Simoco are the market leaders in wireless communications with in depth knowledge of voice, data, the internet of things, SCADA, Seamless Cellular to radio, telemetry and confined space engineering.We enable our customers to improve their business performance, safety, security, compliance through delivering tangible value and benefits.

NexKnow is a group of seasoned professionals each of whom has built a reputation of improving business performance across many sectors and often in highly adverse environments. Our hard-won experience forms the basis of our pragmatic, knowledge based approach to develop winning strategies and deliver performance improvements while ensuring business continuity. Our delivery method is people-centric facilitation and coaching. We support you, through sharing expertise, skills, techniques and methods that enable you to achieve the improvements for yourself. This facilitated approach not only realises the desired improvements but also increases the capability of your team for the future; it's also a highly cost effective approach. We have helped many organisations where their actual performance was seen as successful but was, as we helped identify, in fact below their true potential. This type of 'unseen' problem is often the most threatening to your future success.

Jo quickly came to grips with the position of this SaaS and professional services company made improvements across a range of activities. These included: - A new, innovative strategy that repositioned the product; - Led the corporate transformation program; - Attracted large international customers; - Grew Sales; - Reduced costs to ensure the Company remained a going concern; - Developed of new product offerings; - Maintained behaviours, morale and motivation through some difficult and challenging times.

Recognising Excellence in the Asia Pacific Region from companies in the Communications sector.

This was a hands-on role which and the results that Jo realised included: - New strategy to which all measures, process and people were aligned; - Increased sales to new target customers; - Reduced costs through lean and continuous improvement; - Secured sustainable relationships with multinational customers; - Improved business performance plus morale and motivation.

Jo was instrumental in rebranding the company so that it more closely reflected the product offering. In addition he: - Aligned all resources within the organisation including both the: - ‘hard’ elements, strategic alignment, KPIs, process, employment contracts, ICT; - ‘soft’ elements, such as culture, values, behaviours and motivation; - Implement new marketing strategies; - Reduced the time and cost of report production through Lean and continuous improvement; - Gained entry into new markets and multi-national accounts; - Closed sales with C level contacts within major telecommunications companies - Achieved repeat business through high levels of customer satisfaction.

Whilst at Hyperknowledge, Jo:• Developed and closed multi-million dollar sales in Europe and the US with some of the world’s largest organizations, including Citigroup, Progressive, Shell Oil, JP Morgan, Halliburton and also Government Departments, such as the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies, such as the NSA;• Developed the North American Division from scratch to $5m within eighteen months;• Built a highly effective, multidisciplinary team (22 people) in the US to which he then handed-over operations;• Built sustainable customer relationships which returned repeat sales.

Head of the Business Performance Improvement practice in the new consultancy services Division of Unisys Corporation.While working with external clients, I was seconded to direct the corporate transformation program across all three divisions.The project, which was based in Pennsylvania, achieved growth in corporate value through: - Implementing ‘Lean Six Sigma’ that reduce errors, improved quality and reduced cycle time for large, high value sales. - Implemented a new organization, with supporting systems, so that any issues could be addressed at the point where the issue arose. - Separated the high volume low value sales into a separate processing stream with an organization and processes tailored to that type of business.The improvements resulted in a 35% ($19m) reduction in operating costs whilst improving quality and customer service and satisfaction.

Undertook major transformation and performance improvement projects for major, international clients including Guinness, Chevron, Koc (Turkey), Philips (Pan European), Tarmac (UK), GPT, The AA plus Government Departments and Regional Health Authorities. Managed the West Midlands Performance Improvement Practice