

Brad Murphy discusses his book, co-authored with Dr. Carol Mase, called " The Age of Surge ," and ways companies can successfully navigate digital transformation. Brad says digital transformation is not just about technology and proposes human centered framework for scaling company wide agility.

Dr. John H. Johnson discusses his book Everydata and the misinformation hidden in the data we consumer every day. Listen as he discusses how statistics, political polls and 'big data' are manipulated to mislead. We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. How can we make everyday data work for us…and not against us?  

Marc Vollenweider discusses his book Mind+Machine and a decision model for optimizing and implementing analytics. We hear a lot about Big Data and analytics these days, but how do you use data to really make a difference in the performance of your business? This interview explores how the human mind collaborates with machines to improve things like productivity, time to market, and quality, or to...

Chris Surdak , rocket scientist, tech guru and best-selling author discusses his book " Data Crush: How The Info Tidal Wave is Creating Opportunities . Data Crush is a winner of GetAbstract's International Book of the Year award. Explore how organizations, executives and entrepreneurs can take advantage of big data, open data, and the technologies and strategies to make it work. Want to be a guest...

Dr. Edward Hess discusses his book The New Smart Machine Age and where humans fit in. Will smart machines and robots start taking our jobs? What can we do to prepare for the inevitable transformation to robotics and automation? Ed is a Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. You've seen and heard him in places like WSJ Radio, CN...

Eric Siegel, PhD, discusses his book Predictive Analytics and how to use data to predict who will click, buy, lie or die. Eric is a former Columbia University professor and you've seen him in places like Bloomberg TV, NPR and Fox News, among others. Get the the insight to predict the disruptors and drivers of business today. Want to be a guest? DigitalTransformationPodcast.net/guest Want to be a s...

Futurist and Tech Leader Tom Koulopoulos discusses his book The Bottomless Cloud and how AI and the Cloud will radically transform the way we do business. Tom, along with co-author David Friend, compares today's digital revolution, and specifically the advent of the Cloud, to the industrial revolution and the advent of electric power. He says that the abundance of data will fuel a similar revoluti...

Cybersecurity journalist Charles Arthur discusses his book " Cyber Wars " which gives us the dramatic inside stories of some of the world's biggest cyber attacks. Charles explores why each hack happened, what techniques were used, what the consequences were and how they could have been prevented.  From 2005-2014 Charles was technology editor at The Guardian newspaper, where he reported on Wikileak...

Best-selling author Byron Reese discusses his book " The Fourth Age " and smart robots, conscious computers and the future of humanity. We are now on the doorstep of a fourth change brought about by two technologies: AI and robotics. The Fourth Age provides extraordinary look at how we got to this point, and how we should plan for implications we'll soon all be facing: machine consciousness, wides...

Best-selling author and futurist Alexandra Levitt discusses her book " Humanity Works " and how technology and people are merging for the workforce of the future. Alexandra is a writer for the New York Times, Fast Company, and Forbes, and she's a former nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal. In the last several years, Alexandra has conducted proprietary research on the future...