QS Newsletter 40

HE L P I NG YOU I NFORM , PERSUADE AND I NF LUENCE – C r Monos Foundation is a charitable organisation that aims to promote Christian values and foster a monastic spirit across society. Based at Mount St Bernard, in Coalville, it runs a tearoom which plays host to several local groups as well as arts and crafts workshops and other community activities. It also runs courses on physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing and gives local artists an outlet to sell their creations. Monos has had several different websites since it was founded in 2004, but its founders felt that none of them represented the organisation’s aims adequately or showcased what it did. Before lockdown, it appointed Quiet Storm to design and develop a new website with some ecommerce functionality, to allow visitors to secure their place on events and book tables in the tearoom. Monos Foundation Director Anthony Grimley said: “I’ve been very impressed with the work Quiet Storm has done for us. Our new website gives us a life beyond our physical location and will allow us to reach a much wider audience.” Helping Monos to expand its horizons Bringing Hope to quarry consultation The Breedon Group is one of the UK’s leading construction materials suppliers, producing cement, aggregates, asphalt and ready-mixed concrete for use in a wide range of industries. Does your business need VISION? Its Hope Cement Works is the largest cement making operation in the country, employing 200 people and contributing £61m to the local economy annually. In September, it carried out a public consultation on its plans to apply for an extension to the terms of its existing planning permission, to bring additional raw materials to the site by rail. It held several face-to-face exhibitions with people in the surrounding villages and local organisations and groups on the proposals. However, because of social distancing measures and restrictions on public meetings due to coronavirus, it tasked Quiet Storm with creating a 360° virtual tour of the exhibition which allowed those who couldn’t view the proposals in person to do so online. Andi Hodgson, a communications consultant who worked on the project, said: “The virtual tour Quiet Storm created for us enabled us to reach a wider audience and get the proposals in front of people who wouldn’t otherwise have been able to attend because of COVID restrictions.” To find out more about how VISION 247 can help your business grow, call us on 01530 510810 or email info@quietstorm.net Having the right digital tools in your armoury will go some way to determining your success as lockdown restrictions start to ease, and demand begins to pick up again. We have created VISION 247, our bespoke enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool, to help businesses of all sizes improve productivity, manage employees, keep on top of sales and orders and deliver better customer service. Hosted in the Cloud, VISION 247 gives users access to a suite of digital information management tools that keep track of the KPIs that matter. It provides directors and senior managers with a holistic view of the way the business is performing and joining up the three core functions of sales, operations and finance. It enables businesses to achieve a competitive advantage through identifying the small, incremental changes that can be made to have the most significant impact. Best of all, it can be implemented without any costly hardware infrastructure and maintenance requirements, giving you the capability to manage your IT environment fully. Gareth Henson, Managing Director of Torex Europe, said “VISION 247 helped the company adapt to a new way of working throughout lockdown. Our people could work from home almost as easy as they could at their office desk. This was because all the crucial business information was in our digital management system.” Growing a business was challenging enough before COVID-19 strangled the economy. As we start to adapt to a new normal, growing a business post-coronavirus will be even harder.