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January 10, 2012 |  |
The father of Psychology Carl Rogers maintained that “man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively”. I wonder what conclusions he might have drawn if he was around to analyse corporate organisations that, for years, relied on their own internal PR and focus groups at the expense of actually listening to their customers. It’s a bit like speaking to someone who won’t let you finish your sentence because they have to keep telling you about themselves. |
 by Gary Burnett - CEO-NI - A platform for Northern Ireland's senior technology executives
Gary: Noel, tell us a bit about your career to date.
Noel: I started with the NI Civil Service in 1975 as an unemployment benefits clerk in Corporation Street office, Belfast. I was 17 and I stayed in the Civil Service until ’91. |
November 07, 2011 |  |
 Xperience, one of Northern Ireland’s longest established IT solutions companies, has announced that Belfast based ICT infrastructure specialist, TCS solutions, has become a (wholly owned) subsidiary of the Group. The announcement will bring employment at the company to 50.
Xperience has continued to grow its market share and this latest development is a significant step towards achieving its target of doubling its business base by 2013 through organic growth and acquiring businesses locally and within neighbouring markets in GB and ROI.
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Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín and Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster and today gave their backing to the local music industry to help them compete on the world stage and grow the economy.
The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) and Invest Northern Ireland and have published a strategy document which outlines the key priority areas to encourage the growth of a vibrant and sustainable music industry. The strategy highlights the importance of building capacity and in the local music industry and reinforces the vital role of talent development, innovation, entrepreneurship and the opportunities offered by diverse digital platforms. |
Innovation is the best way for local businesses to grow in these uncertain economic times.
That is the key message that Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, will deliver at Queen’s University Belfast to the InterTradeIreland All-Island Innovation Conference. The InterTradeIreland conference, entitled Building Capability for Innovation, is taking place over two days, 4-5 October, and is organised by the External Affairs Office at Queen’s. |
September 27, 2011 |  |
 Seven public sector organisations were recognised for their learning excellence during Learning Pool’s Public Sector E-learning Awards at Camden Town Hall this month.
The awards, in their 4th year, drew nominations from thirty councils and public sector partnerships and were voted for by fellow public sector organisations who make up Learning Pool’s online learning community.
Scooping up the prestigious overall Learning pool Customer of the Year was London Borough of Waltham Forest. |
 Learning Pool, the Londonderry based e-learning solutions company, has secured a coveted place in the UK Cabinet Office Innovation Launch Pad initiative which takes place on Tuesday 19 July.
The Innovation Launch Pad aims to make Government contracts more accessible to SME’s across the UK. Learning Pool is one of only nine SME’s from across the UK, and the only one from Northern Ireland, to be selected from over 350 entrants who submitted money saving business proposals. |
 More than 200 delegates today (25th May) attended the first InterTradeIreland All-island Public Procurement workshop which took place in the Glenavon Hotel, Cookstown designed to help SMEs access the sizeable public sector market, which, in 2011/2012 is estimated to be worth approximately £19 billion across the island.
The event was officially opened by Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster and represented the first time that all major business development agencies and procurement organisations from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have come together with the aim of helping SMEs to ‘up their game’ and compete for government contracts.
Arlene Foster said: "My department, Invest Northern Ireland and InterTradeIreland have long recognised that it is indigenous SMEs who hold the key to economic prosperity. |
May 16, 2011 |  |
 On the afternoon of Wednesday the 20th of April Centre for Competitiveness members from a range of organisations participated in a visit to Caterpillar Electric Power Division’s final assembly facility in Larne. The event was designed to give members an insight in to the recently installed, state of the art, continuous flow assembly line.
The CAT team shared their experiences with members in an open, informative and welcoming manner. |
March 30, 2011 | |
Learning Pool, the public sector learning community has announced an exciting new partnership with TotaraLMS to provide next generation learning management systems to the UK public sector. |
March 30, 2011 |  |
BT, a leading global provider of communications and networked IT services today announced it has secured a multi-million pound contract to provide the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) with a fully managed Multi Protocol Label Switching(MPLS) network. Specifically, BT will provide a Northern Ireland Wide Area Network (WAN) across PSNI’s sites for the next five years. This infrastructure will enable the PSNI's mission critical IT systems to be delivered across Northern Ireland at high speeds providing the flexibility needed for modern policing to deliver services and information when and where needed. |
March 27, 2011 |  |
 Listening to Customers is the Key to Innovation
Gary: Aidan, can you give us a run down of your career so far?
Aidan: After an MBA in TCD, I started work with Andersen Consulting in Dublin – which subsequently became Accenture – and then I moved to Belfast to work for McDonnell Douglas Information Systems, which became Northgate. I became the sales manager, then general manger. |
March 18, 2011 | |
 WOW.. what a St Patrick’s Day that was! We’ve had to keep it under wraps but yesterday was a really big day for Learning Pool when Mary was invited along to the White House for a reception with the leader of the free world! |
March 09, 2011 | |
Collaborative regional group meetings, such as the Dorset User Group, form a perfect way for our public sector learning community to hear about what’s new at Learning Pool, what other customers are doing and mark special occasions! |
March 07, 2011 |  |
The Guardian reports David Cameron as declaring waron "The public sector procurement managers who think that the answer to everything is a big contract with a big business and who shut out millions of Britain's small- and medium-sized companies from a massive potential market. |
February 22, 2011 |  |
London-based asset management company invests wisely, accessing the best IT skills on demand
London & Belfast, February 21st , 2011 – London-based asset manager CCLA has engaged the Application Management Service arm of the IT consulting company, Kainos, to provide critical IT skills and services to the organisation.
CCLA provides specialist investment services to not-for-profit organisations. Prompted by an organisation-wide rationalisation programme, CCLA decided to look at alternative, more cost-efficient IT service delivery models. |
February 21, 2011 |  |
<p>Following on from <strong><a href="http://www.digitalderry.org/post/2622490835/news-derry-to-get-100-fibre-connectivity">BT’s big announcement on broadband in Derry</a></strong> as part of their sponsorship of the City of Culture programme, they’ve also extended what they’re doing across NI. |
February 21, 2011 |  |
Time: 12pm-7pm
Date: Thursday 24th February
Address: Hays Information Technology, 14 Great Victoria Street, Belfast, BT2 7BA
Open up to new opportunities
Hiring is at premium within the IT sector with niche skills set in demand for 2011 covering the Development, Infrastructure, Testing and QA space.
In particular, at Hays Information Technology, we’ve experienced a surge in permanent, temporary and contract vacancies registered over the last few months. With Belfast and Northern Ireland in general being widely recognised as a high-end technology hub, employers from new starts to well established ICT companies, are on the hunt for high calibre, highly skilled forward thinking IT professionals who can help their organisations flourish. |
February 21, 2011 | |
 BT accelerates investment to help Northern Ireland become European fibre broadband leader
- Northern Ireland economy to reap further benefits from BT Group’s £2.5 billion investment in fibre roll-out
Belfast, Monday 21st February 2011: BT, the global communications and IT services company, has today announced a major broadband investment that will cement Northern Ireland’s position at the forefront of the fibre broadband revolution in Europe by March 2012. The investment is part of BT Group’s £2. |
February 14, 2011 | |
 NHS Modernisation and Service Transformation Specialist to Boost Kainos’ Healthcare Knowledge Pool
London & Belfast, January 14th , 2011 – Kainos, the IT consulting company and developers of the Evolve® healthcare solution has today announced the appointment of NHS service transformation specialist, David Thomas, to its Evolve healthcare consulting division. David who comes to Kainos straight from Leicester University Hospitals NHS Trust, will assist with the development and positioning of the Evolve healthcare consulting services portfolio.
David brings more than 22 years NHS experience to the Evolve team. |
February 09, 2011 | |
Learning Pool has bespoke content development services for the public sector. Projects include ones for Home Office, Improvement Service for Scotland, Basildon Council, Hertfordshire Council and more. |
February 01, 2011 |  |
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January 31, 2011 | |
 A range of over 20 online third sector training courses on topics such as finding a new job, using social media and understanding today’s technology has been launched today.
Costing £25 for a year’s subscription the new service, called My Learning Pool, is designed for community and voluntary groups, small charities, social enterprises and anyone involved in civil society.
Developed by Northern Ireland’s largest and most successful online learning company, Learning Pool, the launch of the new service comes at a time when the sector is undergoing radical changes brought about by the massive cuts to public sector budgets following last October’s spending review. |
January 25, 2011 | |
 The UK’s second largest district council is the latest public body to transform productivity and efficiency through an end-to-end EDM and workflow solution from specialist Kainos
London & Belfast, January 25th , 2011 – New Forest District Council (NFDC) has joined the growing number of large council bodies to have engaged specialist, independent EDM solution provider, Kainos, to transform their efficiency using electronic document management and workflow technology.
The contract, worth £350,000, will see the roll-out of a comprehensive, corporate EDM solution, with meaning-based technology from Autonomy at its core. This will be deployed right across the council, affecting up to 700 users. |
January 18, 2011 | |
Huge success of initial Evolve project drives further development, as Ipswich embraces electronic-only patient admissions and meets eDischarge targets
London & Belfast, January 17th, 2011 – Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has been so impressed with the impact of Evolve®, the unique clinician focused electronic document management (EDM) and workflow solution from Kainos, that it has started to extend the capabilities more broadly across the Trust.
Ipswich, which went live with its original Evolve EDM and workflow project a year ago, is now committed to rolling out additional eForms and electronic workflow functionality more broadly across its operations.
Since deploying the original solution, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust is processing all new patient registrations electronically, amounting to some 9,000 patients already. |
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