Sree Chadalavada is currently a product executive at Cisco. Before that, he was a managing partner at Gartner where he helped companies lead digital transformations. Prior to Gartner, Sree worked in various leadership roles in telecom, technology consulting and start-up related companies. 

Timestamps:

3:48 - Software eats the world

7:43 - Are we in a bubble today?

10:31 - Are we in the early or late innings of software?

15:31 - Shift in software education

19:15 - What is digital strategy?

20:00 - How do non-tech companies think about digital strategy?

21:45 - What is digital transformation?

23:49  - Walking a company through digital transformation

28:31 - Navigating the human side of digital transformation

31:15 - How do you create a learning organization?

33:18 - How do you get buy-in from non-technical leaders?

35:41 - Communicating plans with public markets

42:24 - Earnings manipulation and transformation narratives

45:44 - Innovating at Cisco

50:09 - Sree’s favorite software 

52:17 - Vasanth and Faraz state their favorite software