Digital Savages proudly presents the new episode of 'Challenging the Status Quo' podcast season two with Justin Goldston, Professor and Coordinator of Project & Supply-chain Management @Penn State University. He believes that if you have fun, you will be able to innovate and collaborate! If you want to be recognizable in the market, you have to look at the discipline you are in from a holistic point of view and find your niche within your discipline! You can never stop learning; the world is changing too fast for you to become complacent. 

If you find your hobby, be the best at that hobby that you can possibly be! That is going to be your differentiator! 

If data is the new currency, what doe this mean for your current IT landscape? In the past decade, Cloud Industry rose annually to a 370 billion market last year. However, the companies are still hesitant when it comes to moving their currency into the Cloud. But wait, is that only value for the business?

In the past decade, we have created more data than in the whole history of humankind! While the tools to extract, process, analyse and visualise data are getting cheaper, companies are still struggling with the data phenomena. This internal company debate is not so much about technology to utilise data but how you can use technology to develop new business models that leverage technology.

Our appetite for bandwidth is growing exponentially; next to that, we also want to measure complex physical phenomena using miniaturized equipment. These developments ensure the need for the development of new technologies! With high-frequency electronics, photonics is becoming the base for the next generations of chips and industries. However, integration of photonics and electronics is essential to ensure the transition.

Over 7,000 data breaches were reported in 2019. Protecting customer data weighs on corporations, which are facing increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.

“So, you never know, the bad guys are continuing to invest as much as the good guys. And we got to stay out ahead of it. We got to remain vigilant.”

Business and their data are more vulnerable than ever before in the digital era. Cybersecurity is necessary to operate your business efficiently—but it’s also critical for protecting your customers’ information. Cyberattacks usually aim at accessing, changing and destroying sensitive information, extorting money and interrupting business processes. Implementing effective layered cybersecurity measures is not a matter of choice but a must for all businesses!

There are five layers of security:

“Instead of thinking like ‘data owners,’ companies must act as ‘data custodians’ who protect personal information and use it only with a customer’s best interests in mind.”

Do companies understand the benefits of Cybersecurity for their businesses, and what value does the implementation bring for their data, application landscape and processes?

In the seventh episode of Digital Business Disruptors, we focus on Cybersecurity for Business. We focus on debunking the hype and understanding businesses’ real value in a conversation with four domain experts.

Industry 4.0 has been with us since 2011 when the term was publicly introduced by the German representatives from business, politics, and academia to advance German competitiveness in the manufacturing industry. The term encompasses automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including Internet of Things, Big Data, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, 5G, Cloud and Cognitive Computing. All of it is contributing to building a smart factory. A decade has passed and even though the manufacturing industry has improved the term significantly is still hype. We miss the connection with reality tied to business challenges and delivered value.

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been with us for a while with tremendous promises of impact for various industries and markets. DLT is a digital system for recording the transaction of assets in which the transactions and details record in multiple places simultaneously. The world refers to DLT to with one synonym known as Blockchain. However, Blockchain is just one of type of DLT where there are many, many more.

Today all companies across the net claim to be customer-centric, value customer and are always there for their customers! We can not debate whether this is true or not, but we can discuss their user experience and user interfaces supporting these kinds of statements! Do they listen to the voice of their customers?  

User Experience and User Interface Design both have essential roles in fulfilling the promise of excellent customer journey encompassing, ensuring customer satisfaction.  Do companies focus on understanding their customer needs and wants, or do they just come up with things because it is the trend?  

In the fourth Digital Business Disruptors webcast, we have gathered three experts from the business to demystify the importance of UX/UI for us and let us understand what business value these expertises bring. Tune in and learn about proven UX/UI business cases from the field! 

Augmented/Virtual reality is a technology that imposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world and virtual world, thus providing a composite view. AR/VR has been with us with over a decade; however, the business value has still to be proven. Or not? One of the famous tech magazines predicts that by the year 2040 augmented reality and virtual reality are going to become the mainstream for use for computer interactions.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most hyped technologies in the world. You literally can not miss AI in the news and social media posts. However, opinions on the topic vary. Is it hype, what is real and what is not, and most importantly, what is the added value for the businesses? 

 Artificial Intelligence, the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.  

In the second Digital Business Disruptors webcast, we have gathered three experts from the business to demystify Artificial Intelligence for us and let us understand what business value these devices can provide for various companies. Tune in and learn about proven AI business cases from the field.