van Helsing Ltd. was formed in 1995 in order to provide business development services and tools to technology based companies both large and small. In the delivery of services we make use of new media and e-Business. We offer services in situ at your premises or remotely by electronic interchange. Our practitioners have a wide range of experience in winning, developing, managing and marketing ICT-based R&D applications in both the civil and military markets here in the UK and overseas.

Our interventions are undertaken in knowledge-rich environments in both the private and public sectors; they effect organizational culture change and the results manifest themselves in improved operational effectiveness and sustained business growth.
 
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1995 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 have worked extensively with the WDA.
1996
At Cebit'96 On behalf of the WDA we have 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 have included CEBIT (Hanover), COMDEX (Las Vegas), Asia Telecom (Singapore), NEPCOM (Kuala Lumpur), GBOC (Osaka).
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.
1998
The New South Wales delegation 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 and Osaka. Visit to Maritime Dynamics


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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.
In parallel, we began to invest 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. Link to our EC Research Involvement
During 2000 and 2001 the majority of our effort was concentrated on SaFES and our community based interventions.



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2003

Link to the SaFES trial Report 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.
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.

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.
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.
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. 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.

For further Information E-mail: jan.wademan@vanhelsing.com

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