Go Beyond The Connection

Go Beyond the Connection is a show for business leaders, IT pros, and anyone obsessed with how connectivity shapes the modern enterprise. Listen and explores what happens beyond the internet connection—where technology, resilience, and real-world business needs intersect.In each episode, we speak with industry experts, innovators, and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of cloud connectivity, network performance, and digital infrastructure. From hybrid work to SD-WAN, from customer experience to business continuity, we dig into the strategies that power today’s most connected organizations.Whether you’re leading IT transformation, navigating the challenges of multi-site networking, or simply want to stay sharp on emerging tech, Go Beyond the Connection delivers actionable insights in a human, engaging format. It’s not just about the tech—it’s about the people and stories behind it.Tune in, subscribe, and discover how to future-proof your business one conversation at a ti

Go Beyond The Connection is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 42 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Go Beyond The Connection, a technology show with 42 episodes published.

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  Episode #41

  The CIO's New Mandate as Institutional Intelligence Architect

  May 13, 202630 minS0

  <p>Most CIOs are still fighting to be seen as more than a support function. Erich Gazaui, Chief Information Officer at Papa, has a different frame entirely. For him, the role is not about keeping systems running. It is about architecting how information moves through an organization, who has access to it, whether it can be trusted, and how it ultimately shapes the decisions a business makes.</p><p>In this episode of Go Beyond the Connection, Erich explains why systems without proper information governance are often worse than no system at all. He describes how spreadsheet-based workflows quietly age...

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  Episode #40

  Why Most AI Deployments Fail (And How to Fix the Sequence) | Go Beyond the Connection with ChaChi Gallo

  Apr 29, 202630 minS0

  <p>ChaChi Gallo, Vice President of Information Technology at Michels Corporation, joins host Steve MacDonald to explain what it actually takes to build a digital job site -- and why most organizations get the sequence wrong.</p><p>Michels is a Wisconsin-based infrastructure contractor building the foundational systems that power modern construction: fiber networks, energy infrastructure, and some of the largest data center projects underway in the country. ChaChi leads IT strategy across an environment that is distributed, unpredictable, and operationally demanding in ways that most enterprise IT frameworks were never designed to handle.</p><p>In this conversation, ChaChi...

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  Episode #39

  The Connected Kitchen: Restaurants Are Now Technology Companies with Jim Basar

  Apr 14, 202629 minS0

  <p>Jim Basar, VP of Enterprise Business Group at Intwine Connect, LLC, explains how restaurants now rely on internet connectivity for point-of-sale systems, digital menu boards, guest Wi-Fi, delivery platforms, and connected kitchen systems. He shows how reliable connectivity supports revenue, customer experience, labor efficiency, food safety, and data-driven operations across locations. He also outlines how stronger connectivity strategies, blended carrier options, and dependable support partners help restaurant brands scale confidently in both urban and rural markets.</p>“What we’re seeing is almost a gold rush of technology going into the restaurant space right now, driven by the move towa...

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  Episode #38

  Connectivity Insurance: BJ Olson and Ryan Bowden on Protecting Revenue | Ep. 038

  Mar 30, 202629 minS0

  <p>Most businesses treat internet connectivity like a utility — something that is simply there until it is not. BJ Olson and Ryan Bowden have spent their careers watching what happens when that assumption meets reality, and the cost is almost always higher than anyone expected.</p><p>BJ Olson is the Founder of twenty7 Technology Group, a technology solutions firm helping businesses design and deploy reliable, resilient connectivity strategies. Ryan Bowden is a Technology Consultant at twenty7 Technology Group, bringing more than a decade of experience managing connectivity across large-scale distributed retail environments. Together, they make a practical and direct ca...

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  Episode #37

  The Future of Connected Care: Why Incremental Change Wins in Healthcare | Go Beyond the Connection with Falko Buttler

  Mar 12, 202626 minS0

  <p>Healthcare modernization sounds straightforward until you look at what teams are actually working with. Faxes. CDs in the mail. Record sharing that is supposed to happen but often does not. Pricing that no one can explain upfront.</p><p>Falko Buttler, Chief Technology Officer at Lantern, has spent more than 20 years building technology inside that reality. In this episode, he explains why big system overhauls tend to fail in healthcare and why small, incremental changes are the safer and more effective path forward.</p><p>You will hear Falko cover:</p>Why friction in healthcare is often structural, not...

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