Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

The best run business is run SAP.

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.

Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

We're thrilled to be here.

Happy New Year to our listeners all around the world. It is Wednesday, January 9th, 2019. I hope you change the number on your checks if you still use them. Let's see what our prediction special is going to start with today. We have a buzz from Carl K. Steinkie, Danish politician, 1948. my quote investigator tells me he is the true author of the

following quote. Listen up, it is difficult to make predictions especially about the future.

Well, okay, Carl, thank you for those words of wisdom. So if your number one business wish over the

holidays and now here in January, starting a new year,

is you want to know what does 2019 hold for your company, your industry, your career,

the world, we've got the next best thing. We started in the middle of December. We're

finishing toward the end of January. We've got six weeks of predictions and we've got a lineup of nearly 80. That's

eight zero thought leaders who are sharing their insights about the technologies, the strategies,

the trends that can help your company and perhaps you personally grow and compete if you're

in business in 2019 and beyond. So whatever you've got left over from the holidays, maybe it's a little dumb.

But if you're just drinking Joe or Earl, that's Earl Gray, our good friend, join us for the next hour for SAP Game Changers Radio,

2019 predictions, part four live.

Happy to be here.

I am Bonnie D. Graham, and I'm going to introduce you to my first three

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