4-CONSULTING E-ZINE
Many thanks to all our readers who keep giving us
encouraging feedback on our e-zines. In this issue we
look at an issue of growing importance to businesses and we
also focus on an enduring issue which continues to be at the
top of the management agenda.
With new legislation on recycling and disposing of
electrical equipment, we think that IT departments need to look
at what they have to do to reduce environmental impacts and
the
organisation's carbon footprint.
We've been busy over the last six months or so helping
some of our clients with large-scale transformation projects
and we thought we'd share some of our experiences and ideas
for successful change programmes.
We hope you’ll find them of interest. Our directors
have experience in many areas of management in both the
public and private sectors, so if there is a topic you would
like us to cover in a future issue, please let us know.
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In this issue
Going IT Green
Recent changes in UK law now obliges electrical equipment
manufacturers to be responsible for the final disposal of
all electrical equipment. One of the consequences of
this change is that IT managers must now ensure that all
computer equipment is returned, either directly or via an
authorised disposal agency, to the original manufacturer for
disposal.
We look at other steps that IT managers can take to reduce
carbon emissions and improve their organisation's
environmental impact and save money at the same time.
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Managing Culture Change
Organisational transformation projects traditionally
focus on the strategic and tactical change plans.
However, success will only come about if the management team
leading the change concentrates on the "people" issues -
winning the hearts and minds of everyone. We offer you
some guidelines for creating a structure to the change
programme that should produce a successful outcome.
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Making the Most of Word and Excel
Our regular "tricks and tips" features offers practical
advice on using Word more efficiently to create great
documents
and creating, formatting and navigating Excel spreadsheet
workbooks.
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Recent Successes
Over the summer months, we assisted the
Scottish Ambulance Service by facilitating a stakeholder workshop to carry out a benefits scoring of options generated from the Review of Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres.”
We've also carried out an ICT Strategic Options review
for the University of St Andrews. Most
recently, we drafted and agreed the University's new ICT
Strategy Plan for the next five years.
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