The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

It's Pride Month, and Executive Platforms is delighted to have another conversation with Chris Studer and Marley Bowen, executive directors of the Get REAL Movement, on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the Workforce. The Get REAL Movement is a Canadian non-profit focused on combatting 2SLGBTQQIA+  discrimination, racism, and bullying that offer a variety of different educational...

At the 2022 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit series held March 29-30 in Boston, MA, we spoke with Terri Bonee, a Senior Enterprise Account Executive of TIBCO, about the Digital Revolution. Bringing automation, visualization, and digitization into the sometimes stubbornly analog environments of pharmaceutical manufacturing is important, necessary work. What are some of the important...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series held April 25-27 in Chicago, we spoke with John Coppola of Braincube, about how upskilling is helping manufacturers meet the challenges of the Digital Revolution while also helping with employee retention and employee satisfaction. What is the best way to train your workforce to use the next generation of tools and te...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series held April 25-27 in Chicago, we spoke with Shan Muthuvelu, the president and CEO of UCBOS, about how adapting one platform rather than a series of point solutions allows companies to meet the accelerating pace of supply chain disruption and achieve results ten times. -- UCBOS, Inc. is a USA-based business composable t...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series held April 25-27 in Chicago, we spoke with Don Lanham of Apana about water management for manufacturers. Why is it important? How is it changing? What are the dollars and cents issues involves, and also what are the qualitative benefits of understanding and improving how facilities are using water? How does it impact...

CMOs and CDMOs have never been more important to the biopharmaceutical industry than they are right now. Exciting new products are coming online with the help of a new generation of tools and technologies. Capacity is at an all-time premium, the war for talent has never been more fierce, and supply chain disruptions have become omnipresent. The advantages of partnering with an organization that ca...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series held April 25-27 in Chicago, we spoke with René Buck, the Founder and CEO of BCI Global. While supply chain disruptions are nothing new, the frequency and scale of supply chain disruptions has accelerated in recent years, and there is no sign of things slowing down. How should supply chain executives rethink their exi...

In 2016, Executive Platforms interviewed Norbert Majerus about his Shingo Prize-winning book Lean-Driven Innovation: Powering Product Development at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company . Norbert was about to retire as a Master Black Belt of Six Sigma and Lean Champion of Goodyear after ten years of bringing lean product development processes at Goodyear’s three innovation centers in Akron, Ohio...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series held April 25-27 in Chicago, we spoke with Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies. We have had the pleasure of interviewing Willem before for this podcast , and in this interview we return to the challenges companies face as they try to find success in their Digital Transformations. Why do so many organizations struggle...

In this episode we discuss DEIB in the workforce. Where are we? Where should we be? How is Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging evolving in corporate culture, and what are some of the tools and tactics leaders can use to drive positive change? Helping us have that conversation are Chris Studer and Marley Bowen, the executive directors of the Get REAL Movement, a Canadian non-profit focused...

At the 2022 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit series held March 29-30 in Boston, MA, we spoke with Jack Garvey, the CEO of Compliance Architects. Jack is a long-time supporter of Executive Platforms' pharmaceutical manufacturing series who has co-chaired many of our events on content related to Quality and Risk, and in this interview we explored in detail three top-of-mind chal...

At the 2021 edition of the  North American HR Executive Summit series held December 6-8 in Orlando, FL, we spoke with Karlo Bustos of Board about how HR professionals can apply technology to help them better address the challenges of workforce planning. The interview took place shortly after Karlo gave a workshop presentation on the topic where he made extensive reference to H&M's experie...

At the 2021 edition of the the North American HR Executive Summit series held December 6-8 in Orlando, FL, we spoke with John Thomas, Chief Data Officer of Benefitfocus, about how Data Analytics can be brought to bear on any number of tasks, processes, and challenges HR professionals deal with on a daily basis. How will these new tools change the way Human Resources works? What should senior leade...

At the 2021 edition of the the North American HR Executive Summit series held December 6-8 in Orlando, FL, we spoke with Julie LaRuffa, a Senior Enterprise Account Executive with SmartRecruiters, about how organizations are addressing the challenges of the Great Recession through a range of HR technologies to help them hold onto the talent they have, and also attract the people they need to grow a...

At the 2021 edition of the the North American HR Executive Summit series held December 6-8 in Orlando, FL, we spoke with Bree Davis of Beekeeper about the importance of communicating with Top Talent to make sure they feel heard and appreciated during a tumultuous time. The Great Resignation is being driven by people reevaluating their personal and professional goals, but many of the things the wan...

At the 2021 edition of the the North American HR Executive Summit series held December 6-8 in Orlando, FL, we spoke with Larry Gioia and Laura Skladzinski of PwC about how the global pandemic has changed the way people work and come together. Which of these trends are short-term adjustments, and which are going to become part of the 'New Normal of Work'? How is technology enabling organi...

At the 2021 edition of the the North American HR Executive Summit series held December 6-8 in Orlando, FL, we spoke with Emily Wilson of Qualtrics about the results of a recent survey of 14,000 HR professionals about how their organizations' employee experience has changed during the global pandemic. Based on the data, Emily has identified a number of trends and can make informed recommendati...

At the 2021 edition of the the North American HR Executive Summit series held December 6-8 in Orlando, FL, we spoke with Mark Gonzales, SVP, Consulting of Perceptyx, about how the global pandemic has accelerated existing trends in employee engagement and employee listening while also prompting HR professionals to ask different questions and seek new answers as they work to retain their existing wo...

At the 2021 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 15-16 in San Diego, CA, we spoke with Jack Garvey, the Founder and Managing Partner of Compliance Architects. Jack is a long-time supporter of the BMWS series who has co-chaired the event for many years on content related to Quality and Risk, and we had a fantastic conversation covering a wide range of topics related to...

At the 2021 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 15-16 in San Diego, CA, we spoke with Daniel Plotkin, the Strategic Account Director for Rapid Micro Biosystems, about how automation and rapid data analytics is transforming Quality and Quality Control for the biopharmaceutical industry, and how the latest generation of tools, tactics, and technologies is penetrating ev...

At the 2021 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 15-16 in San Diego, CA, we spoke with Ravi Samavedam, President and COO of Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™, about the challenges biopharmaceutical manufacturers are facing in capacity, in facilities, in trained employees, and in sourcing the materials needed for production. Is there a way to partner with third parties to imp...

At the 2021 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 15-16 in San Diego, CA, we spoke with Karim Abdelkader, Chief Commercial Officer of INCOG BioPharma Services, about the bottlenecks in capacity and supply currently facing the biopharmaceutical industry, and how finding partners and leveraging network connections is the best way to overcome those challenges.  -- www.inco...

At the 2021 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 15-16 in San Diego, CA, we spoke with Yash Sabharwal, Co-Founder & CEO of CherryCircle Software, about bringing visibility and transparency to the data generated during product and process development for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Quality by Design has been an industry standard for many years, but u...

At the 2021 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit   series held November 1-3 in Scottsdale, AZ, we spoke with Tom Hood, the EVP – Business Engagement and Growth of AICPA & CIMA. The global pandemic has accelerated and emphasized a number of ongoing trends in workforce and talent attraction, development, and retention. Tom shared some of his insights, as well as key points from...

At the 2021 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit   series held November 1-3 in Scottsdale, AZ, we spoke with Sharice Jessup of Becker about how professional development for Finance is evolving, how businesses can attract and retain top talent through investing in their people, and how Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging is continuing to grow as one of the top trends Finan...