While the Cloud Wars Live podcast was only launched a few months ago, our outstanding guests set a very high standard in that limited time in delivering compelling insights into the primacy of the customer and the power of culture in the age of digital business.
So as 2018 winds down and we all prepare for what will no doubt be a high-energy and high-speed 2019, I wanted to highlight the 5 most-listened-to episodes from the Cloud Wars Live series—and of course every one of the 20 we posted this past quarter offer fabulous ideas, insights and laughs.
So, from our first 3 months of offering Cloud Wars Live podcast episodes, here are the most-listened-to shows:
- CarMax: Creating Fabulous Online Customer Experiences – CarMax CIO Shamim Mohammad discusses his firm’s incessant quest to enhance the customer experience, its trouble-free cutover to the cloud, and the increasing emphasis culture plays in business-technology organizations.
- Virgin Trains: Making Rail Travel Fabulous – CIO John Sullivan and head of technology services Dean Underwood share compelling insights on how the Virgin culture and ethos is helping them disrupt the rail-travel business across the UK by using digital technology to create new, unique and high-quality experiences for customers.
- Cirque do Soleil and ‘The Business of Awe’ – CIO Pierre-Luc Bisaillon discusses how the world-renowned live-event entertainment company is using the cloud and other digital technologies to extend, enhance and in some cases transform the nature of the engagement between Cirque du Soleil’s performances and its fans as it seeks to develop new ways to deliver “The Business of Awe.”
- Topcon: Meeting the Needs of a Fast-Changing World – Technology leader Kris Cowles shares her insights on how Topcon’s vision of delivering the infrastructure required by a fast-changing world has reshaped how the company looks at its talent, its opportunities and its mission, and the increasingly strategic need for world-class data management and flexible enterprise technology.
- OFG Bancorp: Outracing the Pace of Innovation – How do financial-services companies redefine the nature of the value and quality and experiences they offer to perfectly reflect the shifting needs and desires of increasingly sophisticated digital consumers? EVP Ganesh Kumar explains the how OFG Bancorp has reinvented itself in dramatic fashion to not just survive but indeed to thrive in today’s digital revolution.
Every episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast is designed to explore the challenges faced by businesses today in a world that changes relentlessly and sometimes uncomfortably—and many of our guests work at companies that have been around for 100 years or even 150 or more, so they face the additional challenge of turning all that potentially risk-averse inertia into the power of incumbency that younger competitors can’t possibly match.
We also realize that while the business of business is serious—and deservedly so—conversations about serious subjects don’t have to be tedious, dry and stuffy. So our goal in every Cloud Wars Live episode is to let our guests show their human side, to offer up some quirky stories that reveal important experiences, and to share some of the joy they’ve encountered along the way.
The voices are real, the stories are provocative, and the result is business insights delivered in an enjoyable and fast-paced format. I hope you enjoy these excellent stories told in the voices of the business executives who’ve made them happen, and that you’ll share your feedback with me at bobevans@cloudwars2.wpengine.com.
Happy New Year to all of you from all of us at Cloud Wars!
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RECOMMENDED READING FROM CLOUD WARS:
The World’s Top 5 Cloud-Computing Suppliers: #1 Microsoft, #2 Amazon, #3 Salesforce, #4 SAP, #5 IBM
Amazon Versus Oracle: The Battle for Cloud Database Leadership
As Amazon Battles with Retailers, Microsoft Leads Them into the Cloud
Why Microsoft Is #1 in the Cloud: 10 Key Insights
SAP’s Stunning Transformation: Qualtrics Already “Crown Jewel of Company”
Watch Out, Microsoft and Amazon: Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian Plans To Be #1
The Coming Hybrid Wave: Where Do Microsoft, IBM and Amazon Stand? (Part 1 of 2)
Oracle, SAP and Workday Driving Red-Hot Cloud ERP Growth Into 2019
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