Isle of Man BCS: Windows 2008 - A feature overview
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 8th May, 2008
Sherrilynne’s beaten me to getting this online, but here’s the final speaking event for from this year’s BCS calendar:
Topic: Microsoft Vista Windows Server 2008 - A Feature Overview
Speaker: Huw Turvey
Venue: The Claremont Hotel, Douglas
Date: Tuesday 13th May 2008
Time: AGM at 18:00 - Talk starts at 18:30
Windows Server 2008 is the [...]
Back from BCS Talk
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 17th Apr, 2008
Just came back from a talk organised by the BCS on Field Service Technology where Steve Burrows, group IT director of Vanilla group gave us some insight on how JLA, the UK market leader in commercial laundry equipment rental, have used technology to streamline their Field Service Operations and integrated them with their ERP, CRM [...]
BCS Talk: Field Service Management Technologies - A case study
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 16th Apr, 2008
The Isle of Man Section of the BCS is holding a talk tomorrow on Field Service Management. Here’s the blurb:
Field Service Management, the discipline of deploying service engineers and customer service representatives most effectively to resolve problems encountered in the field, is one of the least understood and exploited business disciplines. Despite the deep penetration [...]
BCS Talk: Manx Telecom Next Generation Network
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 19th Mar, 2008
If you’re on the Isle of Man, the BCS is organising a talk tomorrow about the new Next-Generation Network currently being rolled out across the Island by Manx Telecom. Here’s a bit more about it.
The network will be one of the first fully converged ALL-IP networks in the world. It will be able to offer [...]
Professor Jim Norton’s Talk
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 21st Feb, 2008
Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get to the BCS talk yesterday, which had Professor Jim Norton talking about Responsibilities of Directors and Managers in ICT Enabled Business Change, but I found that you can download the slides from Professor Norton’s website here. Just click on Online Documentation 2008 and find the presentation there. Enjoy the [...]
BCS Talk Tonight
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 20th Feb, 2008
Just a reminder if you’re in the Isle of Man and working in an organisation effecting change, there’s a talk tonight organised by the BCS, IOD and CMI about the responsibilities organisations face when making business changes. It’s at 18:00 at the Sefton and the speaker is Professor Jim Norton.
So get your heads out of [...]
BCS Talk: Responsibilities That Exist When Making Business Changes
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 12th Feb, 2008
If you’re based in the Isle of Man, the local chapter of the BCS have teamed up with the IOD and the CMI to bring a highly respected speaker to the Isle of Man to give a talk about the responsibilities organisations face when affecting business change. It’s at the Sefton on the 20th of [...]
BCS (Isle of Man) talk on China and India
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 13th Jan, 2008
The BCS Isle of Man has invited Charles Chang to speak next week’s meeting. Charles will analyse the politics, economics, social change and technology in China and India and examine the implications these have for enterprises and for governments at the BCS Isle of Man’s first event of the year taking place at 18.00 on [...]
eGaming in the Isle of Man
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 3rd Oct, 2007
I’m working on organising the next event for the Isle of Man BCS (I’m on the committee and responsible for sorting out the calendar). The next event is going to be a panel discussion about eGaming, so I thought I’d have a hunt around the web to read up about different eGaming sites on the [...]
Visiting Netcetera
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 20th Sep, 2007
The Isle of Man branch of the BCS yesterday organised a tour of the Netcetera datacenter here on the Isle of Man. It was very well attended and we were given a pretty comprehensive tour of their facility. Their new £10 million data center has the space and capacity to host 700 racks of equipment, [...]
Using the tools at your disposal
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 2nd Jul, 2007
I’ve just realise that I’m less of a techie than I used to be last year. I’m on the committee for the local branch of the BCS and the one thing we do every year is send out a survey to measure people’s feedback on the past year and put together a calendar for the [...]
Communicating the Value of IT
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 10th Nov, 2006
The Isle of Man Chapter of the BCS will be organising a talk later on this month called “Communicating the Value of IT”, presented by Sherrilynne Starkie, Managing Partner of Strive PR. Here is the snopsis of the event:
What your IT department’s reputation? Are you seen as problem solvers, as barriers to progress or do [...]
Ethical Hacking Talk in IOM
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 31st Mar, 2006
Yesterday, the local chapter of the BCS organised a talk on Ethical Hacking, given by Tony Cawte from Domicilium. Was a pretty good event, with lots of interest from the public. Tony gave a good, fluent talk, managing to get over his initial trepidation (it was his first public speaking engagement) and getting his comfort [...]
