Contact databases - a practical guide to planning, developing, purchasing and making them work for you

Are you:

working in a voluntary and community organisation or consortium?
planning or developing a database, information management system or contacts management system?
frustrated by the choices and options?
confused about planning, procurement and project management?

Then this event is here to help.

The costs of developing and acquiring information management and/or contact management systems, especially across consortia, are significant and daunting. It's easy to make mistakes and end up with a system which is late, doesn't work properly or is underused.

Paul Ticher and Simon Davey, leading voluntary sector consultants in information management and databases, are presenting a one day conference on making databases work for you. It's an opportunity to learn, to network, to share ideas and experiences and to find out what everyone else is doing.

The conference will be practical, but not technical. It will focus on information management, planning, working with partners, project management, choosing a supplier (including ideas about technical solutions and products) and getting the best for your money .

Key topics will include:

How to achieve buy-in from everyone involved
How to produce a workable project specification (knowing what you want and explaining it to the techies)
How to select and contract with a supplier
Making project management work for you - being on time AND on budget
Choosing the right option for you - bespoke or off the shelf
Consortia, collaboration and change management

Full details of the next available seminar are available from http://www.paulticher.com/conference/

"What Preponderate uniquely offers is a link between local communities and local small businesses. This will benefit both and could provide a model for a wider, nationally based initiaitive based on these principles."

Our Focus and Recent Activities

What preponderate means to its associates and its clients. What it will mean to you.

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We work with clients of all sizes ranging from small to medium charities and community groups to the public sector, government departments and local small businesses across the UK. Our community activities are focused on areas local to our business activities, respectively Greater London, South East England, North West England and East Midlands.