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Created and led by Alan Calder, the Implementing IT Governance: Foundations & Principles course is a three-day session that delivers foundation training to raise awareness, build knowledge and develop a complete understanding of IT governance. Alan is acknowledged by his peers as an expert in the field and is the author of a number of definitive publications which include IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors and IT Governance Today – a Practitioner’s Handbook.

By attending the Implementing IT Governance: Foundations & Principles course, you will learn:

• Understand and define IT governance and its best practice
• Achieve the alignment of IT and business plans
• Navigate and integrate all the currently available IT governance frameworks
• Identify and manage IT risk across the enterprise
• Implement an IT governance framework and measure the results

Ensure Information Technology in Your Organisation Really Delivers

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Is your organisation already certified to the ISO/IEC ISO27001:2005 Standard? You will of course know that ensuring the continued effectiveness of your Information Security Management System (ISMS) is the key element to ensuring best practice and compliance in the future.

With the ever changing business and technology trends, how can you ensure that your corrective action and preventative action (CAPA) plan is regularly updated and actually working?

How can you ensure that when you have your surveillance visit, you do not incur a major non-conformity that threatens the status of your certification or that involves significant and unplanned cost to your organisation?

The Reviewing and Improving Your ISO27001 ISMS Training Programme is a unique opportunity to ensure that you are continually updated on all of the current business, technology and regulatory issues that will challenge your ISMS.

Our complete programme consists of four training courses delivered on a quarterly basis to ensure you receive timely and relevant information AND the advice on how it affects your information security management system. Scheduled for July, October and February in 2012/13, each course is a 2-day session run by Alan Calder and Steve Watkins. Alan and Steve are the directors of IT Governance and are considered by their peers to be leading authorities and consultants on ISO27001.

The Reviewing and Improving Your ISO27001 ISMS Training Programme is not just a training course. With two consultants hosting each event, we can also offer you the opportunity to specifically discuss the issues affecting your individual ISMS continual improvement plan.

By attending the Reviewing and Improving Your ISO27001 ISMS courses, you will be updated and advised on the following key topics:

• Management Review Best Practice
• Changes in the Business Environment
• New threats and vulnerabilities
• New legislation and regulations
• New standards and certification requirements

Download the full details and a content list of the courses from here

Ensure you are updated on all issues that affect the continued improvement of your ISMS

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Cloud Computing: Assessing the Risks provides clear and straight forward answers to all the risks and rewards posed by adopting Cloud Computing. This book will enable you to identify the approach you need to take when adopting Cloud technologies. Read more >>>

“Remarkable work of synthesis performed by the authors, this book is a must-have for anyone willing to have both a clear and pragmatic approach, as well as a better understanding of impacts on business when dealing with Cloud Computing.”
Ludovic Petit, Chief Information Security Officer, SFR

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“…it does a great job of including real world insights, experiences and lessons learned while provided a professional (but still easy to read) insight into the world of Agile…”
Jared Carstensen – Deloitte & Touche

Everything you want to know about Agile will show you how to implement Agile within your organisation. More importantly, it will show you how to do this within the constraints of your existing project frameworks, budgeting, staffing and organisational structures.

Written in a clear business language, this book would be of benefit to executives, IT managers, project managers and management consultants who want to deliver successful Agile results.

Deliver exceptional results with Agile.

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This toolkit will make it easy for you to implement an effective IT governance framework as it contains all the documents, templates, guidelines, checklists, questionnaires, slide presentations, assessments and planning tools you will ever need, plus costs less than 1 day consultancy fee.

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Out this month, the Business Transformation Toolkit will enable you to:

• Plan and prepare for change, identify the objectives of the change wanting to be made, communicate it and manage the impact of the change
• Implement change, building an effective change team
• Embed the change, for the transition to appear seamless to the customer(s).

Written and created by Melanie Franklin (founder and Chief Executive of Maven Training, and author of Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide), this toolkit will help you put into place a detailed and effective documentation system to enable your businesses change, whilst also helping you to maintain and monitor the transformation.

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We also offer a Managing Business Transformation Training course in London, which will provide you with access to the structure and techniques for managing business transformation effectively in your business. Read more >>

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ITIL has been adopted by thousands of organisations throughout the world, including NASA, the UK National Health Service (NHS), HSBC bank and Disney™. But you shouldn’t just implement it because “NASA” has done so, you should implement it because of these reasons:

• Improved customer satisfaction – you will achieve a professional approach to service delivery, meaning your customers will be more satisfied
• Increased staff retention
• Increased ROI in terms of IT
• Improve morale within IT staff
• A more transparent approach towards IT costs and assets
• Improved delivery of third party services.

Start your ITIL journey with the ITIL 2011 Lifecycle Publication Suite; the updated official core titles that reflect the lifecycle of services.

The publications in the suite are:

• ITIL Service Strategy (Softcover)
• ITIL Service Design (Softcover)
• ITIL Service Transition (Softcover)
• ITIL Service Operation (Softcover)
• ITIL Continual Service Improvement (Softcover)

All the books in this kit have been updated to take into account the results of an extensive review, making these books more usable and accessible than ever before. This means it is easier than ever before to apply ITIL in your organisation, reaping the benefits!

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The No 3 toolkit will help organisations implement their own ISO27001 project. Created by leading ISO27001 and cyber security expert Alan Calder, the ISO27001 No 3 Toolkit provides all the tools, resources and documentation templates organisations need to work towards ISO27001 certification.

The No 3 toolkit is a cost-effective approach to tackling cyber security within your organisation.

The toolkit has already helped hundreds of organisations with their ISO27001 projects.
Read more about how this toolkit can help here >>>

What’s included?

• Online 6-month access to the ITIL 2011 Foundation course – accredited by the APMG for study toward the ITIL 2011 Foundation exam,
• An update service is provided, so your courseware is always up-to-date,
• Our ITIL trainers supply global telephone and e-mail support and can answer any questions that you may have,
• A mock exam simulator is included in the course, allowing you to practice before you take your exam,

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