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The Big Themes:
• The new Future CXO and Board channel from Acceleration Economy: Wayne is helping to lead a new content stream, and his tagline is "two minutes of tech talk for top executives." See more here - https://accelerationeconomy.com/future-office-of-the-cxo/
• Technical debt and what CXOs need to know: there are 3 main danger areas when it comes to technical debt and cybersecurity, and Wayne explains each of those and why non-technical CXOs need to understand them.
• "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is wrong: in tech, being proactive is the only way to stay ahead. Ignoring problems you can't see in front of you is going to cause massive problems, so CXOs must invest now.

The Big Quote: "The acceleration economy is accelerating, whether you are or not. And that's the message I want to give to the CEO, to the CFO, to the CMO, to the board executive: you've got to understand what this stuff can do for you, or do to you."

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Learn with Naama and Rosi about Inspect and the Boyum cloud platform.

Learn with Naama and Rosi about our shop floor management app, Produce, and how it helps Shop Floor Managers as well as Operators. 

With 2021 quickly coming to an end, we wanted to surface some very important stories you may have missed.  Meredith Trimble, Manager of Editorial Content for Tyler Technologies, joins me with a carefully curated list of five powerful stories from 2021 we can all learn from.  You'll love the variety and practical application these stories provide.  

Here are links to the stories:

1. Marriage Applications Go Online
2. Mississippi Residents Skip the Line
3. K12 Transportation Scalable Successes 
4. How One County Modernized in the Cloud 
5. Chattanooga, publishing on Monday, November 15, on data, equity, and policing
6. Bonus: Transformation for the Road Ahead

Go to Tyler Technologies for more information about Tyler and specific solutions. 

The capital markets are constantly evolving. But when the world had to overcome the challenges thrown up by the pandemic, that evolution accelerated exponentially. Almost overnight, employees went remote, meetings moved online, and an entire industry realized that the key to resilience depended on the ability to provide premium customer experiences through digitization powered by centralized, seamlessly accessible data.

In this season of Financial Futures, we'll be looking at the challenges and opportunities facing the capital markets and asking how institutions should prepare in order to stay competitive in this ever-changing industry. Today, we'll be finding out about the present and future of customer experience, digitization, and data with help from Microsoft's Global Financial Services Strategy and Solutions Leader, Rupesh Khendry, and FIS's Senior Director of Sell-Side Strategy, John Avery.

We'll be asking Rupesh and John what some of the core pain points are for institutions (and their clients) in the capital markets when it comes to digitization. And they'll share their thoughts on which solutions will allow both firms and their customers to seamlessly access data to get insights faster than ever before. 

We'll also talk about:

• How should institutions approach the challenge of digitization?
• What is the true cost of siloed data?
• Why is digitization crucial to both the customers of today and the workforce of tomorrow?
• How could technologies such as AI and ML be leveraged with the help of frictionless data?

Recently we've been hearing the same story from Softchoice customers: they’re concerned about how to prepare their people for the journey back to the office. Today, “the office” is a tool among other workplace tools –  and we need to reimagine how that space is best used .   

In this episode, Softchoice colleagues, Jeff Gwinnett and David Erlich, join Erika Van Noort to get the insider scoop on the types of barriers that organizations are facing as they prepare for the return to the office and what the future looks like for how we use office space in the digital age. How do we go digital while maintaining an inclusive work culture?  

Featuring: 

Jeff Gwinnett, Director of Workplace at Softchoice 

David Erlich, District Sales Leader at Softchoice 

Special thanks to: Michelle, Katey, Stephanie and Chris for sharing your thoughts. 
  

The Catalyst by Softchoice is the podcast shining a light on the human side of IT leaders and reframing our relationship with technology.     

Are you a leader in the IT space? Read more on Softchoice’s Innovation Executive Forum, an exclusive, members-only community of over 400 senior IT leaders across North America. 

The pandemic might have accelerated the journey to Cloud – but it hasn’t made the road there any less bumpy. We speak to Craig McQueen about the pitfalls – new and old – of cloud migration, and the amazing value and innovation you can unlock with a well-executed cloud strategy. 

Featuring:   

Craig McQueen, Vice President of Innovation at Softchoice 
 

The Catalyst by Softchoice is the podcast shining a light on the human side of IT leaders and reframing our relationship with technology.    

Are you a leader in the IT space? Read more on Softchoice’s Innovation Executive Forum, an exclusive, members-only community of over 400 senior IT leaders across North America. 

Companies sometimes incorrectly assume that exhibiting at virtual shows is easier, less labor intensive, and requires less planning than a live event.  While most of the manual labor of traveling and physically setting up the booth is eliminated, a clear and concise plan is still crucial to a successful event.  Companies that don’t prepare ahead of time or don’t give themselves enough time to strategize are likely to be disappointed when they don’t receive the ROI they were hoping for.  

After working with hundreds of exhibitors, I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t work for exhibitors, and here is my list of what exhibitors get right during their planning process, so you can incorporate these into your own planning strategy.  

The platform that powers your event can be one of the most critical decisions you make.  Picking the wrong platform will leave you frustrated, cost you more in time and money, and underperform.  It’s critical that your technology match the size of the audience, the complexity of the event, and your capacity to manage some of the components if needed.

I should know because I manage the product and platform that drives Cloud Conventions.  Certainly, we are not a perfect technology, but we’ve been evolving the platform based on mistakes that we ourselves have made and ones we see customers make when they pick a platform that doesn’t work for them.  Here are some common mistakes to avoid in selecting your event platform.

On this episode of Think Like A Founder, SNP Co-Founder & CEO Maureen Taylor speaks with Dan Saks, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AppDirect. They talk about the importance of values, having conviction in your vision, and staying up all night to build a mini-city as a kid. 

Dan and his Co-Founder, Nicolas Desmarais, founded AppDirect in 2009. AppDirect is a subscription commerce platform that powers millions of subscriptions worldwide. They make it easier for customers to find, buy, and use recurring digital services, creating opportunities for businesses to innovate and grow. An expert in cloud technologies, Dan was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Technology list in 2015. 

Learn more about AppDirect here: www.appdirect.com

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco, California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com/tlaf or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. 

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt
Sound Design: Marc Ream 
Content and Scripting: Mike Sullivan and Jaselin Drown
Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, Eli Shell, Matt Johnson, John Hughes, and Renn Vara.