Gary Marston, Author at public sector NOMADS

Blackberry for Government

February 23, 2011 By Gary Marston

All local government organisations face pressure to make savings while improving public services. The BlackBerry® wireless platform provides local government with a compelling way to improve individual worker productivity, effect process transformation, make public service provision much more visible and deliver cost savings, simply by mobilising existing technology investments on a secure and highly usable platform.

BlackBerry® smartphones are being used by local government workers to access key applications ranging from mobile reporting of issues like licensing, inspection and incident reporting, to panic button applications for vulnerable lone workers. Learn more here…

Introducing the BlackBerry Playbook tablet

For more information: Website www.blackberry.co.uk/publicsector Email: publicsector@rim.com Tel: 01753 667557

Enabling secure mobility
BlackBerry meets GSi Codes of Connection data security requirements. GSi Codes of Connection require all mobile working solutions and devices to comply with the appropriate guidance from CESG. More here…

Bromsgrove District Housing Trust
UK housing trust increases productivity by 20% with scheduling applications for BlackBerry smartphones. More here…

Arun District Council
Local authority makes savings of 67% and improves quality levels of council services using BlackBerry solution for Street Scene services. More here…

Glasgow City Council
Saves 20% and improves customer service with Blackberry solution for care providers. Every month, 4,000 records are updated with changes to personal circumstances. More here…

Filed Under: Associate Sponsors, Mobile & Flexible Working

PSF Mobile Working and Infosecurity Events, 24 Nov

November 25, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

On Tuesday over 100 people joined PSF on a trek to Milton Keynes for our public sector Mobile Working and Information Security forums. Slides from both happenings will be available asap, but to give you a taster Ken Eastwood, who chaired for Mobile Working, has blogged about the event and the future of the recently-rescued Nomad local government mobile working project he now leads.

Ken shares his slides here:

PSF Milton Keynes

View more presentations from Ken Eastwood.

Here’s some photos of the day also courtesy of Ken:

You can view the complete #psfbuzz Twitter action here (there’s 200-plus tweets so this may take a while to load), with thanks to Steph Gray and Dave Briggs for the search hack. And of course, many thanks again to all our sponsors, speakers and attendees for making the event such a success.

Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: data risk, Mobile

PSF & NDL Mobile Working Survey Results 2009: Trends in Mobile Working

November 11, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

Chris Coleman, Product Manager, NDL

NDL in conjunction with Public Sector Forums is currently undertaking a comprehensive survey of mobile working practices across local government, due to be published at this event. This presentation will provide an insight into the survey results and present the key findings around issues which include:

What stage adoption of mobile technology is really at?
Planned growth of use mobile devices over the next few years.
Perceived barriers and benefits to mobile working.
Which departments tend to take the lead?
Should the approach to mobile working be corporate?
Does the technology match the hype?

Click here for presentation

Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: Change, efficiencies, local government, mobile working, service delivery, transformation

Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Efficiencies

July 22, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

Paul Saunders, Kirona. Kirona have worked with over 200 Local Authorities in the past 6 years, helping them achieve their Transformation and Efficiency Agendas through mobile and flexible working. Paul shares his experiences of how organisations have mobilised their workforces; from small departments with a couple of users up to Enterprise rollouts of 2500 users across all service areas

Why Intelligent Mobile Solutions are chosen
How transformation and efficiency agenda targets can be achieved
Best practice and shared experience
Why organisations choose a single platform for enterprise mobility

Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working

It’s space, but not as we know it….Sharon Williams, Team Manager Flexible Working Design Team and Adam Crevald, SSD IT Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council

June 23, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

This case study outlines the initial concept and evolution of flexible working in Nottinghamshire County Council.

The constraints of a traditional office.
How we developed the team and developed systems to support work style analysis/ storage audits.
How this enabled us to design a more flexible work space /office.
Development of electronic record mgt, home working and ITC.

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: Asset Management, culture change, flexible working, home working, local government, transformation

Mobile & Flexible Working. How do you make it happen? (West Berkshire CC) – Gail Kirby, Director, Flexility

June 23, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

Like many local authority organisations there was widespread recognition across West Berkshire Council that mobile and flexible working could deliver a triple win, in terms of benefits to the organisation, its customers and employees. The challenge the Council faced was ‘how to make it happen’. This slideset looks at the “Timelord” project and explores the feasibility phase that West Berkshire County Council went through in 2008 to understand the work-style requirements for different roles across the Council. The council is now in the second of three phases of deployment, with mobile and flexible working deployed across the majority of the Council by December 2010.

Defining the technology requirements
Develop the business case for making the change
Creating the right level of employee engagement to create the momentum

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working