Navigating Complex IT Teams: Smoothing the Way for Customer Success
June 20, 2017
Hosted by Bonnie D. Graham
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The buzz: “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” (African proverb). Every organization has brilliant and ambitious workers, including the world of IT. The modern IT leader’s goal? Set the vision and roadmap for success with your internal / external customers, then work backwards to create an IT organization, team, and support model to ensure it all comes together. The secret to revolutionizing relationships within your IT team to meet customers’ needs: have meaningful conversations with the understanding that words are contextual. The experts speak. Kevin Diaz, Freudenberg IT: “If you’re not going all the way, why bother to go at all?” (Joe Namath). Roger Quinlan, SAP: “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit” (President Ronald Reagan). Join us for Navigating Complex IT Teams: Smoothing the Way for Customer Success.
The Power of Partnerships: Changing the Game for Digital Transformation, Presented by SAP
Thursday at 7 AM Pacific Time/10 AM Eastern Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
Game-changing technology strategies are transformational, exciting and disruptive for a reason. They shake up your status quo. They get you thinking about new ways to scale, compete and grow. They move you in amazing new directions.
Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional Coffee Break with Game-Changers for our special series on The Power of Partnerships: Changing the Game for Digital Transformation, Presented by SAP.
We’ll explore the fundamentals of how technology partner ecosystems play a critical role in delivering the digital transformation services and solutions to customers, and how those partner channel networks and support programs, found in the software industry, are key to vendors, partners, and crucial to companies moving into the digital world.
Learn how you can become the savvy leader who takes your company across the finish line as you look ahead to the next wave of business innovation.
Bonnie D. Graham
Bonnie D. Graham produced and hosted her first live talk radio show in 1998 on AM1240–WGBB, Long Island, NY’s oldest terrestrial radio station. A few years later, she moved from terrestrial to Internet radio with her author interview show, “Up Close and Personal.” In 2011, working at the enterprise software leader SAP, she developed the concept for a weekly live global business thought leadership roundtable series on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel – and launched “Coffee Break with Game-Changers” on October 5, 2011. Over the next nine years, Bonnie D. created, produced and hosted 46 additional SAP series on the Business Channel, attracting millions of listeners around the world. Since becoming an independent broadcaster in 2019, she has developed and hosted live radio and podcast series on the Business Channel for eight additional organizations, as well as her own weekly series, “Read My Lips: Cool Conversations with Creatives with akaRadioRed,” on the Empowerment Channel. In 2023, her live-streaming “Technology Revolution: The Future of Now” series was ranked No. 6 on FeedSpot’s Top 70 Technology Podcasts to Listen to in 2023. What powers Bonnie D.’s passion for radio? She “loves speaking with smart people!”