For this episode of the podcast, I was delighted to welcome Alysa Taylor - Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for the Cloud Marketing Business Applications and Global Industry divisions at Microsoft. For 2021, Alysa advises us to keep listening, keep understanding, keep knowing where the world is going. She suggests agility and customer-centricity will be driving forces for partner success in 2021.

In her role at Microsoft, Alysa leads the product marketing teams responsible for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Automate) as well as the global industry product marketing team.

Alysa's previously led the Cloud and Enterprise business marketing group in Microsoft’s U.S. subsidiary, where she was responsible for the U.S. business, marketing, and operations across the cloud, and the infrastructure portfolio of products, including Windows Server, Azure, System Center, SQL, and Visual Studio. Taylor came to Microsoft with a background in consulting and advertising account management and design.

It was great to have Alysa come share her career progression, the progress of her organization, and the innovation. I also had the chance to work with Alysa in the US Subsidiary and so it was great to catch up and learn more about her career journey.

​In this episode, Alysa and I discuss:

* The innovation, change and transformation coming from her organization.* How data, business processes, and industry are at the core of the transformation in Microsoft's approach. * Her recent announcements - Healthcare Cloud and Retail Cloud and what that means for partners. * Why partners are more important now than ever and why they need to drive with agility and customer-centricity. * Lessons for our listeners from her amazing career journey.

I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed spending time with Alysa Taylor.

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