{"id":393723,"date":"2021-04-19T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=393723"},"modified":"2021-04-19T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T10:53:26","slug":"in-conversation-with-greg-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/393723-in-conversation-with-greg-mcdonald.html","title":{"rendered":"In conversation with Greg McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg McDonald is the director of systems engineering at Dell Technologies, a digital transformation pioneer that provides digital technology solutions to help businesses succeed.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald began his career in retail sales at Incredible Connection before moving through the ranks at Dell Technologies to occupy senior managerial roles.<\/p>\n<p>After working as an account executive, sales and systems engineering senior manager, he was appointed as Dell Technologies\u2019 director of systems engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on his extensive background in enterprise IT infrastructure, McDonald is focused on delivering architecture systems that organisations can use to develop the next generation of digital products and services.<\/p>\n<p>In this discussion, McDonald outlines the Digital transformation curve. He describes what a successful digital business looks like and how it needs to transform to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>He discusses barriers to success and what pressures businesses are facing to transform.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he explains how COVID-19 impacted digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Dell Technologies, alongside Intel, was a key sponsor of the MyBroadband Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Greg McDonald is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8VhJDlIMyxw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg McDonald discusses digital transformation curves and how organisations change to succeed as a digital business. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341058,"featured_media":393397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[68518,52093,69431],"class_list":["post-393723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-2021-mybroadband-conference","tag-dell-technologies","tag-greg-mcdonald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393899,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393723\/revisions\/393899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}