Diversity in Tech: How can the innovators crack this code?

By Guest Author Anita M. Sands A few months ago, I spoke about culture and microbehaviors at a tech company’s conference in San Francisco. To illustrate what “microbehaviors” are and how they can cause a feeling of exclusion, I described the difficulty I often have as an Irish person—unschooled in American sports—contending with the baseball metaphors my colleagues

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Paul Daugherty

Paul Daugherty is the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of Accenture. He is the co-author of the book Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI. His co-author H. James Wilson is Managing Director of Information Technology and Business Research at Accenture Research. You can follow them on @ PaulDaugh and @HJamesWilson. Human+Machine: Reimagining

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eric Benhamou of Benhamou Global Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: One other area along the lines of what you’re talking about that we are seeing is the notion of connectors. There are so many modular technologies in use right now. Enterprises are using so many different tools and so many cloud services. Connecting all these things together is a nightmare. It seems like

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jonathan Lewy of Investo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you elaborate on what kinds of businesses you are investing in? Are these B2B or B2C? Jonathan Lewy: We are agnostic. Initially, we invested in companies that had a global focus where we could help them enter the Latin American market. That was back in 2013. It was a way for us

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Europe: Gero Decker, CEO of Signavio (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: By the time you got to May 2009, how many of these 20,000 people who looked at this became customers? Gero Decker: Not many. The 20,000 people were not really interested in the notion of business process per se. They were rather interested in the notion of having a graphical design environment on

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eric Benhamou of Benhamou Global Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Eric Benhamou was recorded in November 2014.  Eric Benhamou, Managing Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures, was the CEO of 3Com, a pioneer in the networking space, and the key competitor to Cisco. He also

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jonathan Lewy of Investo (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Jonathan Lewy was recorded in November 2017.  Jonathan Lewy, Managing Partner at Investo, discusses pre-seed investment strategies and the Series A gap. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about your seed investing activities. Let’s get to

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Thursday, April 12 – 394th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 394th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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