Edge of Excellence: Empowering People to Shape the Future

The Edge of Excellence explores how leadership, culture, and technology shape modern business growth. Hosted by Bryon Beilman , President & CEO of iuvo, and Jessica DeForge , Marketing Manager at iuvo, the show dives deep into the human side of innovation, where strategy meets curiosity, and excellence is more than just expertise. Each episode features conversations with industry leaders, innovators, and visionaries who are pushing boundaries in leadership, technology, and business transformation. From sharing actionable insights to simplifying complex IT challenges, The Edge of Excellence empowers listeners to think differently, lead boldly, and use technology as a catalyst for growth. Tune in for real stories, expert perspectives, and practical takeaways that help you lead at the edge of excellence.

Edge of Excellence: Empowering People to Shape the Future is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #22

  Michael Joseph, Technium: Why Doing One Thing Well Beats Doing Everything

  Sep 16, 202658 minS1

  Technium has done one thing for 27 years and deliberately refused to do anything else. Michael Joseph , Co-Founder and CEO of Technium , joins Jess DeForge and Bryon Beilman to explain why focus is a strategy rather than a limitation. Technium designs, builds, and operates the networks behind some of the Northeast's most data-intensive organizations, including the Markley data center fabric in Boston. Michael walks through the three principles the company was built on in 1998: a true 24/7 operations center, a culture of training rather than poaching, and security built in from day one. He explains how one conversation with Moderna's first CIO — "I want no servers, how do I build for that?" — opened the door to Boston's life sciences market, and how a low-key community event called Peers and Beers became the company's most effective go-to-market motion. He also breaks down what a network fabric actually is in plain language, including how one client saw Microsoft 365 traffic accelerate 56%, how it differs from Microsoft Fabric, and why the ROI case is easier to make to a business owner than to an IT team. Bryon and Michael have used each other as CEO sounding boards since the earliest days of COVID. They talk candidly about why running a company is lonely, why "I can't get fired, but I also can't quit" changes how you show up every day, and what to look for in a peer relationship if you're early in your own founder journey. In this episode: - Why Technium refused to expand its service menu - Building a true 24/7 operation across Europe and Asia - Experience density, and hiring for people who want to learn - Why "connectivity" lands better than "networking" - The 2 a.m. story every business owner understands - Moderna, the biotech blueprint, and a bet on life sciences - Building community instead of chasing leads - Building female leadership in a field that's 97% male Learn more about Technium: https://techniumnetworking.com The Edge of Excellence is hosted by Jess DeForge and Bryon Beilman of iuvo, a Boston-based transformative IT consulting firm. Watch the full video episode on YouTube, and find more at https://iuvotech.com

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  Episode #21

  What an IT Assessment Really Uncovers (Hidden Risk & Cost)

  Sep 2, 202655 minS1

  Most leaders can tell you their IT environment feels messy. Far fewer can tell you why. In this episode, Jess DeForge and Bryon Beilman are joined by Derek Murphy, Senior Consultant at iuvo, for a conversation about what a strategic IT assessment actually reveals, and why it's a business review, not a hardware inventory. Derek has spent more than 20 years in IT, eight of them at iuvo, working across software, biotech, EDA, and financial services environments. He walks through how technical debt accumulates quietly over 12 to 18 months, why an environment can run smoothly and still carry serious hidden risk, and what gets uncovered once someone starts asking the right questions: dormant privileged accounts, permissions nobody has audited since 2019, documentation that lives in one engineer's head, duplicate tools bought on a credit card, and Microsoft 365 licenses that can quietly cost six figures a year. They also get into the parts leaders don't expect. Why an assessment matters more if you already have an in-house IT team, not less. Why an acquisition, IPO, or cyber insurance renewal should trigger one. How unaudited access controls turn into data leakage the moment you roll out AI. And Derek's blunt take on backups that aren't actually backups. The through line: an assessment isn't about finding fault. It's about replacing "we think we're fine" with an answer you can plan and budget against. Ready for a clearer picture of your environment? Request a complimentary IT assessment at iuvotech.com .

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  Episode #20

  Cloud Costs Out of Control? How to Reduce AWS & Azure Spend | Cloud Governance

  Aug 19, 202654 minS1

  Cloud costs rarely get out of control because of one big decision. More often, they're the result of small decisions that accumulate: forgotten resources, over-provisioned environments, inefficient architectures, unclear ownership, and a lack of governance. In this episode of Edge of Excellence , Jessica and Bryon are joined by Brian O'Neill, Principal Consultant at iuvo, for a practical conversation about cloud cost management, AWS and Azure spend, and cloud governance . Brian explains why the ease and flexibility of the cloud can also make it surprisingly easy to spend money without realizing it. From forgotten development environments and oversized databases to running workloads 24/7 that don't need to be, the conversation explores some of the most common sources of unnecessary cloud spend. The episode also dives into right-sizing, scaling, tagging, account and subscription structures, Infrastructure as Code, budgets, alerts, and governance guardrails, and how organizations can implement these practices without slowing down the teams that depend on cloud resources. You'll hear a real-world example of how identifying unused and over-provisioned resources helped a client save roughly $50,000 , as well as why some workloads may actually be more cost-effective to run outside of the cloud. Brian's central message is simple: you need to know what exists in your cloud environment, what it's doing, who owns it, and why you're paying for it. Effective cloud governance isn't about putting up barriers, it's about creating guardrails that give teams freedom while keeping costs, security, and the overall environment under control. If your organization is managing AWS or Azure and wondering whether you're spending more than you should, this episode offers practical ideas for where to look and how to start. Topics covered include: AWS and Azure cost optimization Cloud cost management Cloud governance Right-sizing cloud resources Cloud architecture Lift-and-shift migrations AWS tagging and Azure subscriptions Shadow IT Infrastructure as Code Cloud budgets and alerts Cloud security Cloud scalability DevOps and governance When to bring in cloud consulting expertise When cloud may not be the right choice for a workload Learn more about iuvo

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  Episode #19

  Copilot Adoption, Governance, and ROI With iuvo's VP of Technology

  Aug 5, 202645 minS1

  Most organizations already own Microsoft Copilot. Far fewer know what to do with it. Brian St. Marie, iuvo's VP of Technology, says Copilot adoption is now the single most common AI conversation he has and it's the same conversation whether the company has fifteen employees or several thousand. In this episode, Bryon Beilman and Jess DeForge dig into why that is, and what to do about it. The conversation covers the free Copilot access already included with every Microsoft 365 license and what it does and doesn't reach; why adoption and governance are two separate problems that stall each other when treated as one; the SharePoint permissions and data hygiene issues that surface the moment Copilot can search your tenant; and why top-down AI mandates and usage leaderboards tend to backfire. Brian and Bryon also get practical about measurement, the adoption data Microsoft already gives you, what leaders should be asking for, and how to think about ROI on an investment whose target keeps moving. The episode closes on the most common mistake Brian sees: organizations that skip governance at the start, then discover where their data has been going.

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  Episode #18

  From Department of IT to Strategic Business Voice

  Jul 22, 20261h 8mS1

  IT leaders often have a seat at the executive table. But are they truly being heard? In this episode of Edge of Excellence, Jess DeForge and Bryon Beilman speak with Phil Howard about what it takes for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, VPs of IT, and technology leaders to move from being treated like the “Department of IT” to becoming strategic business voices. Phil brings experience across sales training, telecom, consulting, vendor-neutral advisory, podcasting, and hundreds of conversations with IT leaders. Together, the group explores why technical leaders can understand the full complexity of the business and still struggle to communicate value in a way executives understand. The conversation covers executive buy-in, vendor pressure, cost control, mid-market IT complexity, business communication, defensible technology decisions, and why IT is often invisible when things work but treated as a cost center when leadership does not understand the value behind the systems. This episode is especially relevant for IT leaders, business executives, consultants, service providers, and mid-market organizations that want technology to be more strategically aligned with business outcomes. At its core, this is a conversation about communication, trust, leadership maturity, and helping IT leaders become heard, respected, and involved before critical technology decisions are already made. Learn more about iuvo by visiting www.iuvotech.com Connect with Phil Howard Check out the You've Been Heard Podcast

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