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Training
Seminar Brochure - System Selection Process
Contents of sessions - available in-house or on public programmes - for dates and details contact us.
How
To Select Your New Computer System
Introduces our proven method to avoid the common pitfalls made by organisations during supplier/system evaluation and selections. Illustrates the scoring matrix. The variant How To Select Your New E-Commerce System was published in Public Sector IT Insight magazine.
Specifying
Global IT Systems
It is risky to assume that a system can support global operations. This article introduces extra criteria to be considered during a project to make, buy or rent an international system.
How
To Improve Technology Use Without Capital
Throwing money at technology often misses. This article introduces the ways you can sweat your existing assets.
Benefit From IT Service Management Processes
Introduces the IT service management processes and the body of knowledge, and illustrates the difference a disciplined approach makes.
Working On Behalf Of A Larger Organisation: Issues & Survival Techniques
Presentation to IEE 'By Consultants for Consultants' Convention - November 2005.
IT System Evaluation & Selection (Shorter Version) 'Combining Speed And Governance On Technology Selections'
Presentation to IT Directors' Forum (ITDF) - Aurora, May 2005.
IT
System Evaluation & Selection (Longer Version) 'How To Select Your New Computer System: Pitfalls & Proven Methods'
Presentation to MSc Programme at Lancaster University Management School - February 2007.
Linking
ICT Procurement To IT Service Management
Presentation to annual conference of IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) - November 2003.
Project metrics - illustrates how the selection process 'flexes' to different risks and budgets.
British Computer Society (BCS) - largest professional body for information practitioners
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) - procurement practice including purchasing and supply management model
IT Governance Institute (ITGI) including CoBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology)
IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) - best-practice IT management processes including IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
MIT - Erik Brynjolfsson - value-based project justification (see IT & business value)
