Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world? Well, your father says so, and your father knows best. Yes, it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father.  The coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of coffee at any price. Maxwell House, always good to the last drop. Slap a bunch of poets together, and at least one thing is bound to emerge. A new definition of love. In one of his flossier moments, Shakespeare wrote, Love is a smoke raised with a fume of sighs, which is very nice if you go in for that sort of thing. The messers Thurber and White, on the other hand, viewed the emotion with a more practical eye. Love, they said, is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. In Springfield, in the White Frame House on Maple Street, the Andersons probably have ideas of their own on this ethereal subject, like, well, like this. I think I'll have a little more rice. Would you mind passing it, Betty? Yes, Father. Jim. Honey, let's not start that business about rice being fattening. It isn't. Well, you were the one who said that you're wasteful. Margaret, rice is not fattening. It's the stuff you put on it. Like butter. You put butter on anything that's fattening. But have you ever seen me put butter on my rice? No, dear. You darn right you haven't. Kathy, please pass the gravy. Here you are, Daddy. Now that you've mentioned it, what's wrong with my waistline? I haven't gained a pound in 20 years. What was that? Well, maybe two pounds. Daddy. Look at Bud. Why? I've been looking at him for 15 years. He isn't eating his dinner. Well, maybe he's got problems. Bud. Bud. Yes, dear. Dear. Bud, what's the matter with you? Jim, maybe he doesn't feel well. He's in love.  Well, he is. Bud, do you feel all right? Bud. I'll answer. Sit down. Don't you want me to answer the phone? It didn't ring. Will you please sit down? Something rang. I can still hear it. Kind of like bells. Jim, I think he is ill. He's in love. Love. Bud, if you don't feel well, go to your room.  Maybe it's the doorbell. I didn't hear anything. Bud. I just heard it again. Jim, something is wrong. I don't like the look in his eyes. You know, for the first time in her life, Kathy may be right.  On your brother. He looks like a cross between Boris Karloff and a contented cow. All right, Bud. Let's stop all this ridiculous moaning and groaning. What's wrong? Dad. Yes? Have you ever been in love? Why, Bud? I mean, really in love. With a girl. Well, your mother wasn't exactly a rhinoceros. You ought to see her eyes, Dad. They're blue. The bluest eyes you ever saw. Both of them. Only has two, huh? And hair. The most beautiful hair. Like the sun shining on the home plate. Bud, is this a girl or a double-header between the Yanks and Cleveland? It's a girl, the most wonderful girl in the whole world.  Food? How can you think of food at a time like this? I don't think I'll ever eat again. Not ever. I remember when I first met your mother. I went through the same thing. People thought I was going to starve to death. And did you? No, I managed to pull through. Daddy. Yes, Cathy? How long didn't you eat? Oh, I don't know. I don't remember exactly. I know I missed practically one entire lunch. Jim, Dad. What is it, lock and bar? Who? What do you want? When you and Mom fell in love, what'd you do? Don't you think you're getting a little nosy? No, I mean, how did you know you were in love? How often did you see one another? Oh, a few times a week, something like that. Jim, you were there every night and you know it. Margaret, you're being absolutely no help at all. Bud isn't serious about this girl, are you, Bud? Boy, am I. I mean, he isn't thinking about marriage or anything ridiculous like that, are you? What is ridiculous about marriage? Margaret, he's 15 years old. Oh, I don't mean for Bud. Well, we weren't talking about Errol Flynn. Naturally, Bud isn't going to do anything foolish. Not yet at any rate. Of course not.  That's not what I meant and you know it. Bud is a sensible boy, aren't you, dear? Sure. And he knows that he's much too young. He has a lot of time for girls, haven't you, dear? Boy, have I. Bud, let's look at this thing in a more practical manner. You know, going out with girls can be kind of expensive. Flowers, candy, movies. Well, that's one of the things I wanted to talk about, Dad. You see, I only get a dollar and a quarter a week. Yes. How can you take a girl out on a dollar and a quarter a week? You can't. Well, that's why I was thinking... Bud, if you're really sincere about this girl, if you think your life and happiness depend on her, well, do what I did. What did you do when you were sitting on her front porch? Gosh, what kind of fun can you have on a front porch?  Jim.  Didn't we, honey? Yes, dear. Night after night, week after week. We just sat there and held hands. And looked at the moon. A large, lovely, friendly moon. Never got so sick and tired of looking at anything in my whole life. Why, Jim... Well, let's face it, the same darn thing every night. Just sit there and look at the moon. There were a great many other boys who were perfectly willing to take your place. But I wouldn't let them, would I? You certainly wouldn't. You were the stubbornest thing I've ever known. I was cute. And I knew a good thing when I saw it. Dad. Now what? When you were sure that Mom was the right one for you.  Well, I... What did we do, Margaret? Well, you made me get all dressed up in my best bib and tucker, and you took me home to visit your family. That's right. I can still feel my knees knocking. Was I ever scared? Not half as scared as I was. Well, it turned out all right, though, didn't it, honey? Mm-hmm. They fell in love with you just like I did. But where are you going? I'll be right back, Dad. I have to make a phone call.  Leave the boy alone, Jim. It's his first big love. It's got to get used to it. Love. Betty, you haven't said a pleasant word all evening. What's gotten into you? She isn't eating her dinner either. Why don't you do your homework? Do it over again. Can't I just keep still? All right, but see that you do. Betty, do you feel all right? I feel fine. She had a fight with Billy Smith. I thought you were going to keep still. Well, if I did, nobody'd ever get to know anything around here. We'd find out somehow. Betty, if you and Billy Smith had another argument... I never want to see him again as long as I live. I thought you were getting along fine. We were until he met that Eloise March, that little snip. Who's Eloise March? Just the worst little flirt in town, that's all. And if he wants her, he can have her. Betty, I wouldn't get all upset about it if I were you. I'm not upset. I'm not the least bit upset. I just wouldn't give you three cents for all the men in the world, that's all. I would. This Eloise March must be quite a caring kid. She's a vampire, that's what she is. Is she pretty? How do I know? I've never even seen her. I'm through with men. I'm going to have a career. Taking it pretty hard, isn't she? Well, she and Billy have been friends for so long. What do you think we ought to do? Mommy. What is it, dear? Aren't you glad I don't do anything except break when...  Well, it's all set, Dad. I called her and she's coming over. Who's coming over? My girl. But why in the name of all that's holy? Well, you said to bring her over, didn't you? I said no such thing. But that's what you did. You said so. But this is not the time to bring a girl around for having enough trouble with girls. Your sister and Eloise March and... How did you know? How did I know what? About Eloise March. What about Eloise March? That's my girl. Oh, no. Now, that's wonderful coffee. Welcome words you can hear across your breakfast table from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am, he'll be there, that number one expert, because he's your husband. Naturally, we think we're pretty fair experts. Our Maxwell House Coffee is America's favorite brand. But the person with the final say, the one we both want to please, is that husband of yours. And if you'll make his breakfast coffee, Maxwell House, we're mighty sure he'll tell you, mmm, that's wonderful coffee. Matter of fact, if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.  It's the only coffee with that famous good to the last drop flavor. Get Maxwell House tomorrow and start serving it to your husband. And if he doesn't say it's the best coffee he ever tasted, why send us the can and unused portion, and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address is on the front of every one of those familiar blue tins. Tomorrow, find out how much the world's greatest coffee expert enjoys Maxwell House Coffee. Always good to the last drop. These are parlous times in which we live and days of great decision. In the world, men of substance watch the headlines with an anxious eye, keeping one ear to the ground and the other glued to the radio, which is a neat trick if you can do it. Jim Anderson may not quite succeed, but in the living room of the White Frame House on Maple Street, he's giving it quite a try, like this. Margaret, why don't people leave things where they belong? Margaret! What is it, Jim? What happened to my large map of Korea? It was right here on the table. What's the matter? All those maps on the floor, and Bud's friend is going to be here any moment. Margaret, I'm waiting for a very important broadcast. It's coming from all over the world, even Moscow. I don't want to miss a word. This is the only radio in the house that's any good, and you know it. Oh, right, but I still don't see why you need eight million maps scattered all over the floor. There are five maps. Where's the one of Korea I had on the table? Which table? This table. What is this? That's the map. Of course, you couldn't dream of lifting up a big, heavy magazine. Well, the magazine had no business being there in the first place. Dear, if I go into the kitchen, do you think you can find your way back to the radio?  One is by land, and two is by sea. He thinks it's so funny. How did I know it was under the magazine? People go around hiding your maps under magazines. I think all a man has to do is go around looking under magazines. Bud! The doorbell rang. Bud, the doorbell rang. I'm combing my hair. He's combing his hair, Jim. What do you want me to do about it? This is the door. Well, if you're going to be logical, wait until a man has something really important to do, maps all over the floor. All right, keep your shirt on. I'm coming.  Hello there. Is this the Anderson residence? It certainly is. Come on in. I'm Eloise Marchand.  How did you ever figure that out? Oh, I'd have known you anywhere, Mr. Anderson. Really, I would. Loverboy's told me so much about you. Loverboy has, hasn't he? Oh, yeah. That was nice of him. Loverboy! Bud, your friend is here. The thundering herd will be down in a minute. He's fixing his makeup. I don't mind. Well, let's go into the living room and sit down. All right. My, you have a lovely home. It's so, so... I was hoping you'd notice that. We've tried to make it one of the gossiest homes. And you, sir? Margaret, Bud's friend is here. Please? Just a minute, dear. Mrs. Anderson will be right in.  My, all those great big maps. What are they? Oh, just maps of the world. I use them for reference on the important news broadcast. You do? Why, how clever. I just listen to the broadcast. I don't deliver them. How clever to use maps. And of the whole world. It's just like I told Bud. Men are so, so... Gosh. Aren't they ever? Margaret. Gee, you look nice. Oh, Bud. I don't either. Why, I threw on just any old thing. You sure threw them in the right place, didn't you? Quite a picture. Why, Mr. Anderson. And speaking of pictures, why don't you show Miss Marsh the pictures in the den now or some place? But you said when you took Mom over to your house... Bud, let's not have any arguments about it. There's going to be a very important broadcast. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Miss Marsh, but I was busy in the kitchen. Mom, this is Eloise. I'd have known you anywhere, Mrs. Anderson, but has told me so much about you. I'm sure he must have. No, it wasn't the phone, it was the doorbell. I'll be right down. It wasn't for you. Margaret, why don't you take Bud and Eloise into the den and give them some milk and cookies or something? Milk and cookies. Holy cow, Dad. Mr. Anderson, you're so droll. Margaret. Why don't we show Eloise the pictures we took this summer, Bud? I'm sure she'd like that. But I thought when Dad took you over to his house... Hi, what's all the excitement about?  What for? We'll explain all about it later. Go ahead, dear. Why can't I stay down here? I know, you must be Kathy. Uh, that's Betty. Oh, of course, Betty. I'd have known you anywhere, Bud's told me so much about you. I'm Eloise March. No!  After what she did to me. What, who did to you? Why don't you take Eloise into the den? She came here to smear at me. That's what she did. Eloise? I don't know what she's talking about. I swear I don't. Oh, yes, you do. You know just what I'm talking about. If you'd all just go into the den... I'll see you here, Betty. You have no right to talk to Eloise that way. I'll talk to her any way I choose. You will not. I certainly will. Betty, if you'll just go upstairs like a good girl... Why don't you all go into the den? Look at her. I think she's so wonderful. But, honey, you know I don't care about anybody but you. You told the same thing to Billy Smith. I never did. But... And Janie Liggett's sister said you told the same thing to Russell Spencer. Eloise, you didn't. She certainly did. Betty. And he was going steady with Miriam Swift all the time. And you knew it. I did not know it. But... Jim, it won't do any good. It has to. They're going to start the broadcast any minute. Look, if you'll all just go into the den... Eloise, how could you? How could I what? Say what you said when you said you never said what you said before. Well, I never did say it before. You certainly did. But, see, how can you stand there and let her talk like that? You told me you never went out with older men. I don't. Billy Smith's 18. And you went out with him. Well, only three or four times and that doesn't mean anything, does it? You've only been out with me twice.  Just because I go out with a boy three or four times, what does that prove? Betty.  Not since Tuesday. But you're walking all over Alaska. Just because he's older than I am and gets a bigger allowance. He does? He does. So does everybody else. Why don't you go out with them? Don't worry. She will. Them? Why don't you all go into the telephone? I go out in my whole life. But why don't you take Miss March to the door? She just said I was nasty. He doesn't have to take me to the door. Now or ever. And that goes for me too. If you'll just go into the den. I'm sorry I ever came into this house. That's why. And I'm sorry. Brazen little stuff. She was. And I spent my whole allowance on a box of candy. And for her. If no one has an objection, now may I listen to the broadcast? A whole dollar and a quarter gone. Bud, why don't you go into the kitchen and fix yourself a sandwich? A sandwich? How can you eat with a broken heart? Easier than with an upper plate.   Yes dear, we're awful. Oh, I didn't mean you mom. Margaret, will you take that boy out and drown him? I've got to have quiet in here for the broadcast. All right bud, let's go inside now. Mother, it was Billy. It was Billy Smith. He explained all about Alois March. Betty, please. He's a psychology major and he was just using her for research. That's fine dear. And he's coming over right away with Russell Spencer and Marion Swift. No. What? I've had enough of this circus tonight. This is my house too. I live here just as much as anybody and I'm going to listen to this broadcast. But father, I told them. I don't care what you told them. I'm going to hear the broadcast and that's final. Betty, there's no reason why you and your friends can't go down to the play room. But we'll have to sneak around on our tiptoes. Quiet, please. At nine o'clock, due to this unforeseen difficulty, the news broadcast originally scheduled for this period will not be heard. In its place, we bring you that heartwarming tale of young love. The romance of Susan Blake. Oh no. At a time like that, I guess there just isn't much for father to say. But I know one place where he's always got some mighty important words. When it comes to coffee, he can tell you exactly where to get the most in flavor for your money. Sure, father knows best. He's the world's greatest coffee expert. Just like that man of yours. And we think it will really pay you to get your husband's expert opinion on our Maxwell House coffee. Because when he tries a cup and says, best coffee I ever tasted, you'll know Maxwell House gives you the most for your money. The most in flavor, the most in pure pleasure. Get a pound of Maxwell House tomorrow. See how your husband takes to that wonderful good to the last drop flavor. And count all the cups of truly good coffee you get from that one pound. We think you'll be convinced. Your coffee by is Maxwell House coffee. Because it's always good to the last drop. It's midnight in Springfield and all is quiet in the White Frame House on Maple Street. That is, all should be nice and quiet. But you know how it is with the Andersons. Noon or midnight, there's never a dull moment like this. Jim. Jim. What? What's the matter? Jim, wake up. What for? Listen, I just heard something downstairs. Oh, go to sleep, Margaret. It's probably nothing but a burglar. Jim, are you going downstairs or do you want me to call Bud? No, never mind. I'll go. Be very careful, dear. Please. Sure, I'll be careful. If it is a burglar, just call the police. That's a very good idea. Thank you very much. Wake a man out of a sound sleep and then expect him to go roaming around in the dark. Oh, Jim. One of these nights I'm going to fall down the stairs and break my neck. Serve him right, too. Call the police. What did you think I was going to do? Wrestle with him? All right. Oh. Hiya, Dad. What's up? I am. What are you doing down here? I was hungry. You want a sandwich? No, thank you. What happened to your broken heart? Oh, I don't know. I was an awful boob, wasn't I? No, not exactly. But you're getting there. Now hurry up and get back to bed. Your mother's worried enough for one night. Okay. Oh, say, Dad. Yes? Did you put a dollar on my dresser? We'll talk about it tomorrow. Dad. Now what? Thanks for everything. Go to bed. You bet. Good night, Dad. Good night. Love her, boy. It's a wonderful feeling to start the day singing. Life is swell when you keep well. That's why post-40% brand flakes have become America's largest selling brand flakes. Every one-ounce serving of post-40% brand flakes provides brand to help prevent irregularity due to lack of bulk in the diet. They're so delicious tasting and so good for you, too. Tomorrow, serve America's favorite brand flakes. Post-40% brand flakes. Join us again next week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with Roy Boggy in the Maxwell House Orchestra, and yours truly, Bill Foreman. So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop. 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Asante ni sana, thank you so much for coming, mimi na ito refigia heavyweeds, majina zaki tambezishoni yusufi noa, ina tegemi wa kupandegani. Yes, today was the official launch of Sabalafest International 2023, in evento ambaime kwaiki nderaf for the last 16 years and it may grow, it may take a level whereby tukuna edishonia 256 yuganda, which was done in September, na this December 24, tukuna edishonia Kenya, which will be at the KICC, Sabahal, nda tunatarajia watuwajepo wingi. It's a Nubian cultural festival, but whatewana alipwa, other tribes, people from other communities, people from different race always come because Sabalafestival is an event that is very involving, entertaining. It's a very beautiful culture. Yes. So what is the meaning of Sabalafestival? Sabala, the word Sabala means climax, is the climax of the Nubian dance. I think you guys were here Mokyona, ila taime, monome na zyondoka, ali na naputana monome na kizyondoka, that climax is Sabala, yes. Maybe Rafiga, congratulations on the now for the launch of Sabala, Sabala if I'm not wrong, 2023 edition, East Africa edition. Maybe take us through maybe what do you expect new this time? Basically like this year we've just unveiled the Nubian cultural icon. It's a young lady by the name of Leila Medi who will be activating the Nubian culture, who will be leading in front on matters cultural preservation, who will be pushing for different agendas within the Nubian community, matters culture, matters girl child, nabituvingi tofauti. Previously we had to come to Kamawio, now this time round we want to start the event as early as 2 pm whereby we'll have a showcase of artifacts, kunabituvingi, mangoza, kinubi, viakula via kinubi, so kuna wale watu ambaulab, the horizon kapa kwa usiku, wale watu kujam chana from afternoon till 7 pm and then jasa kuna wale, jasa kwa kwa kapa kwa subui, wale zaka in Leila, yes. In terms of maybe someone planning to attend maybe, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.  Are you maybe planning to work with the ministry of sports, art and culture maybe to bring this event to a lively unique experience to Kenyans in general? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And maybe if there are plans maybe for now of the event to be… Yes, in fact I've invited Wasiria Isha Jumwa and we are planning to give her a kata sicko in the coming week with our cultural icon so that we'll be able to present to her what the Nubian culture is all about and there's different ways we can work together, yes. Okay, maybe just to add on what I've asked you is that will people that maybe Nubians community across the country are they given chance maybe to experience the event lively maybe on social media or there are maybe plans to have maybe media station coming on board for making it live? Ya, ya, ya, right now we have an arrangement, there's an arrangement going on, we are involving a number of local media houses, we'll be partnering with one of them so it will go live for those who will not be able to make it, but there's a kwangalia. There's a kwangalia, maybe you're called to Nubians, Kenyans in general maybe in terms of maybe your support you need from them apart from buying tickets? Yes, yes, yes, of course my call to Nubians is Sabala is ours, Sabala is what unites us, Sabala is our face, Sabala is what defines us, in short our culture is what defines us, this is the only time we come together, you know we are a minority, so this is the only time we come together, people get to know who are the Nubians, people get to know our history, people get to know our beautiful culture and it opens doors, it opens opportunities, so I would like to tell the young ones you need to embrace your culture because below Thamaduni one kwa nameless or identiteless, yes. So we had earlier, we were talking to, or telling the advisor of the president in women that you advised the president to visit you? Yes, yes, I will take this opportunity to talk to his excellency the president of Kenya, Honorable William Samoeruto, there is a bill I wanted to table called the broadcast quota, the broadcast quota, what one of anya vitush billa kujua kenyahi, kishiri ya kabisa we will be very happy, I know we are Kenyans but we want to belong, we want to feel like a kikuyu alu wa aluya, we don't want to be called others and I want to rally behind other minority and marginalized communities all to be gazetted, we are all Kenyans, we deserve


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Hi everyone, I'm here to talk to you today about why users don't have to suffer as we all transition technology and our solutions into the cloud. So my name is Melissa Jerkwise. I'm the co-founder of an initiative called diversify thinking where we focus on raising the level of action to meet the level of conversation in regards to diversity and inclusion, as well as the chief customer experience officer here at adaptation startup that's focused around user experience and providing technology to create great experiences for our customer as they move. So it's quite relevant to what we're going to be talking about today and I'm really excited to be here. So this is a hard truth. Some people see this and they maybe don't believe it or or they take it somewhat personally, but it really doesn't matter how great what you build with technology is if your users don't embrace it. I will say I've had my hand as a as a technologist for the last 25 years and building what I fondly call shelfware and meaning that it just literally sat on the shelf. Nobody used it. No one got value from it. So it was much like that saying if a tree falls in the woods. Does anyone hear it so I think you know we get really excited about the next next amazing thing in technology. And so do I, I think it's crazy like devices and how they've progressed and just programming languages and new ones that erupt all the time. It's like the next bright shiny object we want to chase. But what we can't do is forget about the people that we're doing it for and with right and I think you know one of the there's a couple of points. I hopefully drive home with you today and they're they're around, you know, stakeholders and who matters in this process. And I think, you know, there's an obvious stakeholder that we often consider and it's the executive right so we all know that in order to do any kind of large digital transformation or technology project you need executive buy in why because they hold the wallet. They are the people that are going to write the check that's going to give you the funding for the resources the technology whether that's people or hardware or software or time whatever the resources they're going to grant you. They are the people that you need to get on board. Yes, this is a great idea. We believe in it. Go. You get to build your team and assemble them accordingly. The other stakeholder though I challenge you today to think about and I want you to keep them in mind throughout our entire time together is the end user. So I'm here to tell you that end user buy in is equally, maybe even arguably more at some level, equally as important as executive buy in to your success with technology. So successful implementation of something, whether that's moving to the cloud, any kind of like digital transformation does not equal successful adoption. Just because you think it worked and it's awesome and it's using the latest and greatest technology, and it's in the cloud and this is amazing does not mean that your users agree and I think that's, that's the shift that I want to challenge you all with today. So, who are these people who are these mystical creatures, the these end user stakeholders that I talked about and you know these are some of the comments that we hear from, from end users and they often get left out of any change management exercise really, especially in the technology and these people have jobs to do. They have every day jobs like you and I, and technology sometimes is not at the forefront of that it happens to be a means to an end or a vehicle for them to do their jobs, but it's not their focus if they're not technologies, technologists like you and I. So to them it's just a lot of change they're already busy. You know, okay fine yeah there's some great stuff there but it doesn't have everything I need I'll wait till the next one comes out right because there's always going to be a next one, which is true with technology and it's changing much faster than us as humans. They're very comfortable with what they already do. And even if they hate it, they'll stay with it. And one of the things that's helped me recently if the technology we build today will become obsolete in 2025, and I said absolutely not because there are legacy systems out there that are decades old because of these particular stakeholders, they won't let it go, because they've learned it, and they don't want to learn something new, not unless it's going to make their lives tremendously easier. They've got too much already on their plates. This is true of most people, they're stressed, they're overworked, and they don't care about the new shiny object that you're so excited about. So they'll just stay doing what they're doing even if what they're doing is an Excel spreadsheet that they have to manually update, or even if what they're doing is a pen to paper and they're literally doing it manually. So these are your end users and your stakeholders, and they're humans and they're habitual. So they've already created habits. And so what you're doing is displacing habits that they actually are comfortable with. So what if I told you there was a way that you could approach this sort of a mindset I know it says architecture, and it is conceivably an architectural model. And then really because we're talking about scaling technology, but I'd like to challenge you to think about it as a mindset where at the hub of this model is all the important things, the data right all the important things about the business that tells you the health of the business. And your users. Sure, there are some use especially your executives right they're really really concerned with the health and accuracy of that data, but the end users. So the day to day users where this data actually comes from. They're, they don't consider themselves data analysts or data, you know, entry operators, they are there whatever their role is. And so for them. We want to create these amazing experiences these folks that are so focused on their them that they're able to do their jobs, and everyone wins. So the spokes feed in to the hub, and they don't need to care about what technology that's how that hub is on so it could be on prem or it could be in the cloud, or it could be an AS 400 or it could be Salesforce. It doesn't matter to them. They just know that they haven't the ability to do their job and we've abstracted that away. And that's really the core of this architectural model. When we do this here at adaptation, we really focus around some key design principles and think of them as a stepwise approach but the, you know, some have order and some are really just that they're just principles that we hold true. One is, you know, won't be a surprise you need to know who your user is and identify the job that they're doing like what are what outcomes are they trying to reach. And then you need to collaborate with them I often call this inclusive design. So this is where we don't build for our users we build with our users. We bring them along for the journey and, you know, key key thing here guess what we get buy in early, because they helped to build it.  That's brilliant. And it's definitely speaking to what I'm talking about here, which is inclusive design, maintain database integrity this is really when I spoke to the business health and the metrics that you use to evaluate that health, and the accuracy of the data. We want to make sure we hold true to that because that's inevitably why everyone's using these systems in the first place right no one's using them just because they're fun if they're playing some sort of candy crusher wordscapes on their phone right like this. These are business apps, these are applications that are allowing people to do their jobs, which are feeding into an overall business strategy and process. So really crucial be where your users are meet them there. If they're using their phone mostly then make sure that the the experience that you're giving them works effectively there. Don't don't make them struggle don't make their jobs harder, because we saw their feedback will be. I can do it over here I'll just do it over here or I'll just write it on a piece of paper because it's easier than doing it on my phone. And then finally the most arguably the most important part of this entire process is listening to your users and creating that feedback loop make it easy for your users to give you feedback that doesn't mean you have to address all of it. It means you need to listen and acknowledge it acknowledging your users feedback and addressing it are very different. And I challenge you because some people are really afraid of getting feedback. They don't invite it. They're actually worried about asking. I recently sent out an invite to all of my customers asking them what's one thing adaptation can do better for you as we plan for 2022. People could be really scared about that because maybe they're going to tell you that they don't even want to work with you in 2022. Well if they tell me that then I want to know why I would love to understand what are we not doing for you, because if I don't understand what I'm not doing for you, whether that be in the product or even how we address them from a, you know, customer aspect of working with our team that I'm likely going to do the same thing to someone else and I'm going to have attrition for lots of users and customers so don't be afraid of feedback. Embrace it it is feedback all feedback is good. Even when it's negative because you can learn from it you can adjust, and that means that no one else will have that feedback in the future. That's your goal right. The acknowledgement of feedback is different than addressing feedback. I want you to understand that because it means you can actually say to your users, we're actually not going to do that right now and justify it. Make sure they understand. We heard your feedback. We actually think it's not bad feedback. It's good. Here's what we're going to do instead or here's why we're not going to do that right now we're going to prioritize that later, but maybe you're going to do it or maybe there's a better way to get to their outcomes that is already available to them. That's I always think that's amazing when a customer asks us for something.  Remember the job could be done. What are you trying to achieve? And not just the feature you asked for. Now I can actually train you and lead you down a path where you can do what you already wanted to do with the product you already have. And that's, I mean, that's amazing, right. So listen to your users create that feedback loop, make it easy for them to give you feedback. So I'm asking you to invest in user experience. So obviously, if there's an investment, you hope there's a return. So here's some of the ways there is a return. Of course, there's ways that you're going to get some ROI on these things. So some of these things should be really obvious based on what I previously told you. Why would you need expensive training or lots of time training? They've built it with you. They already know the system. You brought them along for the journey. So they don't even really need training at all. You've accelerated user adoption again, because you started with them and you build with them. And so they're excited. They want to use it. They feel like they have skin in the game and they own it. Some of my favorite moments of delight with customers is when we optimize workflows that were unexpected. I feel like those unexpected surprises around things that they didn't realize could be automated that could, that we were able to do in the process or things that were automated that shouldn't have been, that never really worked. So when we discover those things, those are my favorite moments because it provides more optimization for them and success, right? And they're going to get more value from the relationship with you as well as from your product. So retention is super important. You know, successful implementation I mentioned does not equal successful adoption. Successful adoption. So this hockey stick of acceleration of growth for adoption does not equal retention. If you don't create that feedback loop and you're not listening to your customers, you will lose them. And that doesn't mean remember that you have to do everything they ask, but it does mean you need to listen. And it does mean that you need to acknowledge that you're listening and they need to know it. If they're giving you feedback and you're not reacting in any way and acknowledging that feedback, they will leave. If you're giving them, they've given you feedback and you haven't addressed it, but you've acknowledged it, they'll stay with you. There's a trust element there. So again, successful implementation doesn't equal successful adoption. Successful adoption does not equal successful retention. There's still work to do on the other side of that. So, again, if you want to talk more to me, feel free to take a snapshot of this. This is all the different places where you can find me. And we can talk more about user experience or how we move to the cloud without creating a lot of friction with our existing user base so that they don't have to feel like they have to relearn their entire job and in fact maybe we can make some amazing improvements along the way. And I'll leave you with this again. Successful implementation does not equal successful adoption. Remember, your end users are the stakeholder we often forget during some of these large digital transformation and moving to the cloud type projects and initiatives. They are just as important as your executive buy-in for these things. Thank you.


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Get great guitars practice by we started up in a prior presentation going through the setup process we do every time maximize the homepage to the gray area in the view drop down we got the hide icon bar the open windows list the homepage open on the left reports drop down company and financial profit and loss standard changing to the range in from 010123 to 022823. Let's customize it fonts to the numbers changing the font bringing it on up to 14. Okay. Yes and okay. Open up the other main financial statement report reports drop down company and financial this time the balance sheet standard. I'm going to customize it changing the range in 010123 to 022823 fonts and the numbers must be changed as well to 14. Okay. Yes and okay. That's the setup process that we do every time we've been thinking about the budgeting process and prior presentations we did the budgeting process for the first thing the first report in essence you think of which is usually the performance report that being the income statement. So the income statement is like the report if you're thinking of it as analogous to seeing how far you can drive in a day then you're going to set the odometer see how far you can drive reset the odometer odometer and see how far you could drive in the following day. That's what the profit loss is doing the odometer being equivalent to measuring instead of miles revenue expenses the net income for example. So now however we want to look at the balance sheet which really is showing where we will stand where will we be after we have journeyed for the next day in our car right after we have started from the prior point on the balance sheet where we stand assets minus liabilities net assets the book value of the company and then we think we're going to go so far in terms of revenue expenses net income for example where will we end up at the end of of that that's kind of like the general idea on the balance sheet so we can of course budget you know for for that although it's a little bit confusing because we have to link the stuff together the balance sheet the income statement okay so we're imagining then that the balance sheet this two months of data that we have input we're going to use that two month data as if it was prior data the same way we did before and then try to think about the budgeted income statement that we put together to think about where we're going to end up on the balance sheet and then we'll also consider from an accounting standpoint how we're going to do this from the accounting standpoint noting that it's the same process we're going to think about actually doing the budget most likely outside of QuickBooks but using a report like the balance sheet the firsts or starting point balance sheet as the starting point that we will export and then make our adjustments possibly in excel and then once we've made the adjustments we will import it back into QuickBooks using our our import port system here so just remember that the that the budgeting process is not something that the accountant should do you know on on their own if you hire if you have the accounting departments not someone that's just going to do the budget because their main goal is to do the prior data to make the financial statements they of course might be involved in the budgeting process and are going to be a crucial tool because they know how financial statements work but we can't just build the budget with just the past data we could but it probably is not going to be you know as useful as if we try to project what's going to happen into the future which is going to take information beyond just past data such as what do we think is going to happen in the future what are the changes that are going to happen what do we predict those changes will do okay so we're going to export this to excel but i'm not going to export the balance sheet here i'd like to export the trial balance because it won't have all of those subtotals so we'll do kind of like the same thing we did last time i'm going to make the reports drop down accounting and taxes trial balance and take this from let's take this from now i'm going to run the report now i could try to run it i would just like to see the balance sheet accounts so i could run it you know as of 228 but but the the trial balance is going to include the income statement no matter what i do so i'll have to kind of account for that so for example o one if i if i was tried to say o 228 23 to o 228 23 you would think that it wouldn't have any income statement accounts down here but it does because it's going to be based on like the fiscal year so i'm basically getting the same report as if i just ran it from 0 1 0 1 2 3 to 0 2 0 2 28 23 because that's kind of like the built-in closing process that QuickBooks uses so this is going to be our starting point it's got the balance sheet on top of the income statement in essence and then we'll use that to construct our our balance our budget i'm going to customize it fonts and numbers let's change the font on up to 14 okay yes and okay i'm going export this to excel in the same way that we did before or in the same excel worksheet we had before so i'm going to say excel create a new worksheet but i'm going to put it into the existing workbook if you don't have the prior workbook that's okay you can just make a new workbook obviously you do need excel in order to do it if you don't have excel you can just use google sheets or whatever and just recreate your trial balance it doesn't take that much time you got to just type the whole thing in there and that's how you got to do it but i'm going to say this is going to go into ggg this is going to go into the budget stuff that's not where i want to go i want to go into the budgeting budget there it is that's the one that i want QuickBooks it's going to open up and there it is i'm going to make i'm going to drag this one to the right so there's our trial balance on the right double clicking this one i'm going to call it an income statement for the name that's what we did last time double clicking this one balance sheet for the name i'm now going to lower the size of my screen so it's not zoomed in so much by going to my settings i have it on 150 i'm going to bring it down to 100 and then that's the normal size and then i'm going to zoom in using this zoom in or i can hold down control and scroll in okay i'm going to do the same kind of formatting we did before last time when we did the income statement we started here and then cut everything out except for the income statement accounts this time i'm going to cut all the income statement accounts and look at the balance sheet i want to see the formatting to be the same i want to use start with the baseline excel formatting which is colibri 11 as can be seen in this cell i'm going to use the format painter to paint the whole thing this to start with home tab clipboard format painter paintbrush the triangle so everything's in that i'm going to then right click on anything in the selected area everything is selected format the cells i want to go to currency bracketed numbers no dollar sign and we don't really need the decimals for a budget either and so i'm going to say okay i'm going to make the whole thing boldened and so there it is that'll be our starting point i'm going to do this fairly quickly because i know this isn't an excel course but just want to give the general idea of how you might think through the budget and set one up so i'm going to minimize this i'm going to bring this down to here and then we're going to get rid of the debits and credits i'm going to do that by going up top and saying from one to two i'm going to right click on that and delete that stuff so i'll delete that and then i'm i'm going to try to represent my assets in terms of positives and liabilities or credits as negatives so anything in this credit column i'm going to put as a as a negative pull them into this column and that way i should be able to to see that i'm in balance by having my debits and credits subtracted from each other the difference being zero so i'll show you what i mean i'm going to delete the totals down here i'm going to go up top and say this one i'm going to right click and cut it but i'm going to paste it special into this column i'm going to try to flip the sign so it goes to negative so i want to paste it at what let me do it that way hold on a sec i'm going to copy it let me test it out over here right click and paste special and i want to paste it subtracted there we go so let's test that over here i don't know why i needed to test it over there i'm going to paste it special with the subtraction boom i want to do that for all of these i'm going to copy them because i won't let me cut them i'll copy it right click and paste special but i want it to be subtraction boom and then this one copy paste special special paste i'm special here we go we'll take these right click copy those and paste them special and subtract boom this one uno base moss one more time we're going to copy that paste special with the subtraction okay then i can delete everything to the right so i'm going to put my cursor on d to g right click and delete and so i can check that i'm in balance by summing this up it should come out to zero because debits minus credits will be zero there we have it now that's a little bit tricky to get rid of the income statement now because it's kind of like part of equity so in other words like all of this the equity section kind of starts right here opening balance and if i so if i for example looked over here on the balance sheet the equity section includes the owner investment the draws and then the 77896 here and net income so the net income is the income statement amount if i go to the income statement and i condense it to one number it's the 1324 so in other words this whole thing this income statement starts right here down to here is is hold on i missed something here to here is 1324 the sum and if i go from here equity starting in the equity section down to here that comes out to 143 720 so that if i go back to the balance sheet is the 143 720 total equity right there so what i need to do is kind of combine you know these two numbers so so what i'll do is i'll go okay so everything needs to be in equity so everything from here down adds up to 79220 so i'm going to delete this and say negative 79220 boom i'm in balance and all the income statement is gone because this is really setting the odometer to see how far you go right so i'm going to take this whole thing i don't want the total i want i'm going to take this right click and delete it i'm going to delete this total right here and i'll put the total over here maybe and then i'll get rid of column a because i don't need that right click delete that so there's kind of our really just baseline uh baseline statement and you can see here if i highlight these then these are the assets from here to here i'll make them green just so you could see it for now make it that green that adds up to that adds up to hold on a sec equals the sum just to just to prove to you what i'm doing that adds up to 222776 that should tie out to the balance sheet assets 22278 222776 222 i've got the accounts payable in there hold on a second you do not belong here accounts payable this is the assets group so<PHONE_NUMBER>84 the liabilities then are going to be here to here right there boom let's make them like orange orange just for practice purposes and say i add those up orange and red does that even stand out enough i think it does i don't know it'll be okay that adds up to to the 83064 so there's the liabilities at the 83064 and the equity 143720 that is going to be this these are equity 143720 so hopefully that's just my balance sheet without indebt and credit format without any subtotals so just bare bones kind of like the income statement but the balance sheet is a little bit more confusing because you got the accounting equation as opposed to like you could think of it the income statement as asset minus liabilities in any case that's our starting point then we're going to do the same thing and try to try to say from january to february of the following year we're going to imagine that this information happened uh was the prior data information from the prior year we'll we'll imagine it was from 2022 and we're going to use it then to kind of think about our future where we will stand you know in the future so before i do this i'm gonna i'm gonna add another row i'm gonna right click i'm gonna select the whole row right click on the selected row and insert and then we can go from jan feb and i'm going to copy that across putting my cursor on those fill handle and it should be able to detect that series quick excel is really smart and then we're going to say let's center that and then make it black and white it's going to become cognitive so far i'm pretty sure excel was talking to me it's become sent to you its ai has come to life notice that these things right here this machinery and equipment that's a subcategory and that really makes things a lot more ugly the way they export it because if i go over to my lists in quickbooks and i look at my chart of accounts see these items are subcategories so furniture and fixture so i don't really want it to say furniture and fixture i just wanted to say accumulated depreciation so really to clean this up i could go through all of these that have that little colon and just say i don't want that subcategory count i could see that it just give me that i'm gonna delete this this has one too i'll just say get that out of there this one has one too don't like that and so that's a little cleaner this one has one and maybe that's not so bad we'll keep that because it is low and well we don't really need it though i'll delete it i can't decide i'm a little indecisive on that one but there that's a little cleaner then i can make this a lot smaller see you see what i'm doing you see that's way better all right let's stop it there and then we'll continue on on how we might think about constructing our balance sheet budget in the following presentation