Interim, Non Exec & Network Specialist
Best Business Process & Business Systems
Best Practice Change: Maps industry best practice against current processes in concert with a review of existing technology to identify best gain sequence for change.
Risk Management: This is focused in two key areas:
• People: The success of any project is wholly dependent on staff and customer acceptance and effective management of any planned changes a collaborative endeavour.
• Critical Business Demand: Many seasonal businesses have critical periods of demand which must be recognised and accommodated as part of any business change strategy.
Creating Effective Sales & Pipeline Management Requiires Many Diverse in-house or Outsourced Skills
Marketing, Advertising, Sales Resource, Training, Web Site Content Management / Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Lead Generation, Market Analysis, Business Intelligence
We Deliver Consistency in Sales & Pipeline Management
& the Resources to Make it Happen
Collaborative Thinking & Resourcing
Delivering Sustainable Results
Cost Effective Non-Exec, Interim, Permenent & Contract Business, Management, Sales & Technical Resource for Industry
As part of IMCNet (The Independent Management Consultants Network)
Key IT provides a unique approach to management / IT consultancy and provision of the cost effective resources needed to deliver business and infrastructure transformation to SME & Mid market companies.
As a collaborative association of hundreds of highly skilled independent consultants across almost every business, technical discipline and geography we collaborate to support our clients, industry & the software vendor community with proven expertise & resources including:
Interim Management & IT Consultancy: Delivering cost effective local expertise for business change, advice and technical competence across almost every business discipline, often through specialists with direct knowledge of your specific industry.
These can range from interim CEO,CIO,FD, Sales Transformation or BI specialists & Project Managers through to Oracle DB, .Net, C++ analysts, programmers and managers. Skills Diversity & Availability: Resourcing in almost every project requires a matrix of skills and resources’ many of which can be time critical, by utilizing our extensive associate network and access to the same skills search engines used by agencies we can resource specialist skills when needed, usually at a fraction of the cost of traditional sources.
Controlling Client Cost: Our approach has proved very popular with both our associate consultant organisations and their clients as it consolidates client relationships and offers a far higher quality of resourcing at typically less than half the cost of the agencies that clients may have used in the past.
We are able to achieve this primarily because we don’t carry substantial overhead and we don’t mark-up consultant day rates, the client negotiates contract rates directly with the resource we find for them on a simple low cost finder’s fee basis, be it an interim or permanent resource requirement.
Typical Resourcing Cost:
Interim: Fixed Fee Contract " No Agency Day Rate Markup"
Permanent: Fixed 10%
Quality People:
One of the keys to our success in resourcing the right people for clients has been the wealth of knowledge and experience of our associates, when you outline a role to us you will be dealing with someone with years of practical client engagement experience of industry and technology.
Also our associate approach to providing skilled resource has made the process almost completely self disciplining in terms of quality, associates have a keen vested interest in building trust and confidence with client and fellow associates as these relationships are fundamental to future client collaboration, projects and engagements.
Where a candidate is sourced outside the associate network they can also be pre vetted by the introducing consultant and or an appropriately skilled associate to ensure the continued quality of the people resourced.
Key IT Skills & Resources include:
- Interim Management
- Cloud Computing Options
- IT / Infrastructure Systems Specification & Selection
- Program / Project Management
- Cross Platform Technical Resource
- Sales Channel Transformation
- Website Design & Search Engine Optomization
- Infrastructure & licensing Optomization
- Acquisition & Merger Transition
- Project/Contract Review and Negotiation
Our Expertise: Our skills and resources are primarily focused around Business Management and IT with no bias to specific methodologies or technologies although many of our associates are certified in areas such as: Prince2, Six-Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Change & Risk Management, Compliance and Best Practice
On the technology front again we have no bias to any specific technology or vendor solution, although clearly many of our associates have specific expertise or backgrounds in a particular field or technology.
These could include but are not exclusive to:
The Consultancy & Interim Management space encompasses: ERP, MRP, Finance, Business Intelligence, SOP, CRM, Supply Chain / Distribution, Cross Industry Manufacturing, Warehouse Management, Bar Code & RF/RFID, Content Management, Mobile Integration,
Sales & Marketing, Life Cycle Management, Change & Risk Management, Compliance, Performance and Transition Management.
The Technologies space encompasses: B2B, B2C portals, Network Management, Security, LAN, WAN, Data Warehouse, Intranet / Extranet, Data Conversion, SQL, C++, J2EE, RPG, SharePoint, .Net, and Biztalk. Web Portal Design & Search Engine Optomization.
The Platform Space Microsoft, IBM, Oracle. SAP
Key IT Resources are also able to offer support in many other areas, including: Solution Rental / Outsourcing, Project Management, IT Project Funding, Lead Generation, Sales Training, Data Conversion and comprehensive evaluation and management of project success in terms of Return on Investment, Total Cost of Ownership and delivery of project objectives KPI's on time and budget.
Our consultants can call upon the Key IT collaboration network to identify the most appropriate resource for specific tasks, from many hundreds of mainly self employed associates. All of whom have many years of business and IT project experience across almost every industry sector and business / IT discipline.
Change Management: We also recognize that delivering efficient working practices requires business change that has to be planned and managed to ensure success. People drive business, not processes and our change programs help ensure that key benefits are recognized and willingly adopted.
Knowledge & Resources: With an emphasis on the (SME) Small / Medium Size business sectors, where budgets are often tight, results / return on investment critical, but skilled resources limited.
Amajor issue for many companies is the lack of internal skills and knowledge of potential options to initiate or manage effective change, or difficulty in finding the right independent, cost effective advice, resource and specialist skills as and when needed.
Resourcing: It became a logical step therefore to extend these expertise and extensive networks to the provision of permanent as well as interim and contract resource, ideally at rates that would prove attractive to HR and business management and highly competitive against traditional staff and head hunting agencies.
We have therefore chosen to base these on a straightforward search fee model that included interim, permanent and contract staff, resourcing fees can be as little as £250 for interim resource,dependent on the skills requirement and very unlikely to exceed 10% of expected salary for any permanent role.
We can maintain these fees because unlike the agencies you may have used in the past, the prime income source of our associates is through their consultancy engagements. With the network providing significant incremental and reciprocal benefits to our associates and their clients by delivering continuity of project skills and resources.
Client Benefits:
- Your requirement will generally be instantly understood by us
- We can access people who will never appear on job boards through our own extensive networks and our UK / International engagements and effiliations
- The cost to you is minimized because we don’t carry the overheads of an agency
- We are not restricted to limited vertical roles or system architectures, our associates cover almost every business and technical competence and resourcing can range from finding you an interim or permanent FD/ Sales Director to a .Net developer or project manager.
- Key IT also has access to all the major job boards used by agencies for identifying potential candidates. But unlike most agencies, we can also utilise our extensive business and IT experience to ensure that you only ever receive only the most appropriate CV's.
One of the Key principles of our approach is that we endeavor wherever possible to build a close working relationship with our clients to ensure a consistancy of quality in people and business processes that delivers rapid and sustainable returns on investment and a long term collaborative partnership with our clients.
Cost & Risk Reduction : The role of a prime Key IT consultant could range from full business process evaluation & transformation usually at highly competitive day rates or fixed price agreement, to the resourcing of appropriate skills for point solution in your business.
Key IT acts as a central network and control point for these resources, charging a low fixed finder’s fee for identifying and introducing appropriate resource for the task or project, be it on a contract, interim or permanent basis. This not only minimizes client costs, but also ensures continuity of approach, reduces the risk of scope creep and allows key objectives, timeframes and KPI's on any project to be defined and agreed from the outset.
Our associates are drawn from almost every business and IT disciplines, but with a common principle that all have at least 7 years experience in their chosen field. Most are independent business/IT consultants or interim managers with a cross section of board level P & L project experience in areas such as Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing, Business Intelligence and Technical Infrastructure. Consistant Quality: When you speak to someone at Key IT you will know immediately that they understand business and IT and that they have direct experience of running companies or departments and in selecting / implementing business solutions. If the first person you speak to does not have the immediate skills you seek he will know and put you in contact with an associate who does.
As a client you will be dealing with someone who fundamentally understands your business issues from the outset, who can provide objective unbiased opinion and can resource appropriate people to help you deliver your project in the most timely and cost effective way.
By contrast traditional consultancies and staff agencies are generally limited by the experience of their immediate in house skills and you may need to speak to multiple sources to find the skills you need. Agencies staff generally have little direct practical commercial experience let alone the specific industry experience you will find among our associates.
If you’re looking for permanent resource most agencies will also endeavor to charge you a high percentage of their first annual salary and if interim lock you into a contract with a high uplift margin to pay for their substantial overheads.
The KEY IT approach is one of transparent cost and proven skills
Common Purpose & Benefit: At Key IT we pride ourselves on bridging the gap between business and the independent consultancy community. By delivering skilled resources directly, we build long term client collaborations that benefit our clients and associates alike, removing cost by minimizing our overhead, which we can pass onto the client, whilst also maximizing our opportunity base through the introduction of other appropriate associate skills to meet changing client needs.
Controlling Cost: The simple competitive day rate / fixed price and fixed fee referral approach that Key IT has adopted allows us to provide our clients with a largely self disciplining network of high skilled people who they can then negotiate appropriate terms and conditions with for their project. Significantly reducing client costs and focusing responsibility where it should be, "between client and resource".
Note: Key IT Resources has now merged with the IMC Network The Independent Management Consultants Network Ltd please visit www.imcnet.co.uk
Our Unique Approach: Key IT offer a unique approach to delivering critical Business, IT skills and resources to industry by providing a collaborative network of Senior Independent Consultants who between them have hundreds of man years experience across very diverse industry sectors.
When this is combined with their own individual networks of proven and trusted colleagues and associates, there are very few project or skills requirements that we are unable to address