IT BP Forum June
21/06/2018 09:00 to 21/06/2018 17:00
NFU Mutual
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United Kingdom
- 21/06/2018 10:00
- Oaks Annexe 1
Steve will be taking us on the journey of how the IT department at NFU Mutual has responded to different challenges and the transformation it underwent in the past few years. Steve will look forwards to what the future holds; together with some valuable insight into what enables the department to perform so well today. ...
- 21/06/2018 10:40
- Oaks Annexe 1
Sarah will present the results of our members survey on Value Management, doing a deep dive into the different aspects that help deliver benefit to the organisations we work for . Sarah will look at the total lifecycle and will suggest some key interventions to address the weak points in the lifecycle. Thus, better equipping us to remove the obstacles that prevent us from attaining Strategic IT Partner goal. ...
- 21/06/2018 11:50
- Oaks Annexe 1
For a discipline that is based on zeroes and ones, IT people are exceedingly sloppy about their use of non-programming language. Take the term “digital transformation”, that everybody seems to be talking about. What does it mean? Transformation of what? What is digital anyway? And while we’re at it, what’s the difference between digital and IT? Mark will pinpoint some paradigms and perspectives to peruse. ...
- 21/06/2018 14:00
- Oaks Annexe 1
Kick-Start Kaizen Getting beyond Service Partner is fraught with a simple question - where do you start? Gavin Brought in Baxter Thompson Associates to run a one day workshop to help identify the constraints to be removed and new activities that needed to enabled in order to start the journey towards Strategic IT Partner. Gavin shares the activities inspired by the workshop and progress so far. There will be a discussion with the delegates to share their experiences on the type of activitie...
- 21/06/2018 14:00
- Sports Club
Discovering Outcomes With shared understanding of needs and agreement on outcomes, you're already halfway there! Typically though, organisational change is tackled the wrong way round, starting with solutions and then dealing with the almost inevitable resistance. How then does a needs-based, outcome-oriented approach actually work? ...
- 21/06/2018 14:00
- Oaks Annexe 2
Luke will be bringing his experience to the forum and sharing how the first year has gone in setting up the BRM Function in the Department of Transport. He will share some of the challenges that have shaped the Value proposition and the valuable lessons learnt that can help peers in other organisations plan their deployment ...
- 21/06/2018 15:10
- Oaks Annexe 2
"The Effective Business Partner or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" Ever wondered what makes an "effective" Business Partner and what characteristics successful BP's have. This session will explore the good, the bad and the outright ugly of the BP trade. By the end of the session you will a.) know if this is (still) a vocation for you and b.) enable you to map out the next steps if this is the trade you want to be in. Caution: This is an interactive, thought-provoking and fun session. So b...
- 21/06/2018 15:10
- Oaks Annexe 1
One of the major shifts that seems to go hand-in-hand with digital transformation, is a degree of convergence of business and IT. In other words, business and IT no longer sit 'opposite' each other, but next to each other. In this interactive workshop, we'll explore the often troubled relationship between business and IT, and how "digital" shakes it up for the service partner. ...
- 21/06/2018 15:10
- Sports Club
Debatable Data We live in a world in which our advice is only as valuable as the data we can provide to support it. We rely on data not just to make decisions for ourselves and our businesses, but also to inform the arguments we deploy to win the support of stakeholders, colleagues, and clients. Data-driven solutions, we are told, speak for themselves and how we communicate them to others is more a question of style than substance. This workshop will show how data can be used to support m...
