The first Strategic Plan and Work Plan for the Illinois Park and Recreation Association (IPRA) covered the two-year period of 2006 and 2007 and will continue to be the basic working document to direct the association for the future.
The Strategic Plan is a continuous working document that provides a clear direction for the work of the association as a unified, future developing organization. Its direction is also to support the Board of Directors in a positive decision making process regarding organizational direction, budget and program priorities.
Its core direction follows the mission and values of the association with working towards enhancing and improving programs and services for the members. Staff reviewed the 2006/2007 Strategic Plan and has redirected items from the current plan that were not accomplished or were semi-accomplished to the 2007/2008 Strategic Plan.
The 2007/2008 Strategic Plan is not a “work plan” but an open document that may change with the direction of the association. Outcomes are accomplished through the IPRA Staff Work Plan which may incorporate Governance or Board Policy outcomes to assist the Board of Directors. The Staff Work Plan is a creative, project management oriented document that allows significant research and testing before the outcome is specified as completed. The allowance of creativity and project management within the Work Plan is significant as it allows for “trial and error” before a positive outcome is accomplished thus completing the outcome to the satisfaction of the Board of Directors.
APM webinar sponsored by the South Wales and West of England Branch on 23 November 2021.
Speaker: David Hawkins
Projects by their very nature require many stakeholders to work together to deliver outcomes. The greater the level of collaboration the higher the probability of success. This webinar was held on 23 November 2021.
The impact of relationships and behaviours cannot be underestimated but often this is left to develop organically and can frequently be impacted by external influences directly or inadvertently. A structured approach to placing collaborative working as part of the project plan and execution can help enhance performance.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/how-collaborative-working-can-help-deliver-successful-projects-webinar/
The first Strategic Plan and Work Plan for the Illinois Park and Recreation Association (IPRA) covered the two-year period of 2006 and 2007 and will continue to be the basic working document to direct the association for the future.
The Strategic Plan is a continuous working document that provides a clear direction for the work of the association as a unified, future developing organization. Its direction is also to support the Board of Directors in a positive decision making process regarding organizational direction, budget and program priorities.
Its core direction follows the mission and values of the association with working towards enhancing and improving programs and services for the members. Staff reviewed the 2006/2007 Strategic Plan and has redirected items from the current plan that were not accomplished or were semi-accomplished to the 2007/2008 Strategic Plan.
The 2007/2008 Strategic Plan is not a “work plan” but an open document that may change with the direction of the association. Outcomes are accomplished through the IPRA Staff Work Plan which may incorporate Governance or Board Policy outcomes to assist the Board of Directors. The Staff Work Plan is a creative, project management oriented document that allows significant research and testing before the outcome is specified as completed. The allowance of creativity and project management within the Work Plan is significant as it allows for “trial and error” before a positive outcome is accomplished thus completing the outcome to the satisfaction of the Board of Directors.
APM webinar sponsored by the South Wales and West of England Branch on 23 November 2021.
Speaker: David Hawkins
Projects by their very nature require many stakeholders to work together to deliver outcomes. The greater the level of collaboration the higher the probability of success. This webinar was held on 23 November 2021.
The impact of relationships and behaviours cannot be underestimated but often this is left to develop organically and can frequently be impacted by external influences directly or inadvertently. A structured approach to placing collaborative working as part of the project plan and execution can help enhance performance.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/how-collaborative-working-can-help-deliver-successful-projects-webinar/
Skills India 2020 - Blue Book Companion WebsiteTeamForITI
Transforming ITIs to train streams of students into certified and qualified technicians poses significant challenges. To meet these challenges, Institute Management Committee (IMC), Principal and Staff deserve the best possible assistance. The Blue Book (“Unleashing Skilled India:Transforming ITI’s Together”) is a step towards providing such a resource for ITI governance and operations.Skills India 2020 is a web and e-mail facility that is meant to provide support for specific situations through special interest groups on ITI Governance, Upgradation and Operations.
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand have spend 12 months with Institute for Working Futures investigating and reappraising the capabilities required for a professional accountant in the future. This is a summary of their efforts.
On Tuesday 26th November 2013 in the heart of Birmingham ProgM SIG staged “Delivering more 4 less: using programme management to achieve transformational change in times of austerity." The SIG had promised an event that weaved together the four ‘C’s’ theme namely collaboration, change, community and competence, drawing on a wealth of experience from across the public sector. http://bit.ly/progmm4l
Merv Wyeth, ProgM Chair introduced the conference by describing how the event had been designed with the intention of providing delegates with a high return on their personal investment – i.e attendance and participation #eventroi. The big idea was that the day should be an enjoyable shared experience that offered an exceptional opportunity for learning, motivation and networking in the field of programme management.
Time and space was built into the programme to enable the audience to interrogate (police were present), and otherwise question, speakers. They were also given the opportunity to vote in polls on issues and questions that speakers posed, which offered additional insights into audience perception and sentiment which otherwise would not have been available.
The conference offered the chance for Jim Dale to provide a ‘sitrep’ on his ProgM-backed
Collaborative Change research namely “Using research to improve the delivery and effectiveness of change programmes and projects” previewed in last month’s show-case webinar. During his presentation Jim provided an update of the story so far, thanked those who had already participated either in an interview or by completing the survey. ProgM would like to extend the opportunity to all those currently, or previously, involved in programme management and related collaborative activity to participate in this important Collaborative Change survey.
On the day, Steve Wake, newly appointed Chair of APM Board, was available to round-up the proceedings and provide a special vote of thanks to his Board colleagues, the organising committee and our generous sponsors, BMT Hi-Q Sigma. He reminded those present of the ongoing Strategy 2020 initiative of “Listening, learning and leading” that complements events of this type.
One delegate (Neil White) wrote “A constant theme, running like a golden thread throughout the day, was that effective programme management is a necessary and complimentary bedfellow of collaboration, and an important ingredient in delivering successful transformational change.
Whereas projects are essentially objective and enable the effective development and delivery of ‘products’ (some of which are can be very big products!) it was recognised that programmes are much more subjective and must be sensitive to the environment in which they are operate.
Rather than see them as obstacles, programme managers must respect and be prepared to exploit the systems and organisations surrounding them to their mutual benefit.
BioBankCloud: Machine Learning on Genomics + GA4GH @ Med at ScaleAndy Petrella
A talk given at the BioBankCloud conference in Feb 2015 about distributed computing in the contexts of genomics and health.
In this one, we exposed what results we obtained exploring the 1000genomes data using ADAM, followed by an introduction to our scalable GA4GH server implementation built using ADAM, Apache Spark and Play Framework 2.
Skills India 2020 - Blue Book Companion WebsiteTeamForITI
Transforming ITIs to train streams of students into certified and qualified technicians poses significant challenges. To meet these challenges, Institute Management Committee (IMC), Principal and Staff deserve the best possible assistance. The Blue Book (“Unleashing Skilled India:Transforming ITI’s Together”) is a step towards providing such a resource for ITI governance and operations.Skills India 2020 is a web and e-mail facility that is meant to provide support for specific situations through special interest groups on ITI Governance, Upgradation and Operations.
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand have spend 12 months with Institute for Working Futures investigating and reappraising the capabilities required for a professional accountant in the future. This is a summary of their efforts.
On Tuesday 26th November 2013 in the heart of Birmingham ProgM SIG staged “Delivering more 4 less: using programme management to achieve transformational change in times of austerity." The SIG had promised an event that weaved together the four ‘C’s’ theme namely collaboration, change, community and competence, drawing on a wealth of experience from across the public sector. http://bit.ly/progmm4l
Merv Wyeth, ProgM Chair introduced the conference by describing how the event had been designed with the intention of providing delegates with a high return on their personal investment – i.e attendance and participation #eventroi. The big idea was that the day should be an enjoyable shared experience that offered an exceptional opportunity for learning, motivation and networking in the field of programme management.
Time and space was built into the programme to enable the audience to interrogate (police were present), and otherwise question, speakers. They were also given the opportunity to vote in polls on issues and questions that speakers posed, which offered additional insights into audience perception and sentiment which otherwise would not have been available.
The conference offered the chance for Jim Dale to provide a ‘sitrep’ on his ProgM-backed
Collaborative Change research namely “Using research to improve the delivery and effectiveness of change programmes and projects” previewed in last month’s show-case webinar. During his presentation Jim provided an update of the story so far, thanked those who had already participated either in an interview or by completing the survey. ProgM would like to extend the opportunity to all those currently, or previously, involved in programme management and related collaborative activity to participate in this important Collaborative Change survey.
On the day, Steve Wake, newly appointed Chair of APM Board, was available to round-up the proceedings and provide a special vote of thanks to his Board colleagues, the organising committee and our generous sponsors, BMT Hi-Q Sigma. He reminded those present of the ongoing Strategy 2020 initiative of “Listening, learning and leading” that complements events of this type.
One delegate (Neil White) wrote “A constant theme, running like a golden thread throughout the day, was that effective programme management is a necessary and complimentary bedfellow of collaboration, and an important ingredient in delivering successful transformational change.
Whereas projects are essentially objective and enable the effective development and delivery of ‘products’ (some of which are can be very big products!) it was recognised that programmes are much more subjective and must be sensitive to the environment in which they are operate.
Rather than see them as obstacles, programme managers must respect and be prepared to exploit the systems and organisations surrounding them to their mutual benefit.
BioBankCloud: Machine Learning on Genomics + GA4GH @ Med at ScaleAndy Petrella
A talk given at the BioBankCloud conference in Feb 2015 about distributed computing in the contexts of genomics and health.
In this one, we exposed what results we obtained exploring the 1000genomes data using ADAM, followed by an introduction to our scalable GA4GH server implementation built using ADAM, Apache Spark and Play Framework 2.
Navigating Uncertainty when Launching New Ideashopperomatic
Developing innovative products involves confronting a dizzying amount of uncertainty. Here's a talk from Thomson Reuter's Knowledge Worker Series from 1/21/15 on how to best navigate that uncertainty. Lessons gleaned from prod dev at NPR and through dozens of Techstars startups. More here: http://keithhopper.com/uncertainty
Understanding the Big Picture of e-ScienceAndrew Sallans
A. Sallans. "Understanding the Big Picture of e-Science." Presented at the 2011 eScience Bootcamp at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 4 March 2011
Our changing state: the realities of austerity and devolutionBrowne Jacobson LLP
One year on from our first roundtable and follow up report ‘The Path to Greater Regional Devolution’, the ‘devolution revolution’ has moved on considerably. Since February 2015 we have seen the Government’s Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill receive Royal Assent, a national programme of area-based reviews of post 16 education and training as part of the Government’s ‘skills devolution’ agenda and the announcement that Cornwall is to become the first rural authority in England to agree a devolution deal.
This period of unprecedented change raises a series of complex challenges, risks and concerns that demand further consideration, discussion and debate. Since the May 2015 General Election devolution deals with more than seven areas have been agreed so will local government structures become more confusing after devolution? What effect will this have on accountability? What conflicts will there be between the new combined authorities and existing local authority arrangements? What lessons can we learn from Welsh devolution? The Government has expressed a desire for greater fiscal devolution but is this realistic?
Chaired by Sir Paul Jenkins, the former Treasury Solicitor, our second roundtable on devolution discussed these issues and many more with local and central government leaders, policy influencers and stakeholders including Centre for Cities, Department for Transport, Grant Thornton, Lawyers in Local Government, LGiU, Local Government Ombudsman, Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue, Staffordshire County Council, The Department for Communities and Local Government, The Financial Times, The National Forest Company and The Welsh Government.
Our second report, Our Changing State: the Realities of Austerity and Devolution, summarises the key themes and thoughts that emerged from the roundtable and proposes a series of recommendations for further discussion and consideration by both local authorities and other key stakeholders as the country continues along the path towards even greater regional devolution.
https://www.brownejacobson.com/training-and-resources/resources/legal-updates/2016/04/the-realities-of-austerity-and-devolution
London Zoo is the world’s oldest scientific zoo, and it’s been open to the public since 1847. However, though 2015 saw a small uplift in visitor numbers, the zoo saw itself slip in the rankings in Visit England’s Annual Visitor Attractions survey last year.
So we got our heads together to try and come up with some ideas that could enhance the experience of visiting the zoo, to boost repeat visits as well as driving more customer recommendations.
Copywriter Liz Painter explains what you can do to improve your website and how that can lead to winning more clients. She talks through some of the most common mistakes business owners make on their websites and explain why it’s vitally important to create web copy that’s tailored to your target market.
This is the slide deck I submitted outlining my vision and priorities if I was to be successful and be selected President of IAIDQ. The content of this document was based on approximately 50 interviews with members, former members, former sponsors, and peer organisations and a detailed study of published research on issues in not-for-profit governance.
The board elected not to accept my candidacy.
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All about CS Profession: Excellence Independence Professional Ethics Quality Pavan Kumar Vijay
All about Company Secretaries (CS) Profession by Pavan Kumar Vijay (pkvijay), past President of ICSI: A catalyst in Corporate Growth, an extended arm of Government/ regulators, the conscience seeker,
The Digital Side Of Startup Ecosystem Development GEC 2018 istanbulGrow VC Group
The digital economy requires economic development and digital development to be understood and be operated closely together for ecosystem orchestration.
In this session, we explore how to unbundle and connect application silos, to build connectivity between applications to make valuable data to flow within and between ecosystems. What practical steps are required and who should be involved?
We explore learning from other industries to help imagine use and concepts of digital in ecosystem development and orchestration context and share our own key learnings of digital from several ecosystems around the world.
Many Asian creative firms are good at working hard for their clients but are weak at evolving their own business models. I shared our insights with Singapore creative firms from Architecture, Interior and Landscape on the 16th Sept at the National Design Centre of Singapore on how they can redesign their business models to sustain global expansion. Finally as a member of DBCS Business Connect, I shared ideas on how we can enhance collaboration among us.
I had the opportunity to address the Impact Session on “How to Grow & Manage Startups” organized by ICSI-NIRC on 17.2.2016. In my opening remarks I stated that we are incredibly excited about the Startup India Action Plan announced by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which is definitely going to motivate many young entrepreneurs to turn ideas into action and create more jobs opportunities in India. With faster registration of patents and protection for Intellectual Property rights, every entrepreneur would also be confident of reward for his innovation. Day is not far off when India may acquire from 3rd position to 1st position with largest number of start-ups globally.
Addressing the gathering I stated that a lot of businesses have entered the market these days to reach out to customer with different channels. The trust factor through offline shopping has been replaced with online shopping as it provides cheaper, economical and variety of things to buy. While starting up your own business, it is important to understand that how to manage the growth in the present and future context. Company Secretaries play a proactive role in guiding these startups by providing professional support ranging from business setup, documentation, compliances, accounting, payrolls, funding and many more that will help them to rise up to the challenges in the global economy.
The ICSI must rise to the occasion to encourage and foster its young, capable and talented members for their future splendor by Setting-up of incubation centers and provide them necessary support and hand-holding in their growth. It is good time to start chain programmes on Startups and greet the future that “WE ARE READY”.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Knowledge engineering: from people to machines and back
Icsi transformation 11-13 sept - agra
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21. Our target 1,00,000 Subscription for Chartered Secretary We can achieve this Say: 17000 Members X 6 Each = 1,02,000 Copies Thus helping ICSI in funding new research and development activities
22. Your One Minute a Day Translates into 365 Minutes a Year or 6 Hours a Year
23. 1,02,000 Hours of Quality Time 1,02,000 Hours of Knowledge Sharing 1,02,000 Hours of Mutual Care & Respect 1,02,000 Hours of Togetherness For 17,000 Strong ICSI, it is
24. Together we call this ICSI Parivar Members A Closely Knit Family of Professionals Students Human Resources
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