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This CCM website continues to be updated and maintained by IDL staff at WMG and volunteers from the original WMCCM consultants. To see the latest thoughts of the Team and how the Collaborative Marketplace continues to be relavent to SMEs visit the CCM Blog.
Individual team members often Blog on their areas of special interest and you should find links to their Blogs in their entries below.
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Dr. Jay Bal, Director of WMCCM
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Dr. Jay Bal is the Director of the WMCCM and is also Director of the InterLean e-business centre at the University of Warwick, Coventry UK. He has a first degree in Electronics, an MSc in Integrated Circuit Systems Design (UMIST) and a PhD in Knowledge-Based Systems (Warwick).
Dr. Bal is a founding director of the Virtual teaming association and a special advisor to the Commonwealth Secretariat on SME Business Development. He is a frequent speaker on e-business and strategy issues related to SMEs. The work that he did with the Government of Tuvalu has been awarded the Sunday Times Internet Innovation of the year (2000). |
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Tuhin Ahmed, WMCCM Manager | Offshore Partnering Lead
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Tuhin Ahmed is a Project Consultant for WMCCM. He holds a BEng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering and MSc(Res) Masters in Electronic Engineering from the University of Warwick. His industrial background includes 3 years experience developing electronic safety systems and Computer Aided Engineering (MADYMO, Hyperworks) to develop airbag systems for the automotive sector. Further experience includes website development and software development. As part of the WMCCM team he advises manufacturing companies on adopting advanced e-tools for tendering and project management, also e-marketing including website positioning and bespoke campaigns. |
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Grant Melrose, Project Consultant | CRM, Tendering, Construction & London 2012 Lead
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Grant Melrose was a Project Consultant of the West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace.
He was responsible for the www.ready-for-business.co.uk site on WMCCM,
which was designed to help Small Medium Enterprises to find and win business related to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
He continues to provide support for the site in his spare time.
He specialised in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems like SugarCRM and vTiger,
and in Web Content Management Systems (CMS) like Joomla.
Grant has now set up his own company, Business Tools Limited, trading on-line with the
Business2dot0 brand,
and he continues to specialise in CRM, Web CMS, Web-site Hosting, Search Marketing, SEO, and Email Marketing.
You can find out more about the company at business2dot0.com/about
and more about Grant's background at business2dot0.com/about/founder-grant-melrose.
Grant continues to work closely with the University of Warwick, providing project supervision for their WMG Masters Students,
so you can still see
Grant's Rant for some of his thoughts at Warwick Blogs.
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Mike Brown, Project Consultant | New Start-up Support Lead
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Mike Brown recently joined the West Midlands Collaborative Commerce as a Project Consultant, where he has particular responsibility for helping West Midlands based start-up companies realise their full e-business potential. See the Startup Support site.
Mike graduated from the University of Birmingham with a B.Sc. Hons in Physics, and has over 25 years industrial experience in a variety of marketing and project management roles. He also holds an Open University Professional Diploma in Management. His specific experience includes market and competitor analysis, market planning, company profiling, website development, and project management.
As part of the WMCCM team Mike advises companies on e-marketing including website development and search engine optimization (SEO), as well as adopting advanced e-tools for tendering and collaboration. Examples of websites that Mike has developed for start-up companies include: Getten Creative, Hotch Potch, JF Cleaning Services, Property Co., Property Post, Squisito, and Weldrite. |
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Dr. Nikos Armoutis, Project Consultant | Collaboration Research Lead
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Nikos Armoutis is a Project Consultant for the West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace (WMCCM). He holds a BSc in Production Engineering and Management (University of Crete) an MSc with distinction in Engineering Business Management (Warwick) and an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in e-Business for Engineering SMEs. As part of his EngD, he has been involved in several projects in identifying and assessing competencies in engineering SMEs with a view of forming collaborative alliances, virtual organisations. The ideas developed are integral part of the WMCCM and have been tested in more than 300 engineering companies, based in several regions of the UK. Nikos is also responsible for Framework Program 7 (FP7) tasks such as proposal development, consortia formation, and partner identification. For this purpose he maintains an FP7 portal available to all our members. He has undertaken several research and consulting posts around Europe and he is an accredited member of the European Federation of National Association of Engineers (FEANI). |
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Rob McGonigle, Search Engine Marketing & Google Adwords for CCM
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