Podcast

Bizzdesign Enterprise Architecture Podcast

In this podcast we talk to thought leaders in the area of enterprise architecture and discuss how enterprise architects can deliver maximum value to their organizations.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Enterprise Architecture

January 12, 2024

It’s no secret that Artificial Intelligence is here to stay and will continue to play an important and impactful role within the Enterprise Architecture space. This year’s first guest is David Strickrodt, one of Bizzdesign’s solution advisors and member of our AI task force team. David shares his insights on where he sees the trend of AI going this year and in the coming years.

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Our Top Clips From 2023 – State of Enterprise Architecture, Dave Armes, and Dan Warfield

December 13, 2023

We’ve compiled the best 3 clips from our top downloaded episodes of 2023. The episodes include the fireside chat around The State of Enterprise Architecture from our annual BD Connect conference, Humanizing Enterprise Architecture with Dave Armes from Servicenow, and how to set up a successful Enterprise Architecture practice with Dan Warfield.

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How to Build Better Workflows for Enterprise and Solution Architects

November 16, 2023

Solution architects design solutions to solve complex business problems and achieve business outcomes. This requires collaboration with business stakeholders, other architectural disciplines, change management and operations. So how can solution architects get their design work done faster while raising the quality and impact of their deliverables? How can they effectively collaborate with enterprise and other architects? How can enterprise and solution architects be ‘better together’ and accelerate digital transformation? Matthijs will share insights into how architects can improve their collaboration for digital transformation. He’ll demonstrate Bizzdesign’s Horizzon’s latest capabilities and best practices for Enterprise and Solution Architecture Management.

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The “Karate Kid” approach to Enterprise Architecture with Eddie Walker

October 5, 2023

Eddie Walker,  founder of Edifit which was recently acquired by Bizzdesign, shares his journey of growing a company along with his approach to Enterprise Architecture in which he calls the “Karate Kid Approach”.

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Getting Buy-In from Stakeholders with Mary Stevens – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

September 29, 2023

Mary Stevens is the Technology Architect for Technology Services at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, she’ll walk us through how she approaches getting “buy-in” from leaders and stakeholders. While this episode is focused on the Higher Education space, the challenges and takeaways are applicable across all industries.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Architecture – Aaron Tan


August 09 , 2023

Aaron Tan, the group CEO of ATD solution in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong joins our Enterprise Architecture podcast to talk through the past, present and future of Enterprise Architecture.

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Setting Up a Successful Enterprise Architecture Team – Dan Warfield


July 06 , 2023

Dan’s IT leadership career spans more than 35 years, with senior roles in R&D, strategic planning, enterprise architecture, software product marketing and IT governance for Fortune 100 organizations including Lincoln Financial, Walmart, IBM and DXC.

Dan has seen it all when it comes to setting up Enterprise Architecture teams and in this episode he outlines his advice on how to set one up successfully.

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Top Challenges facing Enterprise Architects – Dan Belville


June 12 , 2023

Bringing over 20 years of experience to the table, our very own Dan Belville joins us on our latest Enterprise Architecture podcast to discuss the challenges facing Enterprise Architects.

Aside from the common challenges such as complexity, alignment, change management and more, Dan breaks down the biggest challenge facing Enterprise Architects, which is the balancing act between being efficient or effective.

To watch the On-Demand Agile Enterprise Architecture Management Webinar mentioned in this episode, CLICK HERE

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The State of Enterprise Architecture – Fireside Chat


May 23 , 2023

In this episode, we’ll listen in on our great fireside chat focused on the state of enterprise architecture from our Bizzdesign Connect Conference held back in April of this year. Every year we survey over 1,000 Enterprise Architects to get their take on the State of Enterprise Architecture. We combine those results into a full report which can be found on our website under the resources tab, but in this episode, we’ll hear from industry leaders as they unpack their thoughts on the results of our survey such as overcoming the challenges of showing value to your organization and how Enterprise Architecture help your organization align with business investments. I hope you enjoy this fireside chat from our Bizzdesign Connect conference around the State of Enterprise Architecture

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Humanizing Enterprise Architecture with Dave Armes from ServiceNow


April 28, 2023

Dave is the Area VP of Enterprise Architecture EMEA at ServiceNow.  During his presentation, Dave focuses on “humanizing enterprise architecture” – staying mentally healthy, keeping in mind that humans use the systems we design, and embracing change. At ServiceNow they actually use the acronym LEAP which stands for “lean enterprise architecture for people”. Here’s the conversation between Dave Armes’ and Bizzdesign’s Chief Strategy Officer, Nick Reed from Bizzdesign Connect 2023.

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Matthijs Scholten – Bizzdesign’s product and innovation manager

March 22, 2023

In this episode, I chat with Matthijs Scholten, otherwise known as the architect kid. He is the product and innovation manager at Bizzdesign and is responsible for Bizzdesign’s innovation portfolio, product vision, strategy, roadmap and product development. I hope you enjoy my conversation with the architect kid.

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Our top clips from 2022 featuring Eddie Walker, Jason Bloomberg, and Dr. Michelle Supper

Clips from interviews with Eddie Walker, Jason Bloomberg, and Dr. Michelle Supper
February 28, 2023

Before we launch into 2023, I thought it would be a great idea to listen in on a few of our top podcasts from 2022. We’ll hear from Eddie Walker from Edifit on his top 10 tips for successful Enterprise Architecture, next we’ll listen in on a conversation between our Chief Strategy Officer Nick Reed and the President and Founder of Intellyx, Jason Bloomberg on the secret for architects in driving digital transformation, and finally Dr. Michelle Supper, a senior advisory executive architect at ServiceNow, wraps up today’s episode with Calling all Enterprise Architects: Your Role in Digital Transformation.

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A CIOs view of Enterprise Architecture – What You Need to Know

Inteview with Mike O’Dell, Mike is president of XpertMinds.
December 8, 2022

In this episode, we speak to Mike O’Dell. Mike is president of XpertMinds and has previously held a number of full-time and fractional CIO positions across a range of industries. Mike gives us his insight on how enterprise architecture teams can best go about aligning themselves to the mission of the CIO.

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3 Rules for Enterprise Architecture Success

Inteview with Sunil Ranavere, Director of Digital Business & Technology Consulting at Cognizant.
November 2, 2022

In this episode, we speak to Sunil Rananavere. Sunil is the Director of Digital Business & Technology Consulting at Cognizant, the global IT services and consulting firm, he is also a very seasoned enterprise architect. We cover a number of areas and specifically talk about Sunil’s observations on the key mistakes that EA teams can make – and his resulting top 3 pieces of advice.

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Secure by Design: Enterprise Architectures Role in Securing the Enterprise

Inteview with Simon Cross, enterprise and security architect at Bizzdesign.
October 10, 2022

In this episode, we speak to Simon Cross. Simon is a seasoned enterprise and security architect who previously held senior positions with organizations such as NatWest Banking Group, Lloyds Bangs Group, BAE Systems, and Hewlett Packard. Simon is now Head of Security Solutions here at Bizzdesign and today he introduces the initiative he leads here – Secure by Design.

We would also like to let you know, as we hopefully move beyond COVID, that in-person conferences and trade-shows are re-emerging, You can meet us live at the Gartner IT Symposiums and Xpos in Orlando, Florida October from 17th to the 20th of October and again in Barcelona, Spain from 7th to the 10th of November.

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Calling all Enterprise Architects: Your role in Digital Transformation

Inteview with Dr. Michelle Supper, a senior advisory executive architect at Service Now.
August 25, 2022

In this interview, we speak with Dr. Michelle Supper, a senior advisory executive architect at Service Now. In this role, Michelle consults with a wide range of enterprises and their enterprise architecture practices to help them with their digital transformations. In this session, Michelle draws on her wealth of experience and gives her insights on how EAs can have the most impact on a company’s digital transformation journey, in the particular the subtle and oftentimes overlooks the role of EAs in translating the vision and the needs of a transformation between all the layers of a company – from the C-Level on down

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Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots.

Inteview with Roger Burlton, President of the Process Renewal Group.
JULY 28, 2022

In this session, we speak to somewhat of a legend in the Business Architecture community – Roger Burlton. Roger is President of the Process Renewal Group and longtime chair of numerous industry conferences including Business Business Capability and IRM UK. He is also an accomplished author on the subject of business architecture and has recently published his new book Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots.

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Learnings from the Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence

Inteview with Sam Holcman the Managing Director of the Enterprise Architecture Center Of Excellence (EACOE), and the Business Architecture Center Of Excellence (BACOE)
JUNE 30, 2022

An interview with the legendary Sam Holcman and how he started his EA career and worked with the equally legendary John Zachman. Sam talks about the educational courses that the EACOE runs for EAs that go beyond the technical aspects of EA into the key skills EAs need to have to communicate and do their job in the enterprise.

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Beyond Default: Taking Control of your Strategy

Inteview with David Trafford, founder of Forimicio Ltd.
JUNE 1, 2022

For this podcast episode, we spoke to David Trafford, founder of Forimicio Ltd. David is an advisor, coach, mentor, and consultant on strategy and change to enterprises worldwide. He is also a co-author of the great book – Beyond Default. David is passionate about helping enterprises to take a fresh look at how they format their strategy. By thinking about the context of the trajectory they are currently in – and then from there look at the endogenous and exogenous, or internal and external forces. Those forces can have a huge impact and influence on the trajectory and therefore also on their strategy.

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How to become the Customer Driven Enterprise

Inteview with Milan Guenther, President of the Intersection Group, and Jim Kalbach, Chief Evangelist at Mural
APRIL 28, 2022

In this session, we talk all about the need for enterprises to be customer driven. We speak to Milan Guenther, President of the Intersection Group, and Jim Kalbach, Chief Evangelist at Mural. We talk about not only the importance of enterprises being customer driven, but how they can practically go about organizationally and architecturally achieving this, always thinking about the customer experience and everything they do.

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Building the EA Transformation Tribe and Driving Collaboration at Danske Bank

Inteview with Morten Bjerregaard and Thomas Rhode, both in the EA center of Excellence at Dansk Bank
MARCH 31, 2022

In this session, we speak with Morten Bjerregaard,  and Thomas Rhode, both in the EA center of Excellence at Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark and a major retail bank in northern European. Danske bank was the Collaboration Winner of the 2021 Bizzdesign Change by Design Awards and in this session, we talk to Morten and Thomas all about the collaboration the EA team needed to use as they implement a format EA practice and set of tooling in Danske Bank – and how they drove change across people, process and tools.

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Accelerating business transformation at Singapore Pools

Inteview with Gin Wong Deputy Director of Technology Architecture and Policy at  Singapore Pools (Private) Limited
MARCH 2, 2022

In this session, we speak to Gin Wong Deputy Director of Technology Architecture and Policy at  Singapore Pools (Private) Limited. Gin and her team won the 2021 Bizzdesign Change by Design Award for Innovation and we discuss how the Enterprise Architecture practice supports Singapore pools in accelerating and making better-informed business transformation initiatives and the development of strategic capabilities.

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The Journey from Excel and Visio based Enterprise Architecture to BiZZdesign

Inteview with Mahesh Kaka, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture at General Dynamics IT (GDIT)
JAN 27, 2022

In this session in we speak to Mahesh Kaka, Mahesh is Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture at General Dynamics IT (GDIT), we discuss how EA is positioned and seen within GDIT as an enabler rather than a rule enforcer. Mahesh talks about how he implemented a common ArchiMate and TOGAF based language within the EA team and how his team transitioned from tools such as Excel and Visio to a formal and dynamic EA repository using BiZZdesign.

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The Secret for Architects in Driving Digital Transformation

Inteview with Jason Bloomberg, President and founder of analyst firm, Intellyx
NOV 25, 2021

In this session, we talk to Jason bloomberg and learn that, transforming business and IT processes across an enterprise is an important step on the road to digital transformation.

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Sneak Peek at the Bizzdesign Roadmap

Inteview with Peter Matthijssen, Chief Product Officer at Bizzdesign
OCT 28, 2021

In this session, we talk to Peter Matthijssen, Chief Product Officer at BiZZdesign. Peter gives us a sneak peek into the major development areas of the Bizzdesign Horizzon platform and also talks about how he and his team gather requirements from a variety of sources to inform BiZZdesign’s near and long term roadmap.

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Top 10 Tips for Successful Enterprise Architecture

Interview with Eddie Walker, Director at Edifit
OCT 04, 2021

Eddie Walker was previously a Director at Edifit, a Bizzdesign partner and reseller acquired by the SaaS enterprise architecture vendor. This strategic move aimed to accelerate time-to-value and increase business impact for Bizzdesign’s customers, leveraging Edifit’s proven software suite and expert consulting capabilities.

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Best Integration Practices for Architecture Automation

Interview with Matthijs Scholten, Innovation Manager at Bizzdesign
AUG 26, 2021

In this episode we speak to Matthijs Scholten, Matthijs is the Product and Innovation Manager at Bizzdesign and we speak all about the Enterprise Architecture Data Ecosystem and the best practices for EA teams looking to harvest data from other adjacent systems of records such as CMDBs, PPMs and Issue management ad product development systems such as Jira.

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Visualizations by design to deliver impactful messages and insights in EA

Interview with Mark Peters, Product Success Manager at Bizzdesign
JUL 29, 2021

In this episode, I speak to Mark Peters. Mark is Product Success Manager at Bizzdesign – and we talk about how Bizzdesign goes about conceiving, testing and building, with the Horizzon platform, visualizations that are designed to deliver impactful messages and insights beyond the Enterprise Architecture department to the business and executive stakeholders. Enjoy.

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Government Enterprise Architecture

Interview with Regine Deleu and John Russell at Auckland Transport
JUN 21, 2021

In this session, we will be talking to Regine and John at Auckland Transport about how EA is having an impact on the organization. Specifically, we talk about

  • How the team breaks down the organization into 8 domains
  • How the team collaborates to understand the goals and outcomes of the business and aligning transformation to meet those goals
  • How to avoid EA being seen as the “Standards Police” and move that reputation to that of a collaborator and enabler to digital transformation
  • The development of the Government Enterprise Architecture for New Zealand (GEA-NZ) Framework and how this framework is getting attention from other governments around the world

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Enterprise Architectures Role within Cybersecurity

Interview with Angel Alonso, Mnemonic and Nick Reed, Bizzdesign
JUN 2, 2021

In this episode, I am going to be talking to Angel Alonso who is team lead for the Governance, Risk and Compliance practice at Mnemonic and Nick Reed who is Chief Strategy Officer here at BiZZdesign. We are going to be talking all about Enterprise Architectures role within cyber security for the Enterprise.

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Business Capability Maps for Enabling IT and Business Alignment

Interview with Martijn van Glabbeek, Alliander and Joe Geary, Bizzdesign
APR 29, 2021

In this episode, we will be speaking to Martijn van Glabbeek from Alliander and Joe Geary from BiZZdesign. We will be talking about how business capability maps can be developed and then used in the enterprise to create a “Rosetta” sone for IT and the Business to communicate better and identify investment and risk priorities.

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Interview with Milan Guenther, Co-Author of Enterprise Design Patterns and President at Intersection Group and Marc Lankhorst, Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign
MAR 25, 2021

In this episode, we are joined by Milan Guenther, Co-Author of Enterprise Design Patterns and President at Intersection Group, and Marc Lankhorst, Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. We discuss the emerging trend of increasingly blurred organizational boundaries between supply chain, partners and the customers, and the overall enterprise ecosystem – and how this necessitates a much more thorough and proactive process of enterprise design and ecosystem modeling.

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Operational Excellence and Regulatory Compliance For Financial Services with EA

Interview Chris Dalby, Continuous Improvement Lead at MS Amlin
FEB 25, 2021

In this episode, we interview Chris Dalby, Continuous Improvement Lead at MS Amlin. Chris has deep and rich tenure in the areas of Operational Excellence and regulatory compliance in the financial services space. In this podcast, Chris talks us through how his group is leveraging the power of Enterprise Architecture to develop the process and tools needed to satisfy the regulatory requirements MS Amlin is required to comply to.

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Interview with Sian Van Es, Senior Enterprise Architect at CGI
JAN 27, 2021

In this episode, we speak to Sian Van Es, Senior Enterprise Architect at CGI. CGI is one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. Sian tells us of her insights in not only working internally with CGI – but with CGIs clients as will. Sian also gives some fascinating insight and tops tips for how EA can successfully operate in an agile environment.

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Interview with Ian Anderson at Ellucian
OKT 13, 2020

In this episode, we speak to Ian Anderson at Ellucian. Ian has deep experience in Enterprise Architecture in the Higher Education space and begins by drawing the parallels between Higher Ed and Enterprises – noting that both are businesses and in that respect very similar in how they operate – the only difference being that Higher Ed talks about Faculty, Students and Courses – whereas enterprises talk about staff, customers and products. We hope you enjoy the interview.

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Interview with Cameron Spence, Enterprise Application Architect at Thames Water
SEP 28, 2020

In this podcast, we speak to Cameron Spence at Thames Water. Cameron speaks about a range of issues, from implementing an application management system at Thames Water to the need for EAs to be able to translate all the different languages in the business to how to crystalize the value of EA to the non-EA executive in the organization.

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Interview with Marc Lankhorst, Chief Technology Evangelist, BiZZdesign
SEP 8, 2020

In this interview we speak to Marc Lankhorst, Marc is Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. In this role he works with EA teams all over the world. In this interview, Marc talks about how EA teams can position themselves with the C-Suite – and how to talk about what they do in a manner that resonates and demonstrates value to the Non EA Business Executives

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Interview with Joe Geary, VP of Customer Success, BiZZdesign
JUL 30, 2020

In this episode, I speak to Joe Geary, VP of Customer Success at BiZZdesign. Joe has over 30 years of experience as a true IT and EA practitioner. Today his focus is working with EA teams, large and small, mature and just starting, in a range of industries – helping them identify how to drive value, early and often, to their organizations.

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Interview with Jeremy Viner, Royal Bank of Scotland
JUL 08, 2020

In this episode we will be talking to Jeremy Viner from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Jeremy takes us through a journey of change at the bank, retiring legacy systems and replacing with new standards, process and tools to increase the impact of EA at the bank. But we don’t just talk software, instead Jeremy talks us through the change process he undertook within the context of the Kotter change model.

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Interview with Nick Chodorow, CIO at Arctic Glacier.
JUN 16, 2020

in this podcast, we speak to Nick Chodarow, CIO at Arctic Glacier. Arctic Glacier is North America’s leading manufacturer and direct-to-store distributor (DSD) of premium quality packaged ice, ice equipment, and related services.

We talk about how the COVID 19 pandemic has effected Arctic Glacier and how they looked at the right technologies to support the new remote working norm, how they assessed the stability of their vendors and tested their resiliency programs, and how Arctic Glacier plan to operate and compete in the new normal environment.

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Interview with AJ Kangas, Alko
JUN 02, 2020

In this episode, we speak to AJ Kangas about how the pandemic affected its retail operations in Finland.

Alko is the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly in Finland. It is the only store in the country which retails beer over 5.5% ABV, wine, and spirits.

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Claus Jensen, Enterprise Architect at Novozymes
MAY 12, 2020

In this podcast we speak to Claus Jensen, Enterprise Architect at Novozymes. Novozymes is a global biotechnology company headquartered in Denmark and focuses on the research, development, and production of industrial enzymes, microorganisms, and biopharmaceutical ingredients. We begin talking about how the COVID 19 pandemic has affected Novozymes and what the EA team was asked to do … then Claus goes into more detail about his vision for the “new normal” for employees and consumers.

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Interview with Kishore Koduri, Director of EA and Resiliency at Ameren
APR 30, 2020

In this podcast, I speak to Kishore Koduri, Director of EA and Resiliency at Ameren. Ameren is a Fortune 500 American power company serving Illinois and Missouri. Kishore talks about how Ameren’s resiliency plans were activated and pressure tested in the face of the pandemic. He goes on to talk about how the role of EA will change as a result of these difficult times.

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Interview with Kunal Das, Chief Architect at SouthState Bank
APR 16, 2020

In this podcast, I speak to Kunal Das, Chief Architect at SouthState bank. Specifically, we discuss the bank’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic and Kunals views on how he sees this event transforming how we go to work and how customers interact with the bank going forward.

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Interview with Kirk Keller, University of Missouri
APR 02, 2020

In this episode, we will be speaking to Kirk Keller, Director of Enterprise Strategy and Architecture at the University of Missouri and how the Coronavirus pandemic has affected and accelerated the universities’ digital transformation.

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