Wheatstone Consulting Ltd - Services

We can quickly establish various parts of the consortia start-up phase, including legal, financial and overall organization and can also help consortia engaged in re-structuring, merger or getting established in new territories and legal jurisdictions.

From initial set-up (legal, financial, organizational assistance) to support for ongoing management and operation, and provision of the infrastructure services necessary for successful operation (web-based collaboration, mailing lists, etc.) we can manage the entire infrastructure thus freeing the group membership to concentrate on the achieving the objectives of the group.

What are Consortium Services?

Wheatstone Consulting offers a fast, flexible, and cost-effective way to form and run Trade Associations, Special Interest Groups, Commercial Standards Initiatives and consortia. We provide an infrastructure that meets the member management, meeting and working group management, specification development, consensus review, publication, and IT service needs of any group.

Consortium Operations
Wheatstone can perform overall management of a consortium's ongoing operation, or provide specific services as required. Typical operations services include:

     •     Strategic planning and implementation support
     •     Board, Committee and Working Group support
     •     Financial management and administration
     •     Membership management and administration
     •     Provision of "front office" functions
     •     Project management and coordination
     •     Meetings and Events

Consortium Infrastructure

We have developed a number of integrated systems designed to meet the various needs of consortia. These systems can be adjusted to suit the client's needs to present their own look and feel, control access to the information, etc.

This infrastructure service provides the foundational systems that enable consortia to establish a presence on the Internet, enable web-based collaboration and communication within a consortium, provide for membership and event management, and for document review. We are able to provide all hosting and integrate email and web services employing a relational database system. This provides both internet and intranet capabilities

Infrastructure Provision includes..

     •     Email services
     •     Web hosting
     •     Web-based collaboration tools
     •     Administration of access control systems for email, web, etc.
     •     Membership database
     •     Conference and event management tools
     •     Web survey and voting
     •     Online document review system
     •     Links to a number of Wheatstone Consulting resources that may be utilized by a consortia
     •     Newsletter editing and production.

Please contact us if you would like to discuss your company needs and ways in which we might help. And if we can't help you ourselves we'll try to direct you to someone who can.

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