The Year 2000 Support Centre is working closely with those official bodies most concerned with the Year 2000 issue – the Department of Trade and Industry and the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency. The emphasis throughout to offer practical help.
Your IT team may be well on track to fix your systems before the Year 2000 deadline. But your business needs to address other key audiences before it can be confident that it will deal successfully with the new Millennium.
Your key managers in all departments need to be brought up to speed. The Year 2000 is likely to impact across all areas of the business.
Your staff need to be made aware of what’s at stake. If they are alert to the issue, they will be ready to spot any early warning signs. They will also accept more readily any budget cuts and disruptions that the Year 2000 may cause.
The Year 2000 Support Centre publish guidebooks, CD-ROMs, and a wide range of Year 2000 support materials which can be used inside the business to raise awareness and help the in-house Year 2000 team, and outside the business to help suppliers and customers beat the problem.
Your suppliers can cause you severe problems if large numbers of them fail to get to grips with the problem. You need to find out which of them are aware of the problem, and which are actually doing something about it. In all cases, it is in your interests to help your suppliers overcome the problem as swiftly and efficiently as possible – few businesses can happily contemplate ditching most of their key suppliers.
Documents available:
A Business Guide to the Year 2000
This 128 page jargon-free paperback has been endorsed as ‘best practice
guidance’ by CCTA, the Government’s IT agency, and is supported
by DTI, which described it as offering ‘owners and managers clear practical
and down-to-earth guidance on how to beat the problem.’ It will help
your staff, managers and suppliers to understand the problem, and what they
need to do right now to deal with it. Rapidoc Price
£6.95
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The Survival Pack contains a range of practical materials that will allow
the hard-pressed manager or business owner to get started on the Year 2000
issue immediately:
~ A copy of A Business Guide to the Year 2000
~ A Technical Hints and Tips Guide
~ Three sets of Inventory Forms for collecting the right information methodically
about hardware, software and embedded systems
~ Twelve different sample letters for sending to
customers and suppliers, as well as the suppliers of computer hardware and
software
~ Software containing a leading PC checker, slide shows in PowerPoint, Freelance
and DOS for use in raising awareness amongst staff, suppliers and customers,
and the sample letters in ASCII, Word and AmiPro so that they can be customised
to meet your business’s requirements.
Rapidoc Price £29.95 + VAT
Year 2000 Survival Pack Pro
This contains all the above items plus a Year 2000 Tools and Resources CD-ROM.
For full details of the CD, see below. Rapidoc
Price £59.50 + VAT
Year 2000 CD-ROMs
Prepared by the leading Year 2000 consultancy Y2Ki, these CDs are packed
with information invaluable to those dealing with the Millennium Bomb.
Year 2000 Tools and Resources contains tools for checking dates in spreadsheets and databases, plus the General Motors manual for dealing with embedded systems, the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Year 2000 programme for nuclear utilities, and contributions from the Federation of the Electronics Industry, Abbey National, the NHS Information Management Group, DTI, CSSA etc. Rapidoc Price £49.95 + VAT
Year 2000 Testing contains contributions from the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Unisys, ERA Technology, CSSA, General Motors and others, and covers a variety of testing issues for PCs, mainframes and embedded systems. Rapidoc Price £49.95 + VAT
Year 2000 and Internal Audit contains contributions from ICL, Coopers & Lybrand, the Federation of the Electronics Industry, SBC Warburg, Abbey National and others. Issues covered include audit control, risk assessment and management, audit tasks, parallel developments. Rapidoc Price £49.95 + VAT
For more information or to order e-mail Rapidoc