James and I went down to sunny (sweaty) Orlando for Microsoft Power Platform Conference (MPPC) 2022. Apart from getting to see a great set of announcements, learn a ton, and meet up with past pod-friends we also got the chance to sit down and have a conversation with Charles Lamanna — hot on the heels of his keynote address.
Join us for this Very Special Episode of Switched On, our chance to share Charles’ deeper thoughts on MPPC 2022 announcements.
First, our own quick thoughts on MPPC 2022:
Then — in an effort to avoid falling into a nerd black hole of our own excitement — we jump to the live-on-the-scene interview with Charles.
IT. WAS. SO. AWESOME.
Here is a sprinkling of his wisdom.
Charles Lamanna
Charles
That’s the amazing thing about platforms: you build it, and your mind is always blown by what people are able to do with it.
Power Platform has definitely entered the ‘flywheel is a blur’ stage…every quarter there’s a game-changing experience. [nod to Jim Collins]
I remember in 2013 what it felt like for public cloud. It feels exactly the same way for low-code in 2022.
Technology is what enables the feature, technology is not the feature.
James
Because it’s getting to a certain level of maturity it’s like…how far can we take this? The answer is: pretty far.
Paul
MPPC 2023: Field of Dreams
Holger
It’s all about how we will work, what we will work on, what we will get paid to work on…and it’s 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: it’s great when it’s warm and moving…but [after time] you need a sledgehammer to fix it.
James
You’re seeing the veil between the back office and the front office be torn apart — but it’s also creating lots of consternation and hand-wringing.
Paul
It’s 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.
James and I sat down to ruminate and prepare for our upcoming next season: The Future of Work. It’s obvious that GPT (and especially ChatGPT) has completely saturated everyone’s brains. It seems like we’re finally seeing the veil between front-office and back-office start to tear. But most of all, we are PUMPED about this season — as both a way to learn from great guests, and as a time capsule of a unique moment in tech history.
James
You’re 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. There’s 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 “The Future of Work”.
ChatGPT made the magic of tech real to people who don’t 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 it’s clear to non-techies.
James and I closed out our season of exploring digital transformation and its various meanings with a wrap-up conversation.
James
In a healthy, modern enterprise, we should constantly be renewing ourselves…There’s no getting around the hard work that it takes to continue maturing your organization.
The compounding benefits you can see from “continuous everything”…it’s 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 design…they 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 human’s hands. I have never obviated the accounting department.
If you do digital transformation, what is being transformed?
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