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Emma Stevens

Office Manager

Emma has 27 years of financial and customer experience and brings processes and order to our office.

Emma's customer service knowledge ensures all of our clients office enquiries are dealt with professionally, efficiently and quickly. She will leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of a query!

When not at her desk Emma enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter as well running Brownies and Rainbows for Girlguiding UK in her local area.

Etienne Mermillod

Software Development Manager

Etienne is a seasoned ASP.NET Core Full Stack Developer. He takes great pride in building world-class applications while carefully considering the needs of its users and ease of use.

Originally from France, Etienne now calls Canada Home, where he is part of SBP Canada as a member of the API Solutions Development Team.

Etienne is a well-seasoned traveler and has visited many countries where he usually takes the path less traveled in order to backpack around and soak in the local cultures.

When not coding away, you may expect Etienne to be playing with his huge and fluffy dog Indianna or gaming away on League of Legends

David Bower

Smartsheet and AppSheet Consultant

David is an experienced Smartsheet Consultant, Customer Care Specialist and Client Account Manager.

In his spare time, David plays guitar, is learning to ride a motorcycle and, when it’s not too cold, can often be found tinkering in the garage. He also intends to learn to play the piano too - one day

Debbie Sawyer

Chief Smartsheet Solutions Officer (CSSO)

BSc (Hons) Computing, ITIL Foundation, Smartsheet Certified User, Aligned Sales Certified and Professional Services Certified.

Seasoned Smartsheet consultant and Training professional, Debbie’s creativity, attention to detail, willingness to deliver solutions to fully meet customer requirements and her personable manner earn her excellent client feedback.

When not working, Debbie likes to relax by spending quality time with her family. Living in the New Forest sees her taking many walks through the woods and down to the sea fronts at Lepe and Calshot. Debbie is also a keen hula hooper and has been hooping now for more than 7 years! She owns at least 10 hoops and enjoys a great workout helping her friend to run a hula hoop fitness class.

Dr James Harris

Chief Technology Officer

An experienced IT professional, James has worked for software companies as a Programmer and Test Analyst. He also has extensive experience as a Finance Manager. James brings an attention to detail and flair for problem solving to every project.

Outside of work, James writes comedy, and has had many television credits over the past couple of decades on shows such as Horrible Histories and Russell Howard's Good News. He retains a burning ambition to be as funny as his wife and daughter.

Ph.D. Biochemical Physics, IT and Accounting professional.

Gwen Rymill

Communications Director

Co-founder of Smarter Business Processes, Gwen’s multi tasking roles include ensuring our clients receive the very best in customer care, while responsible for sales and marketing and partner liaison. Just don’t expect to get the cup of tea she promised you!

Away from work Gwen enjoys cycling, pilates, tap dancing and just loves baking.

Richard Rymill

CEO

Co-Founder and Lead Consultant, Richard set up SBP in response to worldwide demand from businesses wanting to implement their own Smarter Business Processes. His rapidly expanding team of experienced Smartsheet and AppSheet Consultants and Trainers share the company's values of achieving improved efficiencies and collaboration by putting people first and releasing them from unnecessary repetitive activities so they can enjoy their work again and focus on what matters to them.

When not at his desk, Richard can be found cycling, swimming and when the opportunity permits, sailing and flying.

Smarter Launch Pad

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Using template sets within Smartsheet?

Remove the headache of setting up multiple assets manually every time a new activity is started. Smarter business tools that are affordable and flexible exist to help you manage your data flow to create Smartsheet solutions

Smarter Launch Pad is a cost effective alternative to Smartsheet’s Control Center

Use Smarter Launch Pad.

Smarter Launch pad with affordable smart benefits

Smarter Launch Pad is an affordable alternative to Smartsheet’s Control Center. It’s a quick and reliable way to spin up new assets such as project management sheets & dashboards, staff on boarding tracking data, order intake and execution sheets and data. In fact anything that can be set up in templates, can be automated to generate the full range of Smartsheet assets to streamline and embed smarter business processes.

Smarter Launch Pad is not as powerful as Control Center, and yet many users are happy with the functionality offered, especially when the cost can be as little as 10% of the alternative. Plus we don’t charge any extra for using multiple templates.

Simply start with a sheet of summary information, receive & approve the work request and Smarter Launch Pad will create and link a new set of Smartsheet assets based on your pre-defined templates. We make your launches easy to use and the benefits affordable.

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The benefits of Smarter Launch Pad

Finding one tool to set up all the assets for a new project can make the difference between a well run and successful project and one that is not. This is that clever portal.

Using Smarter Launch Pad you can create and name the sheets, reports and dashboards using Project specific data already stored.

Using Smarter Launch Pad Assets are triggered automatically therefore relieving bottlenecks in processes waiting for the PM to run their admin tasks.

Smarter Launch Pad creates hyperlinks to the newly created assets immediately for easy navigation.  These hyperlinks can be seen immediately on dashboards which saves time and eliminates potential for human error when manually grabbing sheet links.

Read on to learn more about this time saving app from Smarter Business Processes.

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How can this help an organization?

Managing projects with significant data flow – If you are looking for something like Control Center from Smartsheet, read on. Smarter Launch Pad is one of the apps from Smarter Business Processes that helps businesses and organizations involved in managing projects to gain consistency across multiple projects and project teams to enable Portfolio Visibility for Stakeholders.

Smarter Launch Pad has a user friendly interface which can be explained quickly by our experts – From the very moment you start assembling your first template set within Smarter Launch Pad, you will see the scope of possibilities that comes with the app . If you need consultancy help to build your template sets we can help you, alternatively with a quick handover from us you can configure the tool and your templates for yourselves.  Although we are always on-hand to help if required.

Read on to learn more.

Why is manually setting up Projects a headache?

  • Every time a new Project is requested, someone needs to set up the assets.
  • Typically these are a combination of a Gantt Sheet, a RAID log, a Charter and a Dashboard for visibility.
  • They all need naming (consistently)
  • They all need linking to tracker sheets / dashboard metrics
  • Setting these up manually requires time, concentration and a keen eye for detail and a dedicated administrator

How Does Smarter Launch Pad bring automation?

  • Creating and naming the sheets, reports and dashboards using Project specific data
  • Linking project data from the tracking sheet into the newly created assets
  • Linking top level metrics %Complete, Status, RAG ball health etc to your tracking sheet for progress visibility
  • Creating hyperlinks to the assets for quick navigation

What are the benefits of Smarter Launch Pad?

  • Assets are created in less than a minute, saving valuable time for your PM’s
  • No bottleneck waiting for a PM to process new requests
  • Eliminates potential for human error or inconsistency
  • Provides immediate reporting at scale
  • Provides navigation links to ease user acceptance

FULLY CONFIGURABLE APP

  • This app can be managed fully from an easy to use Smartsheet.
  • Smarter Launch Pad can support multiple template sets for different project types.
  • Launched projects can be stored in any workspace.

CONFIGURATION REQUIRED

  • An intake sheet is required to track the Project Requests and ongoing status
  • One/many template set(s) to be used on a repeatable basis
  • Portfolio metric and dashboards are optional
  • System Admin sheet to define and manage the automation
  • An API token to run the app through

FINAL THOUGHTS

  • Smartsheet Consultant will configure the setup in Yr 1 and handover maintenance to your Smartsheet Champion.
  • Yearly subscription applies to this app
  • Allows you to justify Control Center type functionality without the financial hit of Smartsheets Premium app
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Smarter Launchpad

Getting YOUR Projects off the ground