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Our Master Class DVDs capture the high-level seminars from our Senior Researchers and case studies from a selection of External Speakers. The sessions present our insight on topics pertinent to corporate IT and business management. 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.
The DVD delivers the value of these Master Classes direct to your organisation for individual to corporate use.
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DVD: Managing Agile Application Development
Meeting the Challenges of Application Development through Agile Practices
A number of challenges face application development units in organisations 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 organisation 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.
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DVD: Enterprise Architecture
Bridging the Gap between Business Objectives and IT Delivery
Building an Enterprise Architecture requires an understanding of several key technologies and methods, and so this DVD has been designed to help viewers with differing roles, backgrounds, and previous levels of experience to plan and implement an Enterprise Architecture in their organisations. We strongly recommend that by involving several people from your organisation, from both business and IT backgrounds, you will get a head start in evolving your IT infrastructure towards an Enterprise Architecture business platform.
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DVD: Managing IT Costs
Balancing Risk, Cost, and Quality
In the prevalent economic climate, there is pressure on organisations of all sizes to make savings in IT costs. At the very least this will involve seeking greater efficiency and moderating any increase in the IT budget, whilst in other cases it will result in a requirement for significant cost cutting across multiple areas of the IT function. However, with IT ever more deeply embedded into key business operations, making the wrong choices for cutbacks can have a damaging effect, literally putting the organisation at risk of failure.
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DVD: Infrastructure Flexibility and Virtualisation
Building a Foundation for Changing Business Requirements
Much of the focus of IT discussion in the last few years has been around business/IT alignment. An outsider might believe that the requirement is a recent discovery. It has, of course, always been the case that the role of IT is to enable the business to conduct its operations more efficiently and effectively, and to support new initiatives. The current concern is the result of the combination of a period of rapid change in the business world and relative under-investment in IT. This is made more complex by growing user expectations driven by the increasing sophistication of consumer IT capabilities.
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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 cost effectiveness.
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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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