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BuyIT undertakes the identification and promotion of best practice under two linked, as illustrated below.

BuyIT e-Business Programme
A guideline: Succeeding in the Networked Economy: The CEO's Framework for e-Business launched in 2002 by Douglas Alexander MP, Minister of State for eCommerce and Competitveness, with a foreword by Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, e-Minister in Cabinet.

This plain-English guide provides a framework for CEO's and their management teams to repsond effectively to e-Business. The key issues to address are indentified under four headings:

• e-Strategy and Direction - tying the threats and opportunities of e-Business to the business's aims and needs.
• Relationships and Communities - coping with the changes demanded by e-Business in the trust-model between a company and it's stakeholders.
• Information and Communications - harnessing the communication mechanisms to improve, enrich, change and deepen relationships with key stakeholders.
• Process and Culture - managing the significant mindset changes at the top of an organisation to accommodate and adapt.

The guide offers an agenda to help the CEO identify those issues warranting greater investigation and simple tools to investigate the opportunities for e-Business. The guide will be available on the BuyIT website from 11 April 2003: www.buyitnet.org and also, in a version written for SMEs, on the UK Online for Business website, www.ukonline.gov.uk.

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Supports Government Programmes

Gershon Efficiency Review - BuyIT members with Capgemini are engaged in a study on how the BuyIT Framework for e-Government can support delivery of Gershon targets in local government.

Local e-Gov National Projects - BuyIT act as strategic advisors and project office for the National Projects Communication Programme, the National e-Procurement and ENCORE Projects.

BuyIT e-Procurement Programme
The BuyIT e-Procurement programme was set up in June 2000 with the backing of the Government's e-Envoy.

The programme is aimed at top private and public sector organisations to help them share experience and accelerate the take-up of e-procurement. The programme includes facilitated dialogue events and research and guidelines development activities, generating member consensus and publication of high-level guidelines.

Experience Sharing Group
An active meetings programme for senior executives from major early adopter organisations across industry and the public sector to exchange information and benchmark their e-procurement programmes. Members have confirmed the value of this independent, cross-sector network which enables them to gain practical market insights and early warning of pitfalls and opportunities.

e-Procurement Guidelines
The objective is to publish a comprehensive suite of guidance material for Board level managers addressing the key issues for companies embarking on e-procurement - and their suppliers - to address. Patricia Hewitt launched the first e-Procurement guideline: Building the business case for e-procurement which has had over 10,000 copies downloaded from the BuyIT website.

For more information about any aspect of the BuyIT programme please contact our Business Development Manager, Peter Norman.

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