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Our Sponsors and Partners |
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DTI |
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DTI and Achieving best practice in your business |
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The DTI supports Technology Means Business as it fits with DTI’s mission of helping companies achieve best practice in their business. |
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An array of DTI schemes, each with their own brand identities, has been replaced with a smaller number of business support products each designed to have greater impact. These products are grouped into four themes, reflecting the areas in which businesses are most likely to need help: innovation, best practice, raising finance and regional financial support. Best practice products are incorporated under Achieving best practice in your business.
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Access to best business practice |
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This product targets businesses that want to know how better ways of working can improve their performance and profitability. |
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Our website, www.dti.gov.uk, details proven techniques, including e-business techniques, that have benefited businesses of all sizes. There’s also a range of free, printed brochures that business can order. |
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Both the website and brochures contain reports, guides and case studies, as well as a range of self-assessment tools to help businesses measure their progress and plan for the future. A wide range of (free) booklets and factsheets can be downloaded from the site or hard copies ordered via www.dti.gov.uk/publications. |
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British Telecom |
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Through its day-to-day liaison
with customers across the country, BT is acutely aware that
many small businesses do not have the internal resource
to equip themselves with knowledge about the fast-moving
world of information and communications technology. There
is also a shortage of people qualified to provide this information
in a business context. As a result, many small businesses
are missing a competitive trick. |
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Excellent progress has
been made since the initiative began in establishing
the knowledge base, developing the electronic delivery
of services and appointing accreditation centres.
The priority now must be to engage a large number
of advisers so that accreditation targets can be met
and, at the same time, stimulate demand and expectation
from the SME community. BT are delighted that we are
continuing to play a leading role in Technology Means
Business - both as a founder sponsor and as an accreditation
centre. |
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To date BT have 79 small business
advisers who have gained the TMB accreditation. The accreditation
is seen as an important element of their staff development
programme. |
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INTEL |
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Building the E-Corporation
is as relevant to small and medium sized businesses
as it is to large corporates. To compete effectively
small businesses require trusted advice aimed at maximising
the business potential and investment in ICT. Technology
Means Business will give a voice to small and medium
sized businesses to express their technology needs
and to receive world-class training and consultancy.
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Microsoft |
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Microsoft is extremely proud
to be a founding sponsor of Technology Means Business and
to have contributed to an initiative that we believe will
make a real difference to UK small businesses. |
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Technology Means Business will
provide small businesses with a trusted route for real business
advice which incorporates both technology and business.
This will benefit all types of advisors from consultants,
accountants, bank advisors and technology resellers. Small
businesses need all the assistance they can get to embrace
the internet and e-commerce to gain business advantage and
getting the right advice is the first step |
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Microsoft is also helping
this drive to support, advise and help small businesses
do more with technology. We've recently launched Microsoft
bCentral - a portal dedicated to our small business
customers in the UK. It's about highlighting how and
where business and technology meet, providing hints
and tips about how to get more from your existing
and future technology investments. |
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Microsoft is working hard to
make sure the UK's small and growing businesses gain the
best advice and assistance available. The Technology Means
Business initiative is a great programme and we're pleased
to be a part of something with such tangible benefits for
the smaller business.
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Hewlett Packard |
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The TMB partnership between leading
ICT companies, UK Online for Business and the Chartered
Management Institute allows all parties to bring their best
practices into a training programme that delivers real world
solutions for UK SMEs, in an easy to understand manner.
Technology Means Business provides the standard at which
the knowledge and advice around those solutions can be trusted.
Hewlett-Packard is delighted to be part of this programme
and is committed to ensuring its network of Centres of Excellence
pass the new TMB Approved Centre Accreditation. |
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At HP we understand that a small
to medium sized business may not have a dedicated IT resource
or expertise because they are focused on building their
own business. They may have little, if any time to keep
up with the constant march of technological development.
There is a huge difference between knowing what technology
can do and understanding how it can help improve business
performance. By creating a nationwide network of resellers
who have already qualified for HP’s exclusive accreditation
as an HP Centre of Excellence we have made sure there is
someone local to SME’s who can guide them through
the maze of technologies and help them define those which
will benefit their business most effectively. |
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HP is a leading global provider
of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers
and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure,
personal computing and access devices, global services,
and imaging and printing. But we know you don’t just
want products, you want answers to business needs. So HP
has put together a range of pre-packaged solutions. They
are based on specific research into SMEs needs that combine
not only HP’s products, but also innovative hardware
and software from third parties and include installation
and training from the HP Centres of Excellence too. In fact
everything you need to start gaining benefit from your investment,
fast.
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In addition to supporting
the TMB Programme during 2003 HP is continuing to
sponsor the: |
| * National Innovation Award
category in the e-Commerce Awards 2003 |
| * The national TMB Seminars for - Business
Growth, Innovation and E-business |
| * The British Chamber of
Commerce e-Business Clubs 2003 |
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Our $4 billion annual R&D
investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and
new technologies so we can better serve customers and enter
new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology
solutions that drive business value, create social value
and improve the lives of our customers. |
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The May 2002 merger of Hewlett-Packard and
Compaq Computer Corporation forged a dynamic, powerful team
of 140,000 employees with capabilities in 160 countries
and doing business in 43 currencies and 15 languages. Revenues
for the combined companies were $72 billion for the fiscal
year that ended October 31, 2002. Chairman and CEO
Carly Fiorina leads HP, which has corporate headquarters
in Palo Alto, California |
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Network Associates |
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With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc (NYSE: NET) creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. Under the McAfee(r) Protection-in-Depth(tm) Strategy, we offer two families of products, McAfee(r) System Protection Solutions, securing desktops and servers, and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, ensuring the security and performance of the corporate network, Network Associates offers computer security to large enterprises, governments, small and medium sized businesses, and consumers. These two product portfolios incorporate the three Network Associates product lines: McAfee(r) System Security Technologies, McAfee(r) Network Security Technologies and Sniffer(r) Technologies. |
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"Network Associates (NAI) is privileged to be working alongside TMB towards certifying that our SMB Channel Partners attain the TMB Approved Centre Accreditation. It is our responsibility as a vendor to guarantee that new and existing NAI customers receive the highest levels of service from our Channel - we believe that together with TMB we can achieve this."
Wayne Carter, Regional Channel Director for Northern Europe, Network Associates
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