Publications | 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
• Commercial and HR guidance
• Document management
• Electronics manufacturing and design
• Financial services
• Government IT
• Legal
• 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
  

Commercial and HR guidance

• 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

Document management

• Document management concerns the whole board - A guide for all directors
• Supporting Papers
• Business Process Management with Document
• MoReQ what do we do now
• 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  
• The seduction of the species: The impact of social media on Enterprise Content Management
• Guidance for producing a paper destruction and disposal policy

Electronics manufacturing and design

• PCB Design Data Guide 

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 cheat sheets

• Cheat Sheet methods of dispute resolution (PDF 123KB) 
• 10 minute guide understanding limits and exclusions of liability (PDF 141KB, members only)
• Cheat Sheet CRC energy efficiency scheme (PDF 142KB, members only)
• Public procurement (PDF 138KB, members only)
• Data protection and outsourcing (PDF 146KB, members only)
• Limits of liability (PDF 133KB, members only)
• Patenting software (PDF 128KB, members only) 
• Service levels and service credits (PDF 118KB, members only)
• Reasonable endeavours doing your level best (PDF 118KB, members only)
• The role and responsibilities of the company director (PDF 70KB, members only)
• TUPE what does it mean? (PDF 78KB, members only)

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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