Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

The buzz: "CHROs using artificial intelligence in the workplace…to transform recruiting, HR service centers, and learning and development? I believe the answer is yes" (J. Meister). As AI moves from ideation to reality, businesses face a challenge: how to use AI systems to help human employees be more productive and happier, rather than to replace them. Good news: The new digital workforce has roo...

The buzz: "79% of sales people that use social media outsell their peers" [Forbes]. Social selling is at a tipping point, "that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, spreads like wildfire" (Malcolm Gladwell). It is impacting how sales and marketing teams collaborate, do business and engage customers. But the laggards – organizations just now joining the so...

The buzz: "New research provides compelling evidence that diversity unlocks innovation and drives market growth" (hbr.org). With the commoditization of technology, your company may have focused on improving efficiencies. But if you used a cookie-cutter approach to reshape business processes, organizational models, data and architecture, you may have an unwelcome by-product: the inability to innova...

The buzz: "Today thoughtful people everywhere are trying to understand the implications of a protocol that enables mere mortals to manufacture trust through clever code. This has never happened before" (Don and Alex Tapscott). Just when the switch to digital money threatens the banks' cash-handling function, blockchain technology is attacking their role as a trusted intermediary. This is just the...

The buzz: "Male VCs—obviously most are—are very comfortable now giving female entrepreneurs capital for 'girl stuff'" (Vivoom). Don't be fooled. Sexual harassment and discriminatory treatment toward women are not a Silicon Valley-only problem, nor can they be undone by men's "nice" blogs. Female-founded businesses are out-performing male-started businesses 5 to 1, boosting the US economy by $1.6T....

The buzz: "Motivation is an art, not a science" (Dan Tyre). If you're regularly paying sales incentives to customers and partners but getting nothing in return, you know the challenges of juggling an array of programs and pressure to achieve bottom line visibility. Wouldn't it be helpful to learn how to optimally manage complex partner programs for contracts, pricing, rebates, incentives, and more...

The buzz: "You can invent alone, but you can't innovate alone" (G. van Wulfen). Business leaders have long pondered whether culture impacts an organization's evolution and growth. If culture is the "personality" shaping the ability to drive innovation, what type of culture will spark new ideas while disrupting old models? Will multiple personalities fight each other? The experts speak. Dan Seewald...

The Buzz: "Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax" (Max Baucus). The confluence of global trade, new technologies and governments' increasing need for tax revenue is impacting the global commerce landscape, challenging you and your competitors. To stay afloat, you need to understand, prepare for and stay on top of changing tax and regulatory compliance rules, as well as new technologies and platfo...

The Buzz: "Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else" (Clay Christensen). Rapid change has forced today's visionary business leaders to replace conventional growth models with a Disruptive Solutions mindset. Say what? This creative thinking methodology enables leaders to anticipate and quickly react to industry disruptions, identify un...

The Buzz: "Don't annoy science fiction writers…people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you" (John Scalzi). Think a beach day with a sci-fi page-turner is an escape from reality? Not! Sci-fi could prepare us for the possibilities of tomorrow hurtling at us via tech advances like AI, robotics, IoT. Should it be mandatory reading for business leaders? The experts s...

The buzz: "It's actually women who are creating and leading some of the most established and promising companies overall" (@DrewAHendricks). Female entrepreneurs' accusations of sexual harassment from male VCs and others, are symptoms of entrepreneur ecosystem gender bias. Female startup founders received $1.46B in VC funding (2016) vs $58.2B to males. Does Silicon Valley mirror global tech-intens...

The buzz: "You always miss 100% of the shots you don't take" (Wayne Gretsky). Despite headlines about companies that make regulatory missteps and have lax internal controls, many are still playing catch-up to grasp pitfalls in the business environment. In contrast, risk-aware organizations frame risk as an enabler of business performance vs containing it, and embed risk management in day-to-day. I...

The buzz: "Human resources professionals have long worked to earn a voice in the C-suite and boardroom; yet the Chief Human Resources Officer role remains elusive…many companies still lag in their perception of HR's value" (Boyden). The unique human capital in your workforce is your only true competitive differentiator. But as the power of the employee takes center stage, does your board have CHRO...

The buzz: "While efficiency…is important…[the HR] function has to think of itself as talent consultants not service deliverers."" (Josh Bersin, Forbes.com) HR evolved in Europe during the Industrial Revolution from an idea by Robert Owen and Charles Babbage to structure, organize, pay and develop the people who lead and execute on business strategy. Fast-forward. The advent of technology and the n...

The buzz: "We don't even know If a salesperson replying to us in real-time in the year 2020 would be a human or a robot…AI has already penetrated into our lives with or without our consent" (Mehreen Siddiqua). AI is changing business in ways not seen since the Industrial Revolution, says Accenture. But when we apply AI technologies to human interactions, particularly in B2B Social Selling, will it...

The buzz: "49% of employees feel that a future in which people will 'work from anywhere in the world' is now" (ADP "The Evolution of Work" 2016). Reality check: Your company can't be global without being local. What is your CHRO's role in this? HR needs to understand and comply with local and global cultures, practices and regulations – recruiting, interviewing, hiring and compensation – while sup...

The buzz: "You already have zero privacy – get over it" (Scott McNealy). We as individuals have welcomed Internet-connected, mobile devices to help us make daily decisions. But when we share data with companies, and they share it with their business partners, are their built-in and bolted-on data security capabilities enough to protect our personal information? The experts speak. Brian Kilcourse,...

The buzz: "Stories give people enough space to think for themselves" (Annette Simmons). Your favorite movie, book, and song are memorable because the director, author and songwriter told an engaging story using drama and emotion. Storytelling is also important for everyone in sales for the same reasons. Prospects need to feel, believe and remember you in order to be moved to make a purchase. If yo...

The buzz: "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" (Aristotle). Coffee Break with Game-Changers Radio was invited to broadcast live from SAPPHIRE NOW 2017. Our assignment: ask SAP partners, customers and executives what's keeping today's C-Suite awake at night – and what makes them excited to go to work. Today we're bringing you six "excited" answers: New World of Cognitive Robotic Proces...

The buzz: "I made over 40 Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse" (William Wyler). Coffee Break with Game-Changers Radio was invited to broadcast live from SAPPHIRE NOW 2017 in Orlando [May 16-18). Our assignment: ask SAP partners, customers and executives what's keeping today's C-Suite awake at night – and what makes them excited to go to wo...

VoiceAmerica and SAP team up at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Bonnie D Graham, host of, Coffee-break with Game changers and SAP radio. Join in today as are wrapping up the Live event with Thought Leader live at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Don't miss the inspiring Thought Leadership talk radio on technology and business topics that are changing the game!

VoiceAmerica and SAP team up at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Bonnie D Graham, host of, Coffee-break with Game changers and SAP radio. Join in today as are wrapping up the Live event with Thought Leader live at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Don't miss the inspiring Thought Leadership talk radio on technology and business topics that are changing the game!

VoiceAmerica and SAP team up at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Bonnie D Graham, host of, Coffee-break with Game changers and SAP radio. Join in today as are wrapping up the Live event with Thought Leader live at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Don't miss the inspiring Thought Leadership talk radio on technology and business topics that are changing the game!

VoiceAmerica and SAP team up at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Bonnie D Graham, host of, Coffee-break with Game changers and SAP radio. Join in today as are wrapping up the Live event with Thought Leader live at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Don't miss the inspiring Thought Leadership talk radio on technology and business topics that are changing the game!

VoiceAmerica and SAP team up at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Bonnie D Graham, host of, Coffee-break with Game changers and SAP radio. Join in today as are wrapping up the Live event with Thought Leader live at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017! Don't miss the inspiring Thought Leadership talk radio on technology and business topics that are changing the game!