Wales | Socitm Consulting

ISO27001 scoping

Client name:

Flintshire County Council

Date published:

Wed, 14/10/2009

Flintshire County Council get on track to attain ISO27001 accreditation with Socitm Consulting help.

ISO/IEC 27001, part of the growing ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards, is an Information Security Management System (ISMS) standard published in October 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Its full name is ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - Information technology -- Security techniques -- Information security management systems -- Requirements but it is commonly known as "ISO 27001".

Project management benefits realisation

Client name:

Vale of Glamorgan Council

Managers at the Vale of Glamorgan Council now have a clearer focus on achieving benefits from service delivery improvement projects thanks to expert advice from Socitm Consulting on project management. By facilitating a tailor-made workshop on pragmatic approaches to project management, Socitm Consulting has helped the Council to achieve immediate improvements to project delivery, and provided a framework for reviewing and improving project management techniques in the future.

ICT Learning Strategy

Client name:

Vale of Glamorgan Council

Vale of Glamorgan Council has a robust, integrated and forward-looking ICT Learning Strategy thanks to expert support from Socitm Consulting. By facilitating the collaborative production of a strategy for using ICT in Education, we assisted the Council in developing a Learning Strategy that will underpin the effective development of ICT in schools.

ICT strategy development

Client name:

Torfaen County Borough Council

Torfaen County Borough Council has aligned its ICT strategy with its overall objectives for improving customer services delivery following ICT strategic development support from Socitm Consulting. Working closely with the Head of Information Strategy and key stakeholders from across the organisation, we developed an ICT strategy for the Council that will enable it to effectively deliver service in line with Welsh Assembly guidance for local authorities and its future strategic priorities.

Benchmarking analysis and improvement plan

Client name:

Torfaen County Borough Council

The project issues
Torfaen CBC has taken part in Socitm benchmarking of their ICT service for a number of years. They are also in the middle of a council re-organisation and further changes are being made to the ICT service.

Guidance on ICT management review

Client name:

Powys County Council

The project issues
Following a recent Council restructuring the Head of ICT wished to have some advice and guidance in preparation for an ICT management review. The specific requirement was some guidance regarding the preparation of a business case to support the management review. The advice required was generally around the areas of span of control, allocated responsibilities, customer service and technical services management.

Project management of Revenues and Benefits DIP workflow implementation

Client name:

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council now has an EDMS fully integrated with its Revenues and Benefits system following project management support from Socitm Consulting. The new systems provide greatly improved functionality for efficient processing within the Revenues and Benefits service, enabling more effective customer services delivery.

ICT strategy facilitation

Client name:

Bridgend County Borough Council

The project issues
Like many local authorities, Bridgend CBC is engaged in a number of initiatives, each one with its own ‘high level themes’ or ‘priorities’ or ‘significant challenges’.