Events

Since the advent of the digital era, the retail and consumer goods sectors have experienced significant disruption. Digital natives like Amazon and Alibaba have enjoyed a meteoric rise whilst 'traditional' businesses have struggled with inertia and their inability to sense and react to a changing world.

First used in 2005, the organizational structure known as Pioneer, Settler, Town Planner (also referred to as PST) is both highly experimental and relatively rare in its implementation. Recently, however, it has gained some momentum with early academic work, discussion in management-related books and several Government papers.

Driving better business ethics, better business – and better businesses

It started as a tweet from Simon Wardley asking if anyone would like to have "a small meetup in London on mapping". It had so much interest that it quickly turned into a full day event. Map Camp is now a series of events including workshops and talks about mapping techniques used in organisations. It’s a community event driven by real practitioners.

These are conflicting times in the digital world. On the one hand, the potential of information technology has never been greater. It’s easy to imagine a future business landscape filled with smart products, voice interfaces, software agents, sophisticated robotics, information-rich digital twins, deep learning-based automation, super-fast 5G wireless speeds and more. Who in the IT community would bet against this vision?