How does an Applied Futurist suggest you future-proof your business? (Webinar 21/5)
FinTech West has joined forces with Whitecap Consulting and FinTech North to host a webinar on 21st May 2020 with Tom Cheesewright, the well known Applied Futurist. The session will be focused on the topic of future proofing your business, a timely subject in the current environment and also the subject of Tom’s recently published book. We will, of course, be placing a strong degree of focus on the FinTech sector!
NOTE: This event has now taken place - you can watch it by clicking here
Tom Cheesewright is an experienced broadcaster who has made more than two thousand appearances on TV and radio, including BBC, Channel 4, 5 and Sky News. He has consulted for some of the world’s best known brands (including the likes of Audi, Barclays, Facebook, Google and HSBC) and is a regular speaker at business and technology conferences. In Future-proof Your Business he explains how world-leading organisations are building sustainable success in an age of uncertainty.
Penguin and Tom decided to bring forward the launch of Future-proof Your Business because of its relevance to the current crisis. Now, more than ever, we need to rethink the way we build and operate our organisations.
What our priorities? Short-term profit or sustainable success?
How can we fully engage people across the business?
Can we build a more agile organisation to respond to shocks?
These are the questions that Future-proof Your Business addresses, with practical tools to build more future-ready organisations.
This book gives you a complete set of tools to plan better, make decisions faster, and structure your organisation for agility. It includes a set of three tools for 'Athletic Organisations' which have been developed over years of work with global leaders, seeing what succeeds and what doesn’t. In this challenging period, Tom suggests the best thing we can do is take to learn, and think how we might do things differently on the other side.
Tom will spend 20 minutes providing an overview of the themes covered in the book, which will be followed by an interactive panel discussion when we will reflect on the subject and consider broader perspectives based on the panellists' own experience and knowledge. the event will be chaired by Julian Wells with panellists including:
Stefan Haase - Director, Whitecap Consulting
Stefan is Technology and Innovation Lead at Whitecap and has worked with high growth businesses across multiple industries
Dan Rajkumar - Director, FinTech North, Founder & MD, rebuildingsociety.com and White Label Crowdfunding
Dan is a tech entrepreneur with experience of running three FinTech firms as well as a global digital translation business.
Stuart Harrison - Director, FinTech West & Associate Director (South West), Whitecap Consulting
Stuart has 30+ years of working within the high-tech sector helping businesses with their growth ambitions, strategy and operations.
