- Transformation through Technology
- Fruitful partnerships - Reaping the benefits of collaboration
Date: Thursday, 10 May 2012
Venue: Palace Hotel, Manchester
An extremely useful and insightful iNetwork summer conference. The Pentagull team
were kept busy for most of day with enquiries from a number of public and private
organisations including discussions with an acting chief executive from one of the
AGMA Authorities. This is definitely one for diary for next year.
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of the conference click here.
- SOCITM - North West Regional Meeting
Date: Wednesday 18th April 2012
Venue: Central Manchester
An very interesting and valuable event. Although the attendance was low and Paul
Green had to do the work of 4 speakers, the day was excellent with Paul covering
Information Management and how this has been approached at Sheffield, while David
Hunter covered new agile ways of working at Salford and the challenges facing AGMA
with implementing the shared IT plan.
A number of new contacts were made with Local Councils (Preston, Lancaster and Wirral)
and a number of old contacts were re-engaged. Paul Green did a fabulous job considering
the position he was put in – well done.
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of the conference click here.
- Inside Government - Agile in London
Date: Wednesday 7th December 2011
Venue: Central London
With the acknowledgement that over £16 billion was spent on ICT in the public sector
in 2008/09, the government's ICT Strategy, published 30th March 2011, aims to deliver
better public services for less cost, through the application of 'agile' ICT delivery
methods. Agile means adopting an approach to IT that emphasises flexibility, responsiveness
to change and innovation.
The Institute of Government’s 'System Error: fixing the flaws in government IT'
report, (March 2011) advocates an ‘agile’ IT solution that can bring the government
various benefits, including cost and time savings, whilst delivering more effective
and flexible services. These benefits were highlighted in the Institute for Government's
sponsored agile IT project in the Metropolitan police.
Phil Baron,
Managing Director of Pentagull was one of the keynote speakers at the event.
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for more information about the event
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presentation (Microsoft Powerpoint)
- SOCITM 2011 Annual Conference in Birmingham
Date: 29th November to 1st December 2011
Venue: Birmingham
Pentagull attended the SOCITM 2011 Annual Conference in Birmingham from 29th November
to 1st December 2011. It was an excellent event with extremely interesting speakers
and brilliantly facilitated by Maggie Philbin with bags of positive energy. The
round table discussions were challenging and engaging, and Pentagull were able to
both listen to what the key priorities are facing public services and the role for
ICT, and also put forward our own approach to save money, improve service and leave
organisations sustainable.
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more information of the presentations and the conference click here.
- SOCITM North West Autumn Conference
Date: 18th October 2011
Venue: Knutsford
In October 2011 Pentagull attended the Socitm North West Regional Meeting, chaired
by Paul Green, CIO, Sheffield City Council.
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information