486: Emmet B. Keeffe III, Operating Partner at Insight Partners and founder of Insight IGNITE, discusses:

• The three parts of Insight’s investment thesis
  
• An overview of the company’s digital acceleration program, Insight IGNITE
  
• The challenges of communication between IT and the rest of the business
  
• How Insight Partners can save IT leaders many trips to Silicon Valley by finding tech globally
  
• How the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the areas the company has invested in
  
• The four types of boards that exist based on the size and maturity of those companies and the assistance each needs from its directors
  
• The increased importance on creativity for humans with more AI and automation
  
• Emmet’s take on IoT, the cloud, automation, 5G, and RPA
  

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.