http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/The latest information fontisen-usSun, 20 May 2012 00:49:49 GMTSun, 20 May 2012 00:49:49 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssDesign Militia (www.designmilitia.co.uk) RSS Generator 1.1admin@fontis.com (Admin)admin@fontis.com (Admin)http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Sales_go_well_Writing_Business_Processes_book_by_Richard_Gandon/First released in May 2011 this book describes a thorough and methodical approach from making the decision to document, to reviewing, capturing, documenting, sharing and embedding repeatable processes and procedures into organisations. It finishes with setting, measuring and reporting against process performance targets, with guidance on process improvement, and finally recommendations on how to maintain and keep...Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Sales_go_well_Writing_Business_Processes_book_by_Richard_Gandon/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Ofgem_telecoms_audit/Stephen Perry, Policy Analyst at Ofgem has provided CAS with a highly complimentary testimonial in respect to an audit and subsequent report carried out by CAS on the energy companies'telephone services. Ofgem would recommend the services of CAS to other organisations seeking audit and cost saving initiatives to reduce their telecoms spend.Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Ofgem_telecoms_audit/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_Quality_System/We are pleased to announce that CAS has retained its ISO;9001 quality management accreditation for a further year. A lot of hard work and effort went into not only maintaining the standard but enhancing it further thus adding extra benefit to our clients and CAS alike. Well done to all concerned.Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_Quality_System/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_Director_resigns/It is with regret that we must advise of the resignation of Mic Laird as CAS Operations Director as of the 31st May 2011. Mic has been with CAS since October 1997 and has performed valued service particularly in respect to the attainment of much ‘behind the scenes’ effort particularly with the CAS trademark logo, the current website and more recently the accreditation of the ISO 9001 Quality...Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_Director_resigns/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_achieve_excellent_feedback_within_ISO_9001/ As part of its on-going improvement process within the ISO 9001 CAS asks the client to feedback on any assignment. North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust - NEPFT have been a client for some time and for whom CAS has completed a number of assignments. The most recent being a hardware audit with Cisco/UPS refresh and the transfer/upgrading of Medical records. We are pleased to announce that in both cases...Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_achieve_excellent_feedback_within_ISO_9001/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Very_Important_Information_we_have_moved/After more than 30 years continued business presence in Kent - Sevenoaks and then Westerham we have finally moved! Having looked long and hard at our mode of operation we have found that firstly the office was seldom used and when it was for the majority of consultants it involved excessive commitment in terms of time and travel. Indeed much effort was, as now,  conducted from respective...Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Very_Important_Information_we_have_moved/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Writing_Business_Processes_A_practical_approach/ This book describes a thorough and methodical approach from making the decision to document, to reviewing, capturing, documenting, sharing and embedding repeatable processes and procedures into organisations. It finishes with setting, measuring and reporting against process performance targets, with guidance on process improvement, and finally recommendations on how to maintain and keep processes up-to-date...Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Writing_Business_Processes_A_practical_approach/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/We_did_it____ISO_90012008/We are pleased to advise that all our long, hard work has been rewarded. We, CAS have been recommended for full accreditation to ISO 9001:2008 - a status that will benefit both our clients and CAS alike. We now await the confirmation before proudly displaying the coveted logo.Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/We_did_it____ISO_90012008/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Ready_and_fit_to_go/Our ISO 9001:2008 pre-audit was conducted on the 27th August and we sailed through with flying colours. We now await the actual assessment on the 13th September when it is hoped we reach our goal.Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Ready_and_fit_to_go/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_goes_for_ISO_9001/We are pleased to announce that after some delay we are now ready for our ISO 9001 accreditation assessment. On the 27th August we have our pre, shakedown assessment where any last wrinkles can be ironed out ahead of the actual assessment on the 13th September. The whole process has been a valuable learning experince but one that confirmed for us that many of the steps involved where already in place, requiring...Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_goes_for_ISO_9001/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_supports_Help_the_Heroes_Charity/CAS - Communications Advisory Service will sponsor the Two Fat Submariners cycling jerseys for the Lands End to John O’ Groats cycle ride. CAS which has offices in the UK and US is an independent consultancy for telecommunications and IT.   Barry Bishop one of the Two Fat Submariners said “CAS are one of the premier advisors for IT and Telecoms in the energy and finance sector both...Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_supports_Help_the_Heroes_Charity/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Consultant_gains_further_training_accreditation/We are pleased to announce that Richard Gandon has successfully passed the OGC Managing Successful Programmes MSP examination earlier this month. Richard heads up our team offering business process design capabilities as part of our ever broadening portfolio of services. For further details contact us on 01959 562212 or via office@c-a-s.co.ukMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Consultant_gains_further_training_accreditation/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Quality_System/CAS are pleased to announce that following an intense period of activity, review and deliberation our ISO 9001 Quality System is up and running on our web portal. Supported by Equas and their ISOinaBox product set we can now settle in the processes with an intended accreditation assessment in May 2010.Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Quality_System/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_Consultant_finishes_book/We are pleased and proud to announce that Richard Gandon - Principal Consultant with CAS has completed the draft of his book - Writing Business Processes 'A Practical Approach' and it is currently being proof read. Richard has based his work upon his extensive and expert knowledge gained working for an array of international and household brand names including BT, Vodafone and Telstra. More...Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_Consultant_finishes_book/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Independent_Review_Service_IRS/CAS have been awarded a consultancy role by the IRS from their Birmingham office in reviewing the current operations and systems that support the organisations activities in call handling and to make that process more effective.Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Independent_Review_Service_IRS/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/New_Billing_and_Audit_Services/Using newly acquired software CAS are now better able to cope with the demands and to speed up a clients request for telephony billing and audit surveys such as might reduce immediate and long term expenditure for lines and paid minutes. This is particularly important with the constraints on spending within the public sector - local government and the NHS. The software also facilitates the creation of an accurate...Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/New_Billing_and_Audit_Services/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/HOT_OFF_THE_PRESS/We are pleased to announce that Richard Gandon has this morning been advised that he passed the exam and is now a PRINCE2 Practitioner - the latest of the CAS team to achieve this accolade. Well done Richard.Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/HOT_OFF_THE_PRESS/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Kent_website_design/We are pleased to announce that CAS has been selected to provide website development services to SME's in NE Kent. Following some intense activity over the New Year period a pre qualification questionnaire was submitted and accepted by Canterbury City Council. This is to support their initiative of offering a centrally organised service for local businesses in the...Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Kent_website_design/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/PRINCE2_2009_1/We are pleased to announce that Richard Gandon and Mic Laird have succesfully completed and passed the PRINCE2 Foundation course and will now progress the Practitioner level.Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/PRINCE2_2009_1/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/New_Year_Greetings/CAS would like to wish all existing clients, potential clients and those visiting our website a very Happy and hopefully Prosperous New Year. Should you require further or additional information then please contact us on 01959 562212 or office@c-a-s.co.uk where we will be pleased to answer your questions.Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/New_Year_Greetings/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_win_further_NHS_work/CAS has been awarded a futher ange of ICT related consultancy briefs with NHS Trusts in Essex as result of previous succesful projects relating to the demise of the COIN and consolidation of network infrastructure and housekeeping. For more details contact our office on 01959 562212 where we would be pleased to talk to you, advise on what we have been doing and to offer our services for any ICT relocation or...Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_win_further_NHS_work/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/PRINCE2_2009/CAS has enrolled two consultants on the new version of the popular PRINCE2 project Management methodology for courses that commence on the 11th January 2010. This is in line with the CAS policy to ensure that conultants are kept abreast of the latest technology developments.Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/PRINCE2_2009/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/sid4health/CAS has completed all aspects of the documentation requirements and has uploaded its details on to sid4health website - NHS supplier information database in the hope of obtaining more work. This replaces the PASA listing.Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/sid4health/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Thames_Water_Utilities/CAS has been awarded the electrical inspections and surveys by TWU based this time upon Whitefield and Greenmoor Hill sites. This work will as usual be carried out by long term CAS Consultant – Jim Lodge at the earliest convenience.Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/Thames_Water_Utilities/http://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_support_Energy_Trading_Floor_move_in_Calgary/Based out of our Houston Texas office and for over a year CAS have been working with and supporting a major which has involved the relocation and upgrading of services to energy traders in Calgary, Canada. Following intensive testing and involved programme management CAS Ltd UK Director Steve White and CAS Inc Vice President have successfully worked with all...Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.c-a-s.co.uk/news/CAS_support_Energy_Trading_Floor_move_in_Calgary/