Solving for Change

MOBIA Technology Innovations
Solving for Change

Solving for Change welcomes business and technology leaders to share stories of bold business transformation within complex organizations. In an era when technology and markets are changing around businesses, the key to staying competitive is to evolve in response to those changes.   MOBIA’s Mike Reeves and Marc LeBlanc investigate business transformation, deconstructing the challenges, ambitions, and market disruptions that drive companies to embark on transformation journeys, and exploring their unique approaches to achieving meaningful outcomes.   What sparks leaders to pursue business transformation? How do they overcome the challenges along the way? What are the keys to creating enduring change?   Through in-depth conversations with business and technology leaders, Mike and Marc answer these questions and explore how businesses evolve by pulling four key transformation levers: people, process, technology, and culture.

Episodes

  1. DEC 12

    Harnessing AI to Boost Velocity in Operations and Development

    As 2024 comes to a close, Marc LeBlanc continues the conversation about enterprise AI. This time, he welcomes Todd Wilson from Red Hat to explore the evolution of artificial intelligence as a tool to accelerate and scale initiatives in operations and development within enterprises. Discussing the potential of intelligent platforms and development tools to empower ops and dev teams, Todd reminds listeners of the importance of starting small, starting simple, and proving out a value before scaling initiatives that leverage emerging technology. With this approach, technology teams can manage their investments and lower the barriers to entry.

    18 min

  2. NOV 21

    Power of Patterns: A Practical Approach to Introducing Enterprise AI

    Pressure from the board to implement artificial intelligence, or AI, is mounting in enterprises across industries. Yet, only 7% of companies have been able to implement AI in a production environment at scale. Many others are struggling to choose use cases and make the business case for them. In this episode, Chris Falloon Head of Global Practice at the Transformation Office at DELL Technologies, joins Mike Reeves to share his practical advice for enterprises getting started with AI. Drawing from his experience working with enterprises around the globe, Chris discusses the value of identifying patterns of use cases that would benefit from AI within an organization to wrap structure around the decision of where to start. ‍Interested in learning more about how you can bring AI into your organization? Connect with Chris via email: Chris.falloon@dell.com

    27 min

  3. OCT 24

    How AI Reshaped Network Operations for a Telecom Provider

    Telecommunications is a competitive industry where success is defined by network performance. In this episode, we take a close look at how a Canadian telecommunications provider transformed its network operations with artificial intelligence (AI). Welcoming Hart Ripley, National Automation Lead & Solutions Architect for the Office of the CTO at MOBIA, Marc Leblanc uncovers how this organization implemented AI and ML tools to take its network operations centre (NOC) from reactive to proactive, anticipating issues that could arise on the network and planning their resolution in advance. ‍ Like many large-scale transformations, this one wasn’t straightforward. For this telecom, modernizing infrastructure was a necessary first step to implementing AI. Find out how they tackled this challenge and what lessons they learned along the way on the journey to improving network operations.

    38 min

  4. AUG 1

    Retail Resilience: On Cybersecurity and Recovery

    Cyberattacks on the retail sector are on the rise and the costs are adding up for Canadian retailers. According to the Retail Council of Canada, the average cost of a data breach for a Canadian retailer is $5.64 million–more than $1 million higher than the global average. But these attacks affect customers and employees, too. Exposing personal identifiable information, phishing, ransomware, and other cybercrimes leave people vulnerable to fraud and theft. In this episode, cybersecurity expert, Ashif Samnani joins us as we discuss the importance and nuances of cybersecurity and security incident recovery in retail.

    29 min

  5. JUN 20

    How to Build a Smart Organization

    Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, are bringing forward a lot of fears around job displacement to the surface. However, they present a significant opportunity to augment and support roles across every level of an organization through co-intelligence.    Mike Reeves welcomes Mike DeVenney to discuss how leaders can build smart organizations by bringing out the best in both employees and technology, and putting it together. A data-driven technology and change-management professional, DeVenney gives us insight into the surprising keys to successfully implementing technologies like AI to employee satisfaction and retention all while increasing productivity.

    44 min

  6. JUN 1

    Is Automation with AI the Key to Navigating the IT Talent Shortage?

    As layoffs dominate headlines and speculation about AI replacing jobs swirls, organizations are navigating a surprising challenge: a tech talent shortage. According to statistics published by ManpowerGroup, 75% of employers around the world are having a trouble filling roles, with IT and data roles being the most difficult to fill. Over time, this shortage will undoubtedly impact productivity and innovation. But what's the solution? On this episode of Solving for Change, our host, Marc LeBlanc tackles this question with Ryan Clements, a systems architect from Red Hat. Tune in as they discuss how automation with AI can, rather than replacing jobs, help organizations navigate the skills shortage, simultaneously boosting productivity and employee satisfaction.

    34 min

  7. MAY 13

    Trends in Business Transformation

    Over the past few years market shifts, advances in technology, and major global events have been the catalysts for major transformation in organizations around the globe. In fact, these events have had such a profound impact on the rate of change that they’ve replaced the focus on digital transformation, ushering in the age of digital acceleration. In this episode, hosts Mike and Marc set the stage for future episodes by exploring the trends, major market shifts, and world events that have driven organizations to execute transformations that, in the past, would have taken them years in a matter of months.

    37 min

  8. SEASON 1 TRAILER

    Solving for Change Trailer

    Welcome to Solving for Change, a new podcast about business transformation in the age of digital acceleration. Join hosts Mike Reeves, MOBIA Technology Innovations' President, and Marc LeBlanc, MOBIA's Director of the Office of the CTO, as they explore the market disruptions and advances in technology that inspire businesses to embark on transformative journeys. Deconstructing the new challenges, opportunities, and technologies that motivate leaders to initiate ambitious changes, Mike and Marc talk with business leaders and industry experts as they share their stories of bold transformation.

    2 min

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Solving for Change welcomes business and technology leaders to share stories of bold business transformation within complex organizations. In an era when technology and markets are changing around businesses, the key to staying competitive is to evolve in response to those changes.   MOBIA’s Mike Reeves and Marc LeBlanc investigate business transformation, deconstructing the challenges, ambitions, and market disruptions that drive companies to embark on transformation journeys, and exploring their unique approaches to achieving meaningful outcomes.   What sparks leaders to pursue business transformation? How do they overcome the challenges along the way? What are the keys to creating enduring change?   Through in-depth conversations with business and technology leaders, Mike and Marc answer these questions and explore how businesses evolve by pulling four key transformation levers: people, process, technology, and culture.

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