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Brian Solis teamed up with Salesforce colleagues Sunil Rao and Alex Drinker to discuss the ins and outs of customer loyalty, and how retailers can still thrive in the midst of #SupplyChain challenges.

Maintaining Customer Loyalty in the Midst of Supply Chain Challenges

In this episode, host Brian Solis interviews David Rogers, faculty member at Columbia University, consultant, and author of ‘The Digital Transformation Playbook,’ about looking at digital transformation outside of a technology focus, and more of an organizational restructuring.

Rogers explains how digital transformation is forcing modern enterprises to rethink virtually every aspect of their business, including how they incubate and integrate new ideas. And just as importantly, clearing the logjam of politics that might have been holding them back. Get ready for a no-holds barred conversation!

Episode 7: Why Businesses Must Reconsider Everything with David Rogers

In this episode, Brian Solis is joined by David Bray, former Chief Information Officer, Federal Communications Commission. We talk about his experience and efforts digitally transforming one of the U.S. government’s most important oversight authorities. Bray shares the behind-the-scenes story how he used a combination of innovative motivational techniques, technical acumen, and an unconventional approach to the role of CIO to fully modernize the FCC’s moribund technology programs. The result: an FCC with agile systems, intelligent processes, and motivated employees collectively empowered to continue to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

Episode 1: Leading Change in Digital Transformation with David Bray

On this episode of DigitalOutliers, Brian Solis speaks with Comcast’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Satchell. To deliver a great customer experience, Satchell, believes we have to step outside of our normal roles and start talking to people within the organization that can help deliver a consistent experience that customers feel is remarkable.

Episode 4: Digital's Impact on Brand and Customer Experience with Chris Satchell

In this episode, host Brian Solis interviews Brenda Cooper, CIO for the city of Kirkland, Washington, about the many ways her science fiction writing parallels and even influences the nature of the digital transformation of her home city.

Cooper points out that notoriously slow-moving and bureaucratic cities, must open themselves to a fast-arriving future filled with smart technologies, and balance it against the fear and personal data privacy issues that naturally go along with such change.

Episode 10: The Nexus of Digital and Science Fiction with Brenda Cooper

In this episode, host Brian Solis interviews Ben Arnold, Executive Director and industry analyst for The NPD Group, about the consumer habit of adopting technology outside the workplace, then either expecting that same technology to be made available internally or, increasingly, simply bringing it into the workplace with them.

Arnold urges business leaders to pay close attention to consumer trends in digital technology and how to use these behaviors to build a workforce that plays to these strengths. He also talks about the emerging generation that expects instant engagement, and how companies can prepare for this friction.

Episode 8: Consumer Habits & Workplace Technology with Ben Arnold

In this episode, host Brian Solis interviews Alexandra Samuel, a technology futurist, researcher and author who has had a front row seat to the digital tsunami transforming consumer and business landscapes alike.

Samuel founded Social Signal, one of the world’s first social media agencies and is the author of Work Smarter with Social Media, a series of practical books from Harvard Business Review Press. She has an infectious passion for the Internet’s potential as a tool for community-building and civic participation.

Episode 6: Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart with Alexandra Samuel

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg hosted a rare Q&A with press and analysts to discuss that state of Cambridge Analytica, fake news, elections, data, user trust, and what's next.

This is only the Q&A portion of the session.

Mark Zuckerberg Press Town Hall April 4, 2018

Brian Solis is a Digital Analyst and Digital Anthropologist at the Altimeter Group and left college before graduating so that he could pursue his passion. He had always been interested in technological advancements and their influence over both businesses and individuals, so he decided to combine them into one job description.  He studies the trajectory of disruptive technologies and evaluates how they will affect humans and their businesses. 

He has written numerous books on the subject– most recently X: The Experience When Business Meets Design— as he hopes to spread the word to the public about the future of tech.  This short interview (the longer interview w/ Brian about his job and career is episode #29) with Brian will give you all the quick tips you need to get a jump start on a career in the disruptive tech field. Brian has many job titles as well as specialties in the tech industry, which we dive into in the main interview with him, so stick around if you’re interested. Right now, though, he just wants to help you get on a path to success in the ever evolving and intricate world of technology. Want to know how you can have the chance to work with AI and robots later in your career? Well, press Play now so you can get a start in the tech industry that may involve a lot of amazing changes very soon.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:
What a futurist is and the role the ideology plays in technology
Why getting an entry-level job in the tech industry isn’t as hard as you think it is
Why you really need to hone your critical analysis skills and being self-aware
Why what you major in (if it’s not tech related) won’t prevent you from getting hired in the tech industry
What the best and worst thing is about the tech industry and why it is the same thing
What is some simple and helpful advice to be successful in the tech industry or really any industry

Andrea Koppel Interviews Brian Solis on How to Break Into Disruptive Technology

Digital Analyst and Anthropologist, Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Human Being - http://BrianSolis.com

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