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We flip the script and interview ourselves. James puts interesting questions to Paul about generative AI and the UX possibilities that are starting to open up. Sometimes Paul wanders off to uncharted territory.
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We're in the age of Copilots. Discussion focuses a lot around Microsoft - but the implication is clear: they're everywhere, and they're just getting started.
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James and Paul pontificate on their experiences working in, with, and under business-led IT, shadow IT, and corporate IT. What's the best way forward, for IT orgs to have real impact on business outcomes?
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We talk about the Copilot Studio demo and other possibilities. "Everything you categorized in your head as 'I can't do that,' pull it out and rethink it. It might be possible now."
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Alan Chai, Microsoft Power Apps MVP and Head of Digital Transformation & Innovation at Schlumberger, wows James Wood and Paul Modderman with his tales of enterprise creation, curation, and learning new things.
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HighlightsCheck out Constellationâs October event: Connected Enterprise 2023What a great sense that things are ALWAYS excitingâââbut in early days of his career that exciting-ness was slower.âSmithââââhighly common last name these daysâââtied to the old profession of blacksmithing. Whatâs the new âsmithâ these days? Probably producting software.Holger: why canât email be done better? (Yeah. I agree here for sure. It seems like a useful holdover ripe for some kind of sea change.)The art is finding the right ratio between human and automation. Find the right pace of digital transformation for people.Stay until the end where Holger catches me forgetting what weâd discussed in the pre-show!The âmoney quotesâ section below is intentionally truncated. Holger says so many little nuggets of wisdom that I found myself just transcribing the episode.Money Quotes
Holger
Itâs all about how we will work, what we will work on, what we will get paid to work onâŠand itâs changing rapidly.
You have to reinvent yourself every 5 years.
You have to find the right balance between the skills of people and the automation you can provide them. Companies who do that right do amazing things.
SAP is like concrete: itâs great when itâs warm and movingâŠbut [after time] you need a sledgehammer to fix it.
James
Youâre seeing the veil between the back office and the front office be torn apartâââbut itâs also creating lots of consternation and hand-wringing.
Paul
Itâs never been more clear than now that what you do for work and how you do it have the distinct possibility of changing right under your feet. Difference is faster, now.
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James and Paul discuss the upcoming events in the fall conference season - especially Microsoft Power Platform Conference and SAP TechEd, and come up with their unique spin on a wish list for them.
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Podcast Episode! Season 5 Intro: The Future of Work
Money Quotes
James and I sat down to ruminate and prepare for our upcoming next season: The Future of Work. Itâs obvious that GPT (and especially ChatGPT) has completely saturated everyoneâs brains. It seems like weâre finally seeing the veil between front-office and back-office start to tear. But most of all, we are PUMPED about this seasonâââas both a way to learn from great guests, and as a time capsule of a unique moment in tech history.James
Youâre seeing a shift from systems being systems of record to decision support.
The proliferation of low-code tools are making it much more accessible to interconnect front-office and back-office systems.
This is coming very soon: enterprise-grade GPT services that train on your data.
Intranets are usually where information goes to die.
Paul
The future of work is about the new ubiquity of really good tech. Thereâs a shift going on in how much businesses believe they can actually do with technology.
I see the lights turn on with more non-techie people now, when the conversation turns to what you can do with it in your business.
The fact that the world is changing so fast means that there is such a thing as âThe Future of Workâ.
ChatGPT made the magic of tech real to people who donât give a crap about tech. We as techies live in a world where we have always believed [that tech could make a real difference], but now itâs clear to non-techies.
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James and I closed out our season of exploring digital transformation and its various meanings with a wrap-up conversation.
Awesome Episodes This SeasonSeason 4 Premiere: Digital TransformationContinuous Everything with Jon ReedDigital Transformation as Improving Processes with Alex JonesDe-Mystifying the Digital with Paru SankarInnovation with Purpose with Diego DoraAn Agile SAP Development Platform with Nestor LaraCompassion in Software with Dustin BruzenakSeason 4 Finale: Digitally TransformedMoney QuotesJames
In a healthy, modern enterprise, we should constantly be renewing ourselvesâŠThereâs no getting around the hard work that it takes to continue maturing your organization.
The compounding benefits you can see from âcontinuous everythingââŠitâs hard to quantify.
Paul
We still live in a world where experts are truly experts. That expertise can lead to things where, when we get in the room to do designâŠthey themselves may not have agreed or have codified how they get their stuff done.
It has never been the case where we have digitally transformed something utterly out of a humanâs hands. I have never obviated the accounting department.
If you do digital transformation, what is being transformed?
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James and Paul sit down with Dustin Bruzenak, co-founder of Modern Logic - a Twin Cities-based software development shop specializing in projects that emphasize compassion and human-centered thought. Dustin offers great thoughts on the software industry: building the products, building teams, and finding your cultural center.
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Make sure to get more from Christian at myNewsWrap and Twitter.
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James and Paul discuss the Nuve platform with founder Nestor Lara - among other geektastic subjects. We discuss ins and outs of SAP DevOps, ABAP containers, and generally speaking platform-y things that will make your nerd heart sing.
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Dawn Clark and Lori Beck from Bowdark's Microsoft team guest to help us create a roundtable to geek out over the latest Microsoft Copilot offerings. See https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/ for more details.
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Paul and James talk to Diego Dora, longtime SAP buff and founder of DIFF Consulting. Diego is knowledgeable about cloud, development, and system integration topics that should be helpful to ANY enterprise, and has a special flavor of SAP + GCP knowledge mixture.
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Paul and James discuss possibilities for future seasons of Switched On. Data/AI? Cloud maturity? Other...things?
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Paul and James talk to Paru Sankar, Managing Director for Mindset Consulting in Asia/Pacific, who transforms their understanding of digital transformation. Paru is a world-ranging technologist, and gives great perspective on a wide range of topics.
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Paul and James outline their wishes for the upcoming year in tech.
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James and Paul talk to Alex Jones (not THAT one) from NetSPI about the heretofore unseen connections between penetration testing and security. Alex brings a fresh perspective from his sales and marketing leadership positions, and it really stretched our imaginations.
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James and Paul point the hard questions at themselves - asking each other the questions that they usually reserve for guests. What do people not understand about what you do? What excites you most about the future?
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James and Paul talked to Jon Reed from diginomica about our seasonal "digital transformation" topic. He's been on the hunt for this very same idea for yearsâ-âand his wisdom shines through.
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