Welcome to the IAP's Archive Site

Here are all the articles from our old website, pre 2019, you can search by category to the left, or for a specific word or person in the search bar above

VSJ – April 2005 – Work in Progress

Jean Davison, David Deeks, Mark Ward-Casey and Mark Wilson of Sunderland University, an IAP Partner, write about a new arrow in the PISO quiver, which David and Jean have described here before. As regular readers of these IAP pages may recall, PISO® (Process Improvement for Strategic Objectives) is a method that allows system users to […]

VSJ – April 2005 – Members’ News

We congratulate David Deeks, FIAP who writes elsewhere on these pages, on his elevation to the rank of Professor at Sunderland University. Edwin Keen, BEng MSc FIAP is standing for re-election to the Council this year. He talks about himself and his aims below. I am one of the earliest Fellows still in the Institution, […]

VSJ – April 2005 – Notice Board

Gartner Wireless and Mobile Summit 2005 is at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London from 18 to 19 April. See www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/ra8.jsp for more. Global IP Carriers 2005 runs between 26 and 28 April 2005 at Thistle Tower, London. More details are at www.carriersworld.com/2005/ip/. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]

VSJ – March 2005 – Nominations for the Council of the IAP

The Institution has recently signed a Partnership Agreement with the IT Department of the Telegraph Newspaper Group. Peter Green, the distinguished IT Director at the Telegraph is already a Fellow of the IAP and the agreement makes provision for up to 20 of the department’s Business Analysts and Programmers to also become members of the […]

VSJ – May 2005

Symposium Report As regular readers know, Council member Paul Lynham traditionally writes a report on the annual symposium to which we devote the whole of ‘IAP News’. Here’s this year’s. The annual symposium of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers was held on Thursday, 11 March in Trinity House, Tower Hill, London. Mike Ryan, the […]

VSJ – March 2005 – Work in Progress

Council member John Ellis, FIAP takes us on a flight of fancy that is, perhaps, not too fanciful and potentially worrying. Regular readers will recall my set of articles on making Web sites more accessible to the disabled. I hope they will also remember my point that careful design can, at the same time, improve […]

VSJ – March 2005 – Members’ News

Telegraph Signs Partnership with IAP The Institution has recently signed a Partnership Agreement with the IT Department of the Telegraph Newspaper Group. Peter Green, the distinguished IT Director at the Telegraph is already a Fellow of the IAP and the agreement makes provision for up to 20 of the department’s Business Analysts and Programmers to […]

VSJ – March 2005 – Sounding Board

Christopher Hill, the IAP’s Web Master, has some thoughts – and real data – on the use of the IAP Consultants’ Register that will interest members. The IAP Web site has the facility for consultants to list a brief CV and for members of the public to perform searches for consultants who are also IAP […]

VSJ – March 2005 – Employment Exchange

Paul Baldacchino, MIAP, MIEEE, MBCS, MACM provides ICT and IS consultancy to a number of private and Government organisations. He specialises in Business Information Technology implementation strategies and methodologies. Systems implemented include Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions (ERP), Business Warehouse Management (BW/DM), Customer Relations Management systems (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Estate Management Systems (EMS) and […]

VSJ – March 2005 – Notice Board

Symposium 2005 There are still a few places available for the IAP Annual Symposium to be held at Trinity House on Thursday, 10 March. For details, see last month’s IAP News. For tickets, telephone the office on 020 8 567 2118 or email admin@iap.org.uk. bPPm (Business Performance and Project Management) is at Grand Hall, Olympia, […]