Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. 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HPE shares its approach to workforce enablement with the Telstra executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. 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And this mission extends inward, where HPE is leading the way in embracing a mobile-first digital workforce. At the company\u2019s headquarters, the Telstra executives enjoyed multiple presentations on how the company is transitioning its workforce from a people and process standpoint. HPE isn\u2019t afraid to to rethink the role of desk-based sellers, retrain employees to use new technologies, and shift resources towards new channels like digital learning solutions. By actively improving the wireless workspaces it provides for its employees, HPE reduces infrastructure costs, increases business productivity, and empowers its workforce to work where and how they do so best \u2014 in technical terms, a win-win-win. As the Telstra executives saw, a willingness to embrace new ways of working internally is a powerful tool for adapting to external technological disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HPE shares its approach to workforce enablement with the Telstra executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
First up, another tech company with a long legacy: HP, founded in 1939. Specifically, the executives visited Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)<\/strong><\/a>, one half of HP\u2019s 2015 split into two distinct businesses. HPE provides Hybrid IT environments to enterprise customers \u2014 secure cloud infrastructures, IoT solutions, built-in data analysis, and more. The company\u2019s mission resonated with Telstra: \u201ctechnology innovation that fosters business transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this mission extends inward, where HPE is leading the way in embracing a mobile-first digital workforce. At the company\u2019s headquarters, the Telstra executives enjoyed multiple presentations on how the company is transitioning its workforce from a people and process standpoint. HPE isn\u2019t afraid to to rethink the role of desk-based sellers, retrain employees to use new technologies, and shift resources towards new channels like digital learning solutions. By actively improving the wireless workspaces it provides for its employees, HPE reduces infrastructure costs, increases business productivity, and empowers its workforce to work where and how they do so best \u2014 in technical terms, a win-win-win. As the Telstra executives saw, a willingness to embrace new ways of working internally is a powerful tool for adapting to external technological disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HPE shares its approach to workforce enablement with the Telstra executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
To revitalize its corporate culture, Telstra will need to bring its whole workforce on board \u2014 not an easy task for a company of thousands. The executives visited HPE, LinkedIn, and Slack to learn how the trend of workforce enablement is ensuring employees are connected to a company\u2019s goals, engaged in achieving them, and productive in so doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First up, another tech company with a long legacy: HP, founded in 1939. Specifically, the executives visited Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)<\/strong><\/a>, one half of HP\u2019s 2015 split into two distinct businesses. HPE provides Hybrid IT environments to enterprise customers \u2014 secure cloud infrastructures, IoT solutions, built-in data analysis, and more. The company\u2019s mission resonated with Telstra: \u201ctechnology innovation that fosters business transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this mission extends inward, where HPE is leading the way in embracing a mobile-first digital workforce. At the company\u2019s headquarters, the Telstra executives enjoyed multiple presentations on how the company is transitioning its workforce from a people and process standpoint. HPE isn\u2019t afraid to to rethink the role of desk-based sellers, retrain employees to use new technologies, and shift resources towards new channels like digital learning solutions. By actively improving the wireless workspaces it provides for its employees, HPE reduces infrastructure costs, increases business productivity, and empowers its workforce to work where and how they do so best \u2014 in technical terms, a win-win-win. As the Telstra executives saw, a willingness to embrace new ways of working internally is a powerful tool for adapting to external technological disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HPE shares its approach to workforce enablement with the Telstra executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
To revitalize its corporate culture, Telstra will need to bring its whole workforce on board \u2014 not an easy task for a company of thousands. The executives visited HPE, LinkedIn, and Slack to learn how the trend of workforce enablement is ensuring employees are connected to a company\u2019s goals, engaged in achieving them, and productive in so doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First up, another tech company with a long legacy: HP, founded in 1939. Specifically, the executives visited Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)<\/strong><\/a>, one half of HP\u2019s 2015 split into two distinct businesses. HPE provides Hybrid IT environments to enterprise customers \u2014 secure cloud infrastructures, IoT solutions, built-in data analysis, and more. The company\u2019s mission resonated with Telstra: \u201ctechnology innovation that fosters business transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this mission extends inward, where HPE is leading the way in embracing a mobile-first digital workforce. At the company\u2019s headquarters, the Telstra executives enjoyed multiple presentations on how the company is transitioning its workforce from a people and process standpoint. HPE isn\u2019t afraid to to rethink the role of desk-based sellers, retrain employees to use new technologies, and shift resources towards new channels like digital learning solutions. By actively improving the wireless workspaces it provides for its employees, HPE reduces infrastructure costs, increases business productivity, and empowers its workforce to work where and how they do so best \u2014 in technical terms, a win-win-win. As the Telstra executives saw, a willingness to embrace new ways of working internally is a powerful tool for adapting to external technological disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HPE shares its approach to workforce enablement with the Telstra executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Key takeaway from Google and Cisco:<\/strong> in order to succeed in the intensely dynamic tech industry, large companies must prioritize innovation and be willing to take risks by investing in new technologies and partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To revitalize its corporate culture, Telstra will need to bring its whole workforce on board \u2014 not an easy task for a company of thousands. The executives visited HPE, LinkedIn, and Slack to learn how the trend of workforce enablement is ensuring employees are connected to a company\u2019s goals, engaged in achieving them, and productive in so doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First up, another tech company with a long legacy: HP, founded in 1939. Specifically, the executives visited Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)<\/strong><\/a>, one half of HP\u2019s 2015 split into two distinct businesses. HPE provides Hybrid IT environments to enterprise customers \u2014 secure cloud infrastructures, IoT solutions, built-in data analysis, and more. The company\u2019s mission resonated with Telstra: \u201ctechnology innovation that fosters business transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this mission extends inward, where HPE is leading the way in embracing a mobile-first digital workforce. At the company\u2019s headquarters, the Telstra executives enjoyed multiple presentations on how the company is transitioning its workforce from a people and process standpoint. HPE isn\u2019t afraid to to rethink the role of desk-based sellers, retrain employees to use new technologies, and shift resources towards new channels like digital learning solutions. By actively improving the wireless workspaces it provides for its employees, HPE reduces infrastructure costs, increases business productivity, and empowers its workforce to work where and how they do so best \u2014 in technical terms, a win-win-win. As the Telstra executives saw, a willingness to embrace new ways of working internally is a powerful tool for adapting to external technological disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HPE shares its approach to workforce enablement with the Telstra executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. As Telstra knows better than anyone: no matter how much the technology changes, there will always be a market for connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"Telstra in Silicon Valley: How New Tech Means New Ways of Doing Business","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-06-22 18:21:37","post_modified_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:21:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/telstra-in-silicon-valley-how-new-tech-means-new-ways-of-doing-business\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
The Telstra executives also visited Cisco<\/strong><\/a>, another telecommunications giant leaning into the technologies of the future. For Cisco, corporate innovation is so critical that the company has ten dedicated \u201cInnovation Centers\u201d spread around the globe \u2014 each focused on a different industry like Health, Education, or Finance. Cisco uses these Innovation Centers to explore new transformative technologies like cloud computing and IoT, engage in rapid prototyping, and partner with startups, accelerators, and universities in bringing high-tech solutions to general markets. As the Telstra executives learned from Cisco\u2019s Corporate Strategic Innovation Group, the company\u2019s innovation strategy is simple: \u201cbuild, buy, partner, invest, and co-develop.\u201d This strategy has allowed Cisco to compete in the constantly-changing networking space, and given the Telstra executives a clear path forward for doing the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Google and Cisco:<\/strong> in order to succeed in the intensely dynamic tech industry, large companies must prioritize innovation and be willing to take risks by investing in new technologies and partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To revitalize its corporate culture, Telstra will need to bring its whole workforce on board \u2014 not an easy task for a company of thousands. The executives visited HPE, LinkedIn, and Slack to learn how the trend of workforce enablement is ensuring employees are connected to a company\u2019s goals, engaged in achieving them, and productive in so doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First up, another tech company with a long legacy: HP, founded in 1939. Specifically, the executives visited Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)<\/strong><\/a>, one half of HP\u2019s 2015 split into two distinct businesses. HPE provides Hybrid IT environments to enterprise customers \u2014 secure cloud infrastructures, IoT solutions, built-in data analysis, and more. The company\u2019s mission resonated with Telstra: \u201ctechnology innovation that fosters business transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this mission extends inward, where HPE is leading the way in embracing a mobile-first digital workforce. At the company\u2019s headquarters, the Telstra executives enjoyed multiple presentations on how the company is transitioning its workforce from a people and process standpoint. HPE isn\u2019t afraid to to rethink the role of desk-based sellers, retrain employees to use new technologies, and shift resources towards new channels like digital learning solutions. By actively improving the wireless workspaces it provides for its employees, HPE reduces infrastructure costs, increases business productivity, and empowers its workforce to work where and how they do so best \u2014 in technical terms, a win-win-win. As the Telstra executives saw, a willingness to embrace new ways of working internally is a powerful tool for adapting to external technological disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HPE shares its approach to workforce enablement with the Telstra executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, the Telstra group learned about the organizational framework the company uses to foster employee-driven innovation. LinkedIn sets company-wide goals using a methodology called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). To wit: Objectives offer employees clarity, direction, and purpose; Key Results support them by being measurable, verifiable, and connected to a specific time frame. This method allows the company to meaningfully address the fundamental questions of every business: \u201cwhere do we want to go?\u201d and \u201chow will we know we\u2019re getting there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From top to bottom, LinkedIn\u2019s objectives are aligned and measurable. More importantly, the entire workforce has a meaningful say in these objectives and a firm understanding of their role in achieving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What sounds like a simple strategy has been cited<\/a> as a key factor in LinkedIn\u2019s stunning IPO and subsequent $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. The presentations the Telstra executives saw at LinkedIn convinced them that connecting employees to a company\u2019s mission can pay off big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from HPE and LinkedIn:<\/strong> to retain talent and meet operational goals, large companies should use tools that empower employees to engage with their work and objectives in a meaningful, personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Silicon Valley, the currency of the day is data. The Telstra executives were keen to learn how large companies are incorporating the collection and analysis of data into their operating models in order to take advantage of hidden insights, better engage employees, and intelligently manage sales outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get a taste of this, the Telstra group visited Salesforce<\/strong><\/a>: a market-leading Customer Relationship Platform (CRM) that provides a suite of cloud-based applications for administering sales, service, marketing, collaboration, and more. Salesforce\u2019s Director of Customer Evangelism preached the importance of software that organizes all of a company\u2019s data streams in a single place. These types of platforms allow not just for the easier storage and sharing of critical information, but for the possibility of intelligent understanding. CRM programs and their like can automatically make predictions about future sales, customers, and strategies based on complicated metrics both internal and external \u2014 and can automatically adapt themselves to a company\u2019s needs. What\u2019s more: the ease, portability, and extensibility of such software makes employees lives easier and enables them to work better, faster, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Salesforce Tower, the Telstra executives hear how cloud-based AI\/BI is changing the way companies engage with data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Salesforce emphasized: \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way people work.\u201d The ability to intelligently analyze data is as much an effect as a cause of these changes. By taking advantage of existing analytics tools like Salesforce, large companies like Telstra can modernize their workflows and tap into intelligent insights that already exist \u2014 but are trapped by legacy systems that don\u2019t know how to reach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key takeaway from Salesforce:<\/strong> by using tools that better connect employees to data, large companies can understand \u2014 and act on \u2014 the information flowing throughout their entire organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During their custom SVIC program, the Telstra executives had their key learning priorities addressed by some of Silicon Valley\u2019s most successful companies. From Google and Cisco, they learned that innovative partnerships and a willingness to take risks are the key to staying competitive. HPE and LinkedIn showed them how large companies can keep their global workforces enabled, engaged, and more productive by embracing digital workspaces and methodologies like OKRs. And at Salesforce, the group saw how new technologies can use a company\u2019s existing datasets to produce meaningful AI\/BI for future decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telstra has been at the forefront of telecommunication technology for as long as the technology has existed \u2014 literally. By embracing innovation culture, new ways of working, and the power of data, Telstra can lead Australia into the next century of telecom and beyond. 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