Tag: Glyn Evans
New academic challenge for Corporate Director
Glyn Evans, Corporate Director of Business Change at Birmingham City Council, is to leave his post on July 1. He initiated and has overseen the council's ambitious business transformation programme, launched in 2006. The ambitious programme set out to save £1 billion over a ten-year period whilst at the same time significantly improving the services […]
Glyn Evans named new Socitm President
Glyn Evans, Corporate Director of Business Change for Birmingham City Council has been confirmed as the new president of Socitm - The Society of Information Technology Management. Glyn has been a member of Socitm for over 20 years. Prior to becoming President Glyn’s involvement with Socitm has included Chair of the policy group, Socitm Futures […]
Business Transformation – first five years
Although only just five-years-old, Birmingham City Council's ambitious Business Transformation scheme has given the authority and its citizens much to celebrate. Launched in 2006 and supported by Service Birmingham - a joint venture between the council and Capita - the scheme is firmly on course to realise £1billion of savings over ten years. At the […]
Websites and savings
An article in the Birmingham Post today reports that £6million of lost savings are due to the delayed launch of the council’s new corporate website, which went live last month. Glyn Evans, the council’s Corporate Director of Business Change, addresses the points made in the piece… The report contains two fundamental inaccuracies. First, the website […]
New website - reflecting on responses
Glyn Evans, Birmingham City Council’s Corporate Director of Business Change, reflects on the response to the council’s revamped website www.birmingham.gov.uk There is interesting coverage on the Birmingham Post website following the launch of our new website. Let's be clear. I'm not claiming that the new website is the finished article. Indeed, I don't think a […]
Launch of city council website
Glyn Evans, Birmingham City Council’s Corporate Director of Business Change, comments on today’s launch of the council’s new corporate website www.birmingham.gov.uk Well, we've finally made it. Almost four years since the decision was made to replace our web technology, the new website went live this morning. It's certainly been a long haul. During that time […]
Website improvement worth the wait
Glyn Evans, Birmingham City Council’s Corporate Director for Business Change, has responded to reports about “teething troubles” experienced during the development of Birmingham City Council’s new official website. He said: “During the migration, where the pages are moved from the old council website to the new .gov website, a bug in the process meant that […]
Recognition for Business Change boss
Glyn Evans, Birmingham City Councils Corporate Director of Business Change, has been named in a prestigious list of the UKs top 50 business and technology executives. The annual silicon.com CIO50 is shaped by the UK’s top business and technology executives voting for their CIO (Chief Information Officer) peers on the basis of their performance during […]
Putting customers first
Glyn Evans, Birmingham City Council’s Corporate Director of Business Change, has spoken about the vision behind the Customer First Business Transformation programme. As one of nine workstreams which make up the council’s ambitious Business Transformation programme, Customer First will help deliver a range of improvements giving residents world-class standards of customer service. As part of […]
