Why Your Company should be Competency Profiled

WMCCM provides a  competence profiling service for Companies within the  UK. This used to be a free service but as our EU funding for this has now ended, we make a charge of £250 for the service. Over 400 companies have been competence profiles. WMCCM will capture your unique ‘Skills and Capabilities’ i.e. what you CAN do as well as what you do now, and make that available to potential partners to help address opportunities in new high growth markets

Focused searches for skills & capabilities among other regional SMEs can be easily performed giving you the tools to form virtual teams and partnerships to address, undertake and sustain new business.

Collaborate and communicate with your partners and customers using the free, secure on-line project spaces. These can be used to create virtual filing cabinets for projects with partners, customers & suppliers that are accessible from the internet.

Join, or create communities of interest (clusters) to explore business and technical issues relevant to your company. An example is the 42v Automotive community funded by Accelerate.

Many other tools and functions such as online catalogues, auctions, and bazaars are also available to profiled companies.For more information on the West Midlands Collaboratice Commerce Marketplace see the Introduction page.
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The Competence Profiling Process
How WMCCM can assist Your Company

• There are a number of Standard and Additional WMCCM intervention activities to be carried out during this the competence profiling process. The Standard components / activities are:

• • Competence Profile Capture
  • Refinement of Competence Profile
  • Training in the basic operation of WMCCM
  In addition to the core profiling activities, additional activities are offered, usually from a predefined number of standard options. The needs and requirements of each SME are assessed through the Competence Profile Questionnaire.Additional assistance can include one or more of the following.
  • Create Project or Customer Space (Extranet)
  • Set up a Company Intranet
  • Create a Cluster
  • Setup a Online Catalogue
  • Create an Auction
  • Create an Bazaar
  • Develop new Business
  • Advice about moving to Broadband Internet access.
  • Advice on security.
  • Help ot get further funding, and support.
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Profiling Visit and Questionnaire

The initial company analysis will be divided in the following categories:

Company Background

• When was the company established
• How many employees does the company have (part-time and full-time)
• Provide reference customers
• What is the rate of financial growth in the last five years
• Annual turnover of the last five years

Products / Services

• What are the products / services
• What markets do you sell to
• Industrial sector (automotive, electronics, clothing, etc)
• Geographical sector (West Midlands, UK, Europe, Global)
• What percentage of products / operations would you regard as ‘runners’, ‘ repeaters’ and ‘strangers’
  runners – high frequency (every day);
  repeaters – medium frequency (once per week / month);
  strangers – low frequency (yearly / rarely)
• What are the companies inputs
• What type of materials do you use
• What type of information do you use (e.g. CAD data)
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People

• What are the 5 key people in your company and what key skills do they have
  (key people – people that add significant value to the final product by providing particular skills)
• Who would typically use the WMCCM system to identify new business opportunities?
• What should be involved in the job quotation system
  (who should be the estimators)

Processes

• Identify your 5 key / unique processes (key process – processes that are critical
  to the companies survival; others do not have; and are difficult to imitate)
• Identify your 5 key/ unique process skills (key process skills
  – skills that are involved in your key / unique process skills)

New Potential

• Identify 3 potential applications that you can foresee transferring to
  products that could be aimed at different industrial or market sectors)
• Provide 3 case histories of transferring different applications
  (case where market or industrial sector has changed)

Qualifications

• Name any standards that you have been awarded
• Provide references to customers

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