ICT strategy workshop
Is building or renewing the ICT strategy a task you would rather do some other time? Do you have difficulty getting service managers to engage with the process? Or is the process an on-going task that involves a dedicated person or team on an almost permanent basis? How do you keep abreast of the technology challenges on the horizon? As expectations of what ICT can deliver increase, it becomes increasingly important to get the process right. Socitm Insight subscribers can attend this free workshop to learn about current thinking and contribute to developing strategy frameworks to suit the new agenda.
| Start date/time |
23 August 2007 |
| Finish date/time |
23 August 2007 |
| Topic Category |
All |
| Event type |
All |
| Cost |
Free |
| Open to |
Employees in organisations that subscribe to Socitm Insight only |
| Organised by |
Socitm Insight |
| Venue |
Friends’ House, Euston |
| Location |
London |
| Contact email |
chris.head@socitm.gov.uk |
Further information
Getting the ICT strategy right involves accommodating the organisation’s changing business requirements, and visions of flexibility, agility, customer focus, value for money as well as the need for the ICT function to be responsive to change. Strategists have also to decide whether emerging trends, such as service oriented architecture, will be the next ‘big thing’ during the lifetime of their strategy, or fall by the wayside as just another fad.
Socitm Insight is revising its advice in a new report to replace the current Planning for ICT series, and preparing for our annual publication The technology challenge. Our research direction workshop includes subscriber presentations from councils who have tackled these issues, as well our latest thinking on how to approach strategy formulation and choice of architecture. Workshop sessions will cover a choice from:
- Getting all the architectures right
- Securing user engagement
- Optimising the governance function
- Planning for the green agenda
This is an extremely important topic area as government and service managers’ expectations of what technology will achieve for them increase.
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09:30 |
coffee on arrival |
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10:00 |
Introduction |
Martin Greenwood
Programme manager
Socitm Insight |
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10:10 |
ICT strategy
What has changed since we issued our advice Planning for ICT? |
Christopher Head
Principal associate
Socitm Insight |
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10:20 |
Practical experience of using Planning for ICT, and learning from it. Two practitioner presentations:
1 Leeds City Council |
Allen Colledge |
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11:00 |
Coffee |
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11:15 |
2 Cheshire County Council |
Sue Jones |
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12:00 |
Plenary discussion of points from the presentations |
Martin Greenwood |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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13:15 |
The technology challenge 2008
What topics do subscribers need us to research? |
Tony Riding |
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14:00 |
Strategy workshop discussion streams
- Getting all the architectures right
- Securing user engagement
- Optimising the governance function
- Planning for the green agenda |
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15:00 |
Tea |
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15:15 |
Workshop feedback |
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15:45 |
Summary of the day |
Chris Head |