The Tentacles of Adjacency

John and Glen celebrate Amazon Prime Day by comparing notes on this marketing phenomenon.
Breaking Weekly Digital Gridlock #22: Transformational Moments

Join John as he discusses how to identify transformational moments, how to prepare for them, and how to use them to your advantage.
There’s No Such Thing as Retail Anymore

Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza’s stock price has increased 100-fold by transforming from a brick-and-mortar seller into a tech-forward e-commerce trailblazer. John and Glen speak with Simon Olson, Magalu’s Director of Business Development, about his company’s journey, the culture, and importance of its Luizalabs development shop, and its participation in the Hedera Council.
Best Innovation Group Goes Five for FIVE

Desert Financial Credit Union is the fifth financial institution to go live with its powerful, fully certified voice banking solution.
Killer FinTech on Display at AXFI

One of the most popular sessions of the AXFI conference- the annual data analytics forum that wrapped up last week in Minneapolis- is the Killer FinTech Speed Rounds. In a single action-packed hour, six standout fintech companies with solutions designed to empower credit unions’ analytics journeys present their models to a packed room of financial leaders
AXFI: Data Analytics and the Threatscape

John and Glen recap last week’s AXFI Conference onsite from Minneapolis, including interviews with security expert Roger Grimes on the latest email hacking threats, futurist Patrick Schwerdtfeger on the next logical uses for robotics, and Borsetta CEO Pamela Norton on the challenge of keeping counterfeit parts out of the supply chain.
Breaking Weekly Digital Gridlock Tip #21: Remote Employees

Project Management: Do you know the difference between Waterfall and Agile?
HOPE for Financial Inclusion- Now with FinTech Inside!

Glen reports from the HOPE Global Forum on financial inclusion and empowerment, including interviews with Operation HOPE President Anita Ward, Mariel Beasley of Duke University’s Common Cents lab on behavioral hacks for financial wellness, and the Aspen Institute’s Ida Rademacher on the latest consumer fintech data.
Breaking Weekly Digital Gridlock Tip #20: Organizational Trauma

This week, learn what Organizational Trauma is, and how to avoid it.
Your Company Needs a Strategy for Voice Technology

Voice assistants, smart speakers, and all manner of voice-first technology have enjoyed remarkable growth and adoption. Voicebot.AI reports that the smart speaker install base within the U.S. grew 40% from 2018 to 2019, now exceeding 66 million units.