Business & Technology Insights from Capgemini – Details, episodes & analysis

"Sometimes it’s important to take a pause and take some time off to bring your best self." - Sophie Weersink-Thirion, Vice President and Head of Market Unit Manufacturing Life Science Tech Media Telecomms Although Sophie finds skating fascinating, her comfort space is in her attic, where one can find her creating graffitis and oil paintings. At Capgemini, she leads the Manufacturing, Health, and Technology domain. She began her career at Philips, becoming the first woman in sales and later on, the first woman head in the sales department. One remarkable thing about Sophie is that she dislikes the word “issue”; for her, it’s always about “solutions” and exploring possibilities. She believes that a crucial quality that every leader needs to have is modesty, and she emphasizes that great achievements are never accomplished alone – it’s always about teamwork. Currently, she is taking Dutch classes at a renowned institution and believes in the importance of taking a pause and dedicating time to bring out one's best self. About the series: That’s How We Lead is an inspirational monthly podcast series that brings you real-life stories of some of the remarkable female role models in Capgemini Netherlands. With this series, we want to encourage women to be inspired by these stories of successes, challenges, and vulnerabilities, and also realize the possibilities that they can explore in Capgemini.

"Be yourself, be flexible, ask for help when needed, and have an opinion because that contributes to something." -Liesbeth Bout, EVP & Managing Director, Capgemini Invent Netherlands Liesbeth started her career journey as a Young Professional at Capgemini almost two decades ago, and has always been into business consulting. A mother of two, she has had an active student life and is very passionate about horseback riding, running, and investing time in creative hobbies with her daughter. In this episode, she talks about her love for being dynamic at work – trying out different facets of working like sales, delivery, managerial, and how she always tries to be involved in client projects. She believes that a data-driven journey should be embraced by all organizations, and that digital transformation can help treat the planet in a better way, sparking inspirations of our clients and also asking the right questions about our sustainability objectives. About the series: That’s How We Lead is an inspirational monthly podcast series that brings you real-life stories of some of the remarkable female role models in Capgemini Netherlands. With this series, we want to encourage women to be inspired by these stories of successes, challenges, and vulnerabilities, and also realize the possibilities that they can explore in Capgemini.

¿Qué ocurrirá con los bancos en la era post covid? El sector banca ya avanza hacia su próxima transformación, que se apoyará en procesos inteligentes y ecosistemas abiertos para proporcionar una experiencia de usuario excelente. En la era digital, la banca se humaniza gracias a la tecnología: lo contamos todo en este episodio.

Continuing on our Renewable Enterprise journey, we arrive at our next stop-over - The Intelligent Enterprise. Elisabetta Spontoni (Global SAP Head of Operations for Capgemini,) joins us to discuss reinvigorating SAP landscapes and leveraging your new digital core through digital Innovation-enabling technologies like AI/ML/Analytics/IoT/ BlockChain, Customer Experience and Supply chain.

Global SAP Head of Operations & Digital Core with SAP S/4HANA Group Offer Lead for Capgemini, Elisabetta Spontoni, joins us in the fourth episode to discuss how moving to SAP S/4HANA® is one of the first steps enabling you to become a Renewable Enterprise, with our Highway to SAP S/4HANA® offer, which provides a modern, rapid and painless move from older generation SAP systems to SAP S/4HANA®.

Welcome to the third episode of the ‘journey to the Renewable Enterprise’ podcast series in which we will hear from Elisabetta Spontoni, Global SAP Head of Operations and Digital Core with SAP S/4HANA global Offer Lead for Capgemini, how adopting SAP S/4HANA® can be instrumental in helping organizations to manage their digital transformation, and more specifically on taking a look into the business vision and the building blocks for a successful transformation.

Welcome to this episode of the ‘journey to the Renewable Enterprise’ podcast series in which we will hear from Elisabetta Spontoni, Global SAP Head of Operations and Digital Core with SAP S/4HANA® Global Offer Lead for Capgemini, how one becomes a Renewable Enterprise, future-ready for agile business transformation, built within and supported by a solid architecture framework and how Capgemini will get you there.

Market disruption in the automotive industry is presenting major challenges to everyone, including automotive suppliers. To respond adequately, those businesses should become renewable enterprises, continually rethinking their business from a customer perspective and adapting to satisfy the evolving requirements of existing and new customers. Renewable enterprises enjoy best-in-class agility, plus intelligence and proactivity, together with smart approaches to innovation.

In today’s digitally enabled world, organisations are constantly evolving their products and services to maintain a competitive advantage with the customer. Cloud Computing and software development practices such as DevOps enable organisations to achieve high levels of agility, but often do so at the expense of security. Traditional Security practices are failing to evolve at the same rate, and this has resulted in a number of high-profile organisations fall foul to cyber-attacks. However, if done correct, DevSecOps offers a solution to this problem. Join two DevSecOps experts from Capgemini Invent and Secure Code Warrior, as they discuss what DevSecOps means to them, where the business driver for DevSecOps comes from, how you should approach DevSecOps within your organisation and the likely challenges you may come across on that journey. With host Dan Harrison, Cap Invent; Mattias Madou, CTO Secure Code Warrior and Kay Ng, Cap Invent.

There are multiple dimensions of Salesforce project risk. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Mike King, the chief technical architect for the Capgemini North America Salesforce Commerce Cloud practice, and Matt Francis, a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, Capgemini Vice President, and Chief Salesforce Architect about managing Salesforce project planning risk.