Latest Imagineyourfuture Podcast Episodes
41: Trends Shaping the Managed Services Market
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - December 21, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutesJoin Steve Hall and Stanton Jones, an ISG Distinguished Analyst, for the last episode of Imagine Your Future for 2023, as they unpack key trends shaping the managed services market. As demand for outsourcing went from strength to strength in 2023, discretionary spending experienced downward pre...
40: Back to Basics: The Changing Dynamics of Business Tech
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - December 08, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutesAccording to recent data from the ISG Index™, the robust expansion of the cloud services market has slowed down considerably in recent quarters. On the other hand, demand for managed services has reached new highs. It seems that enterprises are returning to the basics of core outsourcing. How ca...
39: AI Ethics & Responsible AI Development
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - October 19, 2023 04:00 - 32 minutesArtificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI are swiftly permeating our daily lives. From customer service chatbots to healthcare diagnoses, from writing loan applications to job hiring, the disruption is here. Many believe AI is fundamentally changing the way we do things. But since this prem...
38: Cyber Resiliency: Facing New Security Challenges
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - July 06, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutesCybercrime has become an ever-present threat that can wreak havoc on individuals, businesses and governments. From phishing scams and ransomware attacks to data breaches and infrastructure damage, the arsenal of cyber threats continues to expand. It is crucial, now more than ever, to be equipped...
37: Breaking Boundaries: How Generative AI is Shaping the Future
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutesIn recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has made astounding progress in its capacity to recognize patterns, make predictions and even engage in meaningful conversation with humans. But what about its ability to create new and original content? This is where generative AI comes into play, r...
36: Future Workplace vs Future of Work: What’s the Difference?
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - April 07, 2023 04:00 - 30 minutesAfter chairing two successive Future Workplace Summits in New York and London, ISG’s Iain Fisher joins Imagine Your Future podcast hosts Steve Hall and Karen Collyer to discuss the ever-changing landscape of work. With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace and the COVID-19 pandemic (amo...
35: Turmoil in Banking: What Happened? And What Next?
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - March 23, 2023 04:00 - 18 minutesFollowing another turbulent week for the banking industry, Imagine Your Future podcast host Karen Collyer speaks to Owen Wheatley, Lead Partner for Banking & Financial Services at ISG. Together they unpack some of the factors that contributed to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the rippl...
34: Pursuing the Seamless Digital Experience
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - September 20, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutesThis episode of the ISG Imagine Your Future podcast was recorded at this year’s ISG Digital Business Summit in London. Host Steve Hall speaks to Samantha Fanning, Head of Digital at UCL (University College London) about how she and her team are creating seamless digital experiences for both the ...
33: Dissecting Disruptors in the CPG/Retail Space
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - July 08, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutesDisruptions are shaping and shaking up the CPG and Retail industries. Global supply chain challenges, rising inflation and competition for talent (caused in part by the Great Resignation) are the most well-known factors – but not the only ones. Still, no matter what, customers must remain the nu...
32: Getting to Grips with the Metaverse
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - June 20, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutesThe metaverse – it’s been in the headlines, social media platforms and your kids’ video games, and now it’s rising to prominence as a business opportunity. But do you really know what the metaverse is? And what does it have to do with web3, the new internet you keep hearing about? In this epi...
31: The Future of Manufacturing: Transforming Through Disruption
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - June 13, 2022 04:00 - 26 minutesAre you keeping your eye on trends in the manufacturing space? It’s been a turbulent time lately; manufacturers are contending with rising costs, a global chip shortage and a global talent shortage. More than ever, the future seems unpredictable. What impact is this scale of disruption having on...
30: Making the Invisible Visible: Part 2
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - May 27, 2022 04:00 - 26 minutesBack by popular demand! Last year, Imagine Your Future hosts Steve Hall and Karen Collyer interviewed Elizabeth (EC) Caley, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Poppy. As a fast-growing tech start-up specializing in detecting and monitoring pathogens – including the COVID-19 virus – pres...
29: How Insurers Can Survive and Thrive in the New Digital Era
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - April 26, 2022 04:00 - 14 minutesThe Insurance industry has been grappling with multiple challenges – from legacy IT systems to emerging competition, margin pressures, a tightening regulatory environment and the rise of millennial buyers. The pandemic only heightened the pace of change. In this context, it’s difficult to know i...
28: Private Equity: What’s Next After a Record-Smashing 2021?
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - March 31, 2022 04:00 - 18 minutes2021 was a record year for private equity investment. New annual records were set in terms of deal volume and value. According to data from the Pitchbook 2021 Annual US PE Breakdown, in the U.S. market alone, more than 8,600 deals were concluded in 2021 for a total deal value of over $1 trillion...
27: What Is Digital Engineering and Why Does It Matter?
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - March 08, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutesIn this episode, ISG hosts Steve Hall and Karen Collyer talk to Gaurav Gupta about some of the mega trends driving the engineering services industry in 2022 and beyond. Gupta describes how engineering services has been going through some major transformations of late. In recent times, the pandemi...
26: The Persistent Power of Digital
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - December 17, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutesIn this episode, ISG hosts Steve Hall and Karen Collyer talk to Sandeep Kalra, CEO of Persistent Systems. Together they discuss some of the post-pandemic economic trends impacting businesses: the Great Resignation, talent acquisition and retention, environmental sustainability and more. Kalra al...
25: Why User Experience Is Essential to a Successful Hybrid Workplace
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - September 13, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutesAs businesses continue to navigate global uncertainty and new ways of working, one thing is certain. Flexible working is here to stay. It has become clear in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic that many employees want to continue working remotely for at least part of the week. Others will pr...
24: Accelerating Digital Transformation through Acquisition
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - August 24, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutesAs the race to digitize business gathers speed, we have witnessed in recent years a surge of M&A deals in the digital engineering sector. One such deal announced earlier this year was Hitachi’s $9.6 billion acquisition of U.S.-based digital engineering services company GlobalLogic. The scope of ...
23: Making the Invisible Visible
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - July 12, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutesAs we move into a post-pandemic world and toward the workplace of the future, health and safety is top of mind more than ever. The pandemic has heightened everyone’s awareness of the safety of our immediate environments. As workers begin to return to office buildings, whether full-time or in a h...
Trends Shaping the Sourcing and Technology Industries
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - May 03, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode of the ISG Imagine Your Future® Podcast, host Steve Hall is joined by two veterans of the ISG Index™: Stanton Jones, Director and Principal Analyst at ISG Research, and Bret Breeding, Director and one of the original ISG Index™ creators. The latest ISG Index™ shows that the gl...
22: Trends Shaping the Sourcing and Technology Industries
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - May 03, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode of the ISG Imagine Your Future® Podcast, host Steve Hall is joined by two veterans of the ISG Index™: Stanton Jones, Director and Principal Analyst at ISG Research, and Bret Breeding, Director and one of the original ISG Index™ creators. The latest ISG Index™ shows that the gl...
21: Meet the Hosts
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - March 11, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutesIn this episode, co-hosts Steve Hall and Karen Collyer tee up the remainder of this year’s Imagine Your Future podcast – an impressive lineup of thought-provoking conversations with heavyweight industry authors and leaders from across the world of digital. Get to know Steve and Karen as the vo...
20: Transformation in Times of Crisis
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - February 25, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutesMonths before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the world, CEO of Mphasis Nitin Rakesh began work on a book with co-author Jerry Wind that would become more relevant than even he believed. What was originally conceived as a book to help technology companies understand and counteract the disruption be...
19: Digital on the Frontline
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - January 14, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutesWhen Dr David Howie started his new role as Chief Commercial Officer at NHSX in February this year he didn’t expect it to be entirely dominated by COVID – then, a word only just entering our vocabulary. Yet the rest is history, as they say. NHSX is the technology enablement arm of the England’s...
18: Open Talent and the Gig Economy
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - November 03, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutesThe ISG Imagine Your Future podcast is back after a short break with a new host, Steve Hall. In Steve’s first episode in the driver’s seat he welcomes back former IYF podcast host and colleague Barry Matthews to discuss the subject of open talent and the gig economy. Talent platforms, which al...
17: The New Future of Work
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - August 24, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutesOver the past six months, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the way people work. For some, this may be temporary, but for others it marks the start of a new working era – one enabled by technology and innovation and driven by the need to approach work differently. Things that people might have prev...
16: Digital Automation Enablement – the Key to RPA Success
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - July 31, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutesBy now, most people are familiar with the benefits that can come with well-executed robotic process automation (RPA) implementation: increased accuracy improved productivity and hours given back to the business. But taking automation to the next level and scaling it across the business can be ch...
15: Cybersecurity for the New Future
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - June 09, 2020 17:24 - 43 minutesAs employees quickly transitioned to virtual work and began accessing business systems and technology remotely on a scale never experienced before, cybersecurity also quickly moved to center stage. The speed with which businesses have had to adapt to the new way of working has meant that some ...
14: Healthcare at the Heart of the COVID-19 Crisis
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - April 23, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutesThe Healthcare industry is currently experiencing the highest levels of demand in modern times. At the same time, it is burdened with developing coping mechanisms, medicines and vaccines that will, in time, help protect us from subsequent outbreaks. There’s no doubt the industry will undergo rad...
13: COVID-19 – Minimizing the Disruption
ISG Imagine Your Future Podcast - March 18, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutesAs the effort to slow the COVID-19 virus disrupts our lives, organizations are swiftly reacting to their governments’ calls to close offices and limit or ban social gatherings by asking their employees to work from home. What does this degree of disruption mean for businesses in the short, mediu...
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