The Kinetic Enterprise(tm): Built to Evolve, Presented by Deloitte

B2B relationships are inherently complex, with buying cycles that can stretch for months, with multiple decision-makers and influencers along the way. High-value deals—and company reputations—are often on the line. Yet B2B has always been, at its core, about people. Discover insights that can help you humanize the B2B experience in an increasingly digital world. Listen in as Deloitte customer experience and transformation professionals explain how industry leaders today are using digital capabilities to deepen trust and relationships—sharing findings from Deloitte’s latest sales research. Among the highlights: B2B customer experience leaders were 18% more likely than laggards to have exceeded their revenue goals in the previous 12 months. We’ll ask B2B leaders Tim Greulich, Michelle Wideman, Deepak Sharma and Meenu Agarwal how they set themselves apart—in quantifiable ways—by adopting human-centric strategies and a built-to-evolve Kinetic Enterprise™ approach.

To remove the organizational “inertia” to meet the ever-changing business and market needs, organizations need to make a bold move with cloud, seek to operate with a clean core, and look for more ways to make the business more intelligent and responsive. Pavan Srivastava at Deloitte, Edy Sardilli at Google Cloud, and Chip Kleinheksel at Deloitte will share insights that can help you understand the art of the possible with cloud and SAP® solutions and explore ideas for accelerating the move to cloud. They will take a high-level look at key cloud players and technologies that can contribute to the Kinetic Enterprise, and major benefits of cloud solutions. Find out how cloud is fueling digital enterprise transformation today and learn how leading global organizations are now using cloud as the DNA of the “built to evolve” Kinetic Enterprise™, capable of moving at the speed of disruption. Join us for The Kinetic Enterprise: Leveraging Cloud to Accelerate Your Kinetic Enterprise Journey.

When it comes to commodity trading, making the “right” decisions can seem a lot tougher these days—given ongoing supply chain disruptions, energy prices, cost pressures, sustainability goals, and other factors. Add disparate data sources and legacy IT to the mix, and the challenges grow. Increasingly, leaders realize they need to integrate and standardize the systems that support commodity trading—to get closer to a single version of the truth. Such a move can be a business differentiator, allowing you to visualize a more unified landscape, identify opportunities for value, manage risks, and move faster. Listen in as Deloitte and SAP thought leaders share insights for creating a built-to-evolve commodity trading ecosystem. The conversation will explore the complexities of today’s environment—from customer expectations to carbon trading. Hear about the latest capabilities for Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) and find out how they can blend with a broader transformation journey. Panelists will also discuss use cases, emerging trends, and key transformation considerations. We’ll ask Sam Stuckey, Dean Stiles and Trent Gall for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Sparking an evolution in commodity trading and risk management.

The future of work and talent may never be the same. Employee expectations, behaviors, work habits, and values have shifted dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Many of the changes have come about organically, as organizations and individuals responded in the moment and improvised to address emerging needs. Now it’s time for businesses to get strategic—to envision, design, and create their “next normal” for talent acquisition and retention. Hear from a panel of Deloitte HR and transformation specialists who will share real-world insights that can help your organization thrive in the future of work. The conversation will drill-down into the evolving needs of employees and organizations, the workplace trends taking shape, key considerations for workforce planning, and how you can take lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis to elevate the employee experience. We’ll also take a closer look at the technologies in play—and how organizations can innovate with impact as they seek to build tomorrow’s workforce and enable the built-to-evolve Kinetic Enterprise™. We’ll ask Deloitte’s John Dilworth, Frans Dagelet and Satish Badgi for their take on The Kinetic Enterprise: Acquiring and Retaining Talent in The “Next Normal”.

Cybersecurity remains a top priority in every industry—and it’s a priority that is growing as cloud technologies become more essential to driving business operations, innovation, and value. Cloud technologies can come with inherent complexity. Exponential data growth, visibility needs, and control processes—they all can create a bigger “target” and compound challenges for cloud-related security. Increasingly, cyber must become a core component of a cloud migration—to reliably support business value and give organizations the confidence to evolve as their needs change. Today a panel of cloud transformation specialists will share insights on how to enable a “cyber first” approach that embeds security into your ongoing journey of digital transformation—while positioning your enterprise to evolve amid constant disruption. We’ll ask Meer Hussain and Elvia Novak at Deloitte and Venky Rangachari at HPE for their take on The Kinetic Enterprise: Cyber as the DNA of a Cloud-Enabled Enterprise.

The future of work and talent may never be the same. Employee expectations, behaviors, work habits, and values have shifted dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Many of the changes have come about organically, as organizations and individuals responded in the moment and improvised to address emerging needs. Now it’s time for businesses to get strategic—to envision, design, and create their “next normal” for talent acquisition and retention. Hear from a panel of Deloitte HR and transformation specialists who will share real-world insights that can help your organization thrive in the future of work. The conversation will drill-down into the evolving needs of employees and organizations, the workplace trends taking shape, key considerations for workforce planning, and how you can take lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis to elevate the employee experience. We’ll also take a closer look at the technologies in play—and how organizations can innovate with impact as they seek to build tomorrow’s workforce and enable the built-to-evolve Kinetic Enterprise™. We’ll ask Deloitte’s John Dilworth, Frans Dagelet and Satish Badgi for their take on The Kinetic Enterprise: Acquiring and Retaining Talent in The “Next Normal”.

The rules for supply chains keep changing—as forces such as customer demand, pricing pressures, and shipping bottlenecks bring nonstop disruption. How can you forge a more flexible and disruption-ready supply chain with intelligent technologies and cloud? Listen in as Deloitte supply chain transformation leaders discuss the imperative of a future-facing Kinetic Supply Chain—supported by cohesive digital capabilities across planning, procurement, distribution, and operations. Our conversation will dig-in to the potential business outcomes as well as essential elements of the Kinetic Supply Chain—including a clean core for rapid supply network reconfiguration; intelligent digital solutions to sense demand shifts and supply disruptions; cloud technology for building scalable solutions; and an extended ecosystem of capabilities to sustain business value and support innovation. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Subit Matthew, Jagjeet Singh and Brent Griffith for their insights on trends, technologies, and leading practices, plus real-world success stories on The Kinetic Enterprise: Conquering disruption with a built-to-evolve supply chain.

Sustainability continues to dominate conversations from the C-suite to the frontlines of customer service. Leaders and stakeholders all want to understand what businesses are doing—and what more they can do—to improve the health of the planet. Data-driven insights will be essential for building that understanding—to drive action and measure impact. Today, Deloitte and SAP transformation professionals will discuss solutions that can help you leverage your data to operate more sustainably and take meaningful action on climate change. You’ll hear how Deloitte and SAP are joining forces to deliver sustainability-focused capabilities and learn how you can put intelligent technologies to work across key ESG areas. Our conversation will explore the latest solutions through the lens of emerging trends and business needs. Join us for insights on embedding sustainability at every step of your transformation journey and real-world examples of how leading companies are unlocking business value while making sustainability a priority. We’ll ask Deloitte's Robert Hillard, SAP's Anita Varshney and Deloitte's Marcus Goetz for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Insights for a data-driven sustainability journey.

Innovation never ends. The flow of new technologies emanating from the makers of software and hardware is endless—from routine but important feature upgrades to highly focused apps to mind-bending business technology concepts that blur the line between reality and science fiction. For any organization operating in any industry today, this constant stream of innovation can be overwhelming—another layer of disruption on top of market forces, customer expectations, internal pressures, global factors, and other challenges. Find out how you can sort through all the noise and identify solutions to help you get ahead of future trends—so you can make an impact sooner and enable a truly built-to-evolve Kinetic Enterprise™. Listen in as Deloitte transformation and innovation specialists offer insights on top technology trends, specific tools, opportunities for enterprise transformation, and some of the leading practices for assessing, prioritizing, and deploying new technologies. We’ll ask Chip Kleinheksel, Riz Ahmed and Soumya Chakravorty for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Future Trends: Cutting through the clutter of new enterprise technologies.

When it comes to commodity trading, making the “right” decisions can seem a lot tougher these days—given ongoing supply chain disruptions, energy prices, cost pressures, sustainability goals, and other factors. Add disparate data sources and legacy IT to the mix, and the challenges grow. Increasingly, leaders realize they need to integrate and standardize the systems that support commodity trading—to get closer to a single version of the truth. Such a move can be a business differentiator, allowing you to visualize a more unified landscape, identify opportunities for value, manage risks, and move faster. Listen in as Deloitte and SAP thought leaders share insights for creating a built-to-evolve commodity trading ecosystem. The conversation will explore the complexities of today’s environment—from customer expectations to carbon trading. Hear about the latest capabilities for Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) and find out how they can blend with a broader transformation journey. Panelists will also discuss use cases, emerging trends, and key transformation considerations. We’ll ask Sam Stuckey, Dean Stiles and Trent Gall for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Sparking an evolution in commodity trading and risk management.

Organizations investing in ERP can struggle to turn their data into valuable insights and intelligence. Leading with an Analytics First approach can open conversations across departments and unlock different perspectives on what information organizations need and how ERP technology can support their people and processes best. On this episode, our panelists will discuss how adopting an Analytics First approach can lead a company to create the proper governance and structure for centralizing its analytics function, finding data easily via a single reference point – 'source of truth' – and enabling better insights and ideas across the organization. Listen in and learn how you can turn your data into a foundation of intelligence to drive innovation, transformation and growth. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Scott Gabelhart and thought leader Kevin Aidun for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Ready for Take-Off with an Analytics First Approach.

Manufacturers face immense pressure to operate more efficiently and sustainably. For many, the way forward will require a renewed focus on their Industry 4.0 vision, including smart factories running with intelligent processes. Plenty of challenges lie ahead— creating a risk-averse supply chain, significant labor shortages, continued globalization, significantly higher data using IoT technology and the ability to translate that data into actionable information, dramatic technological advances around Robotics, AI, and ML, and a shift in the Future of Work to more remote operations. Given all of this, companies need to build a kinetic environment that can evolve and innovate as needed. Join us as Deloitte manufacturing and transformation specialists discuss a blueprint for creating the built-to-evolve Smart Factory. Discover how you can use emerging technologies to build the Smart Factory and unlock value faster. Our conversation will also cover the role of ecosystem partnerships, the digitally empowered workforce, and how you can align Smart Factory solutions with your ESG goals, as well as a broader vision of sustainability and philanthropy. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Brenna Sniderman and Vadhi Narasimhamurti for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Strategies for Enabling a Sustainable and Built-to-Evolve Smart Factory.

The need for a high-performance ERP and the need for cloud are here to stay. And increasingly, those two things come as a package deal—in the form of cloud ERP solutions that can support greater reliability, flexibility, scalability, innovation, and growth. There’s no “one size fits all” solution – and sorting through your options can take work. Join Deloitte and SAP transformation professionals as we dispel some of the mystery and the myth surrounding cloud ERP today—and challenge preconceived notions about size, speed, and complexity of projects. Our panelists will explain how a modular ERP approach and a two-tier model can support business stability, flexibility, and transformation on your own terms and timeline, while unlocking business benefits sooner. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Chip Kleinheksel, SAP’s Sven Denecken and Deloitte’s Misa Rawlins and Todd Slatter for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Positioning your business for the future with cloud ERP.

Business Transformation and Taxes. These are two of the greatest certainties in business today, and both Finance functions need to transform to become the advisor and guide to better decisions for their whole enterprise – or else they will become irrelevant. Their transformation starts with an analytics-first approach to provide richer, faster analytics-based insights and more frequent tuning of multiple scenarios that help their company figure out and prepare for tomorrow, today. In this episode of The Kinetic Enterprise, Deloitte finance transformation and analytics leaders explore the ERP systems, processes and talent in data science that will enable Finance teams to harmonize analytics, translate the story behind the numbers, and elevate their role in steering the wider business. Tune in to the conversation for insights on how finance can become the analytical engine for the organization and unlock exponential business value. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Graham Billington, Ralf Dukek, Ritesh Bhushan and Scott Gabelhart for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Empowering finance transformation with analytics-based insights at your fingertip.

The rules for supply chains keep changing—as forces such as customer demand, pricing pressures, and shipping bottlenecks bring nonstop disruption. How can you forge a more flexible and disruption-ready supply chain with intelligent technologies and cloud? Listen in as Deloitte supply chain transformation leaders discuss the imperative of a future-facing Kinetic Supply Chain—supported by cohesive digital capabilities across planning, procurement, distribution, and operations. Our conversation will dig-in to the potential business outcomes as well as essential elements of the Kinetic Supply Chain—including a clean core for rapid supply network reconfiguration; intelligent digital solutions to sense demand shifts and supply disruptions; cloud technology for building scalable solutions; and an extended ecosystem of capabilities to sustain business value and support innovation. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Subit Matthew, Jagjeet Singh and Brent Griffith for their insights on trends, technologies, and leading practices, plus real-world success stories on The Kinetic Enterprise: Conquering disruption with a built-to-evolve supply chain.

Sustainability continues to dominate conversations from the C-suite to the frontlines of customer service. Leaders and stakeholders all want to understand what businesses are doing—and what more they can do—to improve the health of the planet. Data-driven insights will be essential for building that understanding—to drive action and measure impact. Today, Deloitte and SAP transformation professionals will discuss solutions that can help you leverage your data to operate more sustainably and take meaningful action on climate change. You’ll hear how Deloitte and SAP are joining forces to deliver sustainability-focused capabilities and learn how you can put intelligent technologies to work across key ESG areas. Our conversation will explore the latest solutions through the lens of emerging trends and business needs. Join us for insights on embedding sustainability at every step of your transformation journey and real-world examples of how leading companies are unlocking business value while making sustainability a priority. We’ll ask Deloitte's Robert Hillard, SAP's Anita Varshney and Deloitte's Marcus Goetz for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Insights for a data-driven sustainability journey.

Business Transformation and Taxes. These are two of the greatest certainties in business today, and both Finance functions need to transform to become the advisor and guide to better decisions for their whole enterprise – or else they will become irrelevant. Their transformation starts with an analytics-first approach to provide richer, faster analytics-based insights and more frequent tuning of multiple scenarios that help their company figure out and prepare for tomorrow, today. In this episode of The Kinetic Enterprise, Deloitte finance transformation and analytics leaders explore the ERP systems, processes and talent in data science that will enable Finance teams to harmonize analytics, translate the story behind the numbers, and elevate their role in steering the wider business. Tune in to the conversation for insights on how finance can become the analytical engine for the organization and unlock exponential business value. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Graham Billington, Ralf Dukek, Ritesh Bhushan and Scott Gabelhart for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Empowering finance transformation with analytics-based insights at your fingertip.

When it comes to commodity trading, making the “right” decisions can seem a lot tougher these days—given ongoing supply chain disruptions, energy prices, cost pressures, sustainability goals, and other factors. Add disparate data sources and legacy IT to the mix, and the challenges grow. Increasingly, leaders realize they need to integrate and standardize the systems that support commodity trading—to get closer to a single version of the truth. Such a move can be a business differentiator, allowing you to visualize a more unified landscape, identify opportunities for value, manage risks, and move faster. Listen in as Deloitte and SAP thought leaders share insights for creating a built-to-evolve commodity trading ecosystem. The conversation will explore the complexities of today’s environment—from customer expectations to carbon trading. Hear about the latest capabilities for Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) and find out how they can blend with a broader transformation journey. Panelists will also discuss use cases, emerging trends, and key transformation considerations. We’ll ask Sam Stuckey, Dean Stiles and Trent Gall for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Sparking an evolution in commodity trading and risk management.

When it comes to commodity trading, making the “right” decisions can seem a lot tougher these days—given ongoing supply chain disruptions, energy prices, cost pressures, sustainability goals, and other factors. Add disparate data sources and legacy IT to the mix, and the challenges grow. Increasingly, leaders realize they need to integrate and standardize the systems that support commodity trading—to get closer to a single version of the truth. Such a move can be a business differentiator, allowing you to visualize a more unified landscape, identify opportunities for value, manage risks, and move faster. Listen in as Deloitte and SAP thought leaders share insights for creating a built-to-evolve commodity trading ecosystem. The conversation will explore the complexities of today’s environment—from customer expectations to carbon trading. Hear about the latest capabilities for Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) and find out how they can blend with a broader transformation journey. Panelists will also discuss use cases, emerging trends, and key transformation considerations. We’ll ask Sam Stuckey, Dean Stiles and Trent Gall for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Sparking an evolution in commodity trading and risk management.

Organizations investing in ERP can struggle to turn their data into valuable insights and intelligence. Leading with an Analytics First approach can open conversations across departments and unlock different perspectives on what information organizations need and how ERP technology can support their people and processes best. On this episode, our panelists will discuss how adopting an Analytics First approach can lead a company to create the proper governance and structure for centralizing its analytics function, finding data easily via a single reference point – 'source of truth' – and enabling better insights and ideas across the organization. Listen in and learn how you can turn your data into a foundation of intelligence to drive innovation, transformation and growth. We’ll ask Deloitte’s Scott Gabelhart and thought leader Kevin Aidun for their insights on The Kinetic Enterprise: Ready for Take-Off with an Analytics First Approach.