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Our company was founded
by a group of ex-Ferranti International technology and business
development specialists. Our immediate aim was to link world-leading
technology/business processes with local organisations. The goal
was to stimulate economic growth and as such we worked extensively
with the Welsh Development Agency (WDA), then regarded as the premier
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The
newly formed van Helsing Limited wins a Technology and Innovation
contract with the Wales Innovation Relay Centre to support Welsh
companies in their EC bids for Framework IV Process Improvement
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On behalf of
the WDA we heightened the profile of many technical companies
from Wales by encouraging and supporting them as participants
on the WDA's stands at overseas
exhibitions. These exhibitions included CEBIT (Hanover),
COMDEX (Las Vegas), Asia Telecom (Singapore), NEPCOM (Kuala
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| 1997 |
Due to the background
of VHL's practitioners, we have a particular interest in working
with and encouraging software companies from both technical and
marketing perspectives. Our involvement with the Massachusetts Software
Council when Wales was the focus country provided insight to the
conception and growth of software companies. |
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1996 - 1998 saw us organizing
a series of international business-business
meetings and visits. Participants have been both private
and government sponsored. Inward missions have included: New
South Wales, GCS Pty, Intercel Pty, Utah Department of Economic
Development, KDR Pty, British Embassy and Consulate from Tokyo
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| 1999 |
1999
saw a change of emphasis for van Helsing Limited to providing
community based interventions in large private organizations
and multi-national consortia utilizing the extensive experience
of van Helsing's practitioners. |
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November
- Managing Director of van Helsing Limited wins Welsh Woman of the
Year in Science and Technology |
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December
- van Helsing Limited teams up with
Anglo Danish Consortium to produce innovative food safety product |
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| 2000 |
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parallel, we began to invest in the use of ambient intelligence
and e-working tools to aid in quality and safety. The SaFES
team lead by van Helsing Limited was awarded EC Framework
5 funding for prototyping an e-work food safety tool. R &
D projects have now become a significant part of our portfolio. |
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November
- SaFES consortium wins EC funding
to project coordinate the demonstration of an e-commerce solution
to food safety |
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During
2001 and 2002 the majority of our effort was concentrated on SaFES
and our community based interventions. Much of this
was in development of the design for the SaFES Knowledge Management
/ Software tool and its evaluation. As Project Coordinator, a considerable
amount of time was spent with project meetings, concertation and
of course EC paperwork! |
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July
- van Helsing Limited's Managing
Director is awarded the Chancellor's Medal at the University of
Glamorgan in recognition of her distinctive contribution to Enterprise
and Wealth Creation in Wales |
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October
- van Helsing Limited presents a paper [Abstract]
at the European Commission's New Methods of Work and Electronic
Commerce Conference - eBusiness and eWork 2001, at the Telecom Italia
Future Centre, Venice |
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The SaFES trial concluded successfully in
2002. Van Helsing's intellectual property interests in the
tool lead to discussions on its commercialization. It was
decided that one of the project partners experienced in the
food industry would lead the commercial exploitation. |
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April
- First Minister announces Janet Wademan, VHL's MD is part of the
line-up for his new Economic Research Advisory Panel (ERAP). The
panel will recommend a rolling programme of economic research to
help inform the Welsh Assembly Government's economic policies |
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October
- van Helsing Limited presents a paper [Abstract]
at the European Commission's New Methods of Work and Electronic
Commerce Conference - eBusiness and eWork 2002, in Prague |
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| 2003 |
The community based
interventions continued, while effort was being applied to the
wider application of the work done by van Helsing during the EC
project.
Meanwhile our commercialization partner was busy extolling
the virtues of the SaFES tool, considerable interest being generated
in France and Mexico.
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May
- Our MD's Inaugural Professorial
Lecture brings the reality, power, potential and threats of ICT
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| 2004 |
Our pioneering work in the private
sector was recognized by the Welsh Assembly Government with an invitation
to our MD to serve on the first Improvement Board within a Welsh
local authority. This is an innovative approach to process improvement
in local government - where in Wales a supportive model was chosen
over the more radical interventions used elsewhere in the UK. We
thus extended our work with community based interventions to the
public sector. |
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March
- Janet Wademan has been asked to share her Organisational Development
Knowledge with the Local Government Sector: an Innovative Intervention
to achieve fast yet sustainable results |
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| 2005 |
Between 1999 and 2005 our advisory role
to multinational companies has resulted in their winning significant
contracts with NATO and MoD. The knowledge management techniques
and SECI process that we apply has left a legacy of sustainability
via a fully fledged Community of Practice within their organizations. |
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| 2006 |
An interesting contract this year has been with the Wales
Innovators’ Network, an initiative supporting innovators to translate
concepts into commercial realisation. The knowledge economy depends
on a steady flow of innovation and creativity.
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June
- Janet Wademan is one of seven members to be appointed to the newly
formed Ministerial Advisory Group spanning the portfolio for economic
development and transport in Wales. |
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We in van Helsing have worked for many
years in creating IT based products from raw ideas and enjoy the
privilege of passing our experience on to this talented group of
inventors. |
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November
- The Chartered Management Institute, the leading organisation for
professional management makes our M.D. a Fellow in recognition of
her key role in management. |
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March
- Van Helsing addresses national conference exploring the role that
technology can play to facilitate collaboration and organisational
learning. |
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