The Business Information Systems Specialist Group
BISSG Programme 2009/2010
When are the meetings? |
Our meetings are held between October and May. We meet from 18:00; the session starts at 18:30 and finishes at 20:30. Refreshments are available from 18:00 to 18:30. |
On arrival for a meeting of the Business Information Systems Specialist Group (BISSG) at the London offices of the BCS, please request reception for directions to our room.
The Committee looks forward to seeing you at the next meeting. Please register with Stuart Pollard.
If you would like to suggest a topic, please contact the Programme Secretary.
| 14/10/2009 | Innovation and Transformation Through Radical Cost Cutting Keith Bogg
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The credit crunch has forced even more focus on spend - and on IT spend in particular. At the same time, the demands on IT to deliver greater value for money are ever higher. In this session Keith Bogg will give insights into how to square this particular circle:
In addition, there will be a general Q&A session to give you the opportunity to address someof the other key areas of IT. Keith Bogg is an experienced board-level director and management consultant having held commercial P&L roles in Retail, Direct Marketing and E-Commerce, in addition to operational roles covering procurement, supply chain, logistics and IT. These roles were primarily within the Retail, Media/ Broadcast and Technology sectors with Marks and Spencer, BBC and ICL/Fujitsu. Currently, Keith is an Executive Partner with Garner's market-leading Executive Program. Keith advises Business and IT Executives through member-driven research and practical sharing of best practices. At M&S, Keith was the Retail board director responsible for the Home Business Unit, Direct Marketing and E-Commerce. He developed and implemented a new business model for the Home Group, turning previous losses into a substantial net profit within three years. Prior to this, Keith spent seven years as Global Logistics and IT Director. Before M&S, Keith spent ten years at ICL/Fujitsu in various senior management roles including software development,operations management and the last three years as Global IT Director. Keith spent two years as an independent management consultant working with BBC Technology. His role reporting to the MD/FD focused on increasing the value of the business via improved procurement, IP protection and commercial arrangements, prior to the sale of the company to an IT outsourcer. Keith has also held a number of Non-Executive Director roles, including Wheel Group Ltd (a new media agency), ITSA (the government IT services agency) and Community Industry, a charity focused on vocational training for disadvantaged young people where he was also Chairman of the Audit Committee. Despite his corporate responsibilities, Keith has managed to retain his sense of humour, energy and outside interests that include, running, golf, and Watford Football Club. |
| 9/12/2009 | Change is easy - it’s the people that makes it difficult Jane Rumsam, Head of Programmes and Project Assurance, Parliamentary ICT Caroline Paxton, Head of Client Services, Changefirst Ltd |
This session is a joint BISSG and Business Change Specialist Group event. It will address the challenges of building peoples’ commitment to big ICT and organisational changes and how the Parliamentary ICT organisation (PICT), BT and other large public and private sector organisations have managed this. The speakers will share their experiences of getting business ‘buy in’ to complex change and what it takes to deliver results. Jane Rumsam is currently Head of Programmes and Project Assurance for Parliament and has spent her career implementing complex IT projects in a variety of roles in both the public and private sector. She has spent 30 years in IT in a variety of roles from programmer through to IS support manager and then into change management and assurance. Throughout her career she has been involved in major business change, typically requiring people-centric business change. Jane has worked in several different sectors from the public sector to defence manufacturing, service support, insurance and pensions. For the last eight years, she has been working at the Houses of Parliament during which time she has been involved with several business change programmes. These have ranged from localised departmental changes through to major organisational changes following reviews of the administration of both Houses. Her current role is re-introducing and embedding best practice programme assurance methods across both Houses and her home department of Parliamentary ICT. Caroline Paxton is the Head of Client Services at implementation methodology provider Changefirst Ltd. Previously Caroline headed up the consulting business for BT, after a career in the military and in management consultancy. She has considerable experience leading major change initiatives in a range of public and private sector organisations. Her experience spans Europe, US and Far East. She brings a wealth of understanding of how people, at all levels, perform during change. She is a fervent advocate of releasing latent capability in complex and often change-weary organisations. Caroline regularly facilitates workshops and delivers conference speeches on change not only in the UK and Europe. Caroline will share her experience of implementing transformational change across 33,000 people worldwide at BT Global Services and of working with a range of large organisations to drive change capability including Novartis, Nokia, Zurich Financial Services and the Welsh Assembly Government. |
| 10/02/2010 | Getting IT Decisions Right in a Credit Crunched World Session was led by Professor Larry Phillips Download related papers: Multi-criteria Decision Analysis and Decision Conferencing Paper
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The current economic situation - with its ‘more with less’ imperative - puts yet more emphasis on robust decision making. Arguably, selecting the right IT projects, for example, is more important now than it has ever been. But selection is often fraught with difficulties which include:
Whatever the reason, there is a place for an improved approach to decision making, so people can arrive at a shared understanding of the issues, develop a sense of common purpose and achieve commitment to action. Those are the purposes of decision conferencing. Decision conferencing is a series of intensive working meetings attended by groups of people who are concerned about some complex issues facing their organisation - not those just related to IT. There are no prepared presentations or fixed agenda. The meetings are conducted as live, working sessions lasting from one to three days. A unique feature is the creation, on-the-spot, of a computer-based model which incorporates data and the judgements of the participants in the groups. The model is a 'tool for thinking', enabling participants to see the logical consequences of differing viewpoints, and to develop higher-level perspectives on the issues. By examining the implications of the model, then changing it and trying out different assumptions, participants develop a shared understanding and reach agreement about the way forward. The session was led by Professor Larry Phillips, Visiting Professor of Decision Sciences at the LSE and director of Facilitations Ltd. and Catalyze Ltd. |
| 12/05/2010 | Annual General Meeting
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There will be a full AGM with the usual event timing of 18:00 for 18:30 until approximately 19:30. The agenda will be:
If you wish to be nominated for a BISSG Committee post, please download and complete the form and return to the email address shown by 1 May 2010. If you can’t make the AGM, we would still be very interested in your views on topic (and speaker) suggestions for the 2010 – 2011 programme (October to May). Please respond to the email notification or contact the Programme Secretary (via the 'Committee' link). |
