HFS PODCASTS

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala”. As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries”, our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world.  In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

Our featured shero in this podcast Apurva Purohit

She is an Indian Businesswoman with over three decades of experience in the corporate world where she formed significant partnerships with private equity firms and promoters to build and scale up a diverse set of businesses - from early-stage fledgling businesses, to setting up new ventures and to supervising turnarounds in mature and declining organizations.

In her last tenure at Jagran Prakashan Ltd, a multi-media conglomerate, Apurva pivoted the group from a deep-rooted reliance on its traditional print businesses to a focus on new age emerging businesses. The strategies adopted under her tutelage and her emphasis on excellence in implementation increased both the scale and the profitability of these businesses manifold.

She is also the author of the two national bestselling books “Lady, You’re not a Man” – the Adventures of a Woman at Work and Lady, You’re the Boss! Through her books Apurva aims to empower women and encourage them to achieve their full potential.

Over the years, Apurva has won multiple business awards and has been named as one of the Most Powerful Women in Business as per the India Today Group (2016, 2018, 2019) and Fortune India (2018, 2019,2020). She was amongst LinkedIn’s Top Voices and YourStory’s Top 10 digital Influencers of 2020. Apurva holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science (Physics) and completed her PGDM from IIM- Bangalore. She was a state-level hockey player and played for Tamil Nadu State and Tamil Nadu University.

This podcast has 3 sections

On this special Fireside Chat, HFS CEO Phil Fersht talks with Ajay S. Bhutoria, the CEO and MD of Zensar Technologies. With more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry across the US, Europe, and India, Ajay joined Zensar in January 2021.

On this HFS Videocast, we talk with two of the analysts behind the HFS OneOffice™ Services Top 10 on Data and Decisions, which was just released.

Artificial Intelligence or AI has been scaling in a number of industries and healthcare is no stranger to it. AI has been the driver of the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines, driving evidence-based medicine and the brains to improve accuracy of diagnosis. As AI evolves, it will go beyond alerting to intervention, so as unnerving that is, it is a journey we have already started upon. So, get onboard and see where we go next.

The podcast has 3 parts:

1. Setting the stage – Getting to understand AI in healthcare through the eyes of an AI native firm called Exponential AI.

2. Let’s talk unfiltered – Exploring how AI is manifesting in healthcare:

3. Looking into the future – Should we be afraid of the next iterations of AI, will it become my doctor & conduct surgery? And what do we see the role of AI in our fight to reverse climate change driven human behavior.

This special HFS Videocast features a Fireside Chat between HFS CEO Phil Fersht and CP Gurnani, Managing Director and CEO of TechMahindra.

Newt Global board member and partner Rakesh Mittal is the latest to pull up a chair for our Hot Vendor Fireside podcasts.

The HFS OneOffice™ Hot Vendors are an exclusive group of emerging players, each with a differentiated value proposition for the OneOffice. HFS analysts regularly speak with numerous exciting start-ups and emerging players. We designate a select group as the HFS Hot Vendors based on their distinctiveness, ecosystem robustness, client impact, financial position, and the impact in our OneOffice Framework. Those selected are collated and published in our quarterly series. They each have the vision and strategy to impact and disrupt the market.

On occasion we go deeper with a podcast with one of the people behind those winning visions – in our HFS OneOffice Hot Vendor Firesides. This episode features Rakesh Mittal, board member and partner of HFS OneOffice Hot Vendor (Q3, 2021) Newt Global. Listen as Rakesh opens up about how their DMAP platform is accelerating the journey to the cloud for enterprise Oracle users, why he thinks the cloud revolution has hardly begun and why those who delay are missing out on millions saved and giving away a competitive advantage to rivals they may never claw back.

The podcast is in three sections in which we:

Business applications are adapting Cloud-first model, but is this just a lift and shift of traditional on-premise ERP onto a Cloud Model?

Learn how Unit4 is rethinking what people-centric business need from their financial, project, and billing solutions and why HFS thinks it matters. Join Joel Martin, Research Leader for Cloud and Applications at HFS and Dmitri Krakovsky, Chief Product Officer at Unit4 in their discussion on how the new ways of thinking about businesses are more important than just adding features and functions to critical business systems.

This podcast has 3 sections:

1. Setting the stage: How are business operations changing as more software and services move to the Cloud?

2. Let’s Talk Unfiltered: What are the differences in how people-centric businesses are operating versus product centric organizations? What should these new platforms enable in the organization and with the users? How is the business becoming more involved in the design, development, and consumption of data?

3. Looking to the Future: What are the emerging game changers that companies need to be prepared to innovate for? How will a company need to adapt its financial, project, and human capital management to be competitive as we enter into a new way of working?

The top two outcomes driving services adoption in 2020 are improving customer experience and improving employee experience (tied for first place!) It’s clear that enterprises now realize that EX and CX note only need to be improved— but are inextricably linked with one another. Join us for a lively discussion with Rolando Salinas, Arbonne, and John Maczynski of CXperts as we dive into the ever-changing dynamics for aligning employee and customer experience in an increasingly virtual (and complicated) working environment.

Moderated by HFS’ Melissa O’Brien, Rolando and John talk through how CXperts and Arbonne teamed up to with a parallel EX- CX strategy to help Arbonne remain resilient and successful during a period of unmatched pressure.

In this unfiltered podcast, we explore the following:

    3. Crystal ball: Employee experience will determine the future of WFH/ hybrid — how will this play out in the future?

Arbonne is a beauty, health and wellness company offering vegan and sustainable skincare and makeup.  The company faced an extraordinary challenge in 2020 when its entire workforce shifted to at-home (had never been virtual previously) at the same time as a tremendous spike in sales stretched its resources.  Ramping up high volumes of staff became mission critical, all while maintaining the training standards and great employee experience Arbonne’s brand requires.

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala”. As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries”, our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world.  In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

Our featured shero in this podcast Sheila Curr

In her current role as Global Head of Commercial Healthcare at Conduent, she is responsible for client management and growth across the company’s Payer, Provider and Pharma/ Life Sciences business units. Sheila is tasked with advancing the company’s commercial healthcare solutions to help clients reduce costs, streamline processes, and increase patient and member access to care. She is also responsible for guiding the company’s vision to deliver services that create a better-connected healthcare ecosystem where data sharing and collaboration result in truly patient-centric experiences for every person, every time.

Sheila Curr is a recognized healthcare industry veteran with a career that spans more than 25 years. She is a seasoned and strategic healthcare executive with a strong track record of success driving sales, growth, and partnerships in the healthcare space. Her areas of expertise include healthcare, technology, OEM, and retail with an emphasis on building business solutions based on clients’ requirements while delivering consistent revenue and ROI. Her previous experience includes senior leadership positions at companies such as Wipro, Concentrix, and IBM.

Sheila is mom to a 30 year old and loves to travel internationally in her free time.

This podcast has 3 sections

Healthcare is the only industry where health consumers are always buying blind. They have no idea what a visit to the doctor or the medications they are prescribed or the physiotherapy they need will cost until they are furnished a bill. The more severe the disease condition the more opaque the costs become. So as of Jan 1, 2021, all US hospitals must publish online 300 shoppable items or face penalties. Do you think that will help us buy healthcare services eyes wide open?

The podcast has 3 parts:

1. Setting the stage – What does price transparency mean and why is this relevant now?

2. Let’s talk unfiltered – New federal regulations went into effect at the beginning of the year, so what does that mean and how is it manifesting. Getting to the guts of price transparency a buzz word or a transformational change in how we buy healthcare services.

3. Looking into the future – Should we expect to see a restaurant style menu of pricing now that we have nailed price transparency? And will that change the experiences in healthcare settings?