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In this environment-first episode, Origina Founder and CEO Tomás O’Leary is joined by This Spaceship Earth Co-Founder Tim Rumage, Free ICT Europe Foundation Executive Director Jan Hoogstrate, and Procurement Consultant and Business Advisor Richard Beaumont for a discussion on who wins and who loses when hardware and software get replaced too early in enterprise-level businesses. The Right to Repair applies everywhere. Save money — and the earth — by using the tools your company already has to succeed.
For more information on the Empower 2023 event, visit: https://www.origina.com/empower-2023
This Spaceship Earth: https://thisspaceshipearth.org/
FreeICT Europe: https://www.freeict.eu/
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Andy Nagalewski, Director of Supplier Management at Sainsbury’s, joins Tomás O’Leary and Hari Candadai to discuss the innovative ways Sainsbury’s strikes a balance between pressures on budget and resources and the drive of digital initiatives to continually improve upon customers’ experiences. Plus, industry news related to the Silicon Valley Bank fallout, the proliferation of AI, and several other hot topics.
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Steve O’Donnell, veteran Enterprise CIO and CTO, and author of “What Every CIO Wants,” joins Brendan Walsh and Hari Candadai to discuss the common vendor and budget roadblocks trying to detour your IT roadmap progress and how to stay on track. They also talk about the significant changes in the updated 2023 IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement, legal maneuvering and other megavendor tactics including IBM, and other software industry news.
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Tomás O’Leary and Hari Candadai talk about the latest moves made by software mega vendors, including Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, and the signals to watch regarding job cuts and economic trends in 2023. Plus, they’ll discuss the idea of being a “healthy skeptic” when driving your innovation agenda, and how this mindset can steer your IT roadmap decisions based on what you need, rather than on what software vendors demand.
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Tomás O’Leary, Brendan Walsh, and Hari Candadai review the big — and not as big, but still interesting — stories of 2022 in the software world. From Microsoft to IBM, from software audits to defense contracts, and many topics in between. Plus, they’ll dig a bit deeper into recently announced price increases, courtesy of IBM, and how CIOs, SAMs, and procurement teams may best navigate such drastic changes.
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Join Tomás O’Leary and Hari Candadai as they review the newest Gartner Market Guide on Third-party software maintenance (TPSM) and the growth outlook on the TPSM market. Discover why Gartner believes organizations are well-served by the quick wins offered by third-party support partners, and how these strategic relationships result in long-term savings and renewed focus on digital transformation initiatives.
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Join Tomás O’Leary, Hari Candadai, and special guest Vinnie Mirchandani, for a discussion on the ways companies are changing how they approach IT roadmap decisions that free up time, people and money. It’s a big shift in the software status quo as Fortune 500 companies stem vendor overspending and refocus funds toward reviving and accelerating digital transformation initiatives that set their companies up for a bright future.
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Join Tomás O’Leary and special guest Hari Candadai as they look back on previous predictions of mainframe relevance and how the latest industry news indicates a long road ahead. Then, dive a bit deeper into the current state of the IBM Z mainframe and how companies may benefit from a renewed outlook on how they’re supported.
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In this episode, Tomás O’Leary shares a conversation he had with Tom Goodwin, speaker, author, and futurist, where they discuss the impact that transformation has on our digital world, and why some regulations and boundaries are a good thing when it comes to innovation, growth, and empowering organizations in technological advances.
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For our special Spring edition, join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the latest developments and news in the software and Big Tech world.
This time they are joined by special guest Brad Veech, Sr. Director IT Sourcing at Walmart and the author of ‘Software: The Silent Killer of your Company’s Budget: How to negotiate and manage your software portfolio without getting taken advantage of by your suppliers.’ He will provide tips and tricks to help with the spring cleaning of your IT budget.
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Join Tomás O'Leary and Rowan O'Donoghue as they discuss good news regarding earning results for Big Blue in Q4 after it completed the separation of Kyndryl, the ambitions for the metaverse after Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard, and the partnership between IBM, and SAP in the hopes to move legacy workloads to hybrid cloud.
Special guest, Martin Biggs, Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, Spinnaker Support, who joins the conversation to discuss the biggest trends in the third-party software support and maintenance industry, what’s the drive behind it, and challenges faced. -
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the Big Blockbuster deal made by Microsoft, the two trends ahead for IBM in the year 2022, and more. This episode features a very special guest, Jim Gavin, former Irish Gaelic football manager, High Performance Coach and Keynote Speaker, who joins to discuss high performance and the key components and traits that make up a high-performance professional.
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Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they review the year 2021 and talk about the predictions going into 2022 from stock share prices to companies and the freedom of Right to Repair. Ben Lipczynski, Origina's head of security also joins to discuss the Log4Shell vulnerability, how it was discovered and what organizations can do to tackle the issue.
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Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss cybersecurity and the current trends enterprises will face in 2022, IBM and its views on Third Party Support and maintenance and its Q3 showing gains in cloud revenue. Then, the ongoing race against Microsoft and Apple to be the most valuable company, Facebooks recent name change and Zuckerberg on the claims against Facebook being an attempt to "paint a false picture".
Special guest: Graham Day, The Author of “Security in the Digital World: For the home user, parent, consumer and home office”, a book on low level, non-technical actions that help keep the reader safe online and in the digital world.
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Join Tomás O’Leary and Rowan O'Donoghue as they discuss the latest right-to-repair news, Microsoft's perpetual license litigation, and IBM earnings, debt, and government survey. Then, Ben Lipczynski joins to explain how innovative technology can be used in nefarious ways, the government's role in identifying cyber-risk within its own agencies, and what types of security risks the average IBM software user is seeing and how to mitigate them.
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Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss software product liability, the sweeping antitrust, anti-monopoly, and right-to-repair bills introduced in the US, and Lina Khan's appointment to Chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission. Then, Dan Shefet joins to explain why new legislation may not have the intended effect on existing monopolies, how companies are growing and protecting their market share with intellectual property rights, and where he is optimistic for real change to take place.
Episode Guest: Dan Shefet
Dan Shefet is a French Lawyer and owner of Cabinet Shefet. Shefet is focused on international law, including European law, and specializes in intellectual property law, IT law, and competition law. Shefet is well-known as the lawyer who took Google to court and won. -
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the EMPOWER 2021 event, $314 billion in profits between a three-person Microsoft sales team, and a rejuvenated Micro Focus on the back of better sales execution. Then, Paul Lanigan joins to explain why large software companies can sometimes get away with poor service, what Audit, Bargain, Close has to do with Drive-By Selling, and what the skill sets of successful sales people are.
Episode Guest: Paul Lanigan
Paul Lanigan is the Managing Director of the Sandler Sales Institute. Paul has two decades of experience in the sales industry, and is known for his entertaining and educational training style. Paul also hosts the Sales Leadership Podcast. -
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the naming of IBM’s spin-off, Kyndryl, software vendor earnings season and the Google vs. Oracle verdict. Then, Devin Mathews of ParkerGale Capital joins (20:20 mins) to explain why software vendors need to (but don’t) burn everything down every five years, whether big tech will be broken up at a federal level and why Microsoft stands out as an innovator among public companies.
Episode Guest: Devin Mathews
Devin Mathews is partner and founder at ParkerGale Capital. Devin has twenty years of experience investing in technology companies and helping management teams build their companies. Prior to ParkerGale, Devin worked at multiple venture capital firms. -
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM's legal battles, vendor quarterly earnings results and surprises on the list of the most innovative companies in the world. Then, Eric Chiu of FisherITS joins (23:00 mins) to explain why vendors are addicted to software audits, a surprising new trend forming for customers that are audited and his take on what the world of mega vendors may look like in five years' time.
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Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss mega-vendor profit margins, IBM's sale of Watson Health and the Facebook, Google and Microsoft legal battle brewing in Australia. Then, Fabian Geyrhalter of Finen joins to give a branding perspective on the consumer technology purchases of big mega-vendors, the perplexing situation NewCo finds itself in and how technology companies can take a note out of the Nike branding playbook.
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