User self-help group The Corporate IT Forum (Tif) this
year celebrates its 10th anniversary with a major conference on 22
June. The thrust of the conference, as with many of Tif's events
this year, will be how to get value for money from IT, and how to
get the value of IT to the business.
Tif's events often take place at member sites, and the themes they
tackle revolve around interdependencies such as compliance,
governance, risk, business processes and security, with business
process optimisation and business intelligence never too far
away.
This year, Tif is holding a series of presentations on
legislation-related topics, and it is extending its programme by
working with suppliers to enhance supplier-user
understanding.
Since it started in 1995 as an offshoot from Sainsbury's IT
infrastructure department, Tif has broadened its focus from
infrastructure and technologies to tackling the strategic issues
facing senior IT management.
What is The Corporate IT Forum?
The Corporate IT Forum (Tif) is a subscription-based corporate
IT user group whose members include more than 140 IT departments
from Europe's largest organisations - about 50% are in the FTSE
250. The organisation calculates its members have an annual ITspend
of more than £20bn. The group's chairman is Denise Plumpton, who
last month became the Highways Agency's first director of
information.
Forthcoming Tif seminars
FEBRUARY
16 London, Cross-border security and
legislation
16 London, The Freedom of Information Act
23 British Airways, Heathrow, Key factors in
choosing the right project
24 GlaxoSmithKline, Herts, RFID: outside of the
box
MARCH
1 Wokingham, Supplier management and
outsourcing
9 Alliance & Leicester, Leicester, ITIL
service desk
16 Berkhamsted, Developing a datawarehouse and
exploiting its data
17 BAA, Heathrow, Curious about cost
saving?
JUNE
21 London, IT relationships forum
22 London, Changing times, changing the
business 10th annual conference
www.tif.co.uk