Biz and Tech Talks | Business & Technology Trends

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Each episode we tackle the business and technology topics that you can't stop talking about. Experts across many domains discuss their common sense approach to some of the most challenging topics leaders face. Join our thought leaders and clients, many of which have worked for some of the world's largest companies, while we share our expertise, struggles and successes on topics like business transformation, artificial intelligence, data & analytics, culture, change, marketing automation, customer experience and enterprise collaboration.

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Couch Convos: Centric Commemorates Celebrating Juneteenth

Jun 19 2023 35 mins  
Centric Commemorates presents a conversation about understanding and celebrating Juneteenth in this special edition of our Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks podcast. Monday, June 19, marks the celebration of Juneteenth, which became a federal holiday in 2021. The holiday now reflects an even more widespread recognition. Team members Maurice Faison, Blaiden Kirk and Dr. Jodi Merrid

Couch Convos: Evaluating the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Meltdown

Jan 19 2023 33 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, our automation experts discuss what went wrong with Taylor Swift’s latest concert ticket sales. In November 2022, tickets for Taylor Swift’s latest concert tour went on sale on Ticketmaster. Huge demand swamped the website during the “pre-sales” period, crashing it and resulting in considerable outcry about customer s

Couch Convos: Exploring Innovation at CampIO 2022

Nov 17 2022 53 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, we sit down with some of our finest innovators to discuss their ideas for this year’s CampIO. Every year Centric Consulting hosts CampIO, an internal tech conference where our consultants can get together to share crazy ideas, amazing projects and good times. In this podcast, we visit with Eric Galluzzo, the organizer, and th

Couch Convos: Organizational Change Management in Context

Nov 03 2022 29 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, we talk about organizational change management and how it works within your business, no matter where you are in your change journey. To other roles in a transformational project, organizational change management (OCM) can feel like a discipline on its own little island. It’s certainly connected to the rest of the project, bu

Couch Convos: Women in Consulting

Sep 29 2022 46 mins  
In this episode of our Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks podcast, we sit down with a consultant recently recognized by Consulting Magazine as Women Leaders in Technology. In this podcast, we’re celebrating some of our finest consultants, recognized in 2022 by Consulting Magazine among the Women Leaders in Technology: our Chicago operating group’s Anelia Schmitt and Hilary Lee.

Couch Convos: Test Automation in Software Development

Sep 08 2022 47 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, we sit down with Modern Software Delivery expert Pete Walen to talk about using test automation to support software development. A lot of software testing is repetitive, and therefore a great candidate for some sort of automation. Automation on its own doesn’t solve all your problems, however. You need to design it around the

Couch Convos: Inside Centric’s Innovation Lab

Aug 17 2022 41 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, we sit down with a few members from our Innovation Lab to talk about their latest accomplishment – the Centric Virtual Assistant.

Couch Convos: Using a Security Logging Framework with Guidewire

Jul 27 2022 26 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, we sit down with our Insurance experts to talk about using a security logging framework with Guidewire. Guidewire is an industry leader core tool in the insurance space. As a Guidewire partner, Centric often works with clients to adapt Guidewire to their unique needs. Recently, we teamed up with a client to add a security loggi

Couch Convos: Using Microsoft Teams as a Platform

Jun 29 2022 36 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, we discuss the various uses of Microsoft Teams as a collaboration tool and learn how businesses can use it as a full digital hub for remote and hybrid employees. The business world initially warmly welcomed Microsoft Teams due to its strong integration of chats, calls and collaboration. The subsequent pandemic and virtualizatio

Couch Convos: What’s the Wordle? Salesforce Lightning Edition

Jun 08 2022 21 mins  
In this episode of Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks, we talk to two of our Salesforce specialists about using Salesforce Lightning to build out their own version of Wordle. Some of our more recent podcasts have touched on a hot topic in the tech world – citizen development. Now we’re talking about what a business user might want to implement within a broader platform and how