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BUSINESS TRENDS

• What is Strategic Change Management? - Strategic Change Management is becoming a more widely recognised business term as many FTSE 100 companies adopt more business led initaitives and search for dedicated Strategic Change executives. This paper explains the key principles and processes behind the term and discusses how it can be implemented in organisations.
  
  
• Oriel and the Balanced Scorecard – Describes how Oriel supports a Balanced Scorecard approach to performance management.
  
  
• Oriel and Corporate Governance – Describes how Oriel supports the latest thinking in corporate governance by reflecting the needs of the Combined Code, Turnbull, Higgs and the Sarbanes-Oxely Act.
  
  
• Oriel and Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments - Discusses how Oriel supports merger, acquisition and divestment activities, both from a pre and post transaction perspective.
  
  
• Oriel and Outsourcing – Describes how Oriel supports strategic change in an environment where IT and other business processes are outsourced.
  
  
• Oriel and Six Sigma – Describes how Oriel supports the principles of performance improvement through Six Sigma.
  
  
• Oriel and Managing Successful Programmes – Describes how Oriel supports the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) methodology, as defined by the UK Government's Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
  
  
• Oriel and Prince 2 – Describes how Oriel supports project management approaches which are based around the Prince 2 methodology as defined by the UK Government's Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
  
  
• Portfolio Management Systems - Build or Buy? – Describes the issues involved when selecting a portfolio management solution. The paper also describes the advantages and disadvantages of packaged versus in house portfolio management applications.

VIEWPOINTS AND PRESENTATIONS

• PWC Shareholder Value Award - Creating Value in a Downturn – A viewpoint on how the concepts of value based management and portfolio management can be used to drive performance based strategic change.
  
  
• Implementing Change Governance in Fast Moving Organisations, Tapster Rock and Richard Field, CIO of Airtricity presentation to the Project Challenge Conference – London, September 2004.
  
  
• Delivering the Executive Agenda: Getting Value from Projects, Tapster Rock presentation to the PLIM Conference – London, February 2004.
  
  
• Linking Business Planning to Project Benefits, Tapster Rock presentation to the PLIM Conference – London, November 2004.

WATER INDUSTRY

• Ofwat Price Review 2004 – Describes how Oriel supports water companies in their delivery of AMP4 and the consequences of the recent Ofwat Price Review 2004
  

ORIEL

• Oriel Brochure - Describes the key concepts and features of Oriel and how they may benefit organisations.



• Technical Perspective of Oriel – Describes the key technical features of Oriel, including the technical architecture and security features.
  

ARTICLES

• Business Transformation: Doing It Right (Part I) - By Brian Goonan
  Senior Principal