PICTURE

An Instrument to Provide ICT Investment Strategies for European Public Administrations

Workshops

• Evaluation Workshop - Winterthur (Switzerland) July 12, 2008
  Workshop for evaluation of the PICTURE methodology and tool.
  
  
• Polish Municipalities Workshop - Spała (Poland) June 20, 2008
  In the workshop participated 12 representatives from two different municipalities: 8  people from City of Lodz and 4 people from City of Zgierz.
  The event was divided into three main sessions:
  1. The first part was devoted to a general introductory lecture and to answering the most general questions;
  2. The second part  was devoted to presentation of the tool, individual discussions with participants and realisation of their practical tasks;
  3. The third part was devoted to the fulfilment of questionnaires, preceded by a debate on specific matters.
  All opinion and suggestions collected during the workshop were then considered as a very valuable material for the further improvements of the tool.
  
  
• VPS (Virtual Post Office) and E-Government - Münster (Germany) June 11, 2008
  During a Roadshow (EGOV-Day) for KAAW (www.kaaw.de) (group of 25 municipalities located in the province of North Rhine-Westphalia) the PICTURE Project was presented to attendants who were interested in wide sections of PICTURE and the related project. They were informed about the possibility to benefit from the PICTURE-results.
  
  
• MEMO 2008 - Muenster (Germany) June 4- 5, 2008
  MEMO 2007 - Muenster (Germany) May 23-24, 2007
  MEMO 2006 - Muenster (Germany) May 31 – June 1, 2006
  The MEMO-Conference is a local event hosted by ERCIS. In 2006 and 2007 it was organized together with “Informationsbüro dNRW” a federal state-located eGovernment initiative with was funded by the European Commission. In 2008 the MEMO-Conference was organized together with “Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund” an umbrella group of german municipalities.
  The MEMO was initiated to address the increasing demand of public administrations in the field of eGovernment and reorganization concepts. While defining the topics of the conference, fair and presentation programme we always had in mind that methods and tools were presented which directly can be used by the public administrations. So it was a necessary condition for a presentation that a tool or  method was presented from to people, the developer on the one side and one user from a public administration on the other side.
  PICTURE was presented on every MEMO-conference. In the first year it was presented by our own in a separate presentation as we were at the beginning of the project. Around 40 people were attending the presentation. In 2007 a workshop integrated in the programme of MEMO was organized and held by ERCIS and SAP where we discussed the features of PICTURE methodology and the possibilities and potentials of PICTURE for process analysis. Around 25 people were attending the 3 hours workshop In 2008, PICTURE and an implementation of PICTURE was presented so that the users can see the working methodology. Around 60 people were attending the presentation of PICTURE in 2008.
  
  
• COM – citeq – Zentralausschuss - Münster (Germany) May 29, 2008
  Report on continuation and development of the PICTURE project.
  
  
• E-Government-Roadshow - Münster (Germany) May 15, 2008
  During this event for the KAI (www.kai-gruppe.de), a group of 39 municipalities located in the northern part of Germany citeq took the opportunity to inform about the PICTURE Project, especially about the idea, the method and the content of process building blocks.
  Citeq informed about process modeling with PICTURE, the impact measurement and about possibilities of evaluation of processes related to the predefined goals. The attendants will be kept up-to-date concerning the PICTURE project and the PICTURE results.
  
  
• Modeling Standards - Dortmund, (Germany) May 8, 2008
  Interested groups of KDV*-members discussed about modeling standards and verification of functional realization. At this meeting questions and feasible problems concerning standards, comparability of processes and the functional realization were evaluated.Results and experiences of the project up to now were delivered.
  
  
• COM – citeq – Arbeitsausschuss - Münster (Germany) April 16, 2008
  Report on continuation and development of the PICTURE project
  
  
• Local Government Workshop - Schneverdingen (Germany) April 2, 2008
  Presentation at the local government working group.
  
  
• Workshop for local domain experts - Bad Fallingbostel (Germany) April 2, 2008
  Workshop for the evaluation of the PICTURE modelling methodology and prototype, with domain experts.
  
  
• CeBIT 2008 - Hannover (Germany) March 4-9, 2008
  CeBIT 2007 - Hannover (Germany) March 15-21, 2007
  CeBIT 2006 - Hannover (Germany) March 9-15, 2006
  ERCIS is present on CeBIT –biggest IT-related fairs in Germany -  since more than 5 years. Since the PICTURE-project is running, PICTURE is one central exhibit on our booth. Besides that in every year since 2006 ERCIS (in 2006 together with SAP) has held a PICTURE presentation in a forum series.
  
  
• COM – citeq – Zentralausschuss - Münster (Germany) November 8, 2007
  Besides the “Working Group” (www.citeq.de) the citeq management reports regularly to another council, the “Central Board” of the citeq. The members are the mayors or their deputies of more than 30 municipalities in the county of Münsterland. According to the periodical meeting the results, the state of work and application opportunities of the PICTURE project were reported to the decision makers. They are especially interested in those areas of PICTURE, which support reorganizing the processes. Joining the project evaluation is actually not possible for interested members, because they have a lack in resources especially in staff. Nonetheless they want to be informed furthermore about PICTURE and about an user convenient, productive tool in the field of PICTURE application.
  
  
• COM – citeq – Arbeitsausschuss - Münster (Germany) October 10, 2007
  The citeq management reports periodically to the “citeq Working Group” (www.citeq.de) about the state of work and application opportunities. The members of this commission are the ICT representatives or IT co-ordinators of citeq customers of more than 30 municipalities in the county of Münsterland. Within the regularly terms the members were informed about the PICTURE project, the PICTURE idea and method and about the interim results. Discussions about details for instance like the Process Building Blocks, requirements to visualization of recorded processes etc. show the deep interest of the members. Most of the members are interested in process modeling, best practice processes and in support for the ICT decision process. They consider a practical, target-aimedtool as an important aspect concerning the realization of the PICTURE ideas.
  
  
• KomCom NRW - Essen (Germany) September 18-19, 2007
  KomCom is a series of fairs in different regions of Germany. Every year about 4 to 5 KomCom-events were held (KomCom Bavaria, North, East, NRW, and South). In 2007 ERCIS had an own booth at KomCom NRW in Essen. On the fair there is a combination of booths, workshops series and presentations. Beside the booth, we held two presentations to topics related to PICTURE (one dedicated PICTURE presentation, one presentation about the integration of Line of Business applications and how a methodology like PICTURE can support this). The fairs are mainly attended by local administrations staff which searching for new technologies for their daily business.
  
  
• Citeq Information Day - Münster (Germany) September 10, 2007
  At the citeq Information Day (open day) the customers of the citeq were informed about PICTURE and the PICTURE idea. Talks were held about a collective project evaluation.The City of Hamm indicated interest modeling processes with PICTURE in selected areas.
  
  
• KDV NRW Meeting (Steering Committee) - Bochum (Germany)  February 12, 2007
  A lecture about the PICTURE project was held and about its progress was reported to process interested members. Especially the aspects of PICTURE and the PICTURE idea were discussed focussing on generating a central process register and enabling the comparability of processes.
  
  
• KDV NRW Meeting (Steering Committee) - Bochum (Germany)  October 23, 2006
  The competence center digital administration (Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Verwaltung NRW, KDV NRW) was founded as a common institution of the counties and municipalities of NRW The intention is to initialize common E-Government projects of the counties and municipalities and the promotion of inter-municipality collaboration The inter-municipality collaboration in shared-services shall be enabled. The KDV NRW is no scientific or academic institution, but a coordination- and developmental center for E-Government from and for the municipal practice. During a recurrent meeting the Picture idea was presented to members of management group of the KDV, which are involved and interested in process modeling. Many of the attendants were deeply interested in information about the project and the corresponding activities. The aspects of PICTURE will be considered for the further work.
  
  
• PICTURE (Workshop) - Hagen (Germany)  June 12, 2006
  As arranged in former workshops the method for process modeling with PICTURE, new methodical requirements, analysis objectives / attributes and key performance indicators, effort and benefits of process modeling with PICTURE were discussed. Some processes of the city were respectively analyzed and approached for process modeling with PICTURE. The contribution at the evaluation of PICTURE by the City of Hagen was arranged.
  
  
• PICTURE (Workshop) - Hagen (Germany)  May 26, 2006
  Based on a previous workshop and former contacts with some interested parties of the City of Hagen coherencies of the project, the PICTURE Idea and PICTURE approach were presented to a greater number of attendants at the City of Hagen and its ICT Service Provider HABIT. Some municipal domains manifest their intention to face up to the projectwithin additional workshops.
  
  
• PICTURE (Workshop) - Germany February 15-16, 2006
  ERCIS and citeq presented PICTURE to local ICT service providers, 3 municipalities (Hagen, Dortmund, Mühlheim) and experts regarding distributed modeling from an industrial perspective (Challenge the idea). The interested cities were continuously informed about the progress and the actual evolutions of the project. This contacts led onto further workshops with the City of Hagen and its ICT Service Provider.

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