This is the eighth post in a series of 20 highlights from the Acrobatics during the crisis, Analyst Cam, Burning Platform and other series I launched last year.
I heard about acceleration of digital transformations from multiple perspectives. Here are a few
I talked to Jerome Dubois and Rylan Hamilton, co-founders and co-CEOs of 6 River - they were pioneers with Kiva (now part of Amazon), and now with their smaller, more agile Chuck warehouse robots. Jerome describes how more companies are moving to "micro-fulfillment" to accommodate new models like flash sales, order on-line, pick-up in stores, regionalized inventories, last-mile delivery expectations and constraints. The full interview is here
At 1.45 is Ben Pring, a futurist who leads several thought leadership initiatives for Cognizant. He discusses how the "Future of Work" has rapidly become the "Present of Work" during the COVID-19 crisis. The full interview is here
At 6.19, Emily McEvilly, Chief Customer Officer at Workday describes how her SI ecosystem is tooling/automating their efforts, how many customers are actually accelerating their projects and often insourcing many project tasks. Fuller discussion here.
At 9.46, Bill Hewitt, President and CEO of Aternity describes the need for IT agility like how IBM managed to get 100,000 employees working from home over a weekend and how WestPac compressed a 3 month rollout into 5 days. Full session here
At 11.41 Tamas Hevizi, Global Head of Private Equity at Automation Anywhere describes the interest in the 7 C's he is seeing in investor circles - commerce, cloud, collaboration, cybersecurity etc. The fuller discussion is here
At 17.46, Ton Dobbe, Chief Inspiration Officer at Value Inspiration provides a perspective from Europe on startups in what he calls his 'Tribe" The full session is here
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