Bracken Transferability Workshop
Agenda:
The Regional Information Hub: design, functionality and benefits to business
and the institutions
Working Lunch: the integration of institutional information systems through a
common business facing platform
Enterprise Architecture: the use of EA modelling in network management
optimisation
Professor Tony TooleSwansea Metropolitan University
Sam RowleyStaffordshire University
12th July 2011
The SWWVSI initiative provides management level training and consultancy for businesses across South Wales
The Network includes two HE institutions and four FE institutions, as well as business support organisations
The aim of the initiative is to simplify access for businesses to practical support and vocationally targeted training
Central to the initiative is an information hub that provides intuitive access to support services and communications
Primarily for collaborative network management, but also used for business support events/webinars
Personalised communications that underpins the business services being discussed/delivered
Enables the sharing of a range of resources including websites, documents and presentations
Uses web crawler technology
Terminology to be converted to ‘business speak’
All institutional websites being adapted
Automatically updated information
General Principle of Exploiting Web Technologies
Bracken Transferability Workshop
The Regional Information Hub: design, functionality and benefits to business
and the institutions
Links:
https://sites.google.com/site/swwvsi/
http://brackenprojectblog.blogspot.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/mscndt/
Working Lunch: the integration of institutional information systems through a
common business facing platform
A general discussion about the benefits of regional collaboration and the
way web based communications and resource sharing will shape the future
of business support.