Simon Wardley
Senior Researcher
DxC Leading Edge
Simon is a former CEO, former advisory board member of startups (all now acquired by US Giants), fellow of Open Europe, inventor of Wardley Mapping, a regular conference speaker and a researcher for the LEF. He uses mapping in his research for the LEF covering areas from Serverless to Nation State competition whilst also advising / teaching LEF clients on mapping, strategy, organisation and leadership.
As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination in economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether it’s in behavioural patterns, environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems or managing companies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure and cybernetics.
Talks I've Given
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Keynote: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
Featuring Simon Wardley
In this talk Simon will examine the level of situational awareness within business, why it matters and whether we can anticipate and exploit change before it hits us.
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Keynote: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
Featuring Simon Wardley
In this talk, Simon will introduce the concept of mapping a landscape, why it matters, how it can influence the type of architectural choices you should make and how do you get from here to there.
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Crossing the River By Feeling the Stones
Featuring Simon Wardley
Deng Xiaoping once described managing the economy as crossing the river by feeling the stones—in other words, have a direction but be adaptive. But in a world of constant change, how do you determine the right thing to do? Which pebble to tread on? How do you understand where you’re going and...
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Crossing the river by feeling the stones
Featuring Simon Wardley
Deng Xiaoping once described managing the economy as crossing the river by feeling the stones—in other words have a direction but be adaptive. But in a world of constant change, how do you determine the right thing to do? Which pebble to tread on? How do you understand where you’re going and...
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Situation normal everything must change
Featuring Simon Wardley
In today’s computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in wave after wave of new trends. This sea of concepts are simply the evolution of our industry from a product to a service based economy. We will examine the evolution of technology and why cloud is happening now, as well as the...
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Welcome to Cloudcamp
Featuring Simon Wardley
In this session Simon Wardley welcomes the audience to CloudCamp at QCon London with a brief introduction to what cloud computing is.
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Introduction to Cloud Computing & Cloud Camp
Featuring Simon Wardley
Simon Wardley talks about the evolution of technology with lightning change of slides.
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Eucalyptus
Featuring Simon Wardley
Why don't financial institutions embrace cloud based computing solution? Is it possible to evaluate cloud concepts internally using standard API but running on the institutions own hardware, then move to external solution with none/minimal api impact? Eucalyptus could be the way forward!
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Situation Normal, Everything must change
Featuring Simon Wardley
In today’s computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in wave after wave of new trends such as mashups, service oriented architecture and cloud computing.
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How much of a gamble is the Cloud?
Featuring Simon Wardley
Simon Wardley examines of the benefits & risks of cloud computing and how this industry is shaping up.
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Introduction - What is CloudCamp
Featuring Simon Wardley
Simon Wardley gives his talk "Introduction- What is Cloudcamp" at CloudCamp London
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Gang up now before the aaS cloud gets you
Featuring Simon Wardley
Gang up now before the aaS cloud gets you