Leadership and strategy

It is a charity’s leaders, both executive and voluntary, that decide and deliver the direction of work for the organisation.  The trustee board is tasked with setting the strategy, and the executive team is tasked with delivering it.  Strong, effective leadership is crucial to the success of any civil society organisation.

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Time management: execute with excellence
Blogs

Time management: execute with excellence

Finance | John Tate | 2 Feb 2012
Tags: Human resources | IT strategy and management | Leadership and strategy | Communications

Allocating time appropriately between strategy and operations is, says John Tate, the key to business success.

Peter Heather, CCITG chair and head of IT and systems at Wateraid
News

CCITDG elects new chairman

IT | Kirsty Weakley | 26 Oct 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

Peter Heather has been elected the new chairman of the Charities Consortium of IT Directors Group, announced at the organisation’s annual conference earlier this month.

Ian Theodoreson, CFDG chair
News

Theodoreson elected as new CFDG chair

Governance | Andrew Hind | 7 Sep 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Chairs | Recruitment | Human resources

CFDG trustees yesterday voted in Ian Theodoreson as the group’s new chair, succeeding Charles Nall who had served in the role for the last four years.

VSO in Cambodia
News

VSO to slash overheads by a third 1

Finance | Tania Mason | 1 Sep 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | IT strategy and management | Sustainability | Statutory funding | Funding | Costs

VSO is preparing to reduce its administrative costs by 30 per cent as it seeks ways to mitigate the effects of a drop in funding from the Department for International Development of 12 per cent over the next three years.



Sir Nicholas Young
Awards news

Sir Nicholas Young joins select group of Outstanding Leaders

Awards | Tania Mason | 10 Jun 2011
Tags: Charity Awards | Leadership and strategy

Sir Nicholas Young, chief executive of the British Red Cross, was unveiled as this year’s winner of the Outstanding Leadership Award at the Charity Awards in London last night.

Bullying UK merges with Parentline Plus
News

Bullying UK merges with Parentline Plus

Governance | Gareth Jones | 16 Nov 2010
Tags: Mergers | Social networking | Leadership and strategy

Bullying UK has agreed a merger with Parentline Plus, after the online bullying advice charity ran into financial difficulties.

Jenny Searle on representing IT on the Leonard Cheshire board
Interviews

Jenny Searle on representing IT on the Leonard Cheshire board

IT | Gareth Jones | 1 Mar 2010
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Trustee boards

Leonard Cheshire Disability vice-chair and IT specialist Jenny Searle talks to Gareth Jones about the charity’s IT plans and her role as an IT expert on the board

GuideStar loses another director
News

GuideStar loses another director

Governance | Tania Mason | 16 Dec 2009
Tags: Human resources | Leadership and strategy

GuideStar UK director Les Hems has left the organisation to take up a new role as director of research at the Centre for Social Impact in Sydney, Australia.

Fresh ideas on the management of IT
Expert advice

Fresh ideas on the management of IT

IT | Kate Sayer | 27 Nov 2009
Tags: Leadership and strategy

Management thinking has provided us with new and different ways to handle organisational change and managing people. This article considers the impact this thinking has on the management of IT and looks at a specific example of procuring new systems.

GuideStar restructure sees Les Hems promoted to director
News

GuideStar restructure sees Les Hems promoted to director 1

Governance | Tania Mason | 29 Sep 2009
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Human resources | Recruitment

GuideStar International has integrated its free website GuideStar UK and its Data Services trading subsidiary and appointed Les Hems, formerly director of third sector data and analysis at GuideStar Data Services CIC, as director of the combined programme.

Winning over the board
In-depth

Winning over the board

IT | Kate Sayer | 1 Jun 2008
Tags: Trustee boards | Budgeting | Leadership and strategy

Kate Sayer offers advice on how to convince your board to stump up for investment in IT.

GuideStar UK and Civil Society Systems announce merger
News

GuideStar UK and Civil Society Systems announce merger

Finance | Ian Allsop | 24 Jan 2008
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Mergers | Accountability and transparency

Guidestar UK and Civil Society Systems have announced they will merge to become GuideStar International, following a £3m grant from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

BCP: the risk vaccine
Strategy

BCP: the risk vaccine

Governance | Kieran McDonagh | 1 Nov 2007
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Spending Cuts and Recession | Risk and crisis management | IT strategy and management

How can you be sure that your charity could survive a crisis, asks Kieran McDonagh.

Conference calls
Blogs

Conference calls

IT | John Tate | 1 Nov 2006
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Recruitment | IT strategy and management | Websites | Web technologies

John Tate asks, do different sized organisations have common IT issues?

Benchlearning presses
In-depth

Benchlearning presses

Finance | Kate Sayer | 1 Oct 2006
Tags: IT strategy and management | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software | Benchmarking | Leadership and strategy | Accounting software

Key findings from Sayer Vincent's latest IS benchlearning report.

IT new business wins November 2004
News

IT new business wins November 2004

IT | Gareth Jones | 1 Nov 2004
Tags: Leadership and strategy | IT strategy and management

Forward planning maintains and improves the health of the organisation. Gareth Jones looks into two charities who have recently adopted software to assist them in this endeavour.

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