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Executive Intelligence - Certinia founder Deb Ashton on the changing services business, learning from customers, and seizing opportunities as they come

Deb Ashton has been one of the constants at Certinia through more than two decades of change. In this podcast, she reflects on some of the lessons learned, the challenges for services businesses today, and being ready to seize opportunity.

Executive Intelligence - cloud ERP, AI, and customer priorities - an open discussion with Acumatica's Jani and Mehta

Does AI make cloud ERP irrelevant - or deliver on its promise? And how to we line up AI innovations with customer needs, rather than sell them on tech for its own sake? In the lead up to Acumatica Summit 2026, Jon Reed had an open discussion with Acumatica's Ali Jani and Miten Mehta. But would Jani and Mehta share Jon's AI hype frustrations, or counter them? Listen in...

The diginomica network podcast - Mollie Brentnall, Director of IT at Crawford & Company

Mollie Brentnall, Director of IT for Crawford & Company UK, discusses how her background as a professional fencing coach shaped her approach to technology leadership, networking, and supporting diverse talent in the tech sector.

The diginomica network podcast - Thomas Kleine-Möllhoff, CIO of Gardena

Thomas Kleine-Möllhoff, CIO of garden tools manufacturer Gardena and VP of IT at parent company Husqvarna Group, discusses how standardisation creates the foundation for innovation rather than stifling it. Drawing on his experience at Pfizer and Coca-Cola, Kleine explains how a 60-year-old gardening company empowers staff to experiment with AI and emerging tech while maintaining operational discipline.

Executive Intelligence - Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove on transforming fragmented supply chains

In this episode of Executive Intelligence, diginomica's Derek du Preez speaks with Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder, about transforming supply chain management — from fragmented point solutions to an integrated end-to-end platform approach, and how AI is pragmatically being applied to deliver real examples of business value rather than hype. 

Executive Intelligence - CEO of IFS Nexus Black Kriti Sharma on what it takes to succeed with industrial AI

In our latest Executive Intelligence podcast, Phil Wainewright speaks to Kriti Sharma, CEO IFS Nexus Black, for an inside view on IFS' pursuit of industrial AI. The two explore the upside of industrial AI but also how to address the risk factors. Is autonomous AI viable in industrial settings? If so, how should it be managed? Listen in...

Executive Intelligence - r.Potential CEO Greg Shewmaker on the brave new world of Digital Labor

On the brink of Dreamforce 2025, dignomica's Stuart Laughlan caught up with r.Potential CEO Greg Shewmaker to hash out the transition to a new world of Digital Labor, and the changes that entails for organizations as they deepen their AI initiatives.

Executive Intelligence - UiPath CEO Daniel Dines gets real about agentic AI

UiPath’s SAP transformation became a use case for automation-first ERP - achieving a 93% clean core and scaling finance 7x revenue without adding headcount. But what does “agentic ERP” really look like in practice? Can AI agents work alongside humans and robots without adding risk? And what lessons can technical founders take from scaling UiPath from Bucharest to a global platform? Listen to CEO Daniel Dines in conversation with diginomica’s Alyx MacQueen. 

Executive Intelligence - Sage CTO Aaron Harris on how he built a different kind of AI for finance (and why SaaS is not dead!)

Sage's 2017 purchase of SaaS finance innovator Intacct has become one of the most improbable acquisition stories in the history of enterprise software. Our hot seat guest, Sage CTO Aaron Harris, was in the middle of all of it. But bringing multi-tenant finance innovation to the rest of Sage was just the beginning. Now SaaS faces a disruptive challenge of its own, via the rise of agentic AI. How has Harris and team responded? And what has Harris learned from customer AI adoption? In our latest podcast, Jon Reed of diginomica digs in. 

 

Executive Intelligence - Acumatica CEO John Case on why AI won't kill cloud ERP, if you get verticals right

Acumatica is at a crossroads - and so is cloud ERP. Acumatica CEO John Case joins diginomica's Jon Reed to take on the tough questions facing ERP vendors: can ERP withstand AI disruptions? Is modern ERP an oxymoron? Why is ERP for industry verticals the new imperative? Case makes his case for Acumatica's differentiating approach.