Providing Independent Business Systems Advice
	Microguide Corporate Computer Consultants Ltd
Wyndham House 82 Shortlands Road Kingston Surrey KT2 6HE Tel: 020 8549 7152 Fax: 020 8549 8112 Email: ab@microguide.co.uk Web: www.microguide.co.uk

Background

Microguide was founded in 1987 from the Small Business Systems Consulting practice of Arthur Andersen & Co, a major international accountancy and consultancy firm, with a vision to provide relevant, professional and independent business systems advice to small and medium sized businesses.

Clients

Most of our clients are SME's but also include the operating or administrative departments of larger organisations. The typical characteristics of our clients include:

• Turnover - £2m to £150m
• Employees - 10 to 500
• Locations - UK, Europe & Worldwide
• Assignments - 1 to 100 consultancy days

A list of clients and case studies by sector are available at www.microguide.co.uk

Services

Our services are wide ranging and flexible and based on our proven approach. Each assignment is tailored to the client's needs and generally falls into the following principal areas:

• Strategy – the systems part of the business plan.
• Selection – structured approach to user requirements and software selection
• Implementation – attendance at progress meetings to project management.
• High Spot Review – rapid diagnosis and resolution of business systems issues.

For any organisation reviewing its business systems, Microguide provides expert and impartial guidance in assessing overall feasibility, specifying user requirements, making an informed selection from the vast choice available, ensuring supplier commitment and managing projects through to successful implementation.

Sectors

We have worked with clients in a broad range of industry sectors to deliver forward looking technology-driven business solutions. In the process we have developed a depth of expertise and experience in most industries allowing us to add value to the services we offer and suggest solutions with an appropriate sector bias. Our sector expertise includes:

Philosophy and Culture

Independence is fundamental to Microguide.

We provide independent consulting advice of the very highest quality to businesses of all sizes who are users or potential users of small to medium sized computer systems. The Practice has always offered completely unbiased professional systems guidance focusing on solutions that match our clients' requirements at the right price and on the best contractual terms.

Approach - building on best practice, we have evolved and continued to improve our proven approach with a set of knowledge resources that allow us to deliver excellence. Through their application, we have developed a body of knowledge and assets that are reusable. This lets us move with much greater agility and speed to climb the learning curve when working with a new client. When sourcing suppliers to meet client requirements we look for the right "gut feel" compatible with our clients' culture.

Accreditation - The practice is registered with the Institute of Management Consultancy (IMC) and approved consultant lists maintained by various Business Links throughout the UK. In addition all our consultants belong to relevant professional organisations including Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW), British Computer Society (BCS) and Institute of Directors (IOD).

For more information and a no obligation exploratory meeting contact:

	Microguide Corporate Computer Consultants Ltd
Wyndham House 82 Shortlands Road Kingston Surrey KT2 6HE Tel: 020 8549 7152 Fax: 020 8549 8112 Email: ab@microguide.co.uk Web: www.microguide.co.uk