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DJ Adams is one of my all-time heroes as both a proponent of open source and teacher/mentor to children who he encourages to learn coding skills in his home town of Manchester. 

He's coming up to a year as an 'evangelist' in the developer relations team at SAP. It's been a year of experimentation including the recent launch of his own live streaming show where he talks and writes code in real time. 

We talk about these issues and the many challenges involved in creating a podcast or live stream that people want to listen/view. 

We also talk (briefly) about beer, an understanding of which is a pre-requisite for being a modern-day coder. 

Enjoy.

Lora Cecere has spent her entire career working in the supply chain arena as both practitioner and analyst. Most recently, she delivered a message to practitioners that says we're looking at supply chains from the wrong end of the proverbial telescope. Instead of looking inside out we should be looking outside in, focusing on value-based outcomes driven by market signals and not, as is currently the case, based on the primacy of orders as the lead indicator for what should be planned for in the supply chain. It's a wakeup call for a world where healthcare is moving to wellness and where some forecasts say that the world will not be able to feed itself by 2050. 

In this discussion, Lora recaps the main points of her current thinking and offers a framework for the future that includes the use of advanced technologies including machine learning for essential tasks like data cleansing. 

She also has a warning for the usual suspects - the startup world is coming to get you. 

On today's agenda, New Relic's smart acquisition, gig economics that don't make sense and non-integrating integrators who drive Brian mad.

And because you can't make this stuff up - check out the image below:

If you don't know Francine McKenna then you should. I first fell across Francine many moons ago when she was putting out re: the auditors, an in-depth look at the audit profession and how it fails investors. Today, Francine has a regular beat on Marketwatch that again talks of the issues behind corporate reporting.

In today's call we discussed the problems around non-GAAP reporting and how it is out of control yet no-one wants to address the fundamental issue of companies reporting whatever the heck they like ahead of filing the 10-K. 

There's a timebomb ticking here folks.

During our call she talked about a small number of companies that file and report at the same time. One of which is Amazon. That company doesn't always get the love it earns but it is doing the right thing.  

There will be a written version of this story in the next day that includes links to her latest story about the GAAP and non-GAAP issue. Enjoy. 

On today's agenda, a great conversation about Dreams and Details as authored by Jim Snabe, chairman of Siemens, a Googley cloudy newspaper courtesy of The Telegraph and 'street' retail via Ralph Lauren...and something for Brexit fans.

Excuse the banging sounds at the beginning. The mice upstairs are dancing while wearing hobnail boots. 

We're late I know but then there's a good reason. I was on a 3-day death march to move and set up a new office. It's all done now but boy was it a PITA - literally, as I discovered muscles I'd forgotten about, in my rear end no less. 

I scored a scratchy call with Bonnie and Michelle of Raven Intel, a new HR analyst firm that hosts peer-reviewed implementation stories and assessments. It makes for an interesting conversation. 

A fun packed show that covers a red-headed bastard child, digital tax services and an updated users story. Where does the man bun fit in? There's a cracking joke at the end. 

It's all happening today folks with SAP shocking some with news of an €800-950 million significant restructuring plan, Starbucks putting your coffee on a bike (?!) and Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce announcing the 5th Industrial Revolution.