Objective
The INSPIRE project will substantially increase awareness of process improvement amongst the largest possible number of senior managers. It will do so by providing business level information in easy and familiar business language through a media used every day by most senior managers - the business newspapers. The ultimate objective being to increase awareness and prompt senior managers to initiate process improvement actions or at the least, to recognise and be more supportive when such actions are proposed by subordinates.
ACTIONS
The INSPIRE project will create what is called in the newspaper business an "Advertorial" section for each of the leading French, German, UK business newspapers. This is a section of the regular newspaper normally 8 pages in length done in the same style, paper, lay-out and editing as the normal newspaper. It will include articles, editorials, testimonials, contact information, articles by business leaders, etc. all concerning the subject of software quality and the business issues surrounding expenditure on software development. The inserts themselves can be removed and kept for further reference and can be used as standalone information collaterals at conferences, workshops and other dissemination activities.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The result of the project will be to increase awareness of the field of software quality and process improvement and the benefits that can be obtained. This will be done at the highest management levels within thousands of organisation in the target regions. As a consequence we expect to see more improvement actions initiated by upper management and at the very least to create a more receptive environment when such actions are proposed by subordinates.
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Coordinator
20127 Milano
Italy
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