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.

If you want to run with the game changers, oh, come on.

By now, you know we're broadcasting live from SAP

Sapphire now, 2017 in beautiful Orlando, Florida. I haven't seen too much of Orlando because

we've been doing a lot of broadcasting. I think we're up to what, 26, 27, 2832 interviews in

three days. And what are we talking about right now? We're talking about what is making today's C-Suite excited to go to work. And the one word is growth. And I'm going to tell you about that in a second. I found an interesting quote from a gentleman, a writer named Gordon Docherty, D-A-U-G-H-W-E-R-T-Y at Shockwave Innovations.com from 2013. Listen carefully. He says, experiencing rapid growth

is different from having scalability. We've got two keywords in there. Growth is an aspiration

or end result while scalability is a capability that may or may not get exercise. That is a

wallop of a packing the punch of a quote.

So we're going to talk right now about when M&A, that's mergers and acquisitions,

creates disparate business applications. You know you're putting companies together,

systems together, peoples together, sometimes companies, cultures, it's sometimes a potpourri.

As a company grows, how can you consolidate on a single ERP system?

Because that's what it's all about.

So I have two special guests here.

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