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Simon Lande

CEO, Magus

Biography

Simon Lande

Simon Lande is the founder and CEO of Magus.

Magus is the UK based company behind ActiveStandards: the SaaS platform for enterprise website governance and compliance used by Unilever, Shell, Philips, ING and many more.

As CEO, Simon is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, and also has a client-facing role across a number of major accounts.

Before founding Magus, Simon was a research scientist, completing a PhD in biochemistry at Imperial College London. Reflecting his origins, Simon continues to stay very close to the product development process, which defines the innovative heart of Magus.

Magus

UK based company, Magus, is behind ActiveStandards: an SaaS platform for enterprise website governance and compliance used by Unilever, Shell, Philips, ING and many more.

ActiveStandards is an enterprise-ready, automated service that monitors websites to help companies optimise website effectiveness and reduce risk through the elimination of errors in brand consistency, usability,  accessibility, SEO, site integrity and legal compliance.

Magus’s team of website governance and compliance experts support the ActiveStandards application and provide a range of complementary web policy definition and consultancy services.

Magus are highly active in the field of enterprise website governance and compliance, regularly contributing on this issue at conferences around the world. They also work to consolidate industry best practice, and act as the lead-consultant to the industry standard framework on enterprise website standards management (BSI British Standards Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 124: “Defining, implementing and managing website standards”).

Headquartered in London, with a newly opened office in the US, Magus has a rapidly growing international client-base, with clients coming from a diversity of industry sectors.

Presentation

Joining the dots: Creating an enterprise framework for website governance

Track: Web governance
Conference Day #2, Thursday November 4th, 10.30-12.00

Good web governance is the key to an effective web presence that achieves your strategic goals. However, many companies still rely on ad-hoc systems and processes which are inadequate to the demands of a distributed multi-site, multi-editor web estate.

In an enterprise environment, a common framework for website governance is now recognised to be as essential as a common CMS.  Adopting a common framework enables organisations to join the dots of their global web initiatives, so they can systematically align their online operations with their business goals, manage risk and increase productivity.

Simon has followed and been involved in the process of planning and implementing good governance frameworks within a large number of global organisations.

This paper will present a model for effective enterprise website governance and an evaluation of the key business benefits, illustrated with case studies from leading multinational corporations.

  • Components of an enterprise governance framework
  • Closing the loop: coordinating people, policies and processes
  • Measuring the success of your strategic plans, and KPIs

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