Category: COVID-19

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Steve Jobs and Gorilla Glass: Create Your Future | Ammirati on Innovation

July 1, 2020
Each month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight. Episode 14 Reimagining our companies is on Sean’s mind. We need
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If You Build a House on Swamp Land… | Tinder on Customers

June 29, 2020
Welcome to the first episode of a new Cloud Wars Live monthly series: Tinder on Customers. Bonnie Tinder is the founder and CEO of Raven Intel, an independent B2B peer review site that's amplifying the voice of the customer. She focuses on software customers, consulting partners and software vendors, and helps identify the best partners
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Dear Senior Management: Time to Step Up! | Araujo on Transformation

June 8, 2020
Each month, “Araujo on Transformation” episodes feature conversations with Charles Araujo, founder of the Institute for Digital Transformation. We all hear a lot (too much?) about Digital Transformation, but Charles is working to ground that platitude in reality. An engaging speaker and best-selling author, Charles is spreading the gospel of business change through an equally
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The CEOs of Oracle, IBM, and Amazon - which will acquire Zoom?

Who Will Acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, or IBM?

June 5, 2020
As the story of Zoom’s phenomenal growth spreads, and as the video-conferencing services it provides become not just mainstream but essential, which company in the Cloud Wars Top 10 will snap up Zoom to become more relevant in the digital future? Cloud Wars Top 10 Rankings — June 1, 2020 1. Microsoft — Its Top 10
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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan talks about the company's huge first quarter earnings

The Zoom Revolution: 10 Eye-Popping Stats from Tech’s New Superstar

June 4, 2020
Few if any companies in any industry and under any circumstances have ever experienced a quarter that can match what Zoom Communications and founder Eric Yuan have just been through. We’ve all heard some of the stories and some of the numbers, but I want to share some details here. Because Zoom’s not only a
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Empty desks, emblematic of the need for business recovery that Aneel Bhusri recently talked about

Global Recession Exposing Deep Flaws in Traditional IT: Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri

June 3, 2020
While you’d expect Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri to tout cloud technology over traditional IT, Bhusri said yesterday that the limitations of on-premises systems are hampering the recovery efforts of companies that haven’t moved to the cloud. Last week, as Workday reported that quarterly revenue topped $1 billion, Bhusri mentioned on the earnings call that the
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For Manufacturers, Rollercoaster Looking Less Scary | Uphoff on Industry

June 2, 2020
Each month, Tony Uphoff, visionary CEO of Thomasnet.com, joins Cloud Wars Live for a recurring segment. “Uphoff on Industry” will explore the innovations, upheavals, and breakthroughs reshaping the the world of manufacturing and industrial markets. Join Tony and me as we discuss disruptive new trends in the digital-industrial world. Today, we talk evolutions in business and manufacturing,
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COVID-19 Scrambles IT Spending Priorities | Steube on Spending

May 28, 2020
“Steube on Spending” episodes provide timely windows into enterprise-IT buying trends from a guy who’s got the data to back it up. Peter Steube, managing director of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR), joins us to discuss what his company is learning from surveys of big-company CIOs and IT decision-makers around the world. Today, Peter and I
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9% of Companies in the Last Recession Flourished | Lochhead on Different

May 26, 2020
Each month, “Lochhead on Different” episodes explore the need to differentiate people, products, and services in a world that encourages a lot of imitation. Christopher Lochhead is a best-selling author, top podcaster, and former tech-industry CMO. He’s a student of not only business and technology and marketing but also human nature, human folly, human genius,
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The Telemedicine Revolution Will Rock Your World | Sadin on Digital

May 18, 2020
“Sadin on Digital” episodes explore the fast-changing and high-stakes world of digital business. Wayne Sadin and I focus in particular on what CEOs and boards must do to lead their companies successfully into the Digital Age. Today, we get Wayne's POV on what, why and how certain changes are sweeping across major industries like healthcare
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