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Bruce Daisley is one of the presenters at this year’s Employee Experience forum. Bruce is VP for Twitter in Europe, Middle East and Asia, author of The Joy of Work, and host of the Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat Podcast. He chats with host Kevin Monroe about the reality of burnout at work, and how to work more sustainably.

Siemens’ Alexander Thielmann discusses the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its effect on the corporate landscape. The transformation Siemens has embarked on, aptly named Vision 2020 Plus, is a cultural one as much as it is a technology one. With a company as large as Siemens, Thielmann describes this sea change as navigating a fleet of ships. “...with this new change of these fleet of ships, the expectation of the board is also that the ships, or the companies, make more profit... Which also means now they are looking a bit more outside the box.”

Mr. Employee Experience Ben Whittier is our first guest on the Employee Experience Express Podcast. The Employee Experience Express Podcast is a mini-series provided by CX Network. Ben is the chair for the upcoming Employee Experience forum. He and Kevin Monroe- a moderator at the event- and host of the Higher Purpose Podcast talk about the changes that have happened in the world of employee experience. 

Caroline Basyn joins us and discusses the difficulty of implementing big changes in a rapidly evolving technological world: “The request of the top management in the company is to bet on a couple of big hawks, we call them. So, what are going to be the big hawks that really will make a difference in the next few years for the company? We would like to look longer term, but the world is evolving so fast, that anything you do on the longer term, you will change five times before you get there. So, we'll stick to the next few years to start with.”

Fernando Nunes, senior process automation architect at Man Energy solutions, discusses his unique approach to IT and business. By leveraging RPA, AI, and BPA tools, Nunes works to empower the business line and decrease IT bottlenecks through process automation. He further explains the Center of Excellence concept using an apt airport metaphor. “Our philosophy was always about enabling our line of business to do large things themselves, and we of course, would have to provide an architecture, a governance, an infrastructure, and we see it more like we provide the airport. Then the line of business will make the flights; the planes to fly.”

Andrew Parris,Director Of Performance Improvement at CRH, focuses his efforts on improving corporate functions across the board, including finance, IT, procurement, and HR. How does he do it? Data-backed benchmarking, implementation planning, and change management. Additionally, intelligent automation is taking a front seat. “We're starting to bring some AI into play. Our approach has always been, it's not just about the bot, it's about the right solution for the right problem.”

Manish Jain joins us and shares information on RBCs new Silent Listener Chat Bot: "We are building a silent listener chat bot, which will listen to the conversation when an agent and a client are having those discussions. While those discussions are happening, the chat bot or the silent listener is going to understand the intent of the conversation, what the client is talking about, getting the client, IDs. In the meanwhile while the discussion is happening in goes in the background, brings in all policies and procedures, client, all information ready on the agent's screen. Agent without putting the client on hold is having a continuous discussion"

Manny Korakis joins us and shares the importance of potentially applying different strategies to different companies: "I've learned over the course of this journey that every company is in a different spot in their own journey, and I have to react to that. What's important in one organization at any given point in time, isn't necessarily a top priority in another company at their point in time."

Deborah kops joins us and shares her views on GBS: "It's a dynamic business model. It is not one rigid business model. To be very honest, to some extent we've promulgated that through the consultancy class in this industry, some of those guys are some of my best friends. But a business services platform is whatever you can do at any given time, given your leadership, given a range of external and internal factors. So GBS as a concept I don't buy."

Rob Phillips joins us and shares how venturing into the unknown is crucial to problem solving: "I think there's an overall bias that people have towards the unknown, right? They worry and they discount or they ... There's a risk factor of the unknown. So, the more that somebody can be involved in identifying what the problem is, they're coming to the table saying, "Hey, I know there's something here that needs to get fixed." Then we can work together with them to try, and propose solutions. "

Graham Russell joins us and shares the importance of understanding and implementing Data: "For those of us who have implemented ERPs for 20 years and more, data was usually the number one issue in doing that because as you move from one system to another, one of the first things you had to do was get the data clean, get the data reconciled, make sure there was integrity and so on. It's not new. I think people that don't anticipate it are perhaps not thinking of other projects."

Nadia de Villa joins us and shares how financial service providers like Manulife have to adapt in an ever changing environment: "The way customers interact with a company has changed, and therefore, we need to be there and think differently and think beyond our financial services walls. So in terms of digital transformation, what that means to us, it's truly how do we interact with our customers through any digital channel that they want to interact with us with."

Cindy Gallagher joins us and shares the importance of building personal time into your schedule: "I have surrounded myself with the right people who know how to handle situations. Not only that, but I set myself up properly as well before I went away, saying I was going to be gone, structuring the calendar appropriately, telling people when I was going to be on and off. As a CEO and as anyone who's excelled in their profession, you do have to be careful about where the line is, but you do have to draw that line for yourself."

Kamila Grembowicz joins us and shares her experience in implementing Global Business Strategy at Adidas: " I think every company has a different culture, a different structure, and then every GBS looks different. If you have a company where GBS concept is really not liked by the people, they didn't adapt to change, they maybe went too aggressive in the cuts straight away without the quality. You can have different reasons why you go back to functional model."

Mohamed Saleh joins us and shares Hartford Healthcare's values in leadership communication and change management: "We've recognized that to improve patient experience, it requires to improve employee experience as well. And that requires the organization to feel respected and trusted."

Ravi Rao joins us and shares how automation can not hurt, but help business processes as well as it's employees: "We're trying to figure out ways that the things that don't really require humans, things that are just repetitive data transfer tasks can be done by machines which are better at doing that, but the creative innovative service, interactive pieces, robots cannot do any of that. That's why humans still have a huge role to play in business and the more that they can recognize how to work with each other in exemplary ways, that's what will eventually lead the business. "

"Every big company on the planet nowadays has an imperative at the board level to really reinvent itself, partly because the market's shifting faster than it's ever done in the past. I think intellectually and philosophically, leadership teams around the world understand why they need to change because they don't want to end up like Kodak or Blockbuster or name your favorite example of a company that went under, but where you most get stuck is one what does that mean for them and how do you do it."

Mila, James, and Tula join and share their experience to help define beg data versus small data

Tula Heikenan joins us and shares how she and her team can implement data in her role at Telia: "We have a really important role in the customer interface to really help the rest of the company to understand how everything is affecting the customer. Creating those systematic ways of working, utilizing data to help, not only to help the customers but to help everybody in the company to act in the correct way. That's where we can use a lot of data but, again, it has to be a different approach to every function that we have in the company.

Maria Marino joins us and shared ideas of how private data access can be properly democratized: "A nonprofit to build a big public database of identity simply does not exist, other than the government perhaps. But, that's an equally fraught problem. So, what blockchain does is effectively create an incentive system to do exactly that with people who don't so much have a stake in manipulating your identity. "