Pelicam News and Views - Summer Newsletter
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
News and Views – Summer 2010
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Insights from Silicon Valley……cloud computing, the ubiquitous mobile, social networking, video, winners and losers?
Peter Mayer, Managing Partner, recently spent a week in Silicon Valley, California - visiting some leading and potentially bleeding edge technology providers. Accompanied by fifteen UK based COOs, CIOs and CTOs, it gave us the opportunity to identify new trends in the technology marketplace, the impact for us as business consumers and insights to the challenges we may soon face. We visited a mix of large scale suppliers and some start-up companies, all recommended to us by a group of friendly valley-based venture capitalists.
The woes of planning software…recognising key pitfalls. 
Neil Richardson, Managing Practitioner, Pelicam
For many years we have made use of planning application software on the assumption that it must be good and it must inevitably help us...but does it? What about the following (genuine) concerns?
Forgotten quality - a more mature approach. 
James Rosewell, Managing Practitioner, Pelicam
I’ve been thinking back over my career at all the technology upgrade programmes I’ve been involved with and reflecting on the common themes. I’ve become paranoid about the amount of technical risk known and unknown with upgrade projects because so many have been exceptionally hard to deliver. In theory the technology has been built, operated and is well understood. Why then should it be so hard to change?
Pelicam Project Assurance – assure project delivery – assure success….
Pelicam is delighted to launch its new website at www.pelicam.com– a clean, eye-catching and informative reference on Pelicam, who we are and what we achieve for our clients.
Driving sustainable improvements...
Thanks to your referrals we are continuing to build new relationships and work on some challenging projects. Recently we have been...
- Helping one of the largest telecom companies identify and remediate the ‘barriers to success’ on a strategic programme of work.
- Assuring a major replacement of banking systems at one of the UK clearing banks.
- Health checking the refreshed programme for a well known logistics company following initial programme reviews.
- Reviewing multiple projects, assisting with governance, process and capability improvements in several underwriting and insurance companies.
- Providing procurement, project and business experts to assure successful introduction of new core operational systems in a publishing house.
- Assisting with the organisational transition and performance improvements with 300 project managers at another UK bank.
It is encouraging to note, where we are asked to come back to revisit a previously health checked programme, many shortfalls have been successfully managed out by our clients. The results are heartening……our drive for sustainable improvement is showing real benefit.
The Pelicam Ridgeway Challenge for Lifelites
Kate Woodmansee, Marketing Manager, Pelicam
Peter and I thought cycling the Ridgeway in two days would be a challenge, 45 miles each day… but all very achievable! What we didn’t factor in was the off road terrain, turnstiles, poor map reading skills, punctures, the need for replacement bikes and Peter cycling with jet lag (having flown in from the States at 7.30am that morning) combined with the hottest weekend of the year so far!
Pelicam Support the Nationwide Cricketers
Pelicam are delighted to continue their support for the Nationwide House Cricket Club. The club have been playing cricket for 20 years with now more than 60 members.
Good luck with the tour of Lanzarote.
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