40 days until Vancouver 2010

There are only 40 days until Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The snow in the Pacific Northwest is looking great - Whistler has 2.5 metres of snow already! Most of the other resorts have at least a metre and conditions are great if at least a little icy.

Oxford City Council's Project Manager of the Year

Oxford City Council employee Jeff Ridgley has won the award for Project Manager of the Year at the BCS and Computing UK IT Industry Awards, held on Thursday 12 November 2009.

Jeff Ridgley is project managing the Council's customer relationship management (CRM) implementation one of the key projects within the City's Business Transformation Programme.

Oxford City Council shortlisted for Programme of the Year Award

Oxford's Transformation Programme has been shortlisted for APM's Programme of the Year award. The APM awards are the 'Oscars' of the project management community in the UK.

Award Finalist

Transforming Local Government

Business Transformation is about making fundamental changes to the way in which we work, so that we deliver better services to customers and achieve better value for money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_transformation

GSi Remote Worker Service a hit with Staff : February 2008 : OGCbuying.solutions GSi eZine

Mobile working has really taken off in the UK in the last four years.
I did this benefits realisation work for the Office of Fair Trading in
2006-08 and there was good evidence that remote working increased the efficiency and productivity of employees working from home and also those with significant travel commitments.

http://ezine.ogcbuyingsolutions.gov.uk/ezines/gsi/2008-02/remote-working.html

How can Risk Management be implemented effectively?

Risk Management - The Times - Sep 2007 

Preparing for things going wrong is not a task that should be left just to a few specialists, risk awareness should permeate every level of an organisation...

Risk Management Report - Sep 2007

Report on UK risk management...

Shared services and transformation

Transforming organisations using shared services and other approaches can bring rewards and risks. Ben has written many articles on shared services and transformation in the UK in previous roles. Examples of these include those below:

Shared Services in the UK - Survey - Nov 2006

Shared services are one of the best opportunities there is to make the aspiration of joined-up government a reality...

Shared Services Report - Nov 2006

Share and share alike...