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In an increasingly complex and rapidly changing digital world software is only as powerful as those who use it:

Some Key Challenges for all Organisations: 

  • 80% of IT managers realise user training and documentation is critical to project success
  • Without this over 40% of purchased software ends up as shelfware
  • 1 hour of training saves 5 hours of lost productivity
  • Untrained users need 6x more support than trained users

The Solution: Following recent deployment of ART (Adoption Readiness Tool), a wide range of organisations have:

  • Saved 50 – 75 % of time to produce and maintain materials
  • Reduced configuration/implementation errors by 25-50%
  • Significantly reduced “how to” calls to the support desk
  • Paid back their investment in under 6 months

Click here to find out more, view case studies and discover what ART can do for your organisation.

 
Editor’s choice of other ICT items of note:

NHS Digital :  New £1m funding for innovative digital adult social care pilots

techUK:  Guest Blog: Bird & Bird on the NIS Directive

NHS Digital:  New Toolkit to help keep information safe

   
SME Supplier Locator update...

UK Government and public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase and by 2020, it is the stated intent of Cabinet Office that £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts goes to SME’s. 

Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers.

Recent arrivals to the SME Supplier Locator service include:

Lock Doctor Services Limited

Click here to find out more. 

 
Editor’s choice of other Health related items of note:

Homeless Link:  Dying homeless

DHSC:  Measles outbreaks across England

10DS:  Government doubles investment in brain cancer research with £40m 'Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Research Mission’

  
Editor’s choice of other general items of note:

MI5:  Director General Andrew Parker Speech to BFV Symposium

NCFE:  Selecting the evidence

DfT:  Be travel aware: pack smartly and prepare for security

Defence Minister launches new military ‘FireDragon’ fuel production line

TUC: New menopause in the workplace campaign materials ~ Wales TUC launches new disability and 'hidden' impairments in the workplace survey report & toolkit

 

 More contributions to the Brexit process

Still a ‘hot topic’, with widely spread views, for those who put fingers to keyboard in order to ‘share their views’:

Researched Links:

Brexit microsite (Information about the Article 50 process and our negotiations for a new partnership with the EU)

DIT:  Joint statement on the UK-New Zealand Trade Policy Dialogue

ScotGov:  UK Government must respect the will of Parliament

ScotGov:  Support for EU citizens after Brexit

ScotGov:  Respecting Parliament’s view on EU Withdrawal Bill

WAG:  Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford sets out Wales’ Brexit priorities

PC&PE:  Government responds to Committee reports on impact of Brexit

PC&PE:  UK could lose influence on CSDP missions & operations post-Brexit, warns Committee

The future of the EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy post Brexit

A view from the CMA: Brexit & beyond

Open Europe:  How “special” will the UK-EU security partnership really be?

BfB:  What tribunal is to decide “Withdrawal Agreement” disputes by Sir Richard Aikens

Brexit? Try Asking History by Robin Dunbar

LmL:  Max Fac Works - The technological solution to the Irish Border Customs issue

 
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