Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

The buzz: The Future! If you're hoping for a crystal ball to see what 2016 holds for your company, industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. Over the course of three weeks – Dec 2, 9, and 16 – we'll bring you predictions from more than 45 thought leaders – covering the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2016 and beyond. Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for SAP Game-Changers Radio 2016 Predictions – Part 2 live! Featured guests: Brian Kilcourse, RSR Research; Robin Saitz, Brainshark; Dr. Steven Hunt, SAP; Jane Wesman, Jane Wesman PR; Benjamin Robbins, Palador; Joseph Miles, SAP; Hugh McCullen, Axxiome; Andrea France, Capgemini; Prashant Kulkani, TechMahindra; Kevin Wheeler, Futurist; Julia Goga-Cooke, G Consultancy; John Evarts, Mediafly; Jeff Hattendorf, Macrospect; Jack Schmidt, SAP; Owen Pettiford, CompriseIT; Nina Kaufman, Esq., AskTheBusinessLawyer.com. Happy holidays from SAP Game-Changers Radio!

The buzz: Your #1 business wish this year. If you're hoping for a crystal ball to see what 2016 holds for your company, industry and the world, we've got the next best thing. On Dec. 2, 9, and 16, we'll bring you predictions from more than 40 thought leaders on the technologies, strategies, and trends that can help you grow and compete better in 2016 and beyond. br Pour a cup of Joe, Earl, or Dom, and join us for Game-Changers Radio 2016 Predictions – Part 1 live! br Featured guests: Otto Schell, GM; Mike Wittenstein, Storyminers; Jennifer Engelhardt, IBM; Larry Stolle, SAP; Ingmar Christiaens, EY; Elizabeth Duffy, SAP; Hilary Carter, InTune Communications; Dan Berthiaume, Chain Store Age; Daniel Falvey, SAP; Katie Donovan, Equal Pay Negotiations; Josh Greenbaum, EAC; Corrine Vitolo, SmartKage; David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies; Sandi Webster, Consultants2Go; Patrick Heffernan, TBRI; Sana Salam, Sodales Solutions. br Happy holidays from SAP Game-Changers Radio!

The buzz: Ready. Set. Wait! You're a woman entrepreneur ready to start or expand your own business. Now what? You need to know that while women are the fastest growing segment of U.S. business owners, they tend to have smaller companies, generate less revenue, and employ fewer people than men. Is this due to fear of success, short-sighted planning, weak business processes, leadership insecurity – or all of the above? Learn the critical factors holding women back and solid advice to enhance your business success. These insights can help men, too. The experts speak. Jane Wesman, Jane Wesman Public Relations, Inc.: "Be flexible and recognize that business problems don't always have clear-cut solutions." Sandi Webster, Consultants 2 Go, LLC: "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right" (Henry Ford). Nina Kaufman, Esq., Entrepreneur.com Legal Expert: "It ain't over 'til it's over" (Yogi Berra). Join us for Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women – Part 2.

The buzz: Get a shiny quarter. br If your Finance function is like most organizations', it has traditionally focused on expense control, spreadsheet-driven accounting and management reporting, mostly past tense. Fast forward to 2020 and the full adoption of digital technologies. Now toss the coin. br Heads: Making the right digital changes to your Finance operating model, technology and people can transform Finance into a predictive analytics powerhouse. br Tails: Digital will kill Finance as we know it. If it happens – whether good or bad – how will you and your organization cope? br The experts speak. br David Axson, Accenture: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." (Albert Einstein) br Bob Parker, IDC: "Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." (Jean-Paul Sartre) br Birgit Starmanns, SAP: "The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." (John Maynard Keynes) br Join us for Finance 2020: Life or Death by Digital?

The buzz: Ready. Set. Wait! You're a woman entrepreneur ready to start or expand your own business. Now what? You need to know that while women are the fastest growing segment of U.S. business owners, they tend to have smaller companies, generate less revenue, and employ fewer people than men. Is this due to fear of success, short-sighted planning, weak business processes, leadership insecurity – or all of the above? Learn the critical factors holding women back and solid advice to enhance your business success. These insights can help men, too. The experts speak. Jane Wesman, Jane Wesman Public Relations, Inc.: "Be flexible and recognize that business problems don't always have clear-cut solutions." Sandi Webster, Consultants 2 Go, LLC: "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right" (Henry Ford). Nina Kaufman, Esq., Entrepreneur.com Legal Expert: "It ain't over 'til it's over" (Yogi Berra). Join us for Success Secrets for Entrepreneurial Women – Part 2.

The buzz: Verb: To friend. Over 1BN of us use Facebook and other social media mainly for personal communication. Many businesses see sales gold here, too. But their 'pixels-vs-people' approach isn't working so well. How can B2C and B2B companies market effectively to FB and other social platforms – and what is the potential payoff? It's time to learn how to master authentic social engagement to capture the exciting possibilities for your company.The experts speak. Yvette Lui, Facebook: "It always seems impossible until it's done" (Nelson Mandela). Jamie Tedford, Brand Networks: "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes…because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do" (Steve Jobs). Hari Ashvuni, SAP: "The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change" (President Bill Clinton). Join us for Facebook, Etc. and Your Business: Beyond Friending.

The buzz: Climb in. Buckle-up. Your connected car is leaving the garage.Just as radio, PCs and smartphones changed our world, connected vehicles will, too, as the automotive industry advances toward a fully autonomous connected vehicle. Not to worry. It WILL be safe, courteous, green, shared, tailored for purpose – and driverless. And it will be the business platform of the future. How? The experts speak. Joe Barkai, Industry Analyst: "'I can't believe that!' said Alice. 'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes'" (Alice in Wonderland). Otto Schell, GM: "Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings" (John Twelve Hawks). Larry Stolle, SAP: "I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish!" (Ivan Reitman). Join us for Connected Car Take 4: Driverless, Too!

The buzz: Hyper is a good thing. As individuals, organizations, and machines inter-connect in real time, the resulting always-on hyper-connectivity is reinventing the world's economy. If your organization is serious about competing, you need to capture the transformational power of digital across your business. The pay-off: a potentially dramatic increase in productivity and economic value. What do you need to transform quickly and win? What will you risk if you're too slow? The experts speak. Christophe Mouille, Accenture: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" (Ghandi). Bob Parker, IDC: "The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed" (William Gibson). Amr El Meleegy, SAP: "If you don't go after what you want you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place" (Nora Roberts). Join us for Hyper-Connectivity: Reinventing the World Economy.

The buzz: Yes or not yet? "There are only two types of companies today: those that have been breached and know it—and those that just don't know it yet," noted John Chambers. As a retailer's networked connections expand and firewalls grow porous, added scrutiny is needed on security inside their IT landscape, as well as within their partner and consumer environments. What risk do "ethical" retailers face if sensitive collected data is breached? Do regional/national retailers have an advantage over multinationals? The experts speak. Brent Brown, HP: "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else" (Y. Berra). Brian Kilcourse, RSR Research: …computer viruses should count as life…the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive" (S. Hawking). Tim Hood, SAP: …there are known knowns… known unknowns...unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know" (D. Rumsfeld). Join us for The Networked Economy: Shaping the Future of Retail - Part 3.

The buzz: Now! Attention, manufacturers. If it's a surprise that we're mid-way into the 4th industrial revolution, here's a news flash. Your manufacturing facility needs to take advantage of the exponential advances in technology, big data and innovations – or you'll soon be out of business. How can you catch up? Harness the power of in-memory computing, IoT, wearable technologies, additive manufacturing and predictive capabilities. And stop underestimating customers' evolving expectations (your competition isn't). The experts speak. Mark Frank, Deloitte: "Vision without execution is just hallucination" (Henry Ford). David Dreyer, SAP: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so" (Mark Twain). Rick Imber, SAP: "The greatest danger for us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we will reach it" (Michelangelo). Join us for Transporting Your Factory into the Future Now – Part 2.