PROJECTS

Cura and its associated consultants have undertaken and contributed to a range of projects for national and international organisations both in the UK and abroad, a sample of which is provided here.

For further information on any of these (subject to client confidence) please contact curacon@o2.co.uk

Cultural/ Heritage

• British Waterways: Requirements specification and supplier selection methodology for internet-based access to archives

• National Library for Wales: Requirements definition for Department of Manuscripts as part of an on-going IS/IT strategy

Energy

• Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company: Technical documentation review to assess and improve integrity across operating divisions

• Bitech Petroleum: Requirements specification for electronic document management system (EDMS) for Russian-based exploration business

• Brasoil: Project Management of electronic document management system (EDMS). Then information systems strategy for merging of company's operations with Petrobras

• Ciba Geigy: Engineering documentation review and handover procedures for project documentation

• Global Marine: Implications of Cullen report on Piper Alpha disaster

• Mobil: Requirements for maintenance manuals and rectification of deficiencies. Auto-identification technology for equipment tagging

• Petrobras: Survey of strategic electronic document management (EDMS) products and full text retrieval for the company's Brazilian head office

• Qatar General Petroleum: Review of technical documentation and data policy and procedures including provision of records retention schedule

• Qatar Liquefied Gas Company: Establishing, as part of a team, a corporate IS/IT strategy for this start-up company

• Shell: Strategy for documentation and engineering systems handover

• Total: Review of technical documentation arrangements. "Quality assurance" of an invitation to tender, selection of tenderers, choice of supplier and acceptance criteria

Finance

• 3iplc: Audit of y2k and European Monetary Union (EMU) projects

Government- UK

• A UK Government Security Agency: Information management study including the move to electronic records management (ERM) and the production of an information management policy
  

• British Tourist Authority: Undertaking, as part of a team, an information requirements and use study

• Central Council for Education & Training in Social Work: Records management study for central and regional offices
  
  
• Department of Constitutional Affairs: A study of paper file and handling requirements relating to judicial post holders following implementation of the Constitutional Reform Act

• Department Environment, Transport & Regions: Solutions options paper (covering electronic document management (EDMS) and forms management products) for replacing current project management system

• Electoral Commission: Formulation of an information and knowledge management strategy and implementation plan and subsequent production of associated policy and records management guidance including a file plan and retention schedules
  

• Highways Agency: Structuring procedures manuals for network and web-based access using Adobe Acrobat

• Home Office - Criminal Justice IT Unit: Data standards business analysis for various projects involving logical data modelling using uml
  

• Inland Revenue: Undertaking, as part of a team, technology, supplier and user review for electronic document management (EDMS), full text retrieval and text publishing

• National Archives, The:  Design and implementation of statistical sampling for quality assessment of scanned images and transcribed data
  
  
• National Archives, The: Range of project support for their electronic records management project including business analysis, project assurance and production of requirements specification, tender document, business case and change management following implementation of Objective Corporation's product
  
  
• National Asylum Seekers Support: Overview of smart-card technology
  
  
• National Audit Office: Undertaking, as part of team, gap-analysis review of the NAO's central Information Unit services
  
  
• Office of Government Commerce: Project management of initial stage including production of information management strategy, policy, requirements specification, communication and awareness plan and training plan
  
  
• Social Care Councils in the UK: Production of information management policy for care registration and conduct for the 4 country Councils
  
  
• Treasury Solicitors: Project assurance for their electronic records management project leading to implementation using OpenText R/KYV product
  
  
• Treasury Solicitors: Paper archives options study in the light of the the Department's planned move to a new building

• Treasury Solicitors: Project management guidance for financial system upgrade
  

• Treasury Solicitors: Information architect for analysis, specification, procurement and implementation of a legal case management and electronic document and records management system for litigation department based on Autonomy IRM, Interwoven Worksite and fwbs Matter Centre CMS products
  

Government - Overseas

• EEC-ASEAN Standards Information Study: 6-country review of standards information services and potential for networking amongst the various standards bodies. Development of data dictionary for standards information databases
  
  
• Romanian Standards Organisation: Survey of information systems identifying shortfalls and recommending a corrective programme
  
  
• Russian and Ukranian Standards Organisation: Guidance on information technology to support their standard information databases
  
  
• Saudi Arabian Standards Organisation: Review of the standards information services and assessment of their standards database design
  

International

• International Atomic Energy Agency: Undertaking, as part of team, review of current use and future requirements for full text retrieval
  
  
• Tobacco Documentation Centre: Undertaking, as part of team, information Audit of the tobacco industry's central information organisation

Local Government

• Dorset: Production of a records management model including policy, file plan, retention schedules and action plans  for authority partners
  
  
• Hertsmere: Records management study of Planning Department to review and design improvements in procedures and work flow

• Tynedale: Benchmarking current records management practice, undertaking a gap analysis against government requirements, producing an improvement plan and associated deliverables including an Information Management Policy, file plan and retention schedules.

Transport

• Railtrack: Requirements specification for strategic electronic document management system (EDMS). Project management from supplier selection to full implementation for EDMS on major infrastructure and associated projects. Undertaking corporate strategy study for EDMS
  
  
• Railway Safetey and Standards Board: Study to provide vision and programme for developing their information management initiatives for making railway safety research available to stakeholders via their internet site
  
  
• Traffic Director for London: Feasibility study for using document imaging in conjunction with a Geographical Information system
  
  
• HSBC Rail: Advice and project management for web-based document management (EDMS) with full text retrieval (FTR) for engineering standards and documentation. Advising on development of corporate approach to asset management

Utilities

• Seeboard: Managing a range of infrastructure projects including secure remote access, remote stores data capture and customer information systems
  
  

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