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  • Business continuity fit for the future

    Ensuring the availability of public services in a changing world

    Planning for business continuity is essential for all organisations not least those in the public sector. As the Council of the Future becomes ever more dependent on information and the systems which deliver it, the focus of business continuity planning is also changing over time.

    This intensive and interactive one-day course from industry expert James Royds is essential for all those involved in ensuring the availability of services to communities and citizens both now and in the future.

  • Business development and account management

    This one day practical course will give delegates a clear understanding of Business Development and account management exploring the role and offering practical approaches, tools and techniques for immediate use.

    To book a place on this course, please use our online booking facility.

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  • Check Team Member Examination (CTM)

    TigerScheme approved

    A half day exam for CHECK Team Members who what to keep this status

    Penetration Testers who want to become CHECK Team Members

    The exam is of CESG Equivalence

    As of March 2010 CESG require that all current CHECK Team members must at the very least attempt to pass an approved CTM examination before March 2011 should they wish to remain as active team members and to have passed this examination before March 2012.

    All new team members after this date will be required to sit and pass an approved examination before they are permitted to work within the CHECK scheme.
  • Creating a strong vision and the strategy to achieve it

    Aimed at senior management, this one-day event covers the development of a local vision for future council services plus the engagement, strategic planning and governance needed to make it happen.

    The council of the future is going to be very different from what we know today. It has to be. How else can it meet the challenge of ever-rising expectations of service quality and value for money? 
     
    While there are massive opportunities to save using common approaches both within and across organisations, does this mean that one size fits all?  Certainly not. No two places are the same. Each local authority (and locality) will need to determine its own future vision to meet the needs of citizens and to galvanise the energies of all contributors to achieve it.
     
    This course is designed to support the development, launch and strategic planning of the implementation of your Council of the Future™ vision with a focus on critical success factors.
     
    It looks at the various elements that make up a comprehensive and credible vision of the way that public service provision will look to your customers and citizens in three to five years time. It will examine possible approaches to visioning and strategy development and the continuous challenge of effective communication with everyone involved and everyone affected.
     
    The course will equip you to kick-start or radically overhaul the planning process which shapes a strategy to deliver that vision as well as helping you to analyse your starting point.
      
  • Data Quality and Data Sharing

     

    An intensive one-day course covering the key concepts and benefits of data quality and data sharing;  risk and risk management, and both incremental and strategic options for its improvement.

     

    Data quality and data sharing are issues that should underpin just about everything that a public sector organisation does. Data quality and data sharing are essential for service delivery, for providing information and advice, and for decision making. Without good quality data, an organisation cannot properly understand whether transformation and efficiency projects are delivering real benefits, or whether they are simply shifting costs and problems to other areas.

     

  • Developing a strategy for EDRM

    This interactive one day course provides a comprehensive overview of Electronic Document and Records Management EDRM. It will identify and explore the key aspects of a sustainable strategy, covering people and process considerations as well as exploring technology options.

    It is suitable for all public sector organisations, whether embarking on, already implementing or reviewing their EDRM programme.

  • Developing a strategy for mobile and flexible working

    This interactive one day course provides a good overview of the scope of mobile and flexible working. It will identify and explore the key aspects and structure of a sustainable strategy such as people and property considerations as well as exploring technology opportunities and implications. It is suitable for all public sector organisations, whether embarking on or already implementing mobile and/or flexible working programmes.

  • Developing an ICT strategy

    Do you need to create a new ICT strategy, or to refresh your current strategy? This one-day practical event is designed to help those who want to maximise the benefits from their ICT budgets and capital investments. The foundations are recent Socitm Insight reports on building an ICT strategy and ICT governance. There is a strong emphasis on creating the right governance framework in order to ensure the full implementation of the strategy, and we use the new Socitm technology and information architectures.

  • Digital inclusion - making it happen

     

    This one day course addresses the importance of digital inclusion to equable service access, tackling the needs of excluded groups and service cost reduction, and the strategies to make it a reality.

    It will also explore the impact of government agendas and best practice for social exclusion/digital inclusion on their service delivery mechanisms as well as the associated opportunities.

    At a time of continuous and severe budget pressure, the lack of access to technology and the capability to use it affects large numbers of citizens. This limits the potential to deliver customer services in the most cost-effective manner i.e. electronically.

  • G-cloud briefing

    This early evening briefing updates delegates on cloud computing, and explains the thinking behind the G-Cloud, the backbone of the Government’s ICT strategy. This is an essential topic for Socitm members and others working in and in conjunction with the public sector as the government has predicated £3.2 billion of savings on its future use, and a further £500 million on another component of the brand – the Government Application Store (G-AS).

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