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31-may-2011: Getting Things Done
During this workshop, led by Bart Ramakers (DSM) at the headquarter of Medic (Utrecht) the participants discovered David Allen's powerful methods to vastly increase their personal organization, efficiency, and creative results. At work and in life.
"In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares his breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential. From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work and live, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down." (source: Getting Things Done - The art of stress-free productivity; Penguin Books; 2001).
Interested in the presentation and other material? Click here.



11-may-2011: Congratulations
On Wednesday May 11th we received the joyful message that we have nine new alumni:
  • Mark Arts MITM
  • Guillaume Frenken MITM
  • Duncan Jap Tjong MITM
  • Peter-Frank op den Buijs MITM
  • Herman Haandrikman MITM
  • Maarten van Leijenhorst MITM
  • Hans Spanjersberg MITM
  • Peter Kort MITM
  • Petra Saher MITM

Congratulations to you all! Hopefully we can welcome you soon within our Delft IT Management Association.

17-mar-2011: Cloud Computing
Content Management in the cloud and the traditional IT challenges
As companies deal with fast changing regulatory environments, rising security concerns, and struggle with a lack of accessibility to information across geographically distributed sites, both the business and IT sides are faced with the standard imperatives to improve efficiency, increase productivity and reduce costs. While both sides have differences in priorities and ways to achieve their goals, they all are confronted with the everlasting demand for doing more with less. In addition the volume of information and documents in corporate companies is constantly growing. According to Gartner, the trend is that enterprise data is expected to grow 650% over the next five years. More than 80% of this new data will be unstructured.
The growth of enterprise data, with the IT challenges to make information widely available while maintaining security and reducing costs, will be discussed in our next DITMA event as we present the governance and service delivery aspects of enterprise content management (ECM) in cloud environments.
The event was held on Thursday, March 17 from 14:30 to 17:30 at the CSC office Orteliuslaan 1004 in Utrecht. It consists of the following presentations:
1) Business in the driver seat as IT becomes a commodity
The governance aspects of content management as an enterprise application and a service
2) ECM in the cloud: New technology, new mistakes ?
The implementation of ECM from business case to service delivery
3) How to move to a cloud based ECM service
An example of the implementation of Google Apps in a corporate organisation.


15-feb-2011: Round Table on Enterprise Architecture
Last Round Table (15-Feb-2011) we discussed how to create buy-in for an “Enterprise Architecture (EA)” initiative for the various stakeholders and levels within the organization? What is Enterprise Architecture? Enterprise Architecture is the consistent set of rules and models that guides the design and implementation of processes, organizational structures, information, applications and technical infrastructure.
Issues that were discussed:
  • What level of strategic direction is required for defining and implementing an EA successfully?
  • How to create real, tangible objectives for an EA?
  • How to define the added value of implementing an EA for the various stakeholders and levels within the organization?
  • How to ‘operationalize’ an EA initiative and embed the deliverables into the ‘normal way of working’.
Problem presenter
Bas van den Heuvel is Business Process manager EMEA at Watts IndustriesEurope. He has 12 years experience in process optimization, process redesign and IT implementations and financial- and business control.

Bas van den Heuvel: "One of the major drivers for this round table discussion was: “how to create buy in for EA”. Within Watts Industries we struggle to get the EA initiative implemented within the company. Although the added value is very clear, not only within the IT department but also at board level, somehow it stays at a powerpoint level. Attending this round table discussion were people from a diverse group of companies with all a decent experience in EA.

Although some attendees’ companies completely embraced the EA initiative and have active departments to carry the initiative, the issue of getting buy in (albeit on a different level; i.e.. on project level isntead of board level) still exists.

The discussions we had were in my opinion very valuable as the attendess did explain what issues they ran into and what approach was taken to solve those issues. Not only these discussions gave a different viewpoint on possible approaches but also you get to hear what worked for what reason.

Evolvement from Watts problem to general discussion ensured that everybody, after drinks and bites, went home with quite some interesting food for thought. I definitely have picked up new ideas which will help us considerably in our goal to implement EA.

Again, thank you very much!"

8-dec-2010: Haal meer uit LinkedIn
Questions like "How can people find me on LinkedIn?, "How do I find a client, employer, employee?, "How to tempt a client, employer, professional to contact me?" were answered by this inspirational workshop of Mr. Bas Westland (http://www.epeople.nl/). If you are interested in his presentation, please send a mail to info@ditma.org with the subject 'Request presentation LinkedIn workshop'.
Some reactions of the participants:
"De workshop vond ik erg verhelderend qua inzicht wat een social media tool allemaal wel niet kan. Zowel vanuit het oogpunt van een recruiter als van iemand die een klant zoekt. Tevens word je er weer op gewezen/geconfronteerd welke indruk je op de buiten wereld maakt." (Eric van den Broek, CSC)
"Naast het feit dat het altijd leuk is je oud studiegenoten weer te treffen, was het een bijzonder geslaagde bijeenkomst. Het enthousiaste verhaal van Bas over LinkedIn hield ieder bij de les en heeft in ieder geval mij weer een hoop nieuwe inzichten gebracht. Ook het eten na afloop was heel gezellig en lekker. Dit soort bijeenkomsten heeft toegevoegde waarde en draagt bij aan een actieve community.

Ik ga vandaag weer verder met het verbeteren van mijn profiel en het ontdekken van de nieuwe mogelijkheden." (Guus Keizer, RDW)

17-Sep-2010: DITMA kick-off was a great success!
The kick-off held on September 17th was a great success. A very good start of the association.
See below the program of that meeting and a link to the presentations.
Delft IT Management Alumni Association Kick off Programme:
14.00 - Welcome
14.05 – Guest speaker Pieter Hasselaar (Bridgehead bv.): ‘Networking leads to a professional career’
14.30 – DITMA: ‘leading careers’
15.00 – Guest speaker Hans Rekers (Rekers Management & Consultancy): ‘Leadership in career development’
15.30 – Break
15.45 – Getting personal, slightly different
16.15 – Synedrion: ‘Peer supervision’
17.30 – Drinks
18.00 – Diner

Presentations:
  • DITMA Kick-Off (incl. Viktor Frankl-film)
  • Professionals Netwerken en Lobbyen - Pieter Hasselaar (in dutch)
  • Leading carreers - DITMA board Leadership in career development - Hans Rekers.
If you want to receive the presentations, please drop us an email: info@ditma.org with the subject 'Request presentations DITMA Kick-Off'.
If you want to become a member of DITMA, please drop us an email: info@ditma.org with the subject 'Request a DITMA application form'.
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