This week, our host Raj Nagra brings you a compelling chat with Healthcare expert Denise Wiseman, Chief Community Manager and Founder of The PX Community. Together, Denise and Raj discuss how siloed working in US healthcare is stifling progress which ultimately leads to poor patient care and experience.

Thornton May, Founder of The Digital Value Institute and CIO columnist has a lively discussion with Ideagen's Raj Nagra about how CIOs and IT teams should embrace uncertainty and the ways IT infrastructure is often overlooked across businesses. Hear how you can take “digital steppingstones” to achieve successful digital transformation.

Stuart Rowe, SVP Collaboration here at Ideagen chats to Chris Smith about building a world class culture, what it takes to create a world class culture that fuels high performance, and the role culture plays on collaboration.

AstraZeneca’s Miriam Guest is the Principal Microbiologist of New Modalities & Parenteral Development, Pharmaceutical Technology & Development and Operations. She sits down with Ideagen’s Raj Nagra to discuss what is meant by “technology uplift” and why collaboration is so important across Microbiology labs. Points we cover include: how Microbiology departments and labs have progressed over recent years, the challenges labs have faced when it comes to collaboration and using technology, the need for partnership, how a technology strategy comes into play, the regulatory guidelines and who needs to be involved in an audit process, Miriam’s top tip for when you’re beginning your technology uplift and much more!

Peter Bendor-Samuel Founder and CEO of Everest Group, joins Ideagen’s Joseph Soper on episode three of the ‘Breaking Silos’ podcast to discuss essentials for increasing IT productivity covering: the impact the pandemic has had on collaboration, techniques management can adopt for better collaboration, the four essential factors that must be in place to make agile methods efficient enough, and innovation opportunities.

Brian Jackson, Research Director, CIO at Info-Tech Research Group chats with Ideagen’s Raj Nagra about why there is often a slow end-user adoption of new technology in companies. Points we cover include why it’s so important, from a business perspective, to make sure tech adoption isn’t a slow process, the effect it can have on a business, the pitfalls to look out for and how a CIO can address the challenges, how to go about testing new technology and what emerging innovations, processes and tech are out available, where tech can be useful to you and what the ideal adoption process is. Brian rounds off with giving us his top tips.

We've launched this podcast to help people within digital roles address the big challenges they face and discuss the industry's key themes by leveraging today's best ideas in business and technology to break down old barriers to collaboration and business success. Each week you will be joined by one of our three Breaking Silos hosts from Ideagen and together you will learn from experts across diverse industries to save time, cut costs and simplify your workflows. We aim to help you build a more connected, digital-first tomorrow. In our first episode, we speak to Susan Walsh, Founder and Managing Director of The Classification Guru, to discuss: the dangers of dirty data, what dirty data is and whose job is data management, the role of bad data in procurement, and what companies should do if they're in a mess.