FORVM499

About FORVM499

True reports, imagined sketches and personal interviews with a common goal: to inspire insights into value creation (or destruction) in supply chains, transactions and behaviours. All borrowed from an unsettled career in sales, marketing, research targeting, product management, supply chains, procurement and consultancy. For obscure and arcane reasons, the average length of episodes is around 499 seconds Key words: eclectic; liberal; catholic; contrarian; provocative; inciteful (sic); diverse; cynical;

Publisher

Bill Young

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Dec 2020

Latest episode

24 Apr 2023

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Apr 2023

   Series 2, Episode 6: Personal Development

   Personal development is more than the the skills and competencies listed in a set of job requirements. The most important elements of behaviour and performance are almost impossible to train. Let's call these societal skills.

2. 

   27 Mar 2023

   Series 2, Episode 5 - Process Mining

   Who knew? Process Mining is the 'next, big thing'. You have to ask how out of touch executives can be. Procurement and supply folks have been using ERP systems to trace and analyze process activities for over quarter of a century. The Economist article mentioned in this podcast episode, 'The real next big thing in business automation (https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/23/the-real-next-big-thing-in-business-automation)', even calls it 'a digital gold mine'. It is sad how executives are unaware of the talents of their own organizations

3. 

   9 Feb 2023

   Series 2, Episode 4 - Social Media: Data Ownership

   Episode 3 was about social media companies' refusal to accept that they have massive influence over the content on their platforms. This episode asks why users of social media platforms cannot retain ownership of their own data and sell licences to use it.