Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business. Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy. Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness acro...

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business. Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy. Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness acro...

Join Bonnie D. Graham Live from Sap Sapphire Now 2017.Gain valuable insight into ways that digital transformation will help you reimagine your business. Take a look at all the reasons why you cannot miss this conference. Discover new industry-tailored products and customer successes that will enable your digital business strategy. Find new ways to reduce complexity and increase responsiveness acro...

The buzz: "There was more than $300M in venture capital invested in AI startups in 2014, a 300% increase (over 2013)" (Bloomberg).These are exciting times for business! Never has it been easier to harness innovations like artificial intelligence systems to drive productivity gains across your company. Think what you can do with speech and text recognition and visual image processing driving chatbo...

The buzz: "It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines" (Ginni Rometty, IBM). Reality check: The human brain is too slow to uncover complex, nuanced patterns in the massive data produced by today's digital businesses. Why is this an issue? Your company needs to turn that data into intelligent insights to fuel your day-to-day business operations in every li...

The buzz: "What do you call a financial controller who always works through lunch, takes 2 days off every 2 years...and leaves every night after 10 PM? Lazy" (Accounting Day humor). Good news for corporate accountants. Continuous Accounting can reduce period-end workloads by distributing departmental workloads continuously across accounting periods via automation, integration, collaboration, strea...

The buzz: "This is a tricky universe we're staffing up and engaging…the core goals are the same…human is the bottom line." (Meghan M. Biro, TalentCulture). There's no mistake the CHRO agenda is evolving…for the better. From the role of HR in the business to how people strategy is enabled through innovative processing and technology, now, more than ever, the CHRO is evaluating the who, what, when,...

The buzz: "It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much" (Yogi Berra). 2016 was a pivotal year for Global 2000 companies to align practical AI applications and embrace intelligent, conversational technology. As enterprise tech gurus sang the praises of conversational AI's potential, enterprises were listening with open minds and checkbooks. If you haven't entered t...

The buzz: "It is as if every dollar bill in your pocket has a list written on it of all the transactions it was involved in prior to reaching your hands. The blockchain ledger infrastructure has huge potential to simplify" (Ted Halpern, www.nasdaq.com 03/29/17). As the switch to digital money via blockchain technology turns central banks into dinosaurs, many people are skeptical about whether to t...

The buzz: "The world is drowning in cash – and it's making us poorer while fueling a corrupt underground economy." (K.S. Rogoff, The Curse of Cash). Jerry Maguire's "Show me the money" is taking on new meaning: India demonetized its largest cash bills, switching to electronic money. Sharing Economy icons Uber and Airbnb don't accept cash. Brick-and-mortar retailers require advance payment via mobi...

The buzz: "It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone" (B. Newhart). Is mobile technology improving or endangering us? Picture this: While driving or walking, you find a restaurant, reserve a table for six, get directions, text info to your posse–all on your mobile device. But if you or your property are injured in the process, your ne...

The buzz: "High-impact HR organizations focus on continuous improvement, not radical HR transformation" (Stacey Harris). Organizations that fail to continually update their leadership approach are at risk of falling behind, with the pace of business change showing no signs of slowing. Executives of high-functioning "Digital Winners" excel at communicating a company-wide digital strategy, keeping m...

The buzz: "We have to remember social over selling" (Viveka Von Rosen). "[Social networking risks]…Trickier to manage are lapses of etiquette, tone and consistency" (Barbara Giamanco and Kent Gregoire). The Golden Rule – "Do to others what you want them to do to you" – still applies in our digital world. Pop quiz for social sellers: Are you aggressively pursuing prospects, inundating them with you...

The buzz: "The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones" (John McAfee). We as individuals have welcomed Internet-connected, often mobile devices to help us make daily decisions. But whether asking a chatbot for directions or researching products online, youre leaving digital breadcrumbs that advertisers, manufacturers, and others can capture and analyze to bui...

The buzz: "Blockchain is much bigger than Bitcoin and its reach is far more holistic." (forum.daohub.org) In search of the holy grail of a unified customer profile, marketers have built massive databases for up-sells, cross-sells, promotions, retention. But what if the customer forces you to PAY THEM to access and use their data, read your ad, view your video, attend your seminar? Welcome to the n...

The buzz: "Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping" (Bo Derek). Ongoing digital innovations in our hyper-connected world have dramatically impacted consumer buying behaviors and expectations, challenging retailers to change or become obsolete. Smart retailers are already taking action to avoid becoming dinosaurs. But is it too late for the laggards? The exper...

The buzz: "The modern CFO is often the right-hand man or woman of the CEO" (Fox Business 10/24/13). Your Finance department is at a critical juncture. Gone are the days when CFOs just reported on past results. The modern office of Finance can help navigate your enterprise forward using Dynamic Planning and Analysis technologies to simulate in-the-moment complex scenarios, leverage advanced visuali...

The buzz: "People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being" (Studs Terkel). Everyone loves, craves, and has a story. But many companies approach prospects and customers with boring, crammed power point slides devoid of action, conflict and emotion. Did you forget that these people are human? Solution: Frame your information like an action movie–with a hero and a villain–that your potent...

The buzz: "For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice" (T.S. Eliot). 2017 brings the opportunity to start with a clean slate, despite your mistakes last year. It's also a time to pull on your "big girl (and boy) pants" and face the ugly issues you swept under the rug last year…and in years before. We invite small business owners to bravely look i...

The buzz: Crystal ball for 2017. If #1 on your business wish list is to know what 2017 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got insightful predictions from more than 75 thought leaders about the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete in 2017 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for SAP Game-Changers Radio 2017 Predictions –...

The buzz: Crystal ball for 2017. If #1 on your business wish list is to know what 2017 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. We're bringing you insightful predictions about the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete in 2017 and beyond, from more than 75 thought leaders. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for S...

The buzz: Crystal ball for 2017. If your #1 business wish this holiday is to know what 2017 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. We're bringing you insightful predictions about the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete in 2017 and beyond, from more than 75 thought leaders. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us...

The buzz: Crystal ball for 2017. If your #1 business wish this holiday is to know what 2017 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. We're bringing you more than 70 thought leaders' insightful predictions for the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete in 2017 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for SAP...

The buzz: Crystal ball time! If your #1 business wish this holiday is to know what 2017 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. On Dec. 7, 14, and Jan. 4, 11 and 18, we'll bring you more than 50 thought leaders' insightful predictions for the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete in 2017 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Ea...

The buzz: Crystal ball for 2017. If your #1 business wish this holiday is to know what 2017 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. We're bringing you more than 70 thought leaders' insightful predictions for the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete in 2017 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for SAP...