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About UsBackground to the CompanyQuercetum Limited is a consultancy which was established in late 1992 and is staffed by very experienced consultants who have worked for a number of other consultancies. The head of the company is Geoff Toon, who has worked for the consultancy arms of four of the top 15 firms of Chartered Accountants, two of them as a director. The consultancy uses a mix of full-time employed consultants and freelance associate consultants, as we find that many experienced people in their 40's and 50's wish to be self-employed, although they are prepared to enter into a contractual relationship with us. We currently have a number of consultants on whom we would expect to call regularly, and many more whom we could call if the need arose. We also maintain links with some other firms of consultants whose skills are complementary to ours. We work to the highest standards, as a number of our consultants have previously worked for firms which were members of the Management Consultants' Association, and a number of our consultants are, or have been, members of the Institute of Management Consultants, as well as a number of other professional bodies, such as the British Computer Society. Further information, about our services, is included in this web-site, or you can contact us see Contact Details LocationWe are based in the North West of England, near the M62 motorway connecting Lancashire and Yorkshire. Manchester Airport, with its good international connections, is within easy reach. Whilst the majority of our projects are within 100 miles of the M62, we have undertaken projects as far afield as Almaty, in Kazakhstan, Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk in the Urals, and Kemerovo in Siberia. Background to the AuthorThe author is Geoff Toon, who set up this company. His career has been focused throughout on identifying business problems and identifying and implementing solutions. It has progressed from writing programs, through designing, developing, and implementing, systems, to advising boards on IT Strategy, with all levels of IT, departmental, and general management as well. His career has had three phases, namely: - computer systems development, during which he learnt how to analyse business requirements, develop solutions, deliver them to budget and on time, manage people, and control projects, rising to the position of project managing several projects at once; - big firm management consultancy, during which he learnt how to handle large clients, build and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, and undertake a wide range of projects, including: * provision of Strategic Advice to Boards of Directors, * a large number of IT Strategy and Computer Systems Selections, * all levels of departmental and project management, * control of major projects to successful implementation against tight deadlines, * provision of a wide range of advice on both IT and other topics, * business planning and other forms of general management advice, * quality projects, especially BS 5750 / ISO 9000, * investors in people and other human-centred projects; - independent consultancy, during which he continued with the same types of work but augmented by two other activities. The first was undertaking some work as an I. T. / MIS Expert for EU-funded projects in the former USSR, ranging from Kazakhstan, and Siberia, via Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, to Moscow and Murmansk. The second is that he provided general business advice to a portfolio of around 100 clients of British Coal Enterprise, for eighteen months prior to its privatisation, and, until May 1999, undertook similar work for the Merseyside Special Investment Small Firms Fund. CopyrightWe are happy to provide the information which is available within this site, but please note that all the information in this site, unless specifically indicated, is copyright to Quercetum Limited. Reproduction of the information, for internal use within your organisation, is permitted, but must identify the copyright. If you wish to reproduce any part of this information in an external document, permission must be sought. Contact details are available at the bottom of the Home Page. 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