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2010

GCSE students need IT role models, says NCC

The continued decline in the numbers of students taking GCSE ICT is down to a lack of role models in the IT industry, according to the National Computing Centre (NCC). This morning's results showed 61,022 students took GCSE ICT this year compared with 73,519 last year, representing a drop of 17%. Michael Dean, head of marketing at the NCC, believes the lack of role models in the IT sector is partly to blame.
(24th August 2010)

Computer Weekly

Government urged to evaluate IT outsourcing projects

The new government should exercise greater caution than its predecessor when evaluating the merits of particular IT projects, it has been claimed. Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre, noted that some of the recent major IT initiatives have been costly failures.
(30th July 2010)

ihotdesk

Government must make IT projects 'more effective'

The coalition government must manage its IT projects more effectively in the future, according to Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre (NCC). His comments come after the NHS has experienced "major problems" with its new electronic patient record system, which is still not fully operational.
(30th July 2010)

Women in Technology

IT industry news: 'Coalition should have a practical approach to IT projects'

The new coalition government should scrutinize spending for major IT projects in a pragmatic way, according to Michael Dean, head of marketing at IT organisation the NCC. "Billions of pounds of cash has gone into the NHS's IT programme with the objective of creating a working electronic patient record system, yet the project has suffered major problems and is not fully operational," Mr Dean said.
(30th July 2010)

Computeach

NCC warning over govt IT contract renegotiation

UK outsourcing firms may be affected if the government chooses to renegotiate its major IT contracts, the National Computing Centre (NCC) has said. A total of 35 major government IT outsourcing contracts are potentially at risk of renegotiation in the coming years, technology analyst Ovum claimed last week. The company issued the warning after the Con-Lib coalition imposed a £100 million cap on public IT contracts, seeking to cut spending and reduce the budget deficit.

Michael Dean, head of marketing at information technology membership and research organisation the NCC, said the impacts of the spending cuts "could be significant".
(29th July 2010)

Ashdown Group

AQA IT department wins accreditation

“The IT Department has developed a good reputation, but we still need to establish a mutual understanding with the business about what a good catalogue of IT services looks like,” says AQA IT director Peter Dawson. “The ability to benchmark ourselves against a recognised industry standard was a key factor in our decision to seek IT Department accreditation from the NCC.”

AQA joins a list of organisations whose IT departments have been accredited to the NCC Standard, including Imperial College London, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, North Wales Police, and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service - UCAS.
(10th July 2010)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Businesses 'will increase spend on desktop virtualisation'

Businesses are likely to start spending on more IT services this year and according to Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre, spend will go on desktop virtualisation.
(8th July 2010)

Women in Technology

Virtualisation spending to increase this year

According to Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computer Centre, the trend for virtualisation is being driven by a number of factors, including cost reductions associated with the technology.
(8th July 2010)

ihotdesk

SMEs looking to invest in managed hosting services

More small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considering migrating to managed hosting services, one IT expert has claimed. According to Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre, business owners are increasingly questioning existing technology models.
(8th July 2010)

GlobalGold

Could employees work harder with IT training?

Employees could work harder if they had more IT training,the latest report by Lifelong Learning UK has found. It revealed that half of workers believe that they would waste less time at work if they had more knowledge of IT and 49 per cent said that they would feel more confident using technology if it had been incorporated more in their training and education.

Commenting on the results, Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre, said: "Quite often money is spent on training when a system is introduced, but then it is often not maintained."
(8th June 2010)

Women in Technology

Incomplete staff training 'leads to IT potential not being achieved'

Businesses are not realising their full technological potential because staff have received incomplete or curtailed training, it has been suggested.

Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre, said that while most firms did train staff when upgrading their IT systems, many failed to implement training from then onwards.
(7th June 2010)

Chartered Institue of Managers

Incomplete training means firms are not fulfilling potential, says expert

British businesses are not fulfilling their potential with regard to technology in cases where training programmes are left incomplete.

This is the view of the National Computing Centre (NCC), which said firms are too often cutting training from the budget of a systems upgrade, meaning the new systems are not reaching their potential.
(7th June 2010)

BCS.org

IT market on the road to recovery?

Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre, noted that the UK will not be in as good a position as other countries when it comes to IT spending: "With the UK economy lagging in recovery behind the US, tech spending will not be so spectacular.
(28th May 2010)

Rackspace.co.uk

Experts' views on Red Gate Software

Jo Causon of the Institute of Customer Service, The National Computing Centre's Michael Dean and Maria Farnell of Peninsula give their expert advice to help Red Gate Software solve its recruitment problems.
(27th May 2010)

Telegraph.co.uk

UK's IT industry still to recover from recession

The UK's IT industry has not yet fully recovered from the effects of the recession, according to one expert. Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre (NCC), said the recession has led to large firms buying out their smaller competitors.
(18th May 2010)

BCS

UK IT sector shows signs of recovery

The UK IT sector has shown a sign of recovery, as according to figures from e-skills, investment in IT has risen and the unemployment rate for IT jobs has fallen. The sector skills council for business and IT released its figures this month for the final quarter of 2009. It found that the unemployment rate for IT professionals fell from 5.2 per cent to 4.7 per cent, showing steps towards economic recovery for the industry. However, Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre argued that the UK IT industry has not fully recovered from the crisis.
(18th May 2010)

Women in Technology

Natural "buoyancy" of IT sector may boost technology jobs in banking in London

Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre (NCC), has suggested the recession has "enabled the big players to buy up all of their smaller competitors who couldn''t ride out the storm", while "new challengers to established players" have emerged.
(17th May 2010)

Astbury Marsden

UK IT sector still not recovered from recession, says National Computing Centre

According to Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre, the technology industry in the UK has not yet fully recovered from the global financial crisis, but it's a naturally buoyant sector.
(17th May 2010)

Computeach

Shared services centres to take over from in-house finance?

Work performed by in-house finance departments is being farmed out to shared services centres as organisations look for fresh opportunities to save money.

Almost one-third of businesses (31 per cent) surveyed by the National Computing Centre, a body representing corporate IT users, have migrated their finance and accounting systems over to shared services centres, while another five per cent are planning to do so.
(30th April 2010)

Silicon

NCC: Don't expect major UK recovery this year

IT spending will be slower to pick up in the UK than other markets, though cloud services and SaaS should flourish, according to the National Computing Centre. The UK will see a rise in IT spending this year, but it's likely to be far more subdued than in other markets.
(19th April 2010)

ITPro

Experts' view on énergie fitness clubs

Michael Dean of The National Computing Centre, David James from the Henley Business School and Robert Allison, MD at Expense Reduction Analysts look over énergie fitness clubs's business plans.
(14th April 2010)

Telegraph.co.uk

Ensuring a smooth transition to Unified Communications

Michael Dean, director of advisory services at the National Computing Centre, says in the current climate, employees might want to feel visible, particularly if they feel their job is under threat. One potential benefit to UC is even those staff working remotely can be as visible and accessible as their office-based counterparts.
(16th March 2010)

Computing

Experts' view on Stockshifters's business plan

Michael Dean of the National Computing Centre, Rupert Merson, a lecturer at the London Business School and Simon Dolph from the CMI evaluate the Stockshifters business plan.
(7th April 2010)

Telegraph.co.uk

Lessons for software developers from Toyota's ABS safety alert

Danny Dresner, head of information assurance practice at the National Computing Centre, says, "With the Toyota software, if the brakes failed under a combination of circumstances, then the software has always been broken."
(12th February 2010)

Computer Weekly

IT outsourcing brings SME benefits

Some 81% of IT departments made cost cuts over the past 12 months, according to a study from the National Computing Centre (NCC)
(20th January 2010)

ITWeb

IT departments still slashing costs, says NCC

Eighty one percent of IT departments made cost cuts over the last 12 months, according to a study from the National Computing Centre (NCC).
(15th January 2010)

ComputerworldUK

IT departments still under the cosh

Pressure to reduce cost and budgets as well as delayed projects are still common features of many technology departments, according to a survey on IT infrastructure plans carried out by the National Computing Centre (NCC).
(14th January 2010)

Computing

Gloomy 2010 in store as firms delay upgrades

National Computing Centre research finds many companies expecting more budget cuts this year.

This year may see an end to the technology downturn, according to analyst firm Forrester, but the reality for many IT departments will be continued cost cutting, delayed projects and reduced budgets, according to new research from the National Computing Centre (NCC).
(14th January 2010)

V3.co.uk

IT budget cuts expected in 2010

Businesses expect to make significantcuts to their IT budgetsduring 2010 according to the National Computing Centre's (NCC) latest survey of IT infrastructure plans.

The research, which was based on a survey of 100 companies and undertaken by NCC's Evaluation Centre, reported that 28% of those surveyed admitted they have had to undertake significant cost-cutting in their IT operations and a further 32% have had to make moderate cuts.
(12th January 2010)

Computer Weekly

2009

Severn Trent prepares ERP roll out in cost cutting drive

Severn Trent is unusual in pushing through a significant ERP project this year. According to research published this month by the National Computing Centre, more than 60% of UK businesses have delayed at least some of their business application project in the past year as a result of the recession.
(25th November 2009)

Information Age

IT praised in national standards

LAW firm Dickinson Dees has become the first organisation in the country to be accredited with the National Computing Centre’s standard for IT Departments.
(24th November 2009)

The Northern Echo

ZeuS Trojan Warning

NCC's Daniel Dresner interviewed on North West Tonight.
(20th November 2009)

BBC One

Businesses postponing SaaS will be "less competitive"

The use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and associated business management software is a great way to improve the standing of an organisation in terms of expenditure and abilities, it is said.
(16 November 2009)

Atlantic Global

Enterprise resource planning investment essential

Companies cannot afford to put off investing in enterprise resource planning (ERP), it has been suggested.
(16 November 2009)

Microsoft

SaaS enables cost-effective resource planning, experts say

The rise of software as a service (SaaS) solutions means that businesses of all sizes are able to take advantage of the benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP), it has been claimed.
(16th November 2009)

Outsourcery

One in four UK companies put all apps projects 'on hold'

Recessionary pressures have forced 24% of UK companies to put all enterprise software projects on hold, according to research from the National Computing Centre
(6th November 2009)

Information Age

Enterprise resource planning investments put on hold

Investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are falling, thanks in part to the fragile UK economy, but also to inefficiencies with the systems themselves, according to a new survey from the National Computing Centre.
(5th November 2009)

Strategy clinic: How do I overcome resistance to change?

Resistance typically occurs when people are apprehensive about the future and the part they will play in it, especially if they have not been consulted beforehand. Will your plans require them to do things differently, learn new skills, adopt new practices?
(19th October 2009)

Computer Weekly

Save jobs with national accreditation for IT departments

The National Computing Centre has launched an accreditation scheme for IT departments which it says they can use to defend themselves from cost-cutting business managers in the downturn.
(15th October 2009)

Computer Weekly

'Document management ROI 'too difficult to measure'

Business are unable to calculate the return on investment of document management, electronic content management (ECM) and workflow software, the latest survey from NCC Research has found.

Of the 100 businesses surveyed, 27% said it was very difficult and 35% said it was difficult to measure ROI on these systems.
(25th August 2009)

Computer Weekly

'Expert View'

NCC's Michael Dean reviews Recart.
(18th August 2009)

Daily Telegraph

'Legacy system evolution eased as NCC publishes new guidelines'

Development environments and data migration specialist Erudine and the National Computing Centre have published new guidelines to help IT decision-makers evaluate their options with legacy IT systems.

Martin Rice, CEO of Erudine, points out that joined-up IT and web services are powerful tools for business innovation and cost reduction, but that uptake is often hindered by inflexible legacy systems and the perception of high costs.
(17th August 2009)

Manufacturing Computer Solutions

'Expert View'

NCC's Michael Dean comments on an electronic payments card business case study.
(11th August 2009)

Daily Telegraph

'More IT Contractors to be hired by public sector organisations'

IT contractors working as sole traders or through limited companies will benefit from increasing number of public sector bodies looking to outsource work, a business computing advisor has claimed.

Many organisations have been forced to stop or delay any planned IT expenditure because of the impact of the global credit crunch on their finances, the National Computing Centre explained.
(3rd August 2009)

Brookson

'Future holds important IT decisions for business'

Businesses that have cut their IT spending now will face more strategic decisions in the future, a computing body has claimed.

According to the National Computing Centre (NCC), the sector has had a challenging time due to the economic downturn and the 'gut reaction' from many businesses has been to reduce their expenditure.
(31st July 2009)

BCS

'Firms will need to decide IT strategy, group claims'

Businesses should exercise caution when considering reducing their IT budgets, it has been suggested, which may interest those considering IT outsourcing.

Mike Dean, a spokesperson for the National Computing Centre, said that many IT purchasers have been forced to delay or stop spending on projects because of the ongoing economic crisis, but reminded them that this cannot be pursued in the long run.
(30 July 2009)

ihotdesk.com

'New press helps printer make its mark'

Expert view by Michael Dean.
(28th July 2009)

The Telegraph Business Club

'Manufacturers failing to reap the reward of CRM'

Companies are still failing to gain all the anticipated benefits from their CRM (customer relationship management) systems, according to a study by NCC. Nearly half (45%) of the 100 organisations surveyed have either been only partially successful in realising the benefits sought, while 5% say they have seen no major benefits from implementing their CRM systems.
(22nd July 2009)

Manufacturing Computer Solutions

'Firms still not getting full benefits from CRM'

Firms are continue to invest in customer relationship management (CRM) systems, according to a recent study, despite many failing to receive the anticipated benefits.

The study by the National Computing Centre (NCC) found 45 per cent had achieved partial success with their CRM deployment, while five per cent said they had seen no major benefit at all.
(22nd July 2009)

IT News (Australia)

'Firms still not getting full benefits from CRM'

Firms are continue to invest in customer relationship management (CRM) systems, according to a recent study, despite many failing to receive the anticipated benefits.

Computing.co.uk

'Firms urged to maintain trainig & maintenance spend'

Firms that reduce their investment in IT training and maintenance to save money during the recession may be unable to maximise the use of their IT setup, it has been claimed.

According to Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre (NCC), businesses need appropriately trained people to get real benefit from any investment.
(17th Jun 2009)

Microsoft UK

'Engineers reveal their flush hand'

Expert view by Michael Dean.
(30th June 2009)

The Telegraph Business Club

'Firms under pressure to build greener supply chains'

The online technology news and analysis service for UK business leaders Computing.co.uk has used NCC research as a source to update its readers with the latest in the IT industry. The latest article highlights the findings of the NCC survey that gives evidence to suggest that firms are bolstering their green credentials to keep their customers and partners sweet.

'The survey by the National Computing Centre's (NCC's) procurement guidance arm, The Evaluation Centre, shows that environmental concerns are moving higher up IT managers' agendas.'
(26 June 2009)

Computing.co.uk

'Greening' of Supply Chain Grows in Importance'

A monthly online newsletter giving the latest technology news to the Not for Profit sector uses the NCC as a resource to update its 6,700 > subscribers. They were another publisher to draw on the NCC's survey:

'Businesses are taking the environment seriously and nearly two-thirds of respondents state that environmental issues are a 'very important' (34%), or 'important' (30%) concern for their organisation. In addition, 73% are having environmental requirements placed upon them by customers and partners.'

NFP Techno

'Businesses fail to get the most out of their financial software'

Offering a mixture of business and technical journalism ComputerWeekly.com has used NCC research as a trusted resource to update its readers on the latest news in the industry. The article highlights some of the research commissioned by the NCC on the use of financial systems:

'Almost a third of organisations feel that their financial systems have failed to meet all their original business objectives, according to research commissioned by the National Computing Centre's Evaluation Centre.'
(11th June 2009)

Computer Weekly

NCC in Industry News

Adfero is one of the UK's leading online news providers, supplying new feeds to a number of well known online news brands in addition to issuing the latest technological updates to IT service providers in the industry. They have sought breaking insight into the IT industry from the experts at the NCC, forming features that reach the news pages of leading IT providers. The latest articles focus primarily on the dangers of falling IT investment in the business community:

'Firms urged to maintain training and maintenance spend'

'Firms that reduce their investment in IT training and maintenance to save money during the recession may be unable to maximise the use of their IT setup, it has been claimed. According to Michael Dean, at the National Computing Centre (NCC), businesses need appropriately trained people to get real benefit from any investment.'
(17th June 2009)

Microsoft Business and Industry News

'Growing businesses should avoid cutting back on IT expenditure'

'According to Michael Dean, head of marketing at the National Computing Centre (NCC), businesses need appropriately trained people to get real benefit from any investment'.
(18th June 2009)

Thompson Local Marketing News

'IT Projects help in Long Term says expert'

'The danger in a recession is that organisations don't invest in IT and when the upturn comes they are less competitive than others. According to National Computing Centre failure to maintain and update technology infrastructure can cause businesses to fall behind their competitors'.
(18th June 2009)

ihotdesk IT industry News

'Cloud Computing will be popular with SME's'

'While many firms may not currently find that virtual private servers are suitable for them, this situation will change, Michael Dean, head of marketing at the independent information technology membership organisation the National Computing Centre, stated.'
(19th June 2009)

Global Gold Industry News

'Security could be compromised if companies cut back on IT training';

'According to independent research organisation the National Computing Centre (NCC), it is important to invest in IT solutions, such as a firewall or anti-virus software, but equally important to ensure that they are maintained properly.'
(18th June 2009)

Hostware News

'SME's need to continue investing in IT and training'

'Indeed, Michael Dean, head of marketing at the NCC, said that maintenance was 'key' and that cutbacks on security processes could expose firms to a higher chance of problems with computer failure.'
(26 June 2009)

Eclipse internet Business News

'Cutting spending now could harm firms later'

'Businesses considering cuts in their IT investment have been warned that they may be less competitive when the recession eases than firms which continued to spend. The National Computing Centre (NCC) stressed that IT solutions, such as unified communications, can save firms money in the long run.'
(18th June 2009)

Direct Response News

Telegraph Business Club

The National Computing Centre is Channel Partner with the Telegraph Business Club and features in the section regularly. The NCC director of advisory services Michael Dean regularly shares his expertise, along with a select few individuals, on discussion topics, news items, and actively addresses IT issues experienced by companies in the industry.