HFX provides the latest cloud workforce management solution including Time and Attendance, Flextime, Annualised Hours, Access Control, Advanced Rostering and Workforce Design.

With over 40 years in workforce management and thousands of customers throughout the UK, HFX are the leading providers of next gen cloud based solutions including Time and Attendance, Flexitime, Annualised hours and access control. Our unique solutions include Workforce Design and EveryOneCloud enabling organisations to provide location, presence and attendance data seamlessly and in real-time through RFID, hand readers, finger and face recognition and via mobile/sms/telephony.

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Competition is everywhere; asymmetric, disruptive and coming from every angle. Companies need to go back to their roots and start innovating again. Success isn't a destination, it’s an innovation journey and once you stop innovating, failure isn't far behind. In “Business Innovation”, the author challenges the existing corporate structures and approaches that stifle innovation and risk the long term future of the corporation. Instead, the author suggests companies need to embrace a new collaborative “hive” structure and resist hierarchical and clone mentality (“A company of sheep will unleash a competition of wolves”).

Our vision is a harm free environment for every patient and every hospital. Our mission is to provide the tools that enable our customer to raise standards by highlighting gaps in training, learning material and in the nursing community. By providing deep insight, Nurse Directors and their colleagues can focus their resources and budget on the areas that need improvement. Nurse Excel is the culmination of over 6 years Research and Development working in partnership with over 80 health organisations. I joined the Board of as COO on a part time basis to help guide and advise the board on Strategy, Marketing/Sales, revenue models and Product innovation.

Our vision is an NHS whose safety record matches that of the aviation industry. We recognise that to achieve this level of patient safety will require new tools as well as new ways of thinking. Our mission is to make this a reality by providing real-time insight into critical metrics affecting patient outcomes. Ground Vision is the first solution to uniquely combine both patient Early Warning Scores with patient acuity and dependency driven staffing levels/mix providing an holistic approach to safe staffing, risk and patient management.

Consultancy on Innovation, Leadership, M&A, Development including prototyping and R&D

Autotime Solutions is the home of EveryOneCloud, the latest cloud based automatic timesheeting application and integration tool with support for many devices including Hand Readers, Face Recognition, Finger Print Readers, Cards/fobs/RFID.

Imperago have built one of the most innovative solutions in workforce design enabling clients to rapidly and easily create shift patterns for their staff that not only meet their business requirements, but also significantly reduce costs while providing "staff friendly" rosters. Our solution integrates into third party time and attendance systems including hfx and vanquish enabling customers to turn plan into action rapidly. Imperago are now part of HFX delivering the most comprehensive cloud suite on the market today.

Imperago Workforce Design provides a powerful 'what if' planning feature that enables managers to experiment with different scenarios so that they can see the financial implications before making changes to staff working patterns. HR, admin and finance functions are able to plan for short, medium and long term outcomes, confident that the system will enable the workforce to stay agile to meet current and future demand.

Vanquish Integrated People Solutions was rebranded Autotime Solutions and became part of the HFX group of workforce management companies.

Vanquish Integrated People Solutions is one of the UK’s leading developers of advanced workforce management solutions which help organisations to optimise their business performance through the efficient management of their workforce. Over 500 organisations of all sizes and sectors including Construction, Contract Cleaning, Recruitment, Retail, Logistics and Hospitality & Leisure rely on the company’s experience and expertise to support their management needs.

HFX is the leader in Workforce Management and in 1971, was the first to provide Flexitime working to the UK with a fully managed software solution and consultancy.

Kronos is a US provider of Time and Attendance solutions. SMART was successfully acquired by Kronos in 2012, and I worked with the Senior Management Kronos team for 6 months to ensure a smooth transition and integration of the SMART business.

Workforce-XML is an international non-profit open standards body dedicated to defining and promoting open standard communication between workforce management software and associated data collection devices. The vision is to reduce the cost of integration, increase functionality and improve quality of communication between data collection devices and workforce software enabling "Mix 'n Match" device architecture, hosting and SaaS models to be used and deployed without the need for further development.

SMART is a recognised leader in the healthcare workforce management market and provides solutions to a large population of National Health Service (NHS) customers throughout the UK such as Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, and Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. Whether installed onsite or delivered as a cloud services offering, the SMART product architecture enables organisations to focus on specific areas of priority and overcome workforce management challenges such as Working Time Regulations and specific scheduling requirements of NHS Trusts.• Operational hands-on Managing Director with P&L responsibility.• Acquired and integrated key competitor in the Health Market. • Implemented a Blue Ocean Strategy, Skunk-works and created a disruptive product for Health.• Increased win-rate, order value, revenue and profit.• Worked with the owner to achieve trade sale and exit.

SMART is a leading provider of workforce management solutions – including time and attendance, staff scheduling, and absence management. Hundreds of organisations in the manufacturing, services and distribution, retail and hospitality, and public sector markets realise significant savings through SMART workforce management.Responsible for multi-disciplinary teams in both operation and revenue delivery within the business including:• Customer and Technical Support• Product Development and Hosting Division• Professional Services and Project Delivery

Led a team of 18 developers working on Microsoft Technologies including C#, .NET and ASP.Net

Worked with Microsoft web technologies including ASP/VBScript/IIS/ADO

Worked with Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and Progress database technologies.

Worked with Microsoft Technologies (Windows, Server, Networking, Terminal Services) and Sybase and Oracle Databases