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Tools and Services for Active Collaboration VO Business Model VO Business Model There is much to do in building and running a conventional organisation and the body of knowledge about doing this is well established and documented. Although building and running an active www based collaboration such as a VO is no less complex an undertaking, the 'how' of doing this is not commonly known, understood or documented. On the positive side, our proven VO Business Model is available as an advanced starting point to assist you to build and run your own active collaboration through a web-based VO. Rather than re-inventing the VO wheel from first principles, consider using our VO Business Model as a resource. In consultation with your trusted colleagues, you can customise our VO Business Model to get a fast start to building and running your own www active collaboration. Our VO Business Model provides detailed templates from our pragmatic 'real world' experience of building and running a collaborative VO. These includes a range of governance documents from a Constitution to form your VO as a private company and a framework for your Business Development Plan, through to detailed operational material such as Call Records, Timesheets and Expense Recovery forms. More... about our Business Model. Central Billing System (CBS) The history of unsuccessful collaboration is littered with issues about The Money. More accurately; issues about the 'lack of money' in collaborations that were established on the basis of sharing profits, profits that were never made because they were eaten up by the collaboration's expenses! Our Central Billing System (CBS) allows you to remove this major concern about active collaboration. Our CBS is a MS Windows computer program that administers the complexities of the Customer Invoicing business cycle. CBS is an excellent business tool for handling invoicing, accounts receivables, accounts payables and supplier remittances, especially if some of the suppliers provide their services as contractors. One of the major strengths of CBS for Active Collaborations is the option to mitigate the financial risks associated with Payroll by treating the VO participants as contracted suppliers who are responsible for their own expenses. In addition to handling the conventional approach to invoicing, CBS has the option of setting up transactions to remit payment to suppliers as a '% of Retail' for products and as a '% of Gross Margin' for services sold. CBS also allows you to agree the Terms of Trade with your suppliers as settlement after receipt of payment from the VO customer. This is an extremely useful approach for people and organisations interested in Active Collaboration. Our free CBS Personal Edition (CBS PE) is a fully functional version of CBS that allows sole traders and small businesses to invoice and process payments received for their products and services for up to 5 different Customers, and calculate and remit their payments to up to 5 different Suppliers. More... for the Free Download of CBS PE and to learn more about CBS.Licence Fees for our Tools
We undertake configurations, implementations, customisations, content and document management at our Services rates. Services Our Services are for people and organisations seeking professional advice to inform, guide or support them in building, structuring and running a successful collaborative operation such as a Virtual Organisation (VO) or a Virtual Team (VT) within a conventional organisation or a Joint Venture (JV). Our services include: (The current schedule of Fees for our Services is available on request for 'serious' enquiries) More ... about our Services. Some free consulting advice about VO Websites The VO Approach is a powerful way for distributed suppliers to actively collaborate on the www in their mutual best interests to present their products and services to their target markets through a single, effective organisation. It is critical to the success of a collaborative VO that its Website presents their Customer Products and Services to their target markets AND also provides an interactive way of providing 'internal' Services to the participating members. A well designed, functionally rich and well executed Website can facilitate a VO's marketing and promotion as well as its internal communications and operations. We strongly recommend that you get serious about your VO Website sooner rather than later. To be successful, the Customer Facing side of your website must present your products and services powerfully to your target markets, and your Member Facing section must provide interactive Member services and act as your collaboration's 'Head Office' on the Web. More... about VO Websites Free Download: TLL Tools and Services (34kb .pdf Document)  Our Invitation: 4. Have a good look at our Tools and Services 5. Get Serious to see if we can assist. Active Collaboration; Empowering Virtual Organisations TLL is an Official Supporter of Mahe Drysdale; Outstanding Rower! |
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