Business Guidance

Business guidance publications offer practical advice on issues ranging from marketing audits to data protection legislation. Please note that Intellect papers do not cover all aspects of the IT industry.

The following areas covered are:

• Business continuity and information security
• Document management
• Electronics manufacturing and design: IPC Standards
• Financial services
• Government IT
• Legal, commercial and HR guidance
• Marketing
• Outsourcing
• Print
• Professionalism
• Quality 
• Reliability
• Satellite navigation  
• Security and privacy 
• Software
  

Business continuity and information security

• AEB Web Security Guidelines
• Guidelines for creating effective information security policies
• Implementing a business continuity programme

Document management

• Document management concerns the whole board - A guide for all directors
• Supporting Papers
• Implementing document management – recommended practices and lessons learned
• An approach to maximising your investment
• Collaborative Working Environments
• Safeguarding information, reputation and corporate productivity - a guide for information governance
• Addressing information risk and compliance
• Why the format of office documents matters to your business
• Document management for SMEs 
• Migration a hidden danger lying in wait 
  

Electronics manufacturing and design: IPC Standards

• PCB Design Data Guide 
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Financial services

• Coping with the Sea Change in Financial Services Wrought by Basel II
• Sources of finance

Government IT

• Buying Solutions User Guide
• Freedom of Information Act – Guidance for Suppliers
• Getting IT Right for Government Report
• Intellect Contracting Best Practice - Guidance for Suppliers
• IT Supplier Code of Best Practice Guidelines

Legal, commercial and HR guidance

• The role and responsibilities of the company director (PDF 70KB, members only)
• TUPE what does it mean? (PDF 78KB, members only)
• Service levels and service credits (PDF 118KB, members only)
• Reasonable endeavours doing your level best (PDF 118KB, members only)
• Data protection and outsourcing (PDF 146KB, members only)
• A checklist to achieve data protection compliance 
• A guide to tax efficient rewards for staff, directors and shareholders 
• Contract and Commercial Guidelines 
• eCommerce and the law: A checklist of activities to achieve full compliance
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• Growing a business in China
• Guidelines for selecting business partners  
• Mediation: frequently asked questions 
• Setting up and Managing an Overseas Operation 
• The hidden legal dangers of using e-mail
• Website content and the law

Marketing

• Data Protection checklist for marketing professionals
• Guidelines for computing services and software marketing
• Guidelines for effective exhibiting
• Guidelines on the effective use of public relations
• Marketing audits for computing software and IT service companies
• Marketing under the privacy and electronic communications regulations 2003
• The effective use of market research for IT companies

Outsourcing

• An introduction to IT outsourcing
• Expectations versus reality in outsourcing
• Human Resource Issues in IT Outsourcing
• IT - inhouse or outsource - the real costs
• IT Outsourcing Agreements
• Working successfully with IT consultants 

Print

• Managed Print Services: A Business Tool for the Information Age

Professionalism

• Organisational Professionalism Guidelines

Quality  

• Future of quality in IT
• Quality Practice Guidelines

Reliability

• Reliability: A practioners guide

Satellite navigation

• Satellite navigation - myths and answers

Security and privacy

• Intellect Data Security and Data Protection Guidelines for Offshoring and Outsourcing

Software

• Creating Management Excellence
• Software Testing Code of Best Practice
• Patents and the Software Industry
• Going International for Software and Services SMEs
• Software product pricing

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