6 Jan 2009

MATiSSE Knowledge Exchange Partner Profiles

 
 
247virtual.com

84-88 Millbrook Road East

Southampton
Hampshire
SO15 1BG
 
Tel: 0870 141 7377
Contact: David Vane – david.vane@247virtual.com or Carolyn Fujii –carolyn.fujii@247virtual.com
Company Website: www.247virtual.com
 
247virtual provide a range of outsourced, back office services and innovative ideas which can help you build your business.  247virtual enable you to do what you do best  and  take away the functions that you don’t need to do.  Let 247virtual become your virtual office – dictation transcriptions, book keeping, minute taking, reports, presentations, diary management web design, web promotion, web reporting, virtual personal assistant  – virtually anything!
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y – initial consultation
 
 
Cobweb Solutions Limited                                                                                                                                                                
South Wing
Delme Place
Cams Hall Estate
Fareham
Hampshire
PO16 8UX
 
Tel: 0845 223 9000
Contact: Linda Saunders – linda.saunders@cobweb.com or Sarah Hildyard – sarah.hildyard@cobweb.com
Company Website: www.cobweb.com
 
Cobweb is the leading European provider of Managed IT Services that make it possible for you and your employees to work anywhere, at anytime.  Cobweb are trusted providers and can prove it; with over 10 years industry experience and 5,000 business customers, you can tap into our expertise to receive reliable and secure services such as Hosted Messaging, Mobility, Data Management, Connectivity and Websites.
Since its launch as a business-to-business ISP in 1996, Cobweb has delivered business critical services to its customers and the experience gained over the past ten years underlies our capabilities to meet and exceed our customers’ needs and expectations.
Cobweb has embarked on a series of industry best practice certification programmes to provide our customers with further reassurance of our capabilities:
– ISO9001 – Quality Management
– ISO27001 – Information Security Management
– ISO14001 – Environmental Management.
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check?  Y
 
 
CAL
Portsmouth Technopole
Kingston Crescent
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO2 8FA
 
Tel: 02392 658209
Company Website: www.computer-assets.co.uk
Making Distributed Teams Work….
CAL provides innovative, effective solutions for all organisations looking to work smarter. We understand the challenges facing the business community;
  • Staying competitive both domestically and world-wide.
  • Maximise return on investment in accommodation and staff.
  • Meeting the challenge of change and reducing operational costs.
  • Attracting and retaining skilled staff.
CAL can help you find the answers through effective distributed team working that will see your team’s productivity rise and operational costs fall. You will also reap the benefits of greater staff retention and attracting the best staff. Your teams will be more agile to respond quickly to change and opportunities.
Our approach
We provide a complete solution to help you achieve effective smart teams:           
  • Understanding your unique needs
  • Working with your teams to create a flexible and effective structure
  • Selecting the right tools
  • Continued operational improvements
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y – initial consultation

 
John Horwood Consultants Limited
Croxley House
58 Princes Road
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 3BH
 
Tel: 01730 231510
Company Website: www.horwood.uk.com
 
Management and technical professionals with comprehensive executive and advisory experience.  Organisations contemplating a move to MATiSSE style smarter-working will specifically benefit from our methodology.  We can identify current operational efficiency levels and possible improvement areas and at an agreed future point in time, measure the actual efficiency gains achieved through smarter working practices. 
Free Matisse Health Check:
To identify efficiency gains and more sustainable practices. 
Strategic Planning:
Identify opportunities, remove constraints.
Performance Measurement:
Compares output (what is achieved) with input (resources consumed) in terms meaningful to those involved, provides communication for motivational purposes, quantification of the value of improvements installed, reduced carbon footprint per unit of output.
Workload Planning and Control: essential to resource utilisation, especially with remote and flexible working.
Profit Improvement Programme (PIP): Rigorous program providing up to x5 yield of
normal cost reduction programmes.  
Productivity Performance Related Pay: self-financed rewards protect organisations against competition and individuals against loss of jobs.
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y
 
 
Networking Fundamentals
Ermine House
East Anton Court
Icknield Way
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 5RG
 
Tel: 01264 721680
Contact: Darren Crannis on 07879 470849 or email: dcrannis@nefu.co.uk
Company Website: www.nefu.co.uk
 
IT support and remote working specialists with a dedicated IT support helpdesk; remote, telephone and on-site support tailored to your needs; comprehensive IT systems design and planning; and personal account management.
Ticking all the right boxes for Smarter Working with secure remote access solutions; guaranteed connectivity solutions; firewall, VPN and network security; anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-malware solutions; databases; email; CRM systems; backup and restore systems; disaster recovery; business continuity; email and data compliance.
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check?  Y
 
 
Ozone Conferencing Limited
138–140 Southwark Street
London
SE1 0SW
 
Tel: 0207 928 5560
Contact: Pete Bennett – mailto:info@ozoneconferencing.com
Company Website: www.ozoneconferencing.com
 
Easy-to-use, low cost phone and web conferencing services which enable you to meet and work with anyone, anywhere, instantly – without the need to travel.
Phone and web conferencing saves you time, money and reduces carbon emissions.
No need to travel to meetings. Schedule a phone and web conference instead. Participants can be local, national or international using their standard phones (mobiles or landlines).
No special equipment or software is required. A simple access number and logon means everyone can talk, give presentations and share applications over the web.
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y http://www.OzoneConferencing.com/testimonials
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y – plus free two week trial
 
 
Skills for Business Training Limited 
Campion House
26 Campion Close
Warsash
Nr. Southampton
Hampshire
SO31 9DE
 
Tel: 07971 882628
Contact: Steve Jones – steve@skillsforbusinesstraining.co.uk
 
Skills for Business (SFB) provide coaching, mentoring and training. If you are looking to grow your business or are already experiencing rapid growth then SFB blend of coaching and mentoring may be just what you need. SFB aim is to enables business owners and their staff to have more time, more money, less stress, whilst developing and growing their business.
Of particular interest is the unique tool SFB uses to measure and manage motivation of teams and staff, which is becoming an increasing challenge as companies downsize office space and manage teams and staff remotely. Finding out who is best suited to working from home or not, and how to manage both through the change process and beyond, can make a huge difference to the performance of any business.

Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y – one hour consultation at our cost
 
 
 
 
Signalize Limited
Deltaworks
18 Regent Trade Park
Barwell Lane
Gosport
Hampshire
PO13 0EQ
 
Tel: 01329 221958
Contact: Fyn Day – fyn@signalize.tv or Vicky Stone – vicky@signalize.tv
 
Producers of video for promotional, training, and other corporate purposes, ranging from feature-length broadcast-quality documentaries to 15-second web stings and video testimonials.
Supporting smarter working by promoting internet commerce.  For example, RealNetworks, pioneers in video streaming, published a study showing 78% of visitors stay longer at websites with video, and 74% of consumers seeing video on a company’s website are more comfortable doing business online.
Web ads and video testimonials using shot-for-purpose footage are engaging and relevant to your targeted prospects.  With in-house digital capture and editing facilities, Signalize provides a complete production service from scripting, through filming and editing, to formatting and delivery.
The company also supplies showreels, demos, promos, and DVD authoring and duplication for distribution or mailshots.
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y
 
 
Taylor Made Computer Solutions Limited
Leroux House
Cams Hall Estate
Hampshire
PO16 8UL
Tel: 01329 239 900
Contact: Ian Lockwood – ianl@tmcs.co.uk or David Graham – davidg@tmcs.co.uk
Company Website: www.tmcs.co.uk
 
Taylor Made Computer Solutions is a specialist computer services company based in Fareham, Hampshire providing complete professional IT and Training solutions for businesses within the Southern region.
Our services include the supply and installation of IT equipment, remote IT support, software development, internet services, network design and a full range of other business solutions, including of course our remote working strategy.
As a solutions provider, Taylor Made focus on the overall package and believe that through the development of an IT strategy we are best positioned to support a business.
This also applies to Taylor Made Training Solutions, a division of TMCS formed to deliver training to the business community by using an approach which focuses on improving skills and knowledge for the individual in order to increase business benefit.
 
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y                          
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y
 
 
Technilink IT Limited
Southgate Chambers
37-39 Southgate Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9EH
Tel: 01962 600101
Company Website: www.digitalmeeting.co.uk
 
DigitalMeeting is an audio and web conferencing service which gives the power to communicate across any distance by simply using a telephone and/or any computer with a web connection.
The basic premise is to use web/audio conferencing to drastically reduce the amount of business related traffic cost effectively and in a short space of time.
Rather than spending many hours travelling to meetings, a worker can use conference collaboration to discuss and work on files and documents remotely, which effectively takes time and distance out of the equation.  By doing this, travel budgets, carbon footprints and work-related stress can be significantly reduced.
Flexible working is encouraged by allowing workers to work from home or remote location.  By connecting to the main office, work can be reviewed and finalised in real time.  Sharing applications allows diaries and workloads to be managed effectively and flexi-time can be much more efficient.
We provide a free personal consultation service to help organisations identify how conferencing fits into their business plan and their Smarter Working strategies.