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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.

Kurt will spend around 20 minutes breaking down the keys to his success in the digital field, so you can go away with useful knowledge and ideas to get your own company moving forward.

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.

Never be afraid to test new tech, as Peter shows time and again with his forward approach to the digital age. Surfing at the front of the tech revolution wave, Mitton ElectroNet keep their eye on the latest advances.

Testing and trialing new gadgets and systems before they become mainstream prevents the team of engineers from falling behind the pack. By knowing what advances are in pipeline, Peter and his team can make considered, careful decisions about how technology will fit into their company in the future.

Along with keeping themselves in the loop, taking time to test new tech before it’s needed gives the people who will ultimately be the ones using it, time to adjust and raise concerns. This allows everyone to be on board with upcoming changes and has resulted in a company full of disruption champions, ready to morph into the digital age as leaders.

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.