Speaker at CFG's Annual Conference 2012

1. The Finance Director as IT Leader
David Locke

2. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Leading
3. Focus on Marketing/Communications
4. Case studies
5. Trends 2012

3. 1. Introduction

4. 1999 to 2012…
1999…
Internet usage – 61%
Website – 19%
Computers – 1 per 2 staff
_________________
Since then…
2004 – Facebook
2007 – iphone
2010 – ipad

5. Established 1792 – – one of oldest mission agencies
Established 1792 one of the
the oldest mission
agencies
Working in over 40 countries
Supporting over 370 personnel
Working in over 40
countries
Supporting over 370
personnel and volunteers

6. Department structure
Dept of World Mission
Finance &
Corporate Services
Training
Communications
General
Directorate

7. 2. Leading

8. Leading IT – initial reflections
Learner
Visionmaker
Innovator
Inspirer
Pusher
Affirmer
Peacemaker

9. 3. Relationship with
Marketing/Communications

10. Quotation
“Watching an IT professional
trying to be cool and
knowledgeable with our designers
is like watching your Dad dance –
just don’t!”
Mark Craig – April 2012
BMS Director for Communications

11. What do you want?
• Reliability
• Understanding
• Perspective
for creative teams, high-value
software is 'the tools of the
trade' - it's not a bonus to
have current kit, it's essential.

12. Major strategic priorities
• Responding to rapid shifts
• Staying retro
for creative teams, high-value
software is 'the tools of the
trade' - it's not a bonus to
have current kit, it's essential.

13. How can IT help?
• Keeping updated
• By maintaining support
• Stay cool
The IT team need to be
familiar with the landscape,
so that they can talk the
same language with
creative teams,

14. New technologies excited about
• Video
• Cloud facilities
• Holographics

15. 4. Case studies

16. Case Study 1
Personnel/Volunteer System
(with document management)

17. Timing is everything…
The Technology Adoption Landscape
(Source: Gartner Group)

18. Case Study 2
Conference Room Booking System
(Saas)
Opportunities
Leading Strategy Benchmarking Team building New Projects
2008

19. Case Study 3
pension monitoring system

20. Case Study 4
Web based applications
Email update system Survey software

21. Case Study 5
Virtualisation

22. 4. Trends 2012
What’s on the radar

23. Trends 2012
Mobile/ Software as
Consumer a Service
Cloud Virtualisation

24. Other areas
Windows 8
Data protection guidelines
Social networking policy guidelines

25. Social media matters!

26. The future is mobile…
87% - of world population has a mobile
85% - new handsets web enabled
50%
by 2020 payment transactions
in UK will be by a mobile
Do you have a mobile strategy?