WBSRocks: Scaling Growth with AI, Enterprise Software, and Digital Transformation
WBSRocks podcast features in-depth conversations on AI-enabled business models, customer experience, digital transformation, supply chain, eCommerce, industry 4.0, and enterprise software categories such as CRM, ERP, or analytics suites. The purpose of the show is to help CFOs, COOs, CEOs, and business owners with their daily commercial, operational, or financial challenges by taking a deep dive into business cases and processes, technology strategy and architecture, transformation initiatives, and business models. The show also offers an independent analysis of technology trends, various enterprise software vendors and solutions, and their mergers and acquisitions. Subscribe today to stay on top of digital transformation trends!
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WBSP127: Grow Your Business by Understanding the Nuances of NPD or Product Improvement Processes of Aerospace w/ Lori Nevin
Managing aerospace projects is just like solving puzzles. You have many moving pieces, including managing your customers' expectations, coordinating with your supply chain, and meeting the specification requirements. But when it comes to the NP...
WBSP126: Grow Your Business by Understanding the Risks Associated Between On-Prem vs. Cloud, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
If you plan for your next digital transformation initiative, you need to decide whether you will opt for an on-prem system or cloud. You might ask why anyone would even worry about on-prem in 2021. Well, there are several reasons. If you alread...
WBSP125: Grow Your Business by Understanding the Implications of E-Commerce Shopping Cart Issues on Consumer Behavior, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
The average rate at which the average consumer abandons their shopping cart before making a purchase is 81%. There are countless reasons why consumers leave their shopping carts. These reasons could be legitimate such as unexpected shipping cos...
WBSP124: Grow Your Business by Avoiding Increased Admin Efforts With Inefficient Engineering Design Revision Processes w/ Adam Keating
If you are exploring the ISO journey, your current collaboration tools might outgrow your needs driven by ISO compliance. Your current legacy PLM tools may not support collaboration features. If your current processes are manual or done on a sp...
WBSP122: Grow Your Business by Learning Key Nuances From the Distillery Industry w/ Jim Vinoski
The processes of most food and beverage businesses are challenging due to government regulations. Still, the distillery business is even trickier due to maintaining inventory through the production process. There is significant inventory tied i...
WBSP121: Grow Your Business by Learning To Save Implementation Failures by Building Successful Digital Teams, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
The majority of digital transformation initiatives fail, and in most cases, they fail because of people issues. When it comes to building digital initiative teams, you need a comprehensive approach. The first batch of champions you have chosen ...
WBSP120: Grow Your Business by Understanding the Implications of Software Licensing and Contracts on Your Bottom-Line, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Choosing a platform for your e-commerce is not easy. There are several factors to consider. While SaaS options make buying and maintaining easier, their pricing could be tricky to understand. The hosting for open source options could be cheaper...
WBSP119: Grow Your Business by Learning From the Success of a Trailer Manufacturer w/ Darrin Mitchell
When you start your business, you are going to do everything in your power to survive. You might sell anything and everything to anyone and everyone who has cash. But as you grow, the number of decisions that your team will have to make daily w...
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WBSP118: Grow Your Business by Learning the Nuances of Procuring Food Packaging Equipment w/ Christine Von Pander
Packing is always the bottleneck in most manufacturing facilities and is often blamed for slowing production down. But replacing the packaging equipment is never fun as you need to understand thousands of variables related to machines and their...
WBSP117: Grow Your Business by Learning the Nuances of the Agriculture and Poultry Business w/ Gabriel Paunescu
What comes to mind when you think of the most complex business from the viewpoint of business processes? I can almost guarantee that it will not be a poultry business. How hard could the poultry business be to run? Shouldn't it be as simple as ...
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WBSP116: Grow Your Business by Learning To Select Software and Avoiding Surprise Bills w/ a Panel of Experts
The traditional methodology for selecting software focuses on features and functions. In fact, if you have too many features, the software is likely to be complex, and it may be harder for business users to learn and adapt it. While features ar...
WBSP115: Grow Your Business by Understanding the Implications of Deployment Strategies on Your Bottom-Line, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Most financial executives leave the deployment details to their IT team as long as their websites run fine. But while making a decision for your e-commerce platform, your biggest cost driver will be how and where the solution will be deployed. ...
WBSP114: Grow Your Business by Planning and Measuring Marketing Channels w/ John Readman
If you are responsible for cutting the check for your marketing spend, it's a frightening experience. Your marketing teams may sound highly confident in every initiative they might have on their radar, but you know from your prior experience th...
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WBSP113: Grow Your Business by Learning Digital Commerce Sales Compensation Best Practices w/ Lori McDonald
E-commerce is all about mapping your sales and marketing processes digitally regardless of the type of your business, irrespective of whether you transact online or send them invoices. But while transitioning to e-commerce, one of the resistanc...
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WBSP112: Grow Your Business by Preventing Digital Transformation Project Failures w/ Bonnie Tinder
If you are embarking on the journey of your digital transformation, you will have several options. You can either work directly with the software provider and utilize their implementation team or work through a consulting company. Both approach...
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WBSP111: Grow Your Business by Understanding the Implications of Working Through ERP OEMs vs. Consulting Companies, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Some enterprise software vendors provide their professional services, while others rely on resellers and system integrators. If you are evaluating your enterprise architecture, one key decision you will need to make would be to work directly wi...
WBSP110: Grow Your Business by Understanding Quoting Strategies and Its Implications on Customer Experience, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
The journey of e-commerce requires you to think about your processes starting from your sales to production. While selling online is a big part of it, that's not the only component of e-commerce. In fact, you don't need to always pay online wit...
WBSP109: Grow Your Business by Improving the Outcome of Digital Initiatives Through Design Thinking w/ Howard Tiersky
The digital journey is more than simply identifying technologies and implementing them. The most challenging part of any digital initiative, especially if it involves customer interaction, is understanding customer behavior and what drives them...
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WBSP108: Grow Your Business by Learning the Nuances of B2B E-Commerce Pricing w/ Eyal Rozenberg
When it comes to meeting timely growth targets, pricing is an essential and powerful tool for marketers. Also, in the world of e-commerce, where you might not have as much relationship leverage and location advantage, pricing strategy becomes c...
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WBSP107: Grow Your Business by Learning the Product Life Cycle of Automotive Products w/ Melissa Drew
The automotive industry is unique as not only it has challenges associated with B2C, such as focus groups and consumers driving the demand, but it also has all the challenges that other B2B manufacturing companies would have. The automotive ind...
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WBSP106: Grow Your Business by Understanding the Differences Between Best-of-Breed and Full-Suite Business Transformation Options, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
There are several systems and choices available to support the needs of your functions and business processes. Best-of-breed options offer much deeper functionality and system designed for specific groups of users. But communication and integra...
WBSP105: Grow Your Business by Understanding Product Filter Design and Its Implications on Customer Experience, a Live Interview w/ a Panel of Experts
Amazon is perhaps the most visited site for e-commerce, and its product filters will probably be the most used feature on its site. Product filters help you find the products you are looking for without going through thousands or millions of pr...
WBSP104: Grow Your Business by Increasing the Overall Equipment Effectiveness of Your Equipment w/ Martin Davis
If your teams report problems in the production line and the capacity, their answer is often additional machines or people. Unfortunately, solving each problem with an additional body or machine results in unused capacity and unnecessary spendi...
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WBSP103: Grow Your Business by Understanding and Mitigating Operational Security Risks w/ Denrich Sananda
With IIOT devices on the shop floor capable of altering the state of machines through exposed endpoints for hackers, operational security is vital for manufacturers or distributors. While security issues could be frightening, and you might opt ...
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WBSP102: Grow Your Business by Learning Key Process Nuances From Aerospace Suppliers w/ Mark Evans
Have you heard the news where a large aerospace manufacturer won a large contract for several planes? While it's exciting news, it could be equally challenging for suppliers who are part of that ecosystem and asked to staff overnight to meet th...
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