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Upcoming Events
The Cloud as a Transformational Business Tool
Overview
The cloud as a technology is neither complex nor interesting. However, what is significant is the truly transformational nature of what it enables business to do. The cloud provides a mechanism by which organisations can significantly reduce costs and complexity, and can execute change quickly with minimal risk. Capital investment in the initial stages of a project using “cloud” is extremely low, and yet ownership costs remain under control even at scale.
The ability to start new initiatives and respond to change quickly and efficiently is truly game changing.
Website Development Using Agile Techniques
Overview
Agile project management techniques are ideal for web projects - they are normally divisible into separate features, that can be assessed for business value and cry out for early delivery through incremental development.
IndigoBlue consultant Denis Howlett is the trainer on the very popular Econsultancy Web Project training courses:
Second Wednesdays - Agile Management Discussions over Breakfast
Overview
IndigoBlue's Second Wednesdays are monthly breakfast discussions between Senior Business and IT Stakeholders in complex organisations. By invitation only and limited to 10 guests, the discussions are open and candid.
Chatham House rules apply: no presentations, no publicity, no recordings, no vendors. Simply an engaging, informative discussion in a convivial atmosphere with excellent food.
Next Topic:
Agile by its very nature is iterative and incremental aiming to produce high quality solutions that meet the evolving needs of the stakeholders. Whilst Technology departments in many organisations have undergone significant change in how they deliver projects, how much of the wider corporate enterprise has adapted and adopted new ways of working? Are we in danger of constraining potential success through a siloed implementation? What does Agile mean for the corporate planning cycle, for investment committees and post implementation reviews? How does the broader enterprise need to change in order to reflect the different approach and associated demands of Agile upon it?
Facilitator: Richard Piercy EVP Transformation & Digital Supply Chain at EMI
Past Events
IRIS NFP Solutions 2012 Roadshow - Digital & IT Trends for 2012 in the Membership Sector
Overview
IndigoBlue's Managing Director Rob Smith is presenting the opening sesson at Iris's NFP Solutions 2012 Roadshow.
Based on current work reviewing the IT strategies for the membership market, Rob will provide an insight into trends that organisations could or should be considering for adoption.
Rob will identify the key digital and IT trends that are most important to membership organisations. He will then draw out how these trends, together with the organisation's business strategy, input into the IT strategy to provide a roadmap for the organisation's IT and improve support for the business strategy.
Rob's presentation will focus on the revolution that is affecting the NFP sector and how forward looking organisations can embrace change and transform their operation; to grow revenues and significantly improve stakeholder engagement and service. He will look at 5 key areas: understanding customers; productisation; the future of the web; cloud computing and collaboration.
Inside Government Forum
Overview
IndigoBlue's Russ Charlesworth is presenting at Inside Government's Agile Government ICT Forum.
Russ will be talking about the Agile Pathfinder Programme (APP) for Agile Development in Local Authorities.
Other sessions include:
- Morning Keynote: "The Government ICT Strategy - Developing An Agile Approach" Steve Dover, Director, Major IT Programme Delivery - ADC Change Programme, Department for Work and Pensions
- Special Keynote: "System Error – Fixing the Flaws in Government IT" Adrian Brown, Institute for Government & Co-Author, System Error: Fixing the flaws in government IT
- "Creating an Agile Culture" Mark O'Neill, Head, Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office
NFP Seminar: How to Improve Services with Fewer Resources
23 NOV 2011 | NFP Director Seminar |Less is more – how to improve services with fewer resources
Overview
Not-for-profit organisations are facing ever greater pressure on resources, whilst being required to deliver improved services. Funding shortfalls, government cuts and membership pressures are leading to reduction in staff numbers and lack of investment. Existing inefficient process and organisational structures inhibit improvement, but the fear of change can prevent any changes from happening. At the same time, demand grows for a greatly increased role for the third sector in society.
How can you meet these demands? How can process improvement, new technology and the web enable your organisation to offer improved services with fewer resources?
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PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
John Seddon
Professor John Seddon is the author of the best-selling Freedom from Command and Control, John has a reputation for being controversial, but informed. Whilst his main body of work studies the knock on effects of inefficiencies at the transactional edge of Service Organisations, his more recent work focuses on Public Services with even more compelling arguments.
Steve Dale
Steve Dale is the architect of the award winning Community Platform – the local government online community of communities. Communities Platform currently has over 96,000 registered users and 1,500 communities. Steve will talk about how you encourage a community to work together to share information and create a truly dynamic website.
Don Reinertsen
Don Reinertsen is recognised internationally for his ground-breaking work on the management of product development. Combining intellectual rigour with inspiration from a surprising variety of disciplines such as Modern Warfare or Queuing Theory, Don brings invaluable clarity of thinking in complex decision making in a language understandable by all change stakeholders.
Neil Kleiner
Neil is UK Head of Social Media at Havas Media.
His background (after giving up trying to be a music journalist for his own independent music magazine) is with digital agencies and digital consulting.
He advises leading brands on the effective use of social media and the level of engagement needed.
WHAT WE'RE SAYING
Today's highly competitive and rapidly changing markets that see the rise and fall of the likes of Nokia and MySpace places business imperatives on companies. In particular, companies need to be innovative, introducing new products, updating others to react to changes in the market (or predicting or even creating these market changes).