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A podcast for women’s voices and perspectives in today’s digital world. What does it mean to be a woman in the world of digital business? Of course, anyone who identifies as a woman will have their own answer to this question based on their unique background and experiences. At ISG, we are committed to investigating and understanding how women leaders are navigating the digital landscape globally. We love to learn from the smart women leading our industry. ISG’s Digital Dish is a monthly pod ...
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Digital Dish 31: From the Frontlines of the Healthcare Industry to the Digital Forefront
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Remember the days when it would take weeks, or even months, to get your results from medical tests? When a routine hospital checkup would take up the best part of a day? When doctors could be seen carrying great wads of paper notes as they made their patient rounds? It wasn’t that long ago, but due to the pressures of COVID-19 and recent technologi…
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Digital Dish 30: Makeup and the Metaverse: Elevating Luxury Brands’ Customer Experience
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When you’re looking to buy a luxury product, how do you choose which product you buy? Today, consumers are faced with an unprecedented abundance of choices, and their expectations are in a perpetual flux. This constantly shifting consumer landscape presents a formidable challenge for retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands seeking to build …
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Digital Dish 29: Balance & Joy at Work: It’s All About EX
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As the modern workplace is disrupted time and time again, employees struggle to establish a sense of purpose and contentment in their work. With more people working remotely, the lines between professional and personal life have blurred, making it harder to set boundaries and find balance. And a multi-generational workforce with different needs and…
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Digital Dish 28: Empowering Women in India’s Tech Industry
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The technology industry is undoubtedly one of the fastest-paced and most innovative sectors to work in, and India has rapidly established itself as a leading global technology hub. In this episode of ISG’s Digital Dish, we shine a spotlight on the role of women in tech in India. Guest host and Chief Data and Analytics Officer at ISG, Kathy Rudy spe…
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Digital Dish 27: Grit & Grace: Overcoming Bias in the Tech Industry
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Technology plays a part in every aspect of our lives, so diversity in tech is critical – and can benefit both the tech industry and society at large. If you’ve ever helped a child go to a public restroom, you might have an understanding of what we mean. Whether it’s the height of the sink, the toilet or the light switch, a child struggles to use ma…
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Digital Dish 26: On a Transformation Journey? People are Your Power!
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Given recent global events and current economic disruption, change has never felt so constant and so urgent. It’s safe to say that most organizations have embarked on at least one major digital transformation project in the last 36 months. With all these deep investments, it’s alarming to learn that the vast majority of business transformations fai…
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Digital Dish 25: Be Yourself at Work and Unlock Your Career
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Have you ever been hired or promoted into a new role where you feel like you have to be someone you’re not? It’s exhausting to constantly measure yourself against unrealistic expectations, to hold back from behaving authentically, or to emulate a leadership style that’s counter to your preferred ways of working. And yet despite the downsides to pro…
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Digital Dish 24: Introducing Your Authentic Self via Personal Branding
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Understanding your authentic self is one thing. Knowing how to position that authentic self professionally via a personal brand is another thing entirely, and it has never been more important to career growth than it is today. But both the understanding and the positioning can be incredibly challenging – you may find yourself struggling with where …
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Digital Dish 23: Make Meditation Your Power Move
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In this episode of the Digital Dish, Missy Lawrence speaks to our guest Dr. Rebecca Harvey about several key issues affecting women today. They begin by discussing the lack of women in senior positions and why women are still missing out on promotions despite research that shows companies run by women and that include women in senior positions are …
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Digital Dish 22: We Need to Talk About Cultural Bias in AI
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Featuring: In a special segment, ISG Vice Chairman and President Todd Lavieri announces the inaugural ISG Women in Digital Awards ceremony. Learn more about how to participate here. Then, we move into our regular program: this time, Digital Dish host Jeanne Cuff is speaking to Radhika Krishnan, Chief Product Officer, Hitachi Vantara. Radhika is pas…
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Digital Dish 21: Stop Fearing the Non-linear Career Path
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The path to career success is not a linear one, especially for women in tech. This episode of the ISG Digital Dish explores the power of following your passion, as well as some of the inherent challenges of working in this industry, where women are still hugely underrepresented. Taylor Card, Hannah Stapleton and Allie Woodcock join host Jeanne Cuff…
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Digital Dish 20: Company Culture: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
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In this episode of the ISG Digital Dish, Jeanne Cuff and Lois Coatney interview their new co-host Missy Lawrence-Johnston. Missy is a Culture & Change Leadership expert with a passion for organizational effectiveness and human capital optimization. She shares her insights on why she believes companies should be examining their organizational cultur…
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Digital Dish 19: How to Start a Women-in-Digital Program
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In 2018, ISG Partner Lois Coatney launched the ISG Women in Digital program, now run by Kimberly Tobias. Her vision was to create a group dedicated to connecting, educating, empowering and recognizing women as they navigate the changing world of business and the IT industry and make the most of their futures. In this episode of the ISG Digital Dish…
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In recent months, much ink has been spilled over the rising numbers of people leaving their jobs. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the workplace and the global economy, the wave of resignations is just another sign of the change. The trend originated in the U.S. in early 2021 and has been reshaping the global labor market ever since. I…
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Digital Dish 17: The Industrialization of IT
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Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, IT industrialization was already revolutionizing the way we do business. The pandemic has only increased the need for enterprises to improve performance and efficiency to retain competitive advantage. Tune into this episode to learn how a resilient, reliable and optimized IT organization is key to improving service, …
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The differences between men and women have been the subject of thorny debates for centuries. Still today, stories can be found in the media that vastly exaggerate these differences. Yet, much of modern research fails to support many of the gender-based stereotypes with which we are all familiar. Numerous studies have shown that the differences betw…
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ISG Digital Dish 15: Finding Entrepreneurial Passion and Purpose
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For many thousands of people across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst for starting their own business. Despite the huge risks associated with launching a new venture during a global crisis, the number of newly created businesses has increased significantly in recent months. Data from the United States Census Bureau show that in Januar…
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Digital Dish 14: Trust Your Inner Wisdom. It’s Usually Right!
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Over the past year, many working women have faced intense challenges brought on by the pandemic. This has been especially true for women who have been trying to balance their careers with the needs of young children. Working from home has certainly provided the flexibility to facilitate that balance, but it also has thrown its own challenges into t…
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Digital Dish Episode 13: Leaning In and Leading Remotely
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The pandemic not only accelerated the trend to remote work but forever changed the way we think about working remotely. With more employees than ever before now regularly working from home, employers and business leaders are having to adapt their management styles to ensure they stay engaged with their teams, wherever they are based. How can manage…
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Digital Dish Episode 12: Teaching Girls STEM
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In an age shaped by technological advancement, it is alarming to see that girls are still vastly underrepresented in STEM subjects. U.S. data shows that 74 percent of middle school girls show an interest in STEM subjects and careers, yet only 0.4 percent choose to pursue these options in college. What is creating this disconnect between girls and S…
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There has been much debate in the media about the challenges women encounter on re-entering the workplace after a career break – often after caring for older family members or having children. Over the past year, these challenges have been further highlighted for women. It’s been shown that women more than men have borne the brunt of childcare resp…
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10. “Couch Time” with Leadership Coach, Mary Patry
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U.S. statistics show that around 50 percent of computer science graduates are women. Yet, when you look at the middle management layer in most IT organizations, women fill less than 20 percent of these positions. Leadership coach Mary Patry believes several factors are at play here. Aside from the unequal impact the global pandemic has had on women…
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The global pandemic transformed the world of work almost overnight. Face-to-face interaction has become a thing of the past in many industries – particularly service industries – for now at least. Recruitment has been especially turned upside down. Recruiters have had to find new ways to remotely assess candidates and make sure new hires are onboar…
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8. What has the pandemic ever done for us?
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When Kayla Harrington, then student now Legal Research Assistant at Thomson Reuters, wrote a blog about inherent gender bias in society, she was clearly hoping to raise the profile of the issue. But she didn’t anticipate that her blog would gain the attention of her father Jeff Harrington, whose eyes were opened to the issues she raised, or that it…
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With any corporate investment, there is always a careful balance between the cost to the organization and the benefit it brings. Right now, budgets are under huge pressure because of the unprecedented challenges of the global COVID pandemic, forcing companies to make difficult decisions about where to make cuts. At the same time, we’ve seen a huge …
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The concept of agile in the technology product development field is not new. It originates back in the 1990s and, by the mid-2000s, had started to replace the more linear waterfall methodology of software development, particularly in newer tech firms where large software development practices simply weren’t available or affordable. This has, of cou…
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Over the coming years, the gig economy is predicted to grow at an unprecedented rate. This year, due to the global COVID pandemic and the subsequent economic disruption, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the numbers of people seeking new, more flexible working models. In particular, 21 to 38-year-olds are turning to the gig economy as a way to take ba…
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ISG Digital Dish Episode 4 - Getting Down With the Data
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Data is big and getting bigger, yet in some business areas it’s less well understood and used than in others. This seems to be the case for HR, where data is often viewed simply as a by-product of business activity rather than a valuable resource in its own right. Data can help us make sense of the world and drive business decisions, especially in …
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ISG Digital Dish Episode 3 - Know Thyself
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Despite what many people think, personality type is a more accurate indicator of how we handle change than age. Understanding our character and how we instinctively react to change, including the way it affects our confidence, our stress levels and our tolerance is especially important right now. The need for self-awareness has never been greater a…
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ISG Digital Dish Episode 2 - Paycheck or Passion? A conversation with Maria Pardee of DXC Technology
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Should you follow your heart or your head when it comes to career decisions? That’s one of the themes of the latest episode of the ISG Digital Dish podcast. Co-hosts Jeanne Cuff, Julie Fernandez and Lois Coatney discuss valuable guidance they’ve gathered along the way that can be applied in both professional and personal ways. Their guest this week…
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ISG Digital Dish COVID-19 Special Edition: Mindfulness, Motivation and Mohawks
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In this special edition of the ISG Digital Dish, co-hosts Lois Coatney, Jeanne Cuff and Julie Fernandez, together with ISG colleague Catrin Podmore, discuss the challenges of working from home under lockdown. Problems with technology and equipment, home-schooling needs, ever-present family and bandwidth issues combine to create a unique and often d…
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ISG Digital Dish Podcast Episode 1 - Plan Now for the Future You
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Welcome to the first episode of the ISG Smartalks™ podcast series "The Digital Dish". Join co-hosts Lois Coatney, Julie Fernandez and Jeanne Cuff as they explore what it means to be a woman in the world of digital business. In this episode, they discuss the power of leveraging digital technology within our roles, regardless of our business function…
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