Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

Here’s my conversation with Arpan Shah, who is the General Manager for Azure Infrastructure Marketing at Microsoft. As the tech companies in our Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings drive transformation not just in individual corporations but also in entire global industries, it’s essential for business executives to understand the strategic intentions of each of these vendors. That’s what this new limited series is all about.

Episode 3: Microsoft

In this episode, Arpan and I discuss the most fascinating form of digital transformation he sees happening among Microsoft’s business customers. Plus, why hybrid cloud is so critically important at this moment in time. We explore the connections between hybrid and red-hot edge computing, and where Microsoft’s hybrid strategy is headed next. Press play to get some compelling insight from inside the Cloud Wars #1 vendor. (You’ll want to hear Arpan’s response to claims from Microsoft’s cloud competitors that they can do everything Microsoft can, and do it just as well.)

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Here’s my conversation with Juergen Mueller, CTO, and Christian Klein, COO. As the tech companies in our Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings drive transformation not just in individual corporations but also in entire global industries, it’s essential for business executives to understand the strategic intentions of each of these vendors. That’s what this new limited series is all about.

Episode 7: SAP

In this episode, Juergen explains how Qualtrics was a game-changing acquisition – and a very simple integration. He also discusses how SAP is not competing with the hyperscalers – they’re in a “co-opetition.” Christian describes how SAP has the ability to connect the pieces of the Intelligent Enterprise. He also describes how all industries are undergoing a huge transformation – and how SAP can help them transform through new business models, data analytics, and AI.

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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 world of manufacturing and industrial markets. Join Tony and me as we discuss disruptive new trends in the digital-industrial world: not just how products are designed, sourced and manufactured, but also the new ways in which industrial companies are getting up to speed on marketing, sales and customer experience.

Episode 3

In this episode, Tony and I look at a the “flywheel” effect, with simple systems that companies don’t need to think about. Next, he switches to how 17 year-old Formula 1 drivers grew up in the age of simulators, using them thousands and thousands of times. Tony discusses the role of MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations), and how it may change to “optimization,” which could be a new machine – or a new capability. And he talks about how AI and ML have emerged, and we’re starting to see levels of scale and speed – and also applications that we haven’t thought of before.

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Each month, “Lochhead on Different” episodes will explore the need to differentiate people, products, and services in a world that encourages a lot of imitation. A best-selling author, top podcaster, and former tech-industry CMO, Christopher Lochhead is a student of not only business and technology and marketing but also human nature, human folly, human genius, and very human joy.

Episode 5

In this wide-ranging episode, Chris and I discuss how Mary Meeker’s report says over 3.8 billion people are on the internet – and we need to get the other half on it too. We also look at how 34% of workers say they’re engaged – and the rest of them?? We turn to Cutco, a knife company that has the mantra is “Changing lives by selling knives” and how it turned itself into a personal growth company. Then, Chris discusses how your life is like a smile. From from zero to 20 you’re pretty happy, but from 25 to 45, happiness starts to drop off as we build our careers, meet spouses, and collaborate in the manufacture of human beings. Then we begin to come out the other side and the happiness curve goes back up.

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Each month, seasoned executive Tony Uphoff 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 monthly guest Tony Uphoff, CEO of Thomasnet.com, and me as we discuss disruptive new trends in the digital-industrial world: not just how products are designed, sourced and manufactured, but also the new ways in which industrial companies are getting up to speed on marketing, sales and customer experience.



Episode 1

In this episode, Tony and I look at how the world of work is changing. No longer starkly divided between white collar and blue collar, today “new collar” jobs are on the rise. We also debunk some misunderstandings about U.S. manufacturing. (Hint: the U.S. remains a formidable power, with 248,000 new jobs created in 2018.) Finally, we dive into some less-discussed forms of digital transformation: now that the B2B buyer has gone online, there are fewer habit- and knowledge-gaps between the millennial and the baby boom generations.

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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 2

In this episode, Sean and I celebrate big, legacy businesses taking innovation “moonshots.” What about the Disney+ strategy makes it a Netflix killer. Why SAP + Qualtrics is a killer idea. And how Satya Nadella just might be the killer CEO of the decade. Sean also talks us through his belief that grocery chains, manufacturers, automotive companies, and others need to figure out what their own version of Disney+ looks like—and get started on building it. Because as Sean says, we cannot relegate innovation to a subset of the economy and a subset of society.

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Here’s my conversation with Leighanne Levensaler, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Workday. This is also episode eight of “Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights.” As the tech companies in our Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings drive transformation not just in individual corporations but also in entire global industries, it’s essential for business executives to understand the strategic intentions of each of these vendors. That’s what this new limited series is all about.

Episode 8: Workday

As Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Workday, Leighanne discusses how machine learning is sewn into the fabric of Workday, so that every feature can be more personalized and more predictive. Workday has a customer base that is 2,700 strong, and they have opened up their APIs to customers so they can extend their experience in a multi-cloud environment. Leighanne also talks about how Workday has always taken the harder, longer road, managing not for just the quarter – but for generations. And, she discusses how and why she frequents Workday customer Panera, which is not mobile-first, but mobile-only.

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Here’s my conversation with Juergen Mueller, CTO, and Christian Klein, COO. As the tech companies in our Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings drive transformation not just in individual corporations but also in entire global industries, it’s essential for business executives to understand the strategic intentions of each of these vendors. That’s what this new limited series is all about.

Episode 7: SAP

In this episode, Juergen explains how Qualtrics was a game-changing acquisition – and a very simple integration. He also discusses how SAP is not competing with the hyperscalers – they’re in a “co-opetition.” Christian describes how SAP has the ability to connect the pieces of the Intelligent Enterprise. He also describes how all industries are undergoing a huge transformation – and how SAP can help them transform through new business models, data analytics, and AI.

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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 world of manufacturing and industrial markets. Join Tony and me as we discuss disruptive new trends in the digital-industrial world: not just how products are designed, sourced and manufactured, but also the new ways in which industrial companies are getting up to speed on marketing, sales and customer experience.

Episode 2

In this episode, Tony and I look at how additive manufacturing (3D printing) is providing factories with products from simple to complex, and how digital twinning – a digital representation of a physical asset – is a game-changer. We also discuss how a digital ledger, (blockchain) opens up “tons of opportunities” for manufacturers. Tony thinks that technological change precedes cultural change, and that industry is leading the way with robotics and automation.

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Here’s my conversation with Oracle's Steve Daheb, and the latest episode of “Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights.” As the tech companies in our Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings drive transformation not just in individual corporations but also in entire global industries, it’s essential for business executives to understand the strategic intentions of each of these vendors. That’s what this new limited series is all about.

Episode 6: Oracle

As Senior Vice President of Oracle’s Cloud Business Group, Steve is bringing a strong business and customer orientation to the market. If he’s right, the TaylorMade Golf Company is seeing not a 40% improvement in performance – but a 40X improvement. And The Hertz Corporation, which used to provision a database in eight weeks, can now do it in eight minutes. He goes on to say how having an open platform gives customers a choice of hybrid, heterogenous, and multi-cloud – and how cloud flips the script from 20% innovation to 80% innovation.

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