FUTURE OF BUSINESS
The Business Owners’ Monthly Jam
Running a business has reached exhilarating levels. No longer do we operate under the tyranny of the old boys’ network. No longer are we restricted by the domination of distance. Now, every woman and man can build their very own million-dollar company and market it to the world from their nearest coffee shop. The future has arrived. The Future of Business….. is now!
Our jam is to expose business owners – new and old – to the right stuff. We seek out the very best speakers to give us insights into transitioning our businesses into major forces; making us aware of the challenges as much as learning the techniques to discover the next steps for growth.
Our Monthly Jam is exploring new dimensions in the business forum format. Collaboration is key to success, and we know everyone that attends our jam has something valuable to give – not just the speaker. With this in mind, the amount of speaking time has been reduced for us to up the time spent in Q&A and networking.
This means the speakers bring only their best, most useful knowledge bites and juiciest insights to every jam. In one evening, you’ll get two speakers on a single, valuable topic, as well as a question time to throw them your curveballs. Add to this, extensive networking time that we really attend these events for, along with some good food and a drink to keep you going.
The Future of Business jam is all about encouragement and support, bringing you expert knowledge as well as facilitating key connections to take your business where no business has gone before.
Topic: Future of Collaboration
Kurt Janssen believes another major way to dredge the data bog is to have the technology side of your business and the business side of the business working much more closely together.
Think about your tech team. Do they understand what the pain points are in your business? Do your business and tech teams talk to each other about the problems that need solving?
Communication is everything. It’s easy to get siloed and there’s this thing about silos in a business that sort of self-propagates. You get an asset management system and you get experts around that. You get a financial system and you get experts around that. And because the systems are different and they often don’t interoperate well, and the people who run them have different expertise, it just become difficult.
You have to create and maintain bridges to have that cross-information flow of both data information and business uses and pain points. If you can work together to find solutions that are linked to pain points in the business, you are 100 times more likely to get buy-in from the bosses. That’s when you see the real value in communication because together, you’re solving problems that neither one could do alone.
Peter Armstrong is leading a team of around 75 clever people who as well as helping to keep the power flowing, are following their company vision of disrupting the way they work.
Peter will be talking about his journey to effect culture change and agility in an established business, in an industry where the resistance to change has been high.
Featured Speakers
Kurt Janssen
Kurt Janssen –Â Orbica founder and CEO, was convinced there were better ways to do things in the geospatial industry, exciting technology frontiers to be explored and a myriad of location data-inspired solutions just waiting to be discovered.
At the heart of it was an agnostic approach: a desire to start with the problem at hand, devise the best solution and then identify the best tools to achieve the desired outcome, rather than designing a solution from a predetermined toolkit.
This propensity to think differently brought about Orbica in February 2017.
Orbica kicked off in shared working space BizDojo with little more than a laptop, copious cups of coffee and a bunch of pretty big ideas. We grew quickly off a stellar reputation for delivering innovative and value-driven solutions.
Today Orbica has a talented team of big thinkers (Orbicans) and a purpose-designed HQ in the heart of Christchurch’s Innovation Precinct. We’ve also got an enviable client-base, we’re an exporter of technology and we’ve got a presence in Europe.
Orbica is pioneering geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), developing unique data visualisation solutions and enabling organisations to gain near real-time visibility of their data – all through geography and the power of location data.
Peter Armstrong
Peter Armstrong – A chartered engineer, his practicing career has focused primarily around technical and commercial leadership roles in the renewable power space, particularly wind and solar energy. Peter has worked on projects around the world. He joined Mitton ElectoNet in March 2015.
Peter brings a focus on commercial team leadership, project management and the importance of relationships in business. “For me, it is so important to be open with our clients, and to ultimately make sure we do what we said we would.” says Peter.
Outside of work, Peter can be found running long distances around the Port Hills or exploring New Zealand with his wife and two children in their little four-seater aeroplane.
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