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.