Expert insights on digital transformation, helping businesses leverage automation and data to accelerate growth and innovation.
Featuring Cooperative Computing's Chief Revenue Officer Jim Barker, this podcast delivers actionable insights. Through relatable success stories and expert analysis, we explore how businesses can leverage hyper-personalization, hyper-automation, and data-driven decisions to gain competitive advantage. Whether you're a business leader modernizing legacy systems or implementing cutting-edge technologies, each episode provides practical strategies to help you overcome transformation challenges and achieve digital excellence. Join us on your journey to Get Enabled Digitally.
The Future Digital Organization: Digital-First Thinking for Sustainable Growth
Jim Barker, chief revenue officer at Cooperative Computing, talks about what the future digital organization looks like and why all businesses are already moving toward it.
Barker predicts “digital-first” thinking where employees are supported by “digital people” (agentic and generative AI) that can automate meeting follow-ups, CRM updates, task assignment, and routine work, freeing humans for faster creativity and innovation. He outlines a digital enablement journey centered on hyperautomation, hyperpersonalization, and data-driven decision-making, noting that data readiness is usually the biggest hurdle and highlighting the role of a Digital Data Hub.
Examples include a manufacturing client that shifted culture and processes over six months via a digital maturity assessment and change management, and a large multi-billion-dollar client facing a longer organizational change due to silos.
They also discuss AI adoption fears, environmental concerns, education restrictions, and a practical starting point: an online assessment, a forthcoming “Digital Enablement” book, and Cooperative Computing’s digital maturity experience and resources.
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21 Jul 2026
Digital Data Hub: Getting to Proof of Value Faster
Jim Barker, chief revenue officer at Cooperative Computing, explains how their Digital Data Hub helps organizations move from disconnected data to actionable automation faster than traditional data warehouse or lake projects that require major time, cost, licensing, governance, and ongoing administration.
Built as a platform with automation embedded, it enables teams to pull only the data needed for specific business functions, achieve proof of value quickly (often within 90–120 days), and deploy “digital people” as pilots that perform well-defined roles via stringent SOPs.
Jim describes starting implementations in high-turnover or undesirable roles to build workforce buy-in, then scaling as demand spreads internally.
He shares an example where a digital person (“Leah”) reduced bid responses from hours to minutes, works 24/7 consistently, and requires strong governance, UAT, access controls, and escalation barriers when questions exceed scope, while organizations also learn and uncover process gaps.
Visit our website: https://www.cooperativecomputing.com/ (https://www.cooperativecomputing.com/)
Subscribe to the Cooperative Computing channel and the Get Digitally Enabled playlist for more inspiring interviews and transformative insights.
Connect with Jim Barker on LinkedIn: (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGZOcmJFeEcwNEZXZ1B1dlFEX0JhMXpPa3kzd3xBQ3Jtc0tsVjdHM0M0LWJsMzExUF9rWGNiNnBKM1FpWENxRGZvdUNONHZhcHVsTEpnZjBnalBwbDhMSkp1YmxWNERfbXFWYlBlNjVLa3p0OHAzMU1zQzFBRmM2Z2lKellvWHJVZ2MxUHM0R3l6ZDFxeEdtMFBqOA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fadperl%2F&v=wj1sS2P_Gqg)https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbarker22/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbarker22/)
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7 Jul 2026
Digital People at Work: How a Governed Digital Workforce Creates Value
Jim Barker, chief revenue officer at Cooperative Computing, explains “digital people” as personified, governed digital employees that perform repetitive, transactional work 24/7 with speed and consistency, guided by internal protocols rather than uncontrolled external LLMs.
He describes “Leah”, a digital employee who joins Teams meetings as an avatar and manages inbound bid requests for a client’s mobile LED truck business by analyzing emails and attachments, checking complex availability across 250 trucks, and returning bids in under 10 minutes - work that previously burdened enterprise salespeople and junior hires.
Barker says connected data is essential, delivered via a client-owned digital data hub that centralizes siloed data in ~90 days, enabling proof of value quickly and supporting multiple orchestrated digital roles.
Check out our downloadable workbook and preview a next discussion on a digital maturity experience that shifts strategy into execution.
Visit our website: https://www.cooperativecomputing.com/ (https://www.cooperativecomputing.com/)
Subscribe to the Cooperative Computing channel and the Get Digitally Enabled playlist for more inspiring interviews and transformative insights.
Connect with Jim Barker on LinkedIn: (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGZOcmJFeEcwNEZXZ1B1dlFEX0JhMXpPa3kzd3xBQ3Jtc0tsVjdHM0M0LWJsMzExUF9rWGNiNnBKM1FpWENxRGZvdUNONHZhcHVsTEpnZjBnalBwbDhMSkp1YmxWNERfbXFWYlBlNjVLa3p0OHAzMU1zQzFBRmM2Z2lKellvWHJVZ2MxUHM0R3l6ZDFxeEdtMFBqOA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fadperl%2F&v=wj1sS2P_Gqg)https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbarker22/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbarker22/)
Visit his website: https://www.cooperativecomputing.com/ (https://www.cooperativecomputing.com/)
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