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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WBSP026: Grow Your Business by Uncovering and Correcting Lingering Toxicity w/ Carol Marzouk
When you think of growth barriers, you might not think of corporate bullying and executive toxicity. Sure, every company has its share of issues. But how bad can toxicity and bullying get? Can it be catastrophic for companies? Can it cause fata...
WBSP025: Grow Your Business by Improving Product Quality and Reducing Process Waste w/ Max Krug
Growth could be challenging with product quality and process waste issues. You could also see inflated costs and reduced profit margins if you don't track scrap and waste appropriately. The problem could even be more significant if your measuri...
WBSP024: Transform Your Business Through Cloud ERP w/ G.Brett Beaubouef
If you are looking for an ERP in 2021, you might not even think of any other options than a cloud ERP. But is cloud ERP for everyone? Does cloud ERP provide a competitive advantage? How do you ensure business transformation with a cloud ERP? Th...
WBSP023: Grow Your Business Through Personal and Company Branding w/ Katie Thomas
Growing a company today is no longer the same as it used to be five years back. Today your customers expect you to be thought leaders in your industries. While we have been using social media to enhance our personal and company brands for quite...
WBSP022: Grow Your Business by Operating Like a Public Company w/ Brian Goffenberg
If you are a CEO of an SMB company, you might think that getting to $25M in revenue is the hardest. However, if you ask anyone who has experience with an IPO or with a public company’s reporting, the game completely changes when you go public. ...
WBSP021: Grow Your Business Through Phased Approach for Industry 4.0 Initiatives w/ Dave Griffith
The industry4.0 initiatives offer significant opportunities and require executing large transformation projects with success. If not planned well, the changes could cause substantial disruption and become a bottleneck to your growth. Such proje...
WBSP020: Grow Your CPG Brand From Scratch w/ Aman Ailani
Growing a consumer packaged goods (CPG) brand is uniquely challenging. Not only will you need a product that consumers are willing to pay for, but you will also be required to win over your distributors and partners. Even if you succeed in deve...
WBSP019: Grow Your Company by Building Culture Through Internal Communication w/ Ben Baker
Internal communication influences the culture of an organization, and culture typically is the biggest driver of growth? But what exactly is the culture? Is it about hiring employees from diverse backgrounds? Is it about creating the culture-bu...
WBSP018: Grow Your Business by Standardizing Warehouse Operations w/ Kevin Lawton
Inventory management and warehouse processes are the backbones of your operational effectiveness. Defining standards for your key inventory processes from the get-go can help with scaling without going through operational chaos. Non-standard pr...
WBSP017: Grow Your Retail Business Through Unified Customer Experience w/ Paul Sklar
While a retail business might seem straightforward, it has its nuances, which is probably why it's often referred to as a labor of love. Either you love it or hate it. With COVID and changing consumer behavior, the lines keep blurring in the tr...
WBSP016: Grow Your Business by Unblocking Bottlenecks Through Process Documentation w/ Randy Johnston
Without adequate planning, growth could fire back with chaos and confusion. As you navigate each stage of growth or inflection points, you will have an enhanced need to document your processes to discover bottlenecks and find areas for improvem...
WBSP015: Grow Your B2B Business Through E-Commerce w/ Brian Beck
Traditionally, B2B businesses have been relationship-based. However, in the modern, digitally-centered buying process, 70% of buyers are now fully defining their needs on their own before engaging with a sales representative. B2B business...
WBSP014: Grow Your Business Through Smart Manufacturing w/ Chris Luecke
Growing companies are obsessively efficient with their smart business processes. When it comes to making a manufacturing plant smart, there are limitless options available whether you talk about making your existing machines smart, or replacing...
WBSP013: Grow Your Business by Supercharging Your Sales Team With Digital Twin w/ Greg Mischio
Traditional manufacturing organizations are typically sales-focused. Even with complex products and longer sales cycles where research-based content would be crucial, manufacturing organizations rely on relation-based sales. With 70% of buyers ...
WBSP012: Grow Your Business by Hacking LinkedIn Algorithm w/ Cory Warfield
When it comes to growth, personal branding and social media play a huge role. While most companies might be present on social media, only a few understand their algorithms' nuances and have mastery in creating viral posts. Among other social me...
WBSP011: Grow Your Business by Learning From the Growth of a 3x Inc 5000 Company w/ BrianTheMacMan
If you ask anyone how to grow a business, their opinions will vary on what differentiates a fastest growing company from the rest. Some would argue that the strategies vary at each phase of growth. Others would say that the need for people, pro...
WBSP010: Grow Your Business by Having Technology Experience on Your Advisory Board w/ Wayne Sadin
If you don’t have experience growing a company, you may make rookie mistakes for which there is already plenty of advice available from senior executives who have been there multiple times and done that. Your growth strategy requires alignment ...
WBSP009: Grow Your BusinessThrough Inflection Points w/ Jim Gitney
You may have heard several growth strategies. But growing a business is not as simple as applying a sales formula or launching an innovative product. The approach for growth changes as you evolve in your journey. Each time you double in size.&n...
WBSP008: Grow Your Business by Implementing Appropriate ERP Costing Strategies w/ Ram Krishnamurti
When it comes to growth, the growth could fire back if you don’t have sufficient margins to sustain a business. If you have a busy shop floor with several variables that go into making your products, tracking your product costs could be critica...
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WBSP007: Grow Your Business by Stop by Being the Best Kept Secret w/ Curt Anderson
The manufacturing community is genuinely gifted, and one of the best-kept secrets that the world of “Google” needs to know. Manufacturing conversations are typically limited to the four walls of trade shows and have a limited presence on newer ...
WBSP006: Grow Your Business by Reinvesting Your Market Budget w/ Joe Sullivan
Traditionally, the industrial sector’s growth has been primarily sales-driven, and marketing takes the back seat. With the changing business conditions of COVID, the industrial sector has been caught off-guard without the traditional revenue ch...
WBSP005: Grow Your Business Through International Trading and LinkedIn Influence w/ Sarah Barnes-Humphrey
International trading is entirely different from domestic. Growing internationally requires you to understand various stakeholders and the process involved. The new collaborators could be importers, exporters, custom brokerage shops, freight pr...
WBSP004: Grow Your E-Commerce Businesses From the Ground Up w/ Chase Clymer
When I was putting together a list of growth topics for this month that could be valuable to our audience, especially with the changing business environment due to COVID, Direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategies were on the top of our list. ...
WBSP003: Preventing Growth Roadblocks Through Efficient ERP Implementations w/ Erin Koss
When it comes to managing growth through inflection points, ERP implementations are pivotal. Despite the premise of superior ERP systems helping with our growth, going through the purchase and implementation process isn’t fun. With the added ch...
WBSP002: Growth Opportunities by Rethinking Manufacturing Processes and Optimizing Operations w/ Jason Chester
When we think of growth, we often don’t consider Quality as a cornerstone for enabling it, especially in the SMB space. Perceived quality of your products can lead to poor customer experience, disengaged consumers, and financial implications. A...
