Charles Ross FIAP, has a very long and distinguished career in the IT industry. He is Vice-chairman of the Real Time Club and Chairman of SCALE the 21st Century [Skills, Capabilities and Aptitudes Learning Environment for the C 21st]. This is a Foresight Associate Implementation Programme of Office of Science and Technology of the DTI. […]
Mike Ryan, the IAP’s Director General, writes about our links with Equitable Life: Very few members will be unaware of the disaster that has befallen the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which has been forced to close to new business. Equitable was Britain’s leading provider of pensions for professional people. Many IAP members (and many MPs) […]
The XML One Conference and Exhibition takes place between 19-22 March 2001 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London. Visit http://www.101com.co.uk/xml.htm?CFKPWN for further information. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]
Notice Board The Employment Studies Research Unit at the University of the West of England is being funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Education and Employment to investigate best practice in the recruitment of ‘non-traditional’ graduates. It will provide evidence of the business benefits of recruiting from […]
Many self-employed IAP members have contacted us to express their concerns regarding the new legislation catchily entitled IR35 that may significantly affect their accounting and tax position. Here, Gordon Morrison, of Wheawill and Sudworth, the IAP’s Consulting Accountants, explains the current position and shares some of his experiences to date. The purpose of this article […]
Until recently, Robin Bennett, MIAP was IT Manager at Midlands Electricity plc. About six months ago he launched a Web site called jobsworth.co.uk. No, it doesn’t explain why you can’t possibly do whatever it is you’re trying to. Let him explain… We are a salary information service, no more and no less. Our business is […]
Clinton Jones, MIAP has wide experience of database systems. He’s worried about how people use less sophisticated tools as though they were a DBMS… I recently completed a substantial implementation of a mid-sized ERP system that successfully provided end-to-end connectivity of the full procurement, production and distribution life cycle. What amazed me was that the […]
The Employment Studies Research Unit at the University of the West of England is being funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Education and Employment to investigate best practice in the recruitment of ‘non-traditional’ graduates. It will provide evidence of the business benefits of recruiting from a diverse range […]
The Director General Writes….. It seems a very short time since I was writing last year’s Christmas message. We were all still looking forward to Y2k, in most cases with some trepidation. As it turned out Anthony Finkelstein was right and the meltdown didn’t happen. But in the meantime some of us made a lot […]
A couple of months ago, we mentioned briefly a new systems analysis method being developed by David Deeks, MSc, FIAP at Sunderland University. Quite a few members have expressed an interest, so here he describes it in more detail. PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FOR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES (PISO) PISO is really a stripped-down ‘diy’ version of Business Process […]
