Accidents CAN Happen. So Why Avoid the Subject?

The credit crunch was the worst global economic crisis in decades. Its impact upon the professional and personal lives of millions of people throughout the world was huge, and for many, catastrophic.

Here in the UK the credit crunch is no longer a front-page story, what everyone is talking about… But still, the fabric of so many people’s day-to-day lives is now markedly different compared to before the economic downturn.

But could the economic downturn have been better risk assessed?

How Ignoring the Realists Proved Disastrous
In the USA, several prominent business leaders have been criticised for ignoring the warning signs of the global economic collapse, the main plank of the critics’ argument being that those who warned of a possible crisis were shouted down. They were told to ‘Cheer up’, to ’Stop being so negative’… And how about this little chestnut: ‘Risk management is for losers. It’s not cool. What’s more, to bang on about risk management like this is SO defeatist and just takes things in the wrong direction. Believe in success, and that’s what you’ll get. Kapish?’

Hmm…

Why It IS Cool to Risk Assess
If someone were to ask you what is the weakest link in your supply chain, what would your answer be? Is it a question you’ve been confronted with before? Are phrases such as risk assessment, risk management and disaster recovery simply too scary? Or perhaps, with everything else you’ve got on your plate, you feel you just can’t find the time to think about all that ‘negative’ stuff right now.

Why not leave it to a risk management expert, then? A specialist company like InterSys who knows risk management, risk assessment and disaster recovery inside-out and has a proven track record in protecting businesses large and small across the UK from the UNTHINKABLE ever happening.

The Benefits of Letting an Expert Risk Assess Your Business are Massive:

1. Avoid potential disaster for your company by identifying the weak links in your supply chain

2. Put in place a business continuity plan so you can continue to trade without missing a beat

3. Avoid the blame culture that erodes team moral at so many companies after a disaster

4. Find quicker and better ways to work through having an experienced risk management and IT consultancy evaluate the potential risks to your business – many companies find by getting an outside objective view of their business, they discover new ways of working that help them work more effectively (and profitably!) as a result

5. Enjoy getting on with actually running your business, without having that nagging worry at the back of your mind, that voice that whispers But what if something goes wrong?

InterSys are risk management experts who work thoroughly yet quickly and decisively. By turning to us you can relax and simply leave all that scary ‘risk stuff’ to a risk management company other such companies look to for guidance and advice.

Cool or what?!

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Brochure Design by InterSys. Taking Brochure Design Further.

Great company brochures help generate great profits. Fact.

Here’s why:

What a Fantastic Brochure Can Do For YOUR Business
These days, sometimes it seems as if all company marketing is done online through Web pages, articles, blogs, e-mail campaigns and social networking marketing options. But what about print? Is the brochure dead? Are flyers, leaflets, booklets and inserts now defunct? Are catalogues extinct?

Au contraire!

For businesses everywhere, print marketing is still an important element of their overall marketing strategies. In fact, print is essential. And nothing has the potential to raise your company’s offline profile, convey your key messages, win new clients, and boost your profits more than having a professionally designed and produced company brochure. 

Why Brochure Design Isn’t All About Irresistible Images and Sparkling Text
The talented brochure design team at InterSys in London aren’t just wonderfully creative, they’re business savvy, too. They bring commercial know-how to the brochure design process, with the core aim of ensuring that you, the client, see some actual results for your money once your new brochure is ‘out there’.

Your brochure from us will be:

- Vibrantly designed and visually appealing from cover to cover
- Unique: We don’t copy other companies’ ideas, we prefer to create exciting and original ideas instead. Otherwise, what’s the point?
- Appropriate for your market: We research, research and research until we’re confident your brochure from us is exactly the right one for your market
- In keeping with your current branding (or we can redesign your corporate identity from scratch, if your wish!)
- Persuasive: Your brochure from InterSys will come with professional copywriting included: honest, engaging and effective text that will powerfully promote your company’s key messages, image, and products and services to your target audience.
- Affordable: Your brochure won’t cost you an arm and a leg. We structure our brochure design and production prices so that start-ups and SMEs (as well as large corporate companies) can get a brochure produced to a world-class standard, but at a price that won’t break the bank.

Let Us Help You Gain a Competitive Edge
The core aim of your brochure from us will be to help you gain a competitive edge by setting you apart from your competitors – making you the first company people contact when they’re looking to buy your particular type of products or services.

What to Do Now
As a start, please take a look at the Pharmaceutical Insurance Ltd (PHIL) brochure sample here. Then, simply get in touch!

The Easy, Worry-Free Way to Control Your IT Support Costs

IT problems don’t last for ever, so why should IT support contracts?

So many IT support companies offer a ‘relax, you can leave all your IT problems to us’ service, but then expect you to be tied into an expensive, unnecessary support contract you can’t get out of.

At InterSys, the IT support we can offer you does away with all that. Thanks to our flexible payment options, you can choose between Pay-As-You-Go, Contract or Non-Contract payment schemes.

About Pay-As-You-Go IT Support (and How it Puts YOU in Control)

So many of our clients choose our Pay-As-You-Go option because it means they only pay for the IT support they need, when they need it, rather than having to pay for a whole year’s cover, whether they have an all-year-round IT support requirement or not. They also like that they have been given the choice.

Better IT Support

Offering excellent IT support is not just about having the expertise to handle any kind of IT issue relating to the very latest industry hardware or software. It’s also about solving problems that can arise with older systems.

At InterSys, we recognise that not every company can afford to upgrade their IT system each year. Are you ‘making do’ with an older system right now? If so, do you find it a nightmare trying to source IT support services that can deal quickly and effectively with any problem that crops up with a legacy system, or an older version of a server, database or operating system?

Why not just leave it all to InterSys?

Find out more about Pay-As-You-Go

As well as having an in-depth knowledge of modern IT systems, we have the experience and the expertise to get your older IT system up and running again in no time (and sometimes with absolutely no down time for your business). Unlike other ‘IT Support Specialists’, we don’t run a mile as soon as someone says ‘older system’. We relish the challenge! And, what’s more, you’ll pay for the work carried out, and no more.

To find out more about flexible IT support (the InterSys pay-as-you-go way!), simply get in touch.

Don’t Just Accept the Website Design You’re Given. GET THE WEBSITE YOU WANT from the Talented InterSys Website Design Team.

Do you need a good website? One that could help: raise your company’s profile, win you more business, and boost your profits?

Great! InterSys can provide you with exactly the website you need.

Your website from us will be:

- Eye-catching

- Effective, and

- AFFORDABLE

But, most importantly, it will be your site.

Please allow us to explain…

Including You At Every Stage of the Web Design Process

These days, to compete in business, you need a really good website. It’s a ‘no brainer’. To be invisible on the Internet is simply not an option.

But that doesn’t mean your online presence (how you present yourself on the Internet through your website, blog, etc.) needs to be placed completely in the hands of web design geeks who’d much rather try to blind you with science than listen to you, include you in the design process, and be responsive to your opinions and suggestions.

InterSys do all that (the listening to you, keeping you in the loop bit, that is!)

What You’ll Get For Your Money

- A unique bespoke design

- Simple and clean layout

- Irresistible photography

- Sparkling text

- Exciting Flash animation

- Powerful database and e-commerce solutions (if that’s what you need)

- And much more…

Web Design that Won’t Break the Bank

A website design from InterSys can be created to suit your budget. You’ll like our enthusiasm and our flexible approach. You’ll also like that we get the job done on time and on budget (many web designers deliberately push projects over budget, leaving the client in an impossible position of having to pay up or face having no online presence until they do).

That’s not the way we do things at InterSys. When it comes to the design and delivery of the right website to meet your specific needs, your complete satisfaction is our aim. After, it’s your website, not ours!

Take a look through our website design portfolio, and then get in touch!

Business Continuity Planning from InterSys – Are You READY For This?

“It might never happen, so why worry about it?”

“Plan B? There’s is no Plan B.”

“Everybody chill. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”

“Believe me, guys, it isn’t possible to be one step ahead in this game.”

Oh yes it is. Why do you think some businesses survive a catastrophe, while others never recover?

It’s all down to the P word, folks – Planning. Well, business continuity planning, to be exact. Something smart companies do. And something InterSys are experts at.

Business Continuity Planning – It All Starts With, Err, Woody Allen

That’s right. Woody Allen once famously said that ‘Eighty per cent of success is showing up.’ That may be true in the entertainment industry, Woody, but in IT, 95 per cent of success is planning. Not just planning for success, but also having contingency plans in place should a disaster strike one day – the kind of disaster that puts IT-orientated businesses large and small across the world out of business, for good.

4 First Steps to Brilliant Business Continuity Planning

1. However great your team, and regardless of how much faith you have in them to respond like a crack SAS unit should the proverbial ever hit the fan, still plan ahead.

2. Don’t just have some vague Plan B in a dusty old file somewhere in the back office. Keep your continuity plan ‘in your head’, by always being mindful of the fact that disaster can strike at any time, and to any business.

3. Have your team primed and prepared, with each team member being 100 per cent clear on what’s expected of them should disaster strike.

4. Schedule ‘exercises’ at intervals throughout the year. Prepare for the real thing by simulating it as closely as you can, learning from each exercise, and then fine-tuning your business continuity plan accordingly.

Talk to InterSys About a Business Continuity Plan for Your Company TODAY

Great planning is about great people. YOUR hand-picked, talented and committed team. Now add to that team by getting in touch with InterSys – a proven Business Continuity Planning Specialist  who will work with you to develop a ‘bullet proof’ business continuity plan that is specifically tailored, completely actionable, and leaves you with nothing less than complete peace of mind.

Go Go Go!

Use InterSys Emailer Software to Generate More Traffic to Your Site, and then CONVERT

Have you heard the news? The telephone is history. Well, it is where businesses effectively keeping in contact with their customers is concerned.

These days, e-mail is king. When it comes to direct-response marketing, ROI on email marketing is greater than any other method.

Through launching an email marketing campaign for your business, you could:

1. Tell customers about your products and services

2. Promote any discounts/special offers you may have

3. Share your latest company news

And more…

InterSys Email Marketing Techniques that WORK

Email newsletters (sometimes called e-newsletters or Emailers) are also a great way to point your customers to your website, blog, articles, and your pages on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter -  helping to increase public awareness of your company, whatever your product or service.

Launch an Email Marketing Campaign That ‘Targets’ a Specific Holiday or Event

When it comes to managing a successful email marketing campaign, a  powerful technique is to send out your e-newsletters at regular intervals (but without bombarding your audience).

For example: as well as seasonal issues, you could target Bank Holidays, Easter, Christmas etc. Or how about targeting dates and events that are specific to your particular product or service? For example:

1. If you sell slimming products, you could launch an email marketing campaign to coincide with New Year, just as countless people across the UK are making a New Year’s resolution to lose weight.

2. Are you an online florist? How about an email marketing campaign pitched at the right time to offer people an ‘easy way’ to order their Mother’s Day or Valentine’s Day flowers?

3. Imagine a carefully thought-through and well-executed email marketing campaign designed to capture the mood of the nation on the eve of the football World Cup. If you are an online business selling England football shirts and other gear, you could make a killing.

InterSys Can Help You to STAY CONNECTED

Exciting email marketing campaigns can help your business to retain your connection with and stay in the minds of your customers (by regularly being in touch). What’s more, with every e-newsletter you send out, you are sure to catch the attention of new potential customers. This could help you to win new business, and increase your profits. And if you are a charity or a not-for-profit organisation, you could convey your key messages to a widening audience with every campaign you launch.

InterSys Could Design a Unique Emailer Template for Your Business

InterSys can offer you email marketing software that delivers results. Why not let us design and deliver an e-newsletter template that reflects and complements your branding? Even better, your emailer template from us will be designed so that your staff can easily add content without compromising the template’s layout and design.

Find out more!

Supply Chain Risk Management Software from InterSys – Safeguard Your Company NOW

If there is a weak link somewhere in your supply chain this could do considerable damage not only to your business, but also to your business’s reputation. And you don’t want that.

It’s true: one vulnerable supplier could mean that everything you have toiled hard to create and build up over a number of years could all be jeopardised or even destroyed.

The solution to protecting your business from potential catastrophe is to make a small, one-off investment in high quality supply chain risk management software – SCAIR – an effective computer program from InterSys which will allow you to:

1. Monitor your supply chain performance easily and affordably

2. Foresee any problems by taking steps to protect yourself from the loss of critical supplier

3. Isolate any weak links

4. Enjoy carrying on trading and progressing as a business without interruption

5. Uphold your reputation as an ethical company who delivers on time and doesn’t let others down

With all this and more, it’s not hard to see why SCAIR is the award-winning computer program the industry is talking about and even calling: ‘Supply chain peace of mind’.

SCAIR Supply Chain Risk Management Software – So Many Benefits

SCAIR’s intuitive flowchart-driven interface allows both Risk and Supply Chain professionals to map critical supply points and estimate exposures:

1. Ensure the security of your product supply chain by understanding where the weak links in your chain may be

2. Effectively manage your stock or alternative sourcing arrangements, and

3. Respond appropriately and decisively to failures in your supply chain

Invest TODAY in SCAIR – and then RELAX

Don’t lose a critical supply point through failing to put a supply chain risk safeguard in place first. By investing in SCAIR from InterSys you are taking a giant stride forward towards enjoying ’supply chain peace of mind’. As we have seen, other companies across the UK are already doing so.

Come and join them!

To contact InterSys:

Risk: +44 (0)845 094 8925

E-mail: info@intersys.co.uk

An independent panel of Risk Management professionals has a awarded InterSys a prestigious 2010 Business Insurance Innovation Award for our Supply Chain Risk Management Software: SCAIR .

“The Business Insurance Innovation Awards recognize leadership, inventiveness and ingenuity in products and services designed for professional risk managers”.

The award ceremony in New York will be attended by eminent insurance and risk industry professionals.

Professional Branding from InterSys

If your branding is poor, your sales will be. Why? Because poor branding design creates a negative message. Good branding design, a positive one.

What great branding should actually do

Differentiating your company from the rest on the Internet can be difficult to achieve. Whatever your product or service, to become the company customers turn to first you need a strong company identity and brilliantly designed marketing material to match.

Your offline marketing material needs to be equally good. After all, what’s the point of having a stunning website, blog and monthly ezine if your business card and letterhead are nowhere near as striking and effective?

How great branding is achieved

At InterSys, when a client turns to us for professional branding, our dedicated branding design team don’t just dive in and hope for the best. We prefer to adopt an all-encompassing approach. This includes: research, planning, purpose, intent, creativity, communication and function.

We will focus upon creating a design for you which will mean you actually see some results for your money once your new branding design ‘goes live’.

Branding design from us can help you to: raise your profile on the Internet (as well as offline), widen your client-base, win more business, and increase your profits.

Find out more

Don’t let your competitors get ahead of you simply by having better branding design. Catch potential customers eyes first by turning to the InterSys branding design team.

Tell us: What you want, where you want to go, and what key messages you wish to convey to your target audience. We will then pull out all the stops to ensure you STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD.

Get in touch!

IT (24hr): +44 (0)845 094 8924
Risk: +44 (0)845 094 8925
Fax: +44 (0)871 247 3997
Email: info@intersys.co.uk 

Outsourced IT Services from InterSys

If your business is simply too small to have your own IT department, but you would like one, then get in touch.

InterSys has a dedicated team of talented and vastly experienced IT professionals standing by to provide you with outsourced IT services of the highest standard, but without it costing you the earth. We can offer you a complete business solution at an affordable price TODAY.

Stay right where you are!

Through outsourcing your IT to us you can enjoy having the very best in IT services but without having to move to larger business premises or directly employing new staff.

Outsourcing your IT services to InterSys has so many benefits, it would be impossible to list them all here. But here are just a few reasons to add an exciting new IT department to your company, without even getting out of your chair:

PAY NOTHING – Pay no salaries or pensions to IT professionals you would be forced to employ directly, and avoid management overheads.

SAVE MONEY – No astronomically priced IT equipment to buy, and no staff IT training to pay for at all

NEVER GO OFFLINE – Enjoy an all-year-round service that never gets interrupted by staff holidays

FREE UP MORE TIME– That’s right. By leaving the IT side of things to InterSys, you can relax, safe in the knowledge that your entire IT operation is expertly taken care of. This will free you to focus upon other aspects of your business – the aspects you truly enjoy and do best.

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Thanks to our no-hassle IT department management program, a brand new IT department for your company is just a phone call away. Think of us as your ‘in-house team’. Businesses of all kinds across London are already thinking that way. They are enjoying the many benefits of outsourcing their IT to InterSys, and then not wasting another minute fretting over IT stuff ever again. They are controlling their spending, availing of affordable yet unrivalled IT know-how without limits, and, above all, enjoying ‘IT peace of mind’.

Come and join them!

IT (24hr): +44 (0)845 094 8924
Risk: +44 (0)845 094 8925
Fax: +44 (0)871 247 3997
Email: info@intersys.co.uk