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Upcoming 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.
Second Wednesday Breakfast: Adapt or die, be Agile, innovate!
08 FEB 2012 | Breakfast Discussion |Second Wednesdays - Agile Management Discussions over Breakfast
Overview
The IndigoBlue 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:
The iconic Darwinist statement is now as compelling for complex organisations as it has been for living organisms. However, linking Agile to innovation, is taking a bold step further. In our Agile Treadmill series, we hinted that when industrialised, Agile actually incurs the risk of stifling innovation. Its obsession nonetheless, of speedily converting concepts into usable assets, meets a necessary, but not sufficient condition for innovation. This discussion will explore whether the political will to invest in a portfolio of initiatives, combined with governance mechanisms tracking success and failure at regular intervals, can create a ground where Agile and Innovation are mutually supportive.
Facilitator: Stan Wade
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:
Past Events
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?
Reducing the Risk of Project Failure: Using Agile in Government IT
08 NOV 2011 | Free BCS Talk |System Error: Reducing the Risk of Project Failure
Overview
Working with a high level Taskforce, IndigoBlue supported the Institute for Government in their exploration of the key challenges facing government as it spends around £16 bn on ICT each year. The report, System Error, recommended a new dual approach to government ICT that emphasises adaptability and flexibility in procurement and delivery while retaining the benefits of scale and collaboration across government.
It described these twin tracks as 'agile' and 'platform'. Both these elements now feature prominently in the Government's ICT strategy, which promises that Government will "apply agile methods to procurement and delivery to reduce the risk of project failure" and introduce a "common ICT platform".
While implementing these changes may prove to be extremely challenging, a pilot project sponsored by the Home Office and the Met Police, led by IndigoBlue, demonstrated first hand the benefits of incremental delivery using an Agile approach while still maintaining the control craved by IT management within Government.
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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
IndigoBlue has a long held view that incremental delivery, and the supporting incremental strategy, is core to the success of Agile management. This tenet is the basis for our governance framework and our approach to managing Agile at scale. Last week I was presented with an illustration of this in the shape of one of our customers that has recently piloted the use of Agile in their office in the States.