MATiSSE Knowledge Exchange Partner Profiles
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247virtual.com
84-88 Millbrook Road East
Southampton
Hampshire
SO15 1BG
Tel: 0870 141 7377
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
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Astrid Flowers Ltd
Tel: 01798 813043
Astrid Flowers Ltd offers consultancy to help businesses assess the effectiveness of current flexible working and deliver improvements. They provide a low cost, no obligation initial assessment for your business giving a series of practical recommendations on the following:
· The potential for hot desking to reduce underutilised office space and encourage interaction across teams
· The possibilities for staff to work from home and whilst travelling, utilising ‘wifi hotspots’ or mobile technology
· Opportunities for flexitime, job sharing, part time working or staff sharing
· The IT, communications and other equipment necessary for staff to work most efficiently
· The management and communications mechanisms needed to support staff
· The legislative, Health & Safety, employment and tax implications of flexible working
· How to manage the introduction of new flexible working approaches.
Astrid Flowers is a recognised skills specialist and runs her Sussex based consultancy business on flexible working principles.
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Basis Limited
Warwick House
25-27 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 0PP
Tel: 020 7553 5300
Contact : Denise Price – denise.price@basis.co.uk
Company Website: www.basis.co.uk
We design smart working practices delivering a win:win for staff and business using time and office space more efficiently. Recent changes in employment legislation provide far greater rights for employees to request flexible working from their employers.
Flexible working is employee focused to which the business must react. Smart working is business focused and enables a proactive offer of flexible working to be made in ways that deliver tangible business benefit. Our smart working methods put the business back in control of the flexible working agenda and uses it to drive through business benefits that are equally attractive to staff.
We deliver outcomes that enable staff to work in different ways that meets their domestic needs yet are congruent with improved business performance, customer focus, significant opportunity for reduction in office space and costs, better use of ICT resources, reduction in carbon footprints and the introduction of a management mindset focused on staff productivity, output and outcomes rather than monitoring attendance. This leads to a culture of respect and trust.
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y – initial consultation
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Cobweb 
South Wing
Delme Place
Cams Hall Estate
Fareham
Hampshire
PO16 8UX
Tel: 0845 223 9000
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
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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
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Featherstone – Freelance and Virtual PA Services 12 Southern Road West End Southampton SO30 3ER
Tel: 07787 511625
Contact: Helen Featherstone – vpa@helenfeatherstone.co.uk
A PA service that is confidential, flexible, professional and most of all, working for you, just when your business needs it.
Would you or your business benefit from the support of a PA, but space or finance hold you back?
Would you like to free up more of your time to allow you to concentrate on your core business, but don't have the time to get organised?
We provide all the services you would expect from your own Personal Assistant - dedicated support for your business - but with the unique facility of just paying for the hours that you need, as and when you need them.
Referenceable Customer Sites? N
Case Studies Available? N
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y
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Flexible Skills Bank
York House,
Pine Grove
Brookmans Park,
Hatfield,
Hertfordshire AL9 7BL
Tel: 0845 8725299 Contact: Karen Kennard – karen@flexibleskillsbank.co.uk Company Website: www.flexibleskillsbank.co.uk
Flexible Skills Bank is a low cost resource to help companies find flexible, part time, freelance, contract, home based, or even completely ad hoc staff to support business growth. It is free to advertise your vacancies on our website and you only pay a small flat fee for contact details of applicants you wish to interview. If you do not find suitable candidates, you are charged nothing for the service. There is no commission or any further fee should you choose to employ one of our candidates.
Sectors covered include Accountancy, Bookkeeping, Sales & Marketing, PR, Administration, Human Resources, IT, Training, and many others.
We also provide a flexible, cost effective HR support service for employers who don’t have their own in-house HR resource.
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? N
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Focal Point Training and Consultancy Ltd 
87 Hursley Road
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO53 2FS
Tel: 01903 732782
Focal Point Training and Consultancy Ltd was established in 2001 by Co Directors Stella Chandler and Tracy Powley. The company specialises in helping organisations, teams and individuals develop the skills and behaviours needed to be effective in today’s competitive working environment. This includes designing, delivering and evaluating learning events in a number of areas such as:
· Management development
· Sales skills and customer care skills
· Personal & Team development
The company operates primarily in the South East and has a team of associate trainers, who are all highly skilled with their own particular areas of expertise.
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y
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In Communication Limited 
Unit 54 Basepoint Centre
Andersons Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO18 2RZ
Tel: 08007 819706
Phone, web and video conferencing specialists
Do you want to reduce your costs, not your conversations.......??
Audio conferencing allows you to reduce your costs, save time and reduce CO2 emissions by reducing business travel.
Have you had the same conversations time after time, would the opportunity of delivering one message first time help you save time?
In Communication offer audio, video and web conferencing services to support your business whatever your needs.
We’ll show you how to set up a conference call and share documents, applications and presentations allowing you to get things done without having to travel.
Our telephone & web services are:
. Simple to use, always on, no booking required.
. Pay as you use, free if you don’t – no hidden charges.
Just give us a call and start conferencing today!!
Referenceable Customer Sites: Y
Case Studies Available: Y
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check: Y
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John Horwood Consultants Limited
Croxley House
58 Princes Road
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 3BH
Tel: 01730 231510
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
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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
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
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Moore Associates Hampshire Limited
126 London Road
Cowplain
Waterlooville
Hants
PO8 8EY
Tel: 02392 783388
A training hub with experienced Associates who deliver coaching, training workshops for the South of England; our training is values based and we offer - Executive Coaching, Leadership and Management, Personal Development, Human Resources, Well-being, Credit Management, Health and Safety, Marketing and Sales, IT and Media training. We work in education internationally and in the UK offering a variety of training emphasising work and well being and values education.
We offer ‘Generating Energy and Balance in the workplace’ workshops that are tailored to the needs of the delegates. For our work and well-being company programme we carry out an assessment and analysis of the well-being of the workforce and provide planning and support to deal with any issues that arise. We track improvement. Our training is tailored to the needs of our clients, is economic, of good value and has built in follow up.
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? N
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y
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Ozone Conferencing Limited 
138–140 Southwark Street
London
SE1 0SW
Tel: 0207 928 5560
Contact: Pete Bennett – info@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.
Case Studies Available? Y
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y – plus free two week trial
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Skills for Business Training Limited 
Campion House
26 Campion Close
Warsash
Nr. Southampton
Hampshire
SO31 9DE
Tel: 07971 882628
Company Website: www.skillsforbusinesstraining.com
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
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Signalize Limited
Deltaworks
18 Regent Trade Park
Barwell Lane
Gosport
Hampshire
PO13 0EQ
Tel: 01329 221958
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
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Leroux House
Cams Hall Estate
Hampshire
PO16 8UL
Tel: 01329 239 900
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
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Technilink IT Limited
Southgate Chambers
37-39 Southgate Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9EH
Tel: 01962 600101
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. |
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The Future Office
The Sussex Innovation Centre
Science Park Square
Falmer
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 9SB
Tel: 0845 070 0192
Contact: info@tfoww.com
The Future Office delivers a Web Office Service for SMEs and SOHO (Small Office Home Office) businesses.
Companies using the LiveViewTM Service can access their working data from any location as long as they have access to the Internet.
LiveView enables you to:
Manage clients and prospects in real time - even when you are working from home, on the road or abroad.
Delegate tasks and monitor the progress and completion of work.
Using LiveView's online multi-person diary shows everyone's availability in real time.
Automatically manage your company's documentation with full version control.
Use LiveView’s comprehensive mailing facilities to keep your prospects and clients informed and increase sales using new and fair eMarketing techniques.
The Standard LiveView Service is free to all businesses that have signed up to the Matisse Smarter Working Initiative.
Referenceable Customer Sites? Y
Case Studies Available? Y
Free Initial Consultation or Health Check? Y |
These are various providers of services, products and technologies who have made themselves known to us. This list is for reference purposes and is not an endorsement of any of these companies. The eHampshire Partnership cannot be held responsible for the content of any external websites.
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