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Master Classes are high-level seminars, at which we present our insight on topics pertinent to corporate IT and business management. These events attract between 40 to 150 senior delegates, and are held throughout Europe. Business and IT Industry leaders gain a view of how their own businesses should be changing to embrace an economic environment that is becoming totally dominated by information and the technology that enables its exploitation.
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Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management Master Class
Exploiting and Optimising Services and Processes
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) are separate initiatives that address different business and IT requirements and provide solutions to the issues faced by different roles within an organisation. Yet the two are entirely complementary – both add value to the other. This two-day Master Class will provide a combination of plenary sessions that address SOA and BPM jointly, plus focused breakout tracks that explore the benefits and requirements of each. This Master Class will provide information on planning and deploying BPM and SOA initiatives to achieve planned benefits to the business. It will provide a forum for open discussion, together with case studies that will reveal the reality of the benefits on offer. In addition to discussing the current status of products and deployments, the Master Class will discuss market trends and the likely outcome of these on the future role of SOA and BPM in cementing business / IT collaboration.
4 – 5 June 2008 , London
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Enterprise Architecture Master Class
Bridging the Gap between Business Objectives and IT Delivery
Today, more than ever, IT organisations are under pressure to develop an effective strategy and to deliver services that match the objectives of the enterprise. In order to meet these requirements, it is essential that IT management has a thorough understanding of what they have got, where the business is headed, and what are the transformation activities necessary to navigate the change. An architectural approach can offer a useful framework within which organisations can address the dislocation between the business and IT, improve the quality of planning; and provide insight into the many complex relationships and interdependencies found in IT environments.
Thursday 22 May 2008, London
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Selecting and Managing IT Investments Master Class
Realising Value from IT-Enabled Business Initiatives
For most organisations, it is now understood that achieving good returns on IT investments does not depend simply on appropriate technology choices and their successful deployment. The requirement to link IT capabilities with associated business change creates an environment in which realising the projected benefits depends not purely on “on-time, on-budget and to specification delivery”, but on managing multiple business and technology dimensions over the entire life-cycle of the initiative.
Thursday 12 June 2008 , London
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Information Security and Data Protection Master Class
Addressing the Corporate Risk of Data Loss and Misuse
The provision of good quality Information Security and having the ability to properly protect an organisation’s corporate information assets is as much a business continuity issue as it is one of security and protection. The basic premise remains the same, all key data assets must be adequately protected but, at the same time as core protection services are being delivered, authorised users need to be provided with unencumbered levels of information access that match their everyday business requirements.
Wednesday 2 July 2008, London
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Managing Agile Application Development Master Class
Meeting the Challenges of Application Development through Agile Practices
A number of challenges face application development units in organizations today: meeting business needs in a responsive manner, finding time for innovation when struggling to keep up with the demands of maintenance and upgrades, and managing the complexity of changing IT environments with the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, while tackling the perennial difficulty of delivering high quality code. Every organization will have their unique cut or mix of challenges but there are common solutions that run across these and the aim of this Butler Group Master Class is to cover a number of Agile practices that can help application development units stay on top of these challenges.
Wednesday 23 July 2008, London
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DVD: IT Governance
Strategy, Tactics, Methods, and Tools
There is typically no argument concerning the governance of fiscal matters in most organisations. The CFO has compliance responsibilities that ensure the role is not challenged by functional heads or any other senior figures within or outside the organisation. Governance of IT however is less clearcut. It is quite common to see individual departments doing their own thing, and for the CIO to be compromised by conflicting demands generated at varying levels within the organisation.
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DVD: Measuring IT Costs and Value
How to Control the Costs and Measure the Value of IT Investments
Nothing inhibits IT investment more than an inability to measure benefits and keep control of costs. Senior management in many large organisations have become intolerant of sizeable investments that do not demonstrate a tangible return and where costs have typically overrun. Measurement is the key to restoring faith in IT and only total transparency will satisfy a critical gaze.
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DVD: Achieving IT Flexibility
Moving from Inhibitor to Enabler of Change
In both private and public sectors, organisations are faced with ongoing rapid change. If a commercial organisation is to maintain or improve its market position, or a public service to meet or exceed its targets, then it must learn to continuously adapt by adjusting its priorities and launching new initiatives, whilst also improving its operational costeffectiveness.
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DVD: Service Oriented Architecture & Business Process Management
Exploiting and Optimising Services and Processes
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) are separate initiatives that address different business and IT requirements and provide solutions to the issues faced by different roles within an organisation. Yet the two are entirely complementary – both add value to the other. This two-disc Master Class DVD will provide a combination of plenary sessions that address SOA and BPM jointly, plus focused breakout tracks that explore the benefits and requirements of each.
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