Improve your profit, increase your sales,
reduce your costs - exploit your IT!
IT is key
to the success of most businesses
- IT can be a major strength or a spectacular weakness
Is your IT working for you?
- Efficient use of IT:
reduces
wasted time, effort and cost
enables
staff to find more space in which to do their real jobs
improves
profitability and efficiency
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Focus upon delivery, customer satisfaction and quality
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Reliability, high levels of commitment, enthusiasm and
flexibility
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Extensive experience in project management, business
analysis, system analysis, system design, and applications
support
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Knowledge of a wide variety of business and application
areas and technologies
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Experience of all phases of the project lifecycle, including
the application of a variety of structured project
management and systems development methodologies
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Experience of bespoke in-house, commercial off the shelf and
3rd party developed systems
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Apply an analytical, logical and practical approach to all
problems
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Be tenacious in following through until satisfactory
solutions are reached and implemented
Key skills include:
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Business Intelligence
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Data Warehousing
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Business Analysis
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Data and Process Modelling
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Systems Analysis and Design
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Problem Detection, Investigation and Resolution
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Project Planning and Estimating
Experience of
Industry Sectors includes:
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Manufacturing
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Retail
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Pharmaceuticals
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Utilities
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Public
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Service
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Project Directing, Controlling and Reporting
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Software Test Design and Management
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Methodology Development
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Risk Management
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Quality Management
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Production Service Management
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Change Management
Experience of
Systems Areas includes:
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Material Control
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Production Control
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Purchasing
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Bills of Materials
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Accounting
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Marketing
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Stock Control
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Distribution and Warehousing
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Supply Chain
A selection of brief case studies:
Reclaim time!
Customer Services staff were each spending more than three hours
per week collating details of new customers. This time was given
back to them by setting up a simple, computer-generated report
which pulled information from the company's existing database.
Rethink your working practices
The implementation of a new accounting package gave the
opportunity for a complete rethink of the company's accounting
practices. Working with the accountant, a new analysis-coding
scheme was developed, which represented the business activity
better and enabled more appropriate management information
reporting.
Rationalise
The merger of two companies meant two sets of IT; some
applications were unique and some were duplicated, but the
majority partially overlapped. A phased approach was adopted;
listing each application and its contribution to the business,
and then, in a carefully planned and controlled manner, adding
functionality, merging datasets, and retiring systems, to
achieve a single integrated application set to serve the new
business. The key objectives were to transfer the business onto
a single set of systems as quickly as possible, whilst
minimising risk and maintaining continuity.
Demystify
Software testing is regarded by many as a black art. Yet taking
a systematic approach (as has been used with a number of
companies), it's been undertaken in a controlled and
understandable manner; delivering high quality systems, to time
and within budget. |
