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TECHtonic: Trends in Technology and Services — 137 episodes

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134. Rewriting the Rules of SaaS Value

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133. Beyond the Blunt Instrument: Why “It Hallucinated” Isn't an Answer

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132. Rerouting Around the Accident to Build a New Revenue Model

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131. Psychological Safety Is Your AI Strategy

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130. Beyond Billable Hours in Professional Services with Certinia

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129. The AI Bill Is Coming Due: Making Enterprise AI Profitable

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128. SIGNAL Over Noise: AI, Convergence, and the End of Siloed Service

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127. Your Customers Have Been Telling a Story. AI Can Finally Read It.

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126. Live from the 2026 TSIA Board Summit: Executive Leaders Debate the Future of Services

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125. Outsourcing Impact: A New Playbook for Customer Success Leaders

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124. Science Meets Strategy: Inside Agilent’s Growth Engine

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123. How to Beat Bigger Competitors (Without Bigger Teams)

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122. Staying Strategic in an AI-Driven Marketing World

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121. Moving Beyond AI Experiments to Real Business Value

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120. AI vs. Renewal vs. Churn: Who Wins in 2026?

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119. How Leaders Turn AI Into Compounding Business Value

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118. Are Micro Verticals the Key to AI Profitability?

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117. The AI Economics™ Experts React to What Enterprise Tech Isn’t Saying Out Loud

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116. The AI Last Mile: How AptEdge Is Redefining Enterprise Support

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115. Accomplishing Field Service Excellence with Trust, Transparency, and Delivery

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114. When AI Becomes the Strategy, Not the Tool

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113. What AI-Native Startups Teach Us About Enterprise Evolution

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112. Modern Support at Scale

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111. AI, Customer Success, and the Blurring Lines of Services

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110. Rewriting the Rules of Work with Workday AI

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109. The Future Belongs to Adaptive Expertise

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108. Boring AI That Wins Big in the XaaS World

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107. AI Isn’t Just a Feature It’s a Go-to-Market Strategy

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106. No Seats Just Value as Docusign Redefines Customer Success

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105. End of the Gut: AI Is the New Sales Instinct

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104. The Future of the Office is Intentional

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103. No Hype Just Stategy Real Lessons From Deploying AI in the Enterprise

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102. Quoting the Future: AI, CPQ, and the PS Profit Revolution

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101. TSIA World INTERACT - Four Forces Changing Tech Business Models

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100. Highlights From the Best of TECHtonic

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99. From Cost Center to Value Driver: The New ES Reality

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98. IBM & AI: Redesigning Support for the Future

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97. The Power of Ambient AI in Customer Support

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96. The AI-Powered Future of B2B Marketing

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95. AI-Driven Sales and Professional Services: Insights from ZoomInfo

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94. Building a Business in a Competitive Market – Lessons from Specialty Coffee

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93. How the Future of Competitive Analysis is Redefining Sales Strategy

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92. Navigating the Next Phase of Your Tech Career

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91. The Future of Field Services: Harnessing AI for Precision and Productivity

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90. Excellence in AI: How Small Victories Drive Major Success

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89. Achieve Faster Deal Velocity Through Maximized Pricing Profitability

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88. AI and Revenue Generation - Transformative Use Cases for Tech Companies

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87. How to Navigate The Future of B2B Software Pricing

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86. Rapid AI-Powered Revenue Excellence

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85. The Metrics That Matter: How AI Is Reshaping Sales in Tech

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84. Applying the AI First Mentality to Revenue Generation

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83. The Hard Truth About Mastering Change Management

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82. Practical Ways to Unlock Revenue Growth with AI

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TSIA Takes: Gainsight on How to Redefine Customer Success

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81. Connecting the Dots: How Technology Providers Prove Their Business Value

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TSIA Takes: Salesforce and the Customer Success + Support Services Experiment

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80. Infor’s Guide to Future-Proofing Your Customer Success

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79. Transformation and Innovation with Maptek's CEO

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78. Unleashing the Power of AI in Educational Content Creation

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77. Executive Panel: Deploying AI to Optimize Customer Outcomes and Financial Results

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76. Scaling Customer Success with AI: A Deep Dive with Microsoft

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75. Informatica’s Digital First Customer Experience

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74. Crossing the Rubicon of Infrastructure Profitability

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73. The Art of Using AI to Build a Seamless Customer Experience with Dell

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72. AI Sizzle vs AI Substance

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71. Don’t Blink! Cisco on As-A-Service and AI

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70. The State of Customer Success 2024 - A Fight for Survival

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69. Change Management: The Key to AI Success

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68. How to Go From Base Camper to Mountaineer?

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67. Channel Partners and Technology Providers: A Team Sport Therapy Session

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66. Redefining Customer Success with Salesforce and TSIA

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65. The Differentiator Between Good and Great

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64. The Intricacies of Digital Transformation with Deloitte

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*Bonus Episode* AI Capabilities Integrations: Stay Ahead of the Curve

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63. What Have We Learned?

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62. Risk, Cash Flow, and Financial Health in SaaS: The Financial Advisor Interview

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61. The Evolution of Customer Success and Renewals at HP Inc.

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60. Moment of Truth: Talking Customer Success with an Executive and Investor

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59. Microsoft on Customer Success Today

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58. How Culture Drives Results: Insights from a Culture Scientist

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57. Looking to the Future: Professional Services at Salesforce

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56. Profitability: Thoughts from a SaaS CEO

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55. Insight from Dell: What Managed Services Means Today

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54. A Win for Everybody: Talking Customer Success with Ernst & Young

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53. Cognite’s Chief Product Officer on Nuance, Innovation, and Product

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52. The Opportunities and Threats of AI for B2B Customers in 2023

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51. XaaS at SimCorp: Selling Outcomes and Cost-Efficiently Growing Revenue

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50. Customer Success: Meh-ga Insights from Gainsight

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49. Data-Driven Everything: A Conversation with John Deere

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48. Scaling Customer Success with RingCentral’s Resident Expert

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47. Still a $21-Billion Dollar Industry? Face-to-Face Events in 2023

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46. Making Renewals Easier: A Conversation with Blackline

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45. The Science of Selling: A Chief Revenue Officer’s Perspective

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44. Tactical Approaches to As-a-Service: A Conversation with IBM

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43. Being a SaaS CEO in 2023

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42. Customer Success–Product Management Handshake: A Conversation with Cisco

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41. The Chief Customer Officer: Championing the Customer Experience

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40. Customer-Centric: What Does It Really Mean?

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39. Reborn into the Cloud

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38. Researcher Hot Takes

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37. Why a Chief Revenue Officer is Indispensable

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36. Strategic Moves to Grow Subscription Business

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35. The Missing Pieces of Your B2B Customer Experience

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34. The Uncomplicated Answer to Your Digital Customer Experience Transformation

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33. The Tale of Two Grizzled Veterans of the Tech Industry

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32. Hug the Bear

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31. The Reality of Being an Effective Technology Leader - Take a Step

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30. Across the Board: a Tech Leader’s Experience

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29. A Profitable Vision: Pursuing Digital Transformation

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28. Digital Hesitation: Is it Killing your Company?

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27. Products that Climb the Value Ladder

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26. Compelling Digital Content and the Future of Customer Education

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25. Healthcare vs. Technology Industry: Spot the Difference

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24. CDW: On Becoming THE End-to-End Technology Solution Provider

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23. X-as-a-Service: Everything You Need to Know to Start the Journey

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22. Ethical Dilemmas in Customer Success

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21. The Spiral Career Growth Blueprint

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20. How to Use the Customer Experience to Drive Digital Transformation

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19. Customer-Led Growth

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18. Impacting the Customer Experience Through Data Analytics

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17. How the Value Propositions of Technology Products are Changing

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16. What Customers Really Want

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15. Services Portfolio Offers

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14. Scale Your Customer Success Organization for the Future

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13. Zone to Win

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12. The Hybrid Workforce

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11. Women in Tech: A Book for Guys

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10. The Case for Transformation

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9. Role of the Channel with XaaS Offers

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8. The Role of Sales in XaaS Transformation

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7. Product Led Growth

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6. Adoption Aptitude

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5. Analytics Driven Insights

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4. Signal Liquidity

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3. Robust XaaS Revenues

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2. Low Friction Land

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1. Overview: The Haves and Have Nots