Contact us for upcoming presentations, seminars and training events that we participate in.

Upcoming presentations

ALGIM Records Symposium 3 July with Sarah Heal
Training and Support Challenges for Local Government

Record keeping compliance is a combination of both system capability and user adoption. Today everyone in your organisation needs to be enlisted in the records management effort.

This paper focuses on how to build the quantity and quality of adoption across your council. This requires new ways of thinking about, and delivering, training and support. It is not sufficient to run training courses and set up a helpdesk and then expect that enduring behaviour change will follow. Sarah will share real world examples and our latest thinking on how you can get the right portfolio of proactive and reactive support and targeted interventions.

CIO Summit, Auckland, 22-23 July 2008
Your riskiest project ever?
How to avoid your document management project becoming a train wreck - because most do
Grant Margison and Sarah Heal

8th Annual Strategic Intranet Summit, Wellington 21-22 August 2008
A Strategic Approach to getting the best combination of Content Technologies
Grant Margison

Information Leadership at ARANZ Conference

Conference Workshop 27 August: Using SharePoint to Support Public Records Act Compliance
Microsoft SharePoint has been generating a lot of interest. With its collaboration features as well as document management functionality many organisations are considering whether this is an appropriate platform for records management. This workshop introduces how you can use SharePoint to assist with your Public Records Act compliance programme.

Conference Paper 29 August: 21st Recordkeeping - Welcome to the New Frontier
In the 21st century, recordkeeping is fundamentally different. These changes include:
a.EDRMS implementations failing as fast as new ones are initiated
b.Email still out of control
c.SharePoint - the IT Manager's nirvana and the recordkeepers curse?
d.'Tick the box' compliance that fails to deliver business value.
e.Web 2.0 tools and Software as a Service

What does this mean for your role? How can you be preparing yourself and your organisation?

KMWorld, San Jose 23-25 September 2008
B101-Delivering an Organization-Wide KM Strategy
Grant Margison and Moira Fraser (Parliamentary Services)

Other News

iLAB SharePoint hands-on events
Auckland July 10-11 Limited availability

June 2008
5 Nations Forum in Canberra
Grant Margison is to speak at the 5 Nations Forum for senior public servants in Canberra on 18 June. This forum discusses strategic issues in integrating digital business systems in agencies. There will also be presentations from the Australian and UK archivists and Government CIOs.

May 2008
Approval of SIT Appraisal Report/Schedule
SIT appraisal report and schedule prepared by IL consultants Sarah Heal and Meta Mair were signed off by the Chief Archivist. SIT expressed their thanks for the evident hard work and attention to detail both Sarah and Meta put into the work, calling it a "clear, concise and careful report/schedule, and one which we will, I am sure, use as an example of 'how to do it' in the future."

April 2008
Sarah Heal facilitated the IT and Knowledge Project Change Management course for BrightStar
She again received extremely positive feedback including
"Very easy to relate to and clearly very knowledgeable"
"Very good at contextualising discussions - very practical and straight forward"
"Very knowledgeable and great practical experience"

IM Summit
Grant Margison held a high profile at this event where he:
" Delivered a paper on Creating an Enterprise Wide Knowledge Management Strategy
" Hosted a Champagne Roundtable on Pathways and Pitfalls in Audit Preparation
" Ran a workshop on SharePoint for Public Records Act
Feedback from attendees was 80% very good to excellent and comments such as

• "Good theory and advice"
• "Understands the topic and made it interesting and interactive"
• "Interesting and thought provoking"

Sarah Heal also hosted a Champagne Round table at the Summit on Making Your Taxonomy and Classification Systems More effective for your business.
Feedback from attendees was also in the very good/ excellent bracket with comments such as:

• "Sarah really understood the subject and led the discussion very well"
• "Useful discussion, excellent facilitation"