Clients Say?
What our clients say about us. Here are a few comments from those clients that are able to talk publicly about the work we have done.
CN Bio – Life Science Business – Cambridge
“As a life science business developing innovative cell culturing equipment for drug discovery, we found we were struggling to complete projects when needed. We engaged Project Technologies to help us to move our project process and new product delivery forwards. Our consultant John Gordon worked closely with the team at CN Bio to help us tackle issues from portfolio alignment to business objectives, planning scheduling, risk understanding and product compliance.
Additionally we identified risks which had the potential to limit the growth of our rapidly expanding contract research business. A project management tool was chosen and implemented rapidly by Project Technologies to support this increasing contract research activity. This proved highly productive, improving project quote accuracy, project planning, execution and reporting. Time capture provided a clear picture of actual utilisation and control of margins. This allowed us to deliver a significant end of year surge and gave us the confidence to expand our capacity.
Project Technologies and their consultant are highly effective at getting to the nub of the matter, with their experience of a wide range of businesses they quickly grasped our needs, offering options to move forwards in a thoughtful and constructive way. They fostered a close working relationship with key members of the senior team while taking the time to coach many of our less experienced but highly skilled technical team members helping them to grow within the business. They have brought a solid practise in project management, alongside their commercial and technical contributions that has allowed the business to progress at pace.”
Dr David Hughes
CEO CN-Bio
www.cn-bio.com
“Every SME could benefit from working with Project Technologies and John. His breadth and depth of business experience, combined with his unique working style make them a hugely valuable asset to support a business through periods of change and evolution. I worked closely with Project Technologies to introduce a project/programme management system that hugely moved the needle for how my team were performing and delivering on technical projects. John personally taught me many lessons but non-more important than always stop and ask the hard questions whenever you can and challenge your assumptions when making key business decisions.”
Dr Tomasz Kostrzewski
CSO CN-Bio
Magstim – Medical Device Business
“We brought John Gordon of Project Technologies in immediately after the Company was acquired by US Private Equity backers when it became apparent that product development (in an organisation which had seen itself as a something of a “research” institution for 25 years) was in a bit of a mess. He gave an immediate assessment which proved very accurate, and then set about trying to fix it. That required bringing in new skills and also introducing better methods and processes. Along the way, he pointed out that preparations for transfer to a new building were off track and IT systems needed upgrading. I asked him to tackle those as well which he did successfully. In effect, he became COO for the site and operated in that guise for about six months, before we had the Nanny McPhee moment when we realised that we had now got the capacity to do it ourselves. A permanent MD was appointed from within the business and his team now includes two of the new people John had brought in as contractors. John was an excellent person to work with and I would be very happy to use him again or recommend him to others”
Steve Godber
Chairman Magstim
www.magstim.com
Farfield Sensors – Life Science Business
“I was deeply impressed. The product is sophisticated science. Few believed it was possible to embody the AnaLight technology. Project Technologies captured the market need and our capabilities. Their introduction of structured process greatly accelerated the product launch meaning we are several years ahead of our nearest competitors. Ultimately it has been the worldwide product sales which are the testament to the success of the project. Farfield have inherited not only a product but also a development process with a team trained to deliver. I am delighted.”
Dr Gerry Ronan
CEO Farfield Group Ltd
Applied Curing Technology – Industrial Process Equipment
“Breaking into the large corporate market as a young business is difficult. Our consultant helped us to punch above our apparent weight and secure further orders by keeping to contracted delivery dates. We were helped to build sound project based processes. We benefited from a mix of both project and technology input balanced to the needs of our business. Project Technologies helped us to generate a reputation for meeting challenging customer specifications and delivery requirements.”
Ken Soper
MD Applied Curing Technology Ltd
Neocare – University spin out imaging and sensing
“This was an exceptionally successful project being delivered on time and on cost due in no small way to the management skills and technical contribution from Project Technologies. The product was ill defined and the team unfocused before we engaged with our consultant John Gordon, it is remarkable what was achieved in the timescale. I would recommend Project Technologies to anyone.”
Chris Unsworth
MD Neocare Ltd
Sencon, Interim Assignment Product Development/ Portfolio Management
“During a busy time for our business at Sencon, in a challenging economic market place, a key member of our management team became unavailable to the business for approximately a year due to personal issues. We needed an interim consultant to manage our product development team of approximately 10 in house personnel and additional subcontractors to enable us to continue the roll out of new product developments and the maintenance and enhancement of our existing product range.
We turned to Project Technologies for a solution and our consultant John Gordon. John quickly identified the large range of projects underway and helped to rationalise and prioritise the key projects against business/ customer need. Working with myself and the sales team this work provided a requirement/ budgeted cost against market return defined for each project in the portfolio against which we could focus our team and develop plans for an aggressive new product delivery target. This also allowed us to resolve an outstanding backlog of change and upgrade issues required on current products in the field.
Project Technologies were not afraid to address the difficult questions that allowed this rationalisation during an important time for the business and to suggest alternative approaches to the challenges in hand. John brought an improved project management methodology and order to the projects with which he was engaged, worked closely with our engineering team to produce good results. This has been continued in the business.
John’s input and team leadership helped us to maintain good progress, complete key projects and achieve good business results in that and subsequent years. He worked closely with our returning development manager to ensure a smooth hand over at the end of the interim assignment. I was delighted with the outcome and would look to support from John and Project Technologies again in any future time of need.”
“Keywords: High Integrity, Professional, Great Project/ Portfolio Manager, Reliable, Committed to delivery, Understands the needs of the business, Innovative, Supply chain management.
Paul Craddock,
Managing Director, Sencon UK Ltd
sencon.co.uk