News (and Notices!) updated and added: 1 September 2011
You can meet Richard and hear him speak
through this autumn at the following events:
14th September:
A joint
Intellect/National
Outsourcing Association (NOA)
seminar on the issue
of Collaborative Working and Outcome-based Agreements at Intellect’s
offices @ Russell Square House, 10-12 Russell Square, London
WC1B
21st September: Postponed Intellect’s annual Cloud Computing Roadmap conference will be held at the offices of the lawyers Allen & Overy in London. Please watch this space for a new date.
22nd
September:
The
British Computer
Society Elite presents an evening seminar on
IT's Role in Business
Strategy, is IT Strategic? @ BCS, 5 Southampton Street,
London, WC2E 7HA
13th October:
A
workshop
‘Delivering
Business Outcomes Through Successful Business Relationships’
lead
by EQ Partnering,
Strategic Sourcing and
Procurement Services Ltd and
‘Dr Richard
Sykes’ and held @ Intellect, Russell Square House
Russell Square London W1B 5EE
28th October:
The
1st TMMi Seoul
International Conference will be held in Seoul, Korea –
for details visit the
TMMi
Foundation’s web site.
22nd-24th November:
EuroSTAR
2011 ‘Europe's
Premier Software Testing Event’ in Manchester, England
1st – 4th December: eAsia 2011 (1st – 3rd ) and Bangladesh Outsourcing Conference 2011 (3rd – 4th ) will both be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
And here are Richard’s more recent activities in 2011:
11th August 2011:
Richard recorded a 45
minute webcast jointly with Muriel Wren of SAP on the topic
of Operating Successes
with Fine Tuned Teams. The webcast was a joint
initiative of SAP
and CIO Magazine
and will be released in the early autumn.
26th July 2011:
Richard spoke at the
fourth of the four
Cloud Computing Discussions sponsored by Intellect,
designed to lead to Intellect’s annual Cloud Computing
Roadmap conference on 21st September. The focus
of the Discussion was
Reworking the Vendor Landscape – what are the
Transformational Challenges? and Richard’s presentation
can be accessed
here
17th - 20th July 2011:
Richard worked in Dhaka,
Bangladesh as strategic advisor to a project to promote
Bangladesh as a competitive offshoring location. The
initiative is being lead by the
International Trade
Centre (ITC), a joint venture of the WTO and the UN.
7th July 2011:
Richard chaired the
UNICOM
conference Process
Improvement Forum 2011: Global Trends in Process Improvement
at Queensway Hall in London.
27th June 2011:
Richard spoke at a joint
British Computer Society Elite/
City
University School of Informatics event on the
IT Industry Skills Shortage. His presentation can be accessed
here.
21st & 22nd June 2011:
Richard chaired two
afternoon sessions of
The Cloud Computing
World Forum 2011.
17th May 2011:
Richard spoke at a
workshop on The
Facilities Management Organisation, now and into the Future
hosted by
Advanced Workplace Associates . His presentation
can be accessed
here
11th May 2011:
Richard spoke at Inside
Government’s conference
Cloud in the Public
Sector. His presentation can be accessed
here
11th May 2011:
Richard spoke at the first
of four Cloud
Computing Discussions sponsored by Intellect, designed
to lead to Intellect’s annual Cloud Computing Roadmap
conference on 21st September. The focus of the
Discussion was Mapping
the Issues facing the Buyers and Suppliers and Richard’s
presentation can be accessed
here
23rd February 2011:
Richard’s February regular
column in CIO Magazine featured an embedded video based on a
visit to an HP ‘transformation’ workshop – you can read the
column and view the video
here .
27th January 2011:
Richard chaired a 45
minute webinar for CISCO on the
Public Sector Cloud - The Big Debate
featuring John
Suffolk (the retiring UK Government CIO), David Wilde
(Westminster Council CIO) and Andy Macleod (Strategy and
Policy Public Sector, CISCO). The webinar can be accessed
here.
11th January 2011:
Richard was elected to
chair the Trustees of
Cubitt Artists, a long-established artist-run cooperative
based in Islington, London.
13th December 2010:
Richard attended the
initial meeting of the advisory board of the Institute of
Composition at the invitation of the British composer,
John Woolrich.
Chaired by
Professor Chris Jenks, Vice Chancellor of Brunel University, the Institute
is intended as a focus for the development of the
contemporary composer.
30th November 2010:
Richard joined a panel on
the issues surrounding the UK Government Cloud project at
the Business Cloud Summit 2010, Earls Court Conference
Centre.
6th November 2010:
Richard lectured at the Cass Business School for the City University’s new Master in Information Leadership programme on the issue of Organisational Professionalism. His presentation material can be read here. He has accepted an invitation to join the University’s Centre for Information Leadership External Advisory Panel.
17th – 22nd October 2010:
Richard took part in the Leading Edge Forum’s study tour in Silicon Valley Surf the Change or be Swept Away – Consumerisation, Mobility and the Cloud. The 30-strong working group of senior European & US IT leadership travelled the Valley in a WiFi enabled bus with very comfortable leather seats to visit a range of key players including Jive, salesforce.com., Google, EMC, Amazon, cohesiveFT, obopay, Cloudera, VeriSign, Facebook and Paypal.
14th October 2010:
Richard spoke at Nabarro’s technology seminar on the topic “Navigating the Triple Transformation”. His presentation can be read here.
13th October 2010:
Richard made the case for Outcome Based Agreements (OBAs) at Intellect’s Outsourcing & Offshoring Group round table discussion Achieving the Outcome – The case for and against Outcome Based Agreements.
12th October 2010:
Richard made a presentation 'Seeking 'Edge' from a Technology Sector In Motion: Challenge & Opportunity for the Contemporary CIO' to a CIO workshop hosted by Sopra Group at London’s Royal Opera House Crush Bar!
5th October 2010:
Richard spoke at Intellect’s conference on The Cloud Computing Future on the topic “The Sourcing Balance – In-house vs 'the Cloud'”. His presentation can be read here.
1st October 2010:
Richard was elected to chair the TMMi Foundation at a board meeting in Dublin. The Foundation promotes the new TMMi (Test Maturity Model integration) framework. In accepting his election as chair, Richard said "I welcome this opportunity to contribute to the development of this important initiative. As we move into an ever greater dependence on the capabilities of contemporary technology in most of what we do in our daily and business lives, the need to create new software and systems that are Quality, that fully meet requirements from the start, is a genuine imperative. And in the fast growing world of the virtual this imperative rules even more strongly - how else can we work with confidence and assurance, as an industry, in delivering the operations of complex virtual service value chains.”
21st September 2010:
Richard spoke at Inside Government’s Forum on Cloud Computing: Transforming ICT Delivery on the topic Now is the Time for Proactive Market Making . His presentation can be read here.
7th September 2010:
Richard spoke at South Africa’s annual GovTech conference and trade show in Durban on the topic of “Government Technology: Two Key Perspectives for the New Decade”. His presentation can be read here.
October 2009 – August 2010
Richard advised Phase 2 of the UK Government’s G-Cloud and Apps Store initiative as a member of the Commercial Work Stream. Richard served pro bono as part of an Intellect/Cabinet Office initiated exercise.
26th August 2010
Richard spoke at a meeting of the Scottish IT Directors Forum in Edinburgh at the Standard Life offices on the topic “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Transforming Business Models “. His presentation can be read here.
29th June - 1st July 2010:
Richard attended the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum in London. He chaired the event on 30th June.
24th June 2010:
Richard made a presentation 'Seeking 'Edge' from a Technology Sector In Motion: Challenge & Opportunity for the Contemporary CIO' to a CIO workshop hosted by Sopra Group in Edinburgh.
25th-28th April 2010:
Richard attended the 2nd Arab Outsourcing Conference & Expo 2010 at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai on behalf one of his clients, the sourcing consultants Alsbridge. He delivered a Master Class on Cloud Computing & CloudSourcing and also chaired the second day of the Conference.
15th-17th February 2010:
Richard attended the IAOP (International Association of Outsourcing Professionals World Summit in Florida. He spoke on the topic: Refocusing the Human Contribution: Automation in the Cloud Transforms IT Services Business Models. His presentation can be viewed here.
10th February 2010:
Richard visited 'Southern Manufacturing & Electronics
2010' at Farnborough for the day:
www.industrysouth.co.uk. Solcom Ltd,
which Richard chairs, had a stand, as did a number of member companies
of Intellect:
www.solcom.com,
www.intellectuk.org
December 2009:
Business Management published an article that
Richard wrote for
Steria focused on the 'new testing', the Steria
partnership with the specialist testing consultancy
Experimentus
and the importance
of the new TMMI standards. Titled 'Prevention
rather than cure is key to winning in today's highly competitive
market' the article can be read
here
