Consultancy Services
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Our consultancy focuses on changing
technology in changing organizations.
We provide a range of services, including assessment and trouble-shooting, planning, training and skills transfer, and change management. We provide expertise in a number of key areas of business and technology change. We work individually or in teams. We have affilitations and joint ventures with a number of other service providers. Recent clients include telecommunications and retail companies, financial institutions and Government bodies. |
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| Who
we are
Veryard Projects was founded by Richard Veryard in 1997. It is a small company, based in London UK, but with friends and associates in many countries. In particular, we are affiliated with most of the companies within the SCIPIO Consortium. Our associates include business advisers, architects, psychologists, marketing specialists, therapists, academics, and of course a wide range of technologists. Our mission is to improve the impact of technology on people. We like to promote the development of people and teams, and to facilitate the circulation of practical knowledge. |
Richard Veryard - our practice leader |
Our
standards
Rare combination of business management knowledge and technology knowledge. Up-to-date access to relevant research. Rare combination of creative and practical thinking. Clear thinking and succinct expression. New perspective. Sensitivity to what is missing from a given proposition. Respect for client's capabilities. Professional systematic, analytic approach. High ethical standards. |
| Business Change Management | Business Concept Implementation | Turning a business vision into business operations. | Email to register your interest |
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Helping achieve business process improvement through software components. | Click here for more details | |
| Information Competition | Helping enterprises identify and realise strategic business opportunities by analysing the information structure of their market environment. (Note: this service is based on a specially developed technique of object-oriented enterprise modelling, known as Business Relationship Modelling.) | Click here for more details | |
| Technology Change Management | Technology Delivery | Helping technology suppliers to design and deliver their products so as to maximize their successful deployment and use within their customers' organizations. Helping R&D organizations increase the commercial or social relevance of their deliverables. | Click here for more details |
| Technology Implementation | Helping people in organizations to take advantage of new tools and methods, by effective management of multiple learning curves. Helping to align technology change with organizational development and learning, and with business process improvement. | Click here for more details | |
| Risk Management | Helping large technology projects and programmes identify and manage risks systematically. Applicable to Year 2000 and Euro programmes. | Click here for more details | |
| Software Process Management | Software Process Improvement | Helping IT managers to design, implement, evaluate and improve processes for developing and maintaining large software systems. | Click here for more details |
| Method Integration | For a large organization, with multiple processes using multiple technologies, helping bring these together. (For example, are your procurement processes consistent with your project management methodology, are your quality disciplines aligned with your requirements engineering approach, do your system development methods really support your corporate strategies?) | Email to register your interest | |
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Helping achieve business process improvement through software components. | Click here for more details | |
| Information Management | Information Configuration | Helping IT users to identify and implement systems and structures for managing large and complex knowledge-bases. | Email to register your interest |
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Initial Consultation Conversation to identify problem or opportunity.
Assessment We visit your offices to review the situation with you and your colleagues. Alternatively, we review your plans and other documentation, as agreed. We then write a report, giving our perspective on the situation, and our recommendations for resolving the issues and moving forward.
Proposal We write a short description of your problem or opportunity, and outline how we could help you. Sometimes we do this immediately after the initial consultation, but we usually prefer to carry out a brief assessment first.
Further Work There are many different forms this can take. We may take an ongoing role in your project or programme, perhaps in a leading, facilitating, reviewing or mentoring capacity. You may want us to perform specific tasks, or to prepare materials. We may conduct training, or even tailor our training materials to your requirements. Sometimes this work involves short bursts of intense activity. Sometimes it involves a low level of ongoing support - perhaps as little as one or two visits per month, plus some email and telephone contact. This is negotiated according to your requirements. |
The initial consultation is normally free of charge. Within reason, we are happy to spend time discussing things with you, without obligation. These conversations may take place by phone or email. If you are based in or around London, or passing through, please email us to arrange a meeting.
We carry out a preliminary assessment for a special introductory fee of £800 (pounds sterling) per day, plus VAT and travel expenses if applicable. The assessment usually takes one to three days.
Short proposals are normally free of charge. If you need something more elaborate or detailed, this is subject to negotiation.
We charge for further work in three ways.
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you want to discuss a consultancy assignment, please email
with your name, organization and phone number, and we'll call you as
soon as possible.
To request more information, or to join our mailing list, please click here: mailto:info@veryard.com To provide comments, please click here: mailto:feedback@veryard.com Technical stuff please click here: mailto:webmaster@veryard.com |
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This page last updated on December 1st, 1998.
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