Recent research from IBM has highlighted that CEOs have,
over the last four years, recognised an increasing impact of technology
on their businesses. If, as is likely to happen, this
trend continues there will be greater challenges and pressure for Chief
Information Officers ("CIO"s). Michiel Erasmus looks
at the process for establishing Key Performance Indicators
("KPI"s) for CIOs.
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Making the Most of PowerPoint and Excel
Our regular "tricks and tips" features offers practical
advice on using PowerPoint more efficiently to create great
documents and creating, formatting and navigating Excel
spreadsheet workbooks.
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Recent Successes
We've had a busy summer and Autumn and our list of clients continues to grow.
Here are some of our successes.
We were commissioned by Marathon Oil to help them source a data
co-location provider for many of its non-USA located ICT server rooms. We faciliated
planning scenarios for Glasgow Metropolitan College and, on behalf of
Highlands and Islands Enterprise, assisted Shetland College
to develop financial projections and scenarios as part of the
College's strategic planning process. Also working with the support of Highlands
and Islands Enterprise, we are appointed to assist the Northton
Community Trust in a project to evaluate the feasibility for digitising and
commercialising a major genealogy archive of the peoples of the Outer Hebrides.
The University of the Highlands and Islands
commissioned us to conduct a feasibility study to test the
viability of establishing an UHI Professorial Chair in
Creative Industries. In July, we successfully
completed the merger of the ICT facilities at Scottish Arts
Council and Scottish Screen in the establishment of Creative
Scotland and we are now leading the IT aspects of
the fit-out and relocation planning of the organisation's Edinburgh office into Waverley Gate.
Finally, we submitted ideas and information to the The Scottish
Government Finance Committee's enquiry into efficient public services,
as part of the Budget Strategy Phase.
Our Associates
We are always interested in developing our team of
consultants and, if you think you might be interested in
joining us, please give Ralph Leishman a call on 0131 668
2112 or drop him an email at
Ralph.Leishman@4-consulting.com.
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