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In the podcast Inflect, the FlexPoint Consulting team talks with clients and colleagues about navigating the critical inflection points of business and life. Hosted by Founder and CEO, Michael Daehne, these conversations reflect decades of experience with business transformation, curiosity in seeking out perspectives, and a sense of humility and good cheer through it all.
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Maintaining a Strong Data Foundation to Drive Business Results
Justin Nguyen, a senior data leader at the Home Depot, talks with Michael about data engineering’s critical inflection point, the importance of organizational culture and intellectual curiosity in the teams he’s led, and some of his favorite AI hacks for parenting.
Preparing for Business Transformation
Michael Daehne goes behind the scenes of preparing for business transformation with FlexPoint business readiness experts Pedro Cortez and Liz Pryor. They share what has worked well for them, as well as natural tensions to navigate throughout business transformation, based on their experience in consolidating tools in a merger, building custom software, leading major transformation programs, and more.
Bridging the Accounting and Technology Domains
Michael talks with William Wu, public accountant and expense optimization aficionado. William takes us behind the scenes at his firm, Expense Reduction Analysts, and talks through how they work with organizations to look at their spending across a number of buckets within the organization, compare those to benchmarks, and find opportunities going forward to more effectively manage spend.
BBQ and Business Transformation
Since at FlexPoint, we care deeply about both barbecue and business transformation, and excelling in them can be tricky, we compiled five lessons that apply to both. Kim Ehrman shares them in this episode: Make a plan before you light the fire. Keep it simple, stupid. Measure, monitor, and adjust. Pack your patience and survive the stall. And don't over-index on the sauce.
Second Anniversary Ask-Me-Anything
To celebrate the second anniversary of FlexPoint Consulting, the FlexPoint team turns the microphone on Michael Daehne, Founder and CEO, for an ask-me-anything episode.
Michael fields questions about his entrepreneurial journey and the first two years of running FlexPoint. The group also discusses working through common challenges in business transformation. Then we close with a lightning round of more casual questions.
Business Applications of Generative AI
In our fourth Fireside Chat, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne is joined by Rachel Lockett, Chief Information Officer at Pohlad Companies, to discuss the innovations and business applications of generative AI and unpack the explosive growth of tools like ChatGPT.
Excelling in Transformation Leadership
In our third fireside chat, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne talks with Steve Abernathy, VP of Service Excellence and Advanced Analytics at Archrock. Steve shares wisdom on leadership, key differentiators in transformation, and change management.
Leading Teams through Complex Transformations
In our second fireside chat, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne talks to Dan Ritch, CEO of SunStream Business Services, about Dan's journey as a technology and business leader and his pearls of wisdom for leading teams through complex digital transformations.
The Road to Transformation Success
In our first-ever FlexPoint Fireside Chat, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne talks to Rachel Lockett, Chief Information Officer at Pohlad Companies, about Carousel Motor Group's innovative new pre-owned car-buying experience, Carousel Online.
“Transforming core processes — our secret sauce — can be a big differentiator. That reminds me of The Process Edge by Peter Keen. He discussed leaning into identity processes to find a competitive advantage. It’s important to make sure you’re always looking forward. I ask myself: what is the process differentiates us, and how do we capitalize on that?
Often, you do have to transform that process over time because the market changes, and the world changes around us.”
Excelling in Transformation Leadership with Steve Abernathy, VP of Service Excellence & Advanced Analytics at Archrock