Though Leadership

If you’re looking for advice about the future there are a few things you’ll want to be sure of.

You’ll want to know that your would-be advisors spend time in the places where change is happening, and talking to the people who make it happen. It would help if they were running the occasional workshop themselves. It might also help if they could understand what’s going on at the sharp end of your business, and see the challenges that people on the ground have to deal with every day.
In fact, what you need is someone who can very quickly become expert at doing your job – and then help you do it better.

At AWS we don’t want to replace the IT department, but we can give it the extra capacity it needs to deal with critical issues. It’s an attitude that keeps our customers coming back for more, again and again.

Because our best results have always come through partnership, and by working closely with the front line of our client’s business. That could mean doing marine trials of a fishing vessel safety system with the RNLI or putting our team into a brownfield construction site.

Whatever it means, we’ll do it, because until we understand precisely how and why the job is done, we don’t write the software.

If that sounds like the right approach for you, give us a call today – and find out why our clients are so keen to keep in touch.

 

 

Technology

Like your business, technology is a moving target.

Today’s innovation becomes tomorrow’s cliché – and the future can deliver both more and less than you expect.

You need to anticipate the trends. You need to know which technology could deliver real business benefit – and be ready to take advantage of it.

And to do that, you may want a little help…

What does your business actually need?

Never mind the technology.
Never mind the buzzwords.

You have targets to meet. Clients to satisfy. Visions to fulfil.
You want to know how technology can help.

Wouldn’t it be great if technology worked for you and with you, instead of giving you another set of change management problems to cope with?

We don’t just think that’s a good idea. We think that’s the future. And that’s why we’re advising companies like Microsoft.

How it can help you

 
If you’re looking for good advice, then you need to be sure that your advisors understand your business. Ideally you’d want a virtual R & D team pretty much on call.

And it would help if they had a very clear idea of the developments just over the horizon – enough to steer you towards the ones that were likely to work, and away from the ones heading for the junkpile.
If you call AWS, that’s just what you’ll get.

We’ll work with and alongside your own team. We’ll take the time to understand the challenges that face your organisation. And we’ll help you to find precisely the right approach, and the right technology, to meet and master those challenges.

You’ll find that we question, and influence, your thinking. You’ll find we alert you to new ideas and new opportunities. And you’ll find that we can bridge the gap between new technology and the real requirements of your business.

How it has helped others

We have provided thought leadership in a number of leading edge projects;

  • A portal for the education sector, launched by Tony Blair
  • A sea safety system for the RNLI in response to their challenge of saving more lives at sea
  • A location-based service that uses GPS for surveying crops
  • A system for ordering aircraft spares
  • Pay and bonus calculation systems in the retail trade
  • A management system for a paging network
  • A management information and reporting system for the RNLI
  • A car dealership system with links to AutoTrader
  • A livestock trading system for a major agricultural company
  • A web-based stock enquiry system for a book retailer

Why not contact AWS and discuss your challenges?