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Rebecca Wettman and Patrick from "The Crunch" recently sat down with Ian Gotts, CEO and Founder of Elements.cloud, to discuss the critical intersection of data, process, and AI in today's rapidly evolving business landscape. While AI and data have dominated recent tech conversations, Ian emphasized a less-discussed, yet equally vital, component: process.
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00:45 - Why you wrote the book
02:20 - What is the book about - the 7 skills
04:20 - 1. Open mindedness
06:40 - 2. Smart Learning
10:45 - 3. Collaboration
14:15 - Business improv
15:30 - 4. Problem Solving
18:15 - 5. Technical Story Telling
20:50 - Core skills: presenting , writing, networking
22:00 - 6. Balancing business and technical skills
25:30 - 7. Wellbeing
29:00 - Who should read this book
33:00 - What next
Ian Gotts, Founder & CEO of Elements.cloud talks to Caitlin Graaf and Vaness Grant about the importance of business analysis
A fascinating discussion with Iain Henderson, co-founder DataPal.me, on how individuals can control their own personal data, which will in turn help organizations improve their data. Plus we talked about the implications of Data Cloud and AI.
Max Maeder, CEO of FoundHQ talks about the amazing research on Salesforce team structures on their website, and the trends they are seeing in Salesforce resourcing
Mark Good from AIForceTraining.com and Ian Gotts from Elements.cloud talk about how to build and templatize (is this a word?) GPT prompts to get a positive ROI, finding the AI sweetspot, and GPT Dreamin 2024.
Olivia Hinkle, Senior Product Manager, Validity Olivia is passionate about organization getting value from their data, and the importance of data governance. Whilst this is important for organizations, now that data is the fuel for AI this has become urgent. This session gives some actionable ideas for data management and how to prepare for AI.
A panel of ecosystem experts talk about how AI Cloud and GPT will impact the Salesforce ecosystem Vanessa Grant - consultant Jodi Hrbek - author of " Rock Your Role as an Admin" Michael Drzewiecki - Privia Health Andrew Russo - BACA Systems
Mike has 3 novel uses of formulas which dramatically reduce admin effort., He estimates for an extra 10% of time to build the fomulae is saves him 50% in admin time.
Ksawery Lisinski, VP of Product Management at Elements.cloud, talks to Ian Gotts, CEO Elements.cloud and discusses how Elements for Salesforce Architecture can streamline your workflow and boost productivity. The Elements platform interrelates all your assets, enabling you to plan, design, and document your business processes and systems more efficiently. The hierarchical diagrams and innovative flow diagram features take your diagramming to the next level.
Jim Boots is author, speaker and consultant.
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Book: Boots on the Ground How to Implement Strategic Business Process Management: Lessons Learned from one of the World's Largest Organizations
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Daniel Peter is an MVP and Salesforce Practice Lead at Robots & Pencils
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Before You Design Slack Experiences, Do This (By Salesforce)
Operating Smarter with Salesforce + Slack 3-part webinar series (By Robots & Pencils)
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