This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
The Future of Finance: Automation, Strategy & Transformation | DisrupTV Ep. 169
In DisrupTV Episode 169, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three thought leaders to explore how automation, strategic alignment, and digital transformation are reshaping the finance function.
If you’ve read any of my other posts, you know how passionately I believe that customer experience should be the organizing principle and top priority of every business. Focus on customers is, to say the least, highly correlated with success. Customer understanding—knowing your customers and anticipating their needs even before they might themselves—makes it possible to design consistently good customer experiences that build successful businesses.
Application-integrated cloud analytics offerings were announced by Oracle, SAP and Workday this fall. Here’s a closer look at when they’re a good fit.
Applications and analytics have complemented each other for decades, but this fall we’ve seen a fresh wave of announcements about offerings built for the cloud.
Various law makers -- such as the state of Illinois and the city of San Francisco -- are moving to restrain or prohibit facial recognition through specific legislation. Evan Selinger and Woody Hartzog writing in the New York Times have called for a ban.
Data at the Edge: Human Insight, Experience Risk & Strategic Analytics | DisrupTV Ep.168
In DisrupTV Episode 168, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar bring together three experts to explore critical shifts in how organizations approach data and insight:
Workday had their #wdayrising event that brought together their customers, prospective customers, partners, and industry analysts. In recent years, the healthcare provider industry has spent the majority of its technology budget on the electronic medical records. This has led to a neglect of back-office enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, and, as a result, almost every healthcare provider organization now is evaluating a cloud ERP solution. Healthcare providers are evaluating ERP platforms based on new sets of criteria in search of a solution to drive digital transformation.
Reimagining Education, Blockchain & Public Engagement | DisrupTV Ep. 167
In DisrupTV Episode 167, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar lead a thought-provoking conversation with three visionary leaders. Together, they examine how education, technology, and civic institutions are transforming to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving world.
Leading with Trust, Venture Intelligence & Enterprise Storytelling | DisrupTV Ep. 166
In DisrupTV Episode 166, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar bring together three executives to examine how trust, investment strategy, and narrative shape enterprise transformation.
Leading Change with Health & Performance: A McKinsey Framework | DisrupTV Ep. 165
In Episode 165 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar converse with Bill Schaninger, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. and co-author of Beyond Performance 2.0, along with Doug Henschen, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. They explore the critical interplay between organizational “health” and “performance” in driving lasting success.