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MyKnowledgeMap
37a Mickelgate, YORK, YO1 6JH
tel 00 44 (0) 1904 466081; fax 00 44 (0) 1904 659465;
web www.myknowledgemap.com
BL/MKM/14/07 9th August 2007
MyKnowledgeMap senior sales gains with regional office openings
With new offices opening in UK regions, knowledge systems specialist
MyKnowledgeMap (MKM) -
www.myknowledgemap.com - has made key appointments to its
commercial and public sector sales teams.
Business Development Director (Public Sector) Paul Wren joins the
company, bringing over 20 years further and higher education management
experience. This includes work in sector skills developments and
employer engagements such as 'Train To Gain' as well as executive level
involvement in the Retail Academy and Skills For Care (North East).
Colin Tait, who joins MKM as Business Development Director
(Commercial), fields over 20 years of sales, consultancy and course
delivery experience in the training industry with previous posts held
with Thomson NETg and Barclays Bank training division.
MKM has worked on high profile learning and development projects over
the past 12 months with major brand and institutional clients including
Tesco, the British Council, international town centre management body
IPM, and ALPS, the UK's largest mobile education project yet.
Business gains for the company's web-based learning, skills academies
and diagnostic suites has seen expansion of MKM's premises in York and
the roll-out of divisional offices in Manchester and Glasgow.
"Our output may be digital and therefore virtual, however its inputting
remains intrinsically human and with human needs," observes MKM
managing director Rob Arntsen.
"Physical expansion of premises has become inevitable as more join us
both in York and at new offices in major cities providing local level
support to our growing customer base."
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Notes for Editors:
Photographs of Colin Tait and Paul Wren are available on request
from Bob Little Press & PR (tel 01727 860405; email
bob.little@dial.pipex.com).
About MyKnowledgeMap
Founded in 2000, MyKnowledgeMap (often known as MKM) is a dynamic
company delivering web-based knowledge systems designed by individuals,
for the individual.
Operating in the corporate, public and education sectors, MKM's range
of products and services includes:
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Academies: MKM is the UK's leading supplier of infrastructure systems
for national skill academies, including those in the UK for food &
drink manufacturing, sport & active leisure, care, and retail. MKM's
e-academy infrastructure helps learners and people with a stake in a
particular skill to progress from entry to degree level. Working with
the UK's national Sector Skills Councils (MKM's clients include
Skillsmart Retail, Improve and SkillsActive), MKM has pioneered online
academies that can help people with everything from day-to-day
productivity to discovering and achieving relevant qualifications. MKM
also offers e-academies tailored to the needs of organisations in the
private and local government sectors.
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Skills
diagnostics: MKM's Skills Diagnostic suite allows clients to build
their own system of skills diagnosis and training regimens. Its
sophisticated software tools are designed to meet clients' specific
needs, and to facilitate, not impose, the required solutions.
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Learning:
MKM's e-learning solutions, including e-learning content, delivery
systems and teaching aids, are used by a worldwide and growing range of
organisations from Lloyds TSB to the RSPB; from manufacturing to
retailing; from the police to local authorities; from the University of
York to colleges in Delhi, Bahrain and Nairobi. MKM produces inventive
and versatile applications that are can be shaped and contextualised by
their users to meet the rapidly-changing needs of contemporary work and
training, either for use within an e-Academy environment or as
stand-alone products.
Further
Information from:
Rob Arntsen / Tom Holland/ Dawn Ritchie, MyKnowledgeMap 00 44 (0) 1904
466081
Peter Muir / Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR 00 44 (0) 1727 860405
