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The links on this page are some of the professional associations and user groups which Outperform is proud to be a member of. These associations not only have useful reference resource but have established communities of practitioners in their relevant field. If you are not already members of these associations, we recommend you have a browse and consider enrolling.
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- APM - Outperform is a corporate member of the Association for Project Management
- APMG - The accrediting body for PRINCE2, MSP and M_o_R training and consultancy organisations
- BPUG - The official user group for the OGC best practice methods of PRINCE2, MSP and M_o_R. Outperform director, Andy Murray, is a past member of the Executive Committee
- BBG - Outperform is a corporate member of the British Business Group, Dubai & Northern Emirates, more usually known as the BBG. It was set up in 1987 to encourage the development of British business in the UAE. It undertakes a wide range of activities from communicating with decision makers and testing British goods to sharing best business practice and arranging networking events for its members.
- ChangeAhead - Middle East based accredited training provider for PRINCE2,MSP and M_o_R
- ChangeDirector - an enterprise software solution provider focusing on portfolio planning, analysis and management. If you want to optimise your portfolio or projects and programmes their tool has no rival!
- Controlled Projects - Capital Project specialists who provide pay-as-you-go processing forchange control for projects with multiple customer/suppliers. A unique and highly valuable service.
- Crazy Colour Consulting - Australia based training provider for PRINCE2, MSP and M_o_R. Outperform is a lead member of the CCC consortium providing services to UNDP.
- Groove - our collaboration tool of choice
- IBC - The Institute of Business Consulting ( IBC ) is the professional body for all consultants and business advisers.
- IOD - all Outperform directors are members of the IOD and are participating in the Director Development Programme leading to Chartered Director
- Maven Training - UK based acredited training provider for PRINCE2, MSP and Change Management
- Milestone - London-based Milestone is the primary supplier of Primavera's lauded Project and Programme Planning and Management solutions into the Public Sector.
- OGC - the Office of Government Commerce are the owners of PRINCE2, MSP and M_o_R and have a resource site (Successful Delivery Toolkit) for these method
- Outperform AE – Our Middle East subsidiary
- Peak Consulting - A Danish Accredited Consulting Organisation for PRINCE2, MSP and M_o_R.
- P2UG - An international and independent user group for people using PRINCE2
- P2world - An awesome Product Based Planning Tool. Costs no more than Visio and will save you hours and hours planning time.
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£1.3m spent on ID card marketing so far
<p>The Identity and Passport Service has published details of its marketing and communications spend so far on the National Identity Scheme (ID card) – an outlay that equals £300 per applicant so far.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/13m-spent-id-card-marketing-so-far">read more</a></p>
Digital inclusion push to get at least £550m investment
<p>The Government is pressing ahead with its digital inclusion agenda, with Digital Britain minister Stephen Timms committing to a raft of measure including a direct outlay of at least £550m and a further auction of radio frequencies to speed up mobile broadband.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/digital-inclusion-push-get-least-550m-investment">read more</a></p>
Cheshire housing association improves service with GPS
<p>A Cheshire housing association, Cheshire Peaks & Plains, has turned to GPS vehicle tracking to improve the way contractors like builders and electricians servicing its properties schedule their jobs.</p>
<p>The system, Fleetstar-Online from telematics specialist called <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cybitholdings.com">Cybit</a></strong>, helps managers track its mobile workforce in real-time, allowing better monitoring of their daily activities and also reducing unnecessary business mileage through the efficient allocation of skilled contractors and teams.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/ngos/cheshire-housing-association-improves-service-gps">read more</a></p>
Scottish local council streamlines accounts handling with document automation
<p>South Ayrshire is centralising its accounts payable function and speeding up invoice processing and further improve business efficiency, a move it sees as very much part of a drive to achieve most improved local authority in Scotland status by 2011.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/local-gov/scottish-local-council-streamlines-accounts-handling-document-automation">read more</a></p>
Camden Council integrates business processes for better citizen service
<p>Camden Council in London has used ICT to combine three of its most used services into one merged operation it says has reduced costs by 80% and will cut resident enquiry time by up to two-thirds.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/local-gov/camden-council-integrates-business-processes-better-citizen-service">read more</a></p>
'Stop work on the core NPfIT database immediately,' BMA tells Government
<p>The British Medical Association (BMA) has thrown a huge roadblock up against any further progress of the already hugely challenged £13bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) by filing a major objection on behalf of English doctors on the core Summary Care Records database – without which the whole system is rendered useless.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/stop-work-core-npfit-database-immediately-bma-tells-government">read more</a></p>
HMRC had to do 35 million tax returns on paper due to poor IT
<p>A massively delayed IT system forced HMRC to revert to manual processing for 35m cases in 2008-09 the Commons Treasury Committee has said in a highly critical report on its 2008-09 performance.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/hmrc-had-do-35-million-tax-returns-paper-due-poor-it">read more</a></p>
Dyson: Science & technology central to long-term UK growth
<p>The Conservative Party has published a report authored by the creator of the eponymous Dyson vacuum cleaner, Sir James Dyson.</p>
<p>The report, Ingenious Britain, outlined a series of recommendations needed to drive the UK into a new position as “Europe’s leading generator of new technology.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/dyson-science-technology-central-long-term-uk-growth">read more</a></p>
Ministry of Justice curbs consultancy spend by 50%
<p>Outlay on external consultancy by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was successfully slashed from £10.5m in 2008-09 compared to £20.7m the previous year – with Accenture's share falling from £15.5m to just £3.9m.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/ministry-justice-curbs-consultancy-spend-50">read more</a></p>
New deals at the MOD and NPIA set to improve business resilience
<p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) and National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) have signed short-term contracts to help improve the organisations’ business resilience.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/defence-fire-police/new-deals-mod-and-npia-set-improve-business-resilience">read more</a></p>
£26m ICT boost for Liverpool school kids
<p>In another milestone for the ongoing Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, Liverpool City Council today announced it will spend £26m on provision of ICT at 24 secondary schools in the city.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/local-gov/26m-ict-boost-liverpool-school-kids">read more</a></p>
Southwark rejects Google in Web map deal
<p>Southwark Council has launched special mapping functionality <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://maps.southwark.gov.uk/connect/southwark.jsp?tooltip=yes">on its website</a></strong> in a bid to help citizens get a better graphical understanding of their local environment and understand what services may be relevant to them.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/local-gov/southwark-rejects-google-web-map-deal">read more</a></p>
Lib Dems deny Digital Economy change would block social media
<p>The Government’s Digital Economy Bill continues to wallow in controversy, thanks to a new amendment that opponents say would see sites such as YouTube blocked from UK web users, something denied by amendment proponents, the Liberal Democrats.</p>
<p>The Bill’s third and final reading in the House of Lords is due to take place on 15 March, and marks the last time amendments can be made before it’s transferred to the Commons. It is expected to pass into law before Parliament is dissolved at the start of April, ahead of a likely election in May.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/lib-dems-deny-digital-economy-amendment-would-lead-youtubegoogle-block">read more</a></p>
MPs: Government DNA policy “unacceptable”
<p>Policy on the status of DNA data being held on the UK police database has been slammed by MPs, after the influential House of Commons Home Affairs Select committee described government plans to delete such data after six years as “unacceptable”. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/mps-government-dna-policy-unacceptable">read more</a></p>
HP IT staff still on the picket line
<div>Day two today of the first walkout by civil servants since 1987 was expected to bring further disruption, though estimates of how many public sector staff were actually participating vary between unions and employers.</div>
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<div>Members of the PCS (Public and Commercial Services) Union are striking over proposed government changes in redundancy arrangements, which they say will leave many of their lower paid (under £20,000) staff worse off.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/civil-servants-including-hp-it-staff-still-picket-line">read more</a></p>
Indian services giant picks up UK pensions contract unchallenged (updated)
<div>Indian IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services TCS) has been chosen to administer Britain's new national pension scheme as the signing of a contract is rushed through prior to the general election.</div>
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<div>The duration of the contract, awarded by Personal Accounts Delivery Authority for the UK-wide pension National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) , is for 10 years with a possible extension for another five years.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/indian-services-giant-picks-uk-pensions-contract-unchallenged">read more</a></p>
Improvement East embarks on spend analysis project
<p>Improvement East, the Regional and Improvement Partnership (RIEP) for the East of England, has announced a spend analysis project, looking at 41 district and borough councils including Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/local-gov/improvement-east-embarks-spend-analysis-project">read more</a></p>
UK’s position in research “under threat”
<p>The Council for Science and Technology (CST), the quango tasked with advising the Prime Minister and heads of the devolved governments on sustaining and developing science, engineering, and technology, has issued a strong warning for the UK Government to “adopt a clear long term vision for support for the research base, and for deriving economic and social benefits from that investment.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/ndpbs/uk-s-position-research-under-threat">read more</a></p>
UK population's poor IT skills offered boost
<p>Training provider learndirect last week launched a campaign to improve our national IT literacy, in a move it says supports Labour’s drive to boost the Digital Economy agenda. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/ngos/uk-populations-poor-it-skills-offered-boost">read more</a></p>
Public sector union begins two-day strike
<p>Around 200,000 civil servants are holding a 48 hour strike over plans to cap redundancy pay in industrial action organised by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union, the UK's fifth biggest union, which says workers could lose a third of existing entitlement due to cuts in the civil service compensation scheme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/public-sector-union-begins-two-day-strike">read more</a></p>
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