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Peter Dickinson operates through KUB as a high growth business coach. Peter helps companies improve their performance by working with the senior management team to identify the vision, develop the strategy to achieve the vision and then go on to help them identify actions for implementing change. This is an action centred approach with the team agreeing to specific actions for implementation at the end of each meeting. 

Documentation is kept to a minimum as the empahasis is on analysis, uderstanding and action. Documentation for analysis uses one page documents to ensure that they are easy to understand and allow you to see the overall picture.

There are no reports. The support of a business coach means that change is driven at a pace decided by the company and a key part is that knowledge is transferred into the company so that over time key skills are gained when and where they are needed.

Over the last 8 years Peter has run the IT department of a manufacturing business and as a facilitator has helped to implement lean manufacturing and thinking in to production and the offices. On the IT side a recent project is to virtualise the server environment (go live Sept 2011) and move disaster recovery on to the cloud. Digital Media projects include moving the web site to Joomla for faster and easier maintenance and foreign language support. A European web site has been set-up and all spares can be purchased on the web. Close to launch, trade customers will be able to order products online. The online ordering system is being integrated into the main systems so that orders can go seamlessly into production with the web carrying out all the checks and balances. Proposed future developments include smart phone apps for the sales and engineering teams.

Supported a Care Home Group to move their IT on to the cloud as they have homes in Lancashire and Bristol.

E4A provides effective team building and group problem solving to all types and sizes of organisations as leadership, team building and group problem soliving are common skills required by all young and old. 

E4A provides enterprise challenge days to 11-19 year olds with days designed around the enterprise process using professional mentors and which meet the QCA guidelines. Products include an innovative Enterprise Jigsaw, Posters, a range of easy to understand Business Basics books. Peter is a co-author on all 5 books.

Recently launched Digital products for interactive group learning and action planning including profit improvement and managing digital media implementation. Several enterprise challenge days for schools have been successfully migrated to the interactive group learning environment. The profit improvement grid can be seen at www.e4a-uk.co.uk and the digital media grid at Implementing Digital Media.

Provided general business advice, coaching and specialist IT help including web site development projects to over 250 small and medium sized businesses in East Lancashire.

Facilitated two large networks of companies. The Digital Alliance was a network of about 85 digital companies in the North West. The Advanced Manufacturing Group was a network of about 80 manufacturing companies in the North West. The groups were funded by Business Link East Lancs.

The Effluents Services Group supplied waste management solutions to industrial customers and comprised of three divisions: Transorganics Ltd, ESL Industrial Waste Management and Marine. Budgeted turnover was £4.5m, £2m and £230k respectively and the Group employed 90 people in total.Following extensive analysis I made the decision that the receiver should be called in as a direct result of the major loss in turnover caused by the Foot and Mouth crisis.I started working for the Group as an independent consultant in 1994. In July 1999 the Chairman realised that drastic action was required after the departure of the Group Managing Director and the General and Sales Managers for Transorganics. I was appointed General Manager for Transorganics in the July and became the Group Managing Director in October 1999.

Transorganics was the leading land spreading contractor in the UK recycling industrial waste to agricultural land for the benefit of the environment. I was Interim General Manager as the permanent Sales Manager, General Manager and Managing Director were no longer with the company

ADSOFT was setup to provide consultancy services to small to medium sized businesses. Initially focused on assisting businesses implement and develop IT systems I developed into providing general business consultancy services whilst studying for an MBA. The MBA was completed in December 1998

Project managed bespoke software development. Product manager for two of the companies own software products and IT consultant.

Shell Research is part of the research division of Shell. Systems Designer included developing a network of Sun workstations and co-ordinated a self-help group of scientists. Designed and developed a number of scientific models and systems and provided post implementation support

The Electricity Council was the coordination body for the nationalised Electricity industry. Introduced the first IBM PCs into the statistics department. Specified, designed and developed a number of statistical models and systems and provided post implementation support.