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502: Diversified Search CEO Dale Jones discusses

Dale’s work as the CEO of Diversified Search
How COVID has accelerated changes around transformation and innovation
His thoughts on how the pandemic has underscored racial disparities in the United States
The importance of listening before taking a stand against racial injustice
How diverse teams add value to companies in terms of thinking and processing

Among a variety of other topics.

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501: Aflac Chief Digital Information Officer Rich Gilbert

The digital transformation the company has undertaken, including what he refers to as “One Digital Aflac” and how the transformation has impacted the customer experience.
Rich’s thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic, including how it forced Aflac to reinvent and double down on digital as well as the changes here to stay post-pandemic.
How the company shifted from a waterfall to an agile approach
Why one’s ability to adapt to more than coming up with new technologies is the most important thing for the company

Among a variety of other topics.

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Our 500th episode features a wide-ranging with David Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group’s co-founder and co-Executive Chairman. We discuss:

David’s experience growing up in a blue-collar family in Baltimore
His experience working for the Carter administration
Why the Carter administration was viewed as unsuccessful
David’s decision to leave government and the legal profession to start Carlyle
How David and a partner came up with the firm’s name
How Carlyle got prominent political figures to join the firm, including presidents and prime ministers
David’s decision to diversify the business and go global
David’s rationale for taking the firm public
David’s philanthropic endeavors
Why he has decided to give all of his money away
Why he now stays out of politics

Among a variety of other topics.

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499: PayPal SVP & CTO Sri Shivananda discusses

His purview as CTO and the three main priorities in the role
Aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as
- PayPal’s response
- How the company has seen significant growth throughout it
- How it has resulted in an acceleration of digital payments
Sri’s experience serving on the board of a public company
Why Sri believes payments as a known activity will begin to disappear

Among a variety of other topics.

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498: Zoetis EVP Chief Information and Digital Officer Wafaa Mamilli and former TD Ameritrade CIO Vijay Sankaran discuss

How focusing on the customer experience and leading with digital and analytics is serving Zoetis well
The steps Zoetis takes to position its customer at the center of the universe
How T.D Ameritrade uses analytics and AI to enhance the customer experience
The Voice of the Customer Analytics capability it has created to help with the added digital pressures on the business
How T.D Ameritrade has used AI for personalization
How COVID and low interest rates have caused more and more investors to explore the stock market
How the culture of innovation at T.D Ameritrade has allowed it to bring new ideas to market extremely quickly

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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Welcome to Technovation, a twice-weekly podcast highlighting the stories of people who are shaping the technology landscape. I’m Peter High, president of Metis Strategy, advisor to technology executives, Forbes columnist, book author, and your host. Each episode of Technovation features insights from top executives at the intersection of business technology and innovation.

From CXOs of the world’s largest, most recognizable companies, to high profile founders and investors, to industry influencers, authors, and former heads of state, our extensive collection of over 500 high profile interviews makes Technovation the leading independent podcast for business and technology, executives and professionals.

Whether you are an innovator, a technology creator, an investor, a CIO CDO, or CTO, or you aspire to be any of the above, you will hear powerful yet accessible stories along with practical advice from leading thinkers. We would be grateful to have you as a listener. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. And do not forget to subscribe.

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497: Cushman & Wakefield CIO & CDO Adam Stanley discusses

Adam’s view on working from home
Why Adam moved from Chicago to Austin
Adam’s belief that technology cannot replicate the full in person work experience
Adam’s advice for those looking to make a positive change in social justice
Why every board of a Fortune 500 company needs to demand a quarterly diversity report
Some of the recruiting tools that are looking to take away subconscious bias out of recruiting
Adam’s advice for CIOs looking to join boards
Adam’s interest in technologies that positively impact the environment
How the pace of technological change is faster today than ever before

Among a variety of other topics.

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496: Goldman Sachs Co CIO George Lee and Yum! Brands Chief Digital and Technology Officer Clay Johnson discuss

Goldman Sachs’ strategic decisions around technology, including how it is building new businesses that are adjacent to its historical core businesses
How Goldman is building the digital consumer bank of the future, and the transaction banking business it is building
Clay’s view on the importance of having a fail-fast model, especially in the days of COVID
The pivot Yum! Brands has made since COVID
Clay and George’s view on the customer experience, including how
- Customers have come to expect the Amazon experience everywhere
- The importance of the business product and the tech product working together to create a seamless journey for the customer
How the lines between the business and IT are eroding, including how
- Agile and DevOps are beginning to move into the business
- Why the people capable of leading businesses are oftentimes engineers

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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495: ADP Corporate Vice President and Chief Product and Technology Officer Don Weinstein

ADP’s history as one of the earliest cloud companies
Why the company has shifted from embracing the private cloud to the public cloud.
The innovation labs the company has created
How the larger ADP organization draws new practices from the innovation labs
Why one of the hardest challenges that any organization has is not identifying new ideas that have promise, but cancelling the ones that do not show value.
How a partial reopening of offices could negatively impact productivity and agile methodologies
Some of ADP’s efforts around diversity and inclusion
How artificial intelligence algorithms can actually reinforce historical bias

Among a variety of other topics.

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494: SYKES Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Dave Pearson discusses

An overview of SYKES, including its portfolio of capabilities, and the company’s partner network, and SYKES Digital.
Dave’s purview as CIO
The OneTeam platform the company developed to support its work-at-home agents
Why the company has had a virtual structure for many of its employees since before the pandemic and the learnings from that.
Dave’s take on the cloud and artificial intelligence

Among a variety of other topics.

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