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Making the case for BCP
If Business Continuity Planning (BCP) has a higher profile today than twenty years ago, it is in no small way due to the activities of terrorist organisations
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Education, Higher Education, Utilities, Transport, Financial Services, International, Disaster planning and recovery, Risk management.
Outsourcing - is your deal set up to fail?
Outsourcing, whether it be front or back office services; specific functions or applications; on-shore or off-shore, has been around for nearly two decades. It is now a fairly mature industry, so why are so many outsourcing contracts still going wrong?
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Housing, Education, Higher Education, Transport, International, Financial management advice, Procurement support, Outsourcing advice, Benefits management and achievement, Business case development, Systems procurement, Service outsourcing, Risk management.
Flexible Learning
Advances in technology have opened the door to far reaching changes in working and learning patterns. Learners, teachers and other school employees are demanding flexible access to virtual learning environments and learning systems at times and places outside the normal school/college day and premises. In this article we share some insights to provide anytime-anywhere access to educators and learners.
See: Central Government & Agencies, Education, Higher Education.
Commissioning Best Practice Checklist
Oakleigh have developed a commissioning checklist as a brief aide memoir to commissioners to ensure the latest commissioning rounds are inclusive of best practice.
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Housing, Education, Higher Education.
Marketing Inside Your Head
Part of our Blurring the boundaries (2): how technology is changing the way we learn series
See: Education, Higher Education, Technology, Education, Technology futures assessment.
Blurring the boundaries (2): how technology is changing the way we experience learning
In this second of two articles, Kay Renfrew of Oakleigh Consulting looks at some of the underlying systems and software that are having a profound impact on the way we learn and their implications for educators and learners.
See: Education, Higher Education, ICT Functional specifications, Technology futures assessment, IT strategy definition and review.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is becoming increasingly popular in the UK public sector
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Education, Higher Education, Partnership working, Stakeholder consultation, Modernising business processes, Organisational development, Performance management, Business case development.
When IS Projects Go Bad
Many information systems (IS) projects fail because they have been designed to satisfy the wrong requirements.
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Education, Higher Education, Utilities, Financial Services, White Paper, Technology specific.
Getting consultation right
There a number of ways in which a particular policy can be defined as 'good' - do you know what they are?
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Education, Higher Education, Stakeholder consultation, Knowledge management.
The Future of Social Care
On July 14th 2009, the government published its long-awaited green paper on the future of adult social care. The paper highlights key challenges and problems with the current system, outlines a vision for care and support and explores a number of alternative funding models to ensure the future system is affordable and sustainable.
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Education, Staff, White Paper, Health, Local Government, Education, Central government.