Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Digital Spark Innovating in the NHS

Categories: Human Factors, Innovation, News, North East England, Training Resources | Date: 6th February 2012

We’ve been privileged to work with Health Information innovators, Digital Spark. MD Michael Bell and his team have responded to a call to action from consultant stroke physicians and their clinical teams who have long since struggled to capture and use the time-critical patient data they need when making life-or-death decisions about patient treatment. Digital ...

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Alison Freer speaks at BCS Elite Leeds Event

Categories: CIO Development, IT Attention Deficit, Knowledge Work, Leadership of IT, News | Date: 6th February 2012

Alison Freer presented to 50 members of BCS Elite Leeds event on 3rd November 2011. Alison talked about Knowledge Worker Productivity and how IT Leaders can play their part in transforming organisational performance. Also speaking was Northern Rail’s Head of IS, Carl Davies, who talked about how to overcome the all-too-familiar refrain of ‘Everyone Hates ...

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Brain Food: Thinking Digital Conference 2011

Like a Glastonbury of the Digital Media and Technology world, Thinking Digital Conference 2011 surpassed all previous events with a fantastic array of speakers, ideas, music and learning. Innovative, stimulating and relaxed in equal measure, TDC11 delivered on all counts.
As TDC11 ‘thinkers’ we were treated to an extensive and eclectic mix of thought leaders in ...

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IT Review for Leading Law Firm

Effective use of IT for customer engagement and for client case management is crucial for law firms in today’s ever changing legal markets. We recently completed a review of IT for a leading Law Firm who are very focused on realising the maximum business benefits from their IT investments in case management software.
Our client wanted ...

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IT-enabled Business Innovation

Categories: CIO, Ideas and Innovation, Innovation, Leadership, News, Projects | Date: 18th May 2011

In these financially straightened times, lots of organisations are looking to their IT teams and CIOs to deliver business results through IT-enabled innovation.
We’re really excited to be involved in a pragmatic research programme that gets to the nub of what makes, or breaks, successful business innovation, and the part that IT leaders and their teams ...

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Business project opportunities at Durham Business School

Categories: News, Uncategorized | Date: 25th February 2011

My day job includes responsibility for the Full Time Masters Programmes (Business & Management) at Durham Business School. We’re looking for a few more organisations to offer project opportunities for small teams of Masters Students. We aim to advertise the next batch to students by 18th March and the work would take place between June ...

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Vote in our quick poll on IT Portfolio Planning

Categories: IT Portfolio Management, Leadership, News | Date: 5th January 2011

How often does your organisation engage in formal review and planning of strategic IT priorities? Have your say in our New Year’s Poll.  As we start 2011 and many approach the end of the financial year, it’s crucial to make sure that IT projects and programmes are suitably prioritised. But like changing course in an ...

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Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)

Categories: Leadership, News | Date: 13th December 2010

SFIA is a competency framework used as a basis for IT talent management in technology-led organisations.  SFIA was developed to address the lack of  structure for accrediting professional development for rising IT talent in the UK and internationally. We attended the 10th SFIA Foundation Conference in London on 1st December to find out how SFIA ...

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Knowledge worker productivity – important role for IT

Categories: Innovation, Knowledge Work, News | Date: 22nd September 2010

Findings from the workshop on 17th Sept: IT has an important role to play in improving knowledge worker productivity. Many people are spending 20+ hours a week using Microsoft Office and another 10-20 hours using email. Often they have had little or no training and have learnt by trial an error. In most cases there ...

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Join the Lead & Transform Linked-In Group

Categories: News | Date: 20th August 2010

Join us…to share learning and top tips for getting the very best results from IT investments in today’s lightning-fast, digital age. We’re looking at how to get the people, process, leadership and technology bits right to massively improve the way that organisations do business, when enabled by IT. The Lead and Transform group is a ...

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