IT industry best practice ezine May 2003

May 2003 issue
- Saville Row Training
- Money, money, money

February 2003 issue
- The marketing function
- Selling IT in 2003

December 2002 issue
- A fistful of orders
- Planning for 2003
- Euroland & pricing

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e-Xpertise in Industry May 2003

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In this issue . . . .

Feature Article:	"Saville Row Training" Edwin Ecob looks at the Saville Row of industry training
Hot Topic:	Money, money, money The downturn in revenues from the engineering applications market continues says Nick Ballard while Allan Behrens discusses ways in which vendors can actually help their customers make money.
Book Review:	Key Management Ratios by Ciaron Walsh is reviewed by Allan Behrens - for those who want a better understanding of company accounts.

Quote for this issue
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." - Benjamin Disraeli

Notice board

Postscript to the Cambashi Seminar - Stopping the decline?

"We already know that 2003 will be tough" - our words in the last issue and, as if to prove the truth in these words, the effects of the economic climate combined with the War on Saddam forced us to postpone our seminar. But, because of the significant interest shown in the content of the seminar, we have repackaged this as a powerpoint presentation which is available by completing the Free Information form (the presentation is the first on the list) on the Cambashi website.

DTI/MANist

Cambashi partners with TUV to provide the MANist service on behalf of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. MANist helps UK organisations, interested in IT in manufacturing, win funding support from the European Commission's "Information Society Technologies" (IST) programme. IST is one component of "Framework Programme 6", which is a 4 year, 16.2 Billion euro programme to support Research and Technology Development.

Following the success of the Framework 6 IST Launch Event organised by UKISHELP and MANist in October 2002 another joint event is being run to discuss the objectives and challenges of the 2nd Call for proposals.

The event is being held on the 10th and 11th June at the Hertfordshire Moat House, UK and will include plenty of opportunities to hear from Commission Speakers, attend workshops and network with other proposers. A special Beginners Session will be run on the first day for less experienced proposers or those needing a brush-up before the weightier sessions on the second day which will go into the detail of the 2nd Call.

A Conference Dinner will also be held on the 10th June for delegates, speakers and exhibitors.

The 2nd IST Call under FP6 is anticipated to open on 17th June and close on 15th October 2003 and is expected to have a budget representing more than Euro 525m for IST.

DAC

The Design Automation Conference takes place in Anaheim, USA from 2nd to 6th June 2003.

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