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In this latest edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with First Round’s Howard Morgan about how digital transformation fits into the larger history of technological change. The conversation covers the following: * 3:00 – The nebulous definition of digital transformation * 10:00 – Business process engineering * 13:30 – Six Sigma * […]

March 18, 2019

In a recent episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Rob Woollen, the CEO and cofounder of Sigma Computing, about designing enterprise platforms. Sigma Computing’s products can be a component inside an enterprise platform, as the company was created to bring the spreadsheet paradigm to the world of business […]

March 6, 2019

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods speaks with Rob Woollen, CEO of Sigma Computing. Sigma Computing’s products can be a component inside an enterprise platform, as the company was created to bring the spreadsheet paradigm to the world of business intelligence and data analytics. This is an idea […]

March 5, 2019

This is the second in a series of pieces that address crucial questions in cybersecurity that I spoke to with industry leaders during the RSA 2018 Conference and updated with new ideas in the run-up to RSA 2019 in San Francisco. These questions built on my previous work, in which I’ve written about the need […]

February 20, 2019

At the RSA 2018 Conference, I had the chance to discuss the current landscape of cybersecurity technology with a wide range of industry leaders, CEOs, and thinkers. I’ve written extensively over the past few years about the need for companies to adopt a portfolio approach to their cybersecurity needs modeled on financial investments, so that […]

February 14, 2019

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