Sigmer Technologies Ltd, provider of incentive and motivation systems, has achieved ISO 27001 data security management accreditation

Falmer, Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/18/2012 -- Incentivise - the on-line incentivisation and motivation system division of Sigmer Technologies Ltd has been accredited with ISO 27001 - the international standard for Information Security Management Systems.

Supporting achievement, learning and performance based incentive schemes, Sigmer's Incentivise system, and our unique Realise, Recognise, Reward methodology for incentivisation, have enabled organisations to retain, and to raise the performance of, many thousands of employees, dealers, partners and resellers.

Incentivise is a complete solution that gives operational management the tools to achieve higher performance in a number of areas including:

- Internal sales and customer service staff
- The staff of partners and outsourcers
- Dealers, Wholesalers and Intermediaries
- Field staff, engineers and technicians

Incentivise systems are designed for end-customers and for agencies wanting leading-edge high-quality white-label incentivisation platforms.

Our achievement of ISO 27001 accreditation ensures that customers and agencies alike can be confident that our products operate to the highest standards of information management. This new standard for information management builds upon our ISO 9001 accredited quality-managed operations.

ISO/IEC 27001:2005 is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls that protect information assets and give confidence to interested parties and covers all types of organizations (e.g. commercial enterprises, government agencies, not-for profit organizations) and specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving a documented Information Security Management System within the context of the organization's overall business risks. It specifies requirements for the implementation of security controls customized to the needs of individual organizations or parts thereof.

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Falmer, Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/21/2011 -- Global digital agency Euro RSCG Skybridge were so impressed by the latest release of Incentivise that they have decided to replace all of their existing incentivisation technology with this unique state-of-the-art white-label product from Sigmer Technologies. With real bottom-line benefits and world-class features to empower Sales and Account Management teams, Incentivise is a perfect fit for an agency operation.

Euro RSCG Skybridge are an award-winning channel and employee marketing agency voted Motivation Agency of the Year by Marketing Magazine.

After exhaustive research and due-diligence, Skybridge selected Incentivise as their strategic platform for incentivisation and motivation and Sigmer Technologies as their technology partner. Skybridge chose Incentivise because of its state-of-the-art features and capabilities as well as Sigmer's skills, experience and flexible white-label business model. The advantages of Incentivise include:

• Multi-channel incentivisation for employees, dealers and intermediaries
• Knowledge embedding and reinforcement
• Conference and event value reinforcement
• Organisational Communications

Sigmer's Incentivise product is available as a white-label solution providing the following agency benefits:

• Increased agility and improved response to commercial opportunities
• Ability to rapidly and reliably bespoke with low cost and risk
• Rapid deployment time and reduced time to billing
• Lower overhead and internal cost
• Major jump forward in incentivisation technology
• Strategic development path

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Incentivise.com
Sigmer Technologies has been providing staff incentive schemes for over 7 years and offer their expertise and technology under the brand name of Incentivise. For more information about Incentivise, please visit: www.incentivise.com. Sigmer Technologies, founded in 1999, is based in the Sussex Innovation Centre, Falmer, Brighton and has attracted a number of high profile clients, including: British Sky Broadcasting, The International Save the Children Alliance, Heineken UK, Epson UK, The British Film Institute, and UNHCR.

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Contact Info:
John Archibald
Director of Operations
Sigmer Technologies Ltd
Phone: 01273 669 710
Email: info@incentivise.com
Web: http://www.incentivise.com

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Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust choose Sigmer Technologies to provide hospital-wide employee consultation survey

Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/08/2011 -- Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust (RSCH) is a leading General Hospital serving a local population of 320,000. Providing emergency and general hospital services, it is also the lead specialist centre for cancer patients in Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire; serving a population of 1.2 million. The Hospital is structured around 13 'Specialty Business Units' (SBU) and has 527 beds and 14 operating theatres.

RSCH sees around 215,000 outpatients a year, 58,000 patients are admitted for treatment, around 72,000 patients attend the A&E department and more than 3,200 babies are delivered.

The Trust has an annual income of £199 million and it employs approximately 3,000 staff. The current financial environment had placed, on the Trust, an obligation to cut operating-costs and a number of options for cost-saving had been determined. Management gathered feedback from staff at meetings and briefing-sessions but it was decided that a formal, hospital-wide, survey was required in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of staff preferences as to the options for cost-saving.

It was decided that the most effective approach was to undertake an employee consultation survey delivered by an external agency. As well as offering good value for money it would provide anonymity and confidentiality for respondents and give staff the freedom to express their views and feelings in a non-attributable way.

After researching the market RSCH selected Sigmer Technologies as their preferred survey supplier; the selection being based on Sigmer's skills, capabilities, experience and survey technology which provided a high-quality service at a very competitive cost. The Sigmer offering included:

• Availability of a range of template staff surveys for on-line and paper which are easily bespoked to suit individual requirements

• In-house team for technical survey design for on-line and paper modes

• Graphic and accessibility design for on-line and paper questionnaires

• A robust 'industrial strength' survey system hosted from our highly-secure data-centre in London

• Full service printing and mailing

• Data reception, entry and confidential recycling of paper questionnaires

• Flexible data import and export

• Provision of an on-line reporting portal which provides real-time access to summary statistics during the survey.

• Ability to conduct complex analysis and reporting of attitudinal responses

All of this delivered within an adaptable and transparent project management environment; with full quality assurance at each stage and of every deliverable.

Sigmer survey experts worked with the RSCH Project Team to develop the on-line questionnaire. RSCH believed that approximately 1,100 staff (33% of total) would be unable to access an on-line survey and a paper questionnaire and survey pack were therefore developed for this cohort. The online survey was hosted from Sigmer's high security data centre in London.

The Project Team was provided with an on-line reporting portal that allowed them to monitor overall response statistics for the survey and to view a standard summary report of attitudinal responses. A further detailed reporting portal was provided at the end of the survey allowing viewing and downloading of survey data.

The survey has been a considerable success for the hospital and it has given much useful feedback for Management. Detailed analysis of the response data has provided clear indicators as to the preferences of staff with regard to the options for cost-saving.

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Survey Suite
Sigmer Technologies was formed in 1999 and is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre, on the University of Sussex Campus in Brighton. We are experts in survey design, survey development and management of response data. During the survey design stage we use demographic profiling of invitees, and a thorough assessment of usability and accessibility needs, in order to ensure that the survey is as inclusive as possible for each cohort. See our range of survey case-studies at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies/index.php

Sigmer provide the Survey Suite range of products and apply these to many different survey projects including:

Staff surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys/
Marketing surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/marketing_surveys/
Customer surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/customer_surveys/
General Surveys and Research Surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys/

Sigmer provide secure hosting of on-line surveys from their secure datacentre based inLondon. More details of our technologies can be found at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/Technology/

And our services are detailed at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/

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Leading global consultancy PwC asked Sigmer Technologies to conduct an on-line survey of Clean Tech enterprises in the Isle of Man (IOM) on behalf of the Government of the IOM.

Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) --05/24/2011 -- Sigmer Technologies were chosen to act as survey partner for the project due to their skills, experience, survey technology and quality-driven service.

PwC provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to enhance value for their clients. More than 161,000 people in 154 countries in firms across the PwC network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.

Brighton, East Sussex – The Government of The Isle of Man (IOM) and their consultants (PwC) wished to undertake a survey of organisations on the IOM to determine the level of involvement in industries, products and services relating to Clean Tech. The survey would establish the involvement of local enterprises as well as their sentiments as regards the development of the Clean Tech sector. Information was also gathered with regard to employment growth and investment opportunities.

The use of an external agency provided anonymity and confidentiality for respondents and gave organisations the freedom to express their views and feelings in a non-attributable way.

Sigmer Technologies Ltd. was chosen as the external agency as they were able to provide a high-quality service at a competitive cost. The Sigmer offering included:

• Rapid response service

• In-house team for technical survey design

• Graphic and accessibility design for on-line and paper surveys

• A 'industrial strength' survey system hosted from our secure data-centre in London

• Flexible data import and export in multiple formats

• Provision of on-line reporting portal providing real-time access to statistics.

• On-line reporting with drill-down facilities for further analysis

• Ability to conduct complex analysis and reporting of responses

All of this delivered within an adaptable and transparent project management environment; with full quality assurance at each stage and of every deliverable.

The online survey was hosted from Sigmer's high security data centre in London. The PwC Project Team was provided with an on-line reporting portal that allowed them to monitor overall response statistics for the survey and to view a standard summary report of attitudinal responses. A further detailed reporting portal was provided at the end of the survey allowing viewing and downloading of survey data.

The survey has been a considerable success for the Government of the IOM and PwC providing a valuable insight into the involvement of local enterprises in Clean Tech. It has also created a baseline of attitudinal data from which changes over time may be measured.

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Survey Suite
Sigmer Technologies was formed in 1999 and is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre,
on the University of Sussex Campus in Brighton. We are experts in survey design,
survey development and management of response data. During the survey design stage we use demographic profiling of invitees, and a thorough assessment of usability and accessibility needs, in order to ensure that the survey is as inclusive as possible for each cohort. See our range of survey case-studies at: http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies

Sigmer provide the Survey Suite range of products and apply these to many different
survey projects including:
Staff surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys
Marketing surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/marketing_surveys
Customer surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/customer_surveys
General and Research Surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys

Sigmer provide secure hosting of on-line surveys from their secure datacentre based in
London. More details of our technologies can be found at
http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/Technology

And our services are detailed at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems

Key words

Staff surveys, attitude surveys, online surveys, paper questionnaires, employee surveys, survey systems, alumni surveys, attitudinal surveys, internal communications surveys, staff satisfaction surveys

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Falmer, Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/18/2011 -- Another prestigious organisation uses Sigmer's ready-made staff survey Templates

Javelin Group choose Sigmer Technologies to provide first staff survey

Top-flight retail and e-commerce management consultants, Javelin Group, select Sigmer Technologies Ltd to provide their first structured staff survey. Sigmer won the procurement to act as survey partner for the project because of their skills, experience, survey technology and availability of comprehensive and proven ready-made staff survey templates.

Javelin Group is a specialist firm of retail and ecommerce consultants. Based in London and Paris and working across Europe and the rest of the world, Javelin provides a full range of retail and ecommerce consulting services to retailers, brands and retail investors. Javelin's clients include many of Europe's largest retailers.

Brighton, East Sussex – Javelin required a more comprehensive approach to gathering staff views and it was decided that the best solution was to use an on-line staff survey provided by external agency. The use of an external agency provided anonymity and confidentiality for respondents and gave staff the freedom to express their views and feelings in a non-attributable way.

Sigmer Technologies Ltd. was chosen as the external agency as they were able to provide a high-quality service at a competitive cost. The Sigmer offering included:

. Availability of a range of template staff surveys for on-line and paper which are easily bespoked to suit individual requirements
. In-house team for technical survey design for on-line and paper modes
. Graphic and accessibility design for on-line and paper questionnaires
· A robust 'industrial strength' survey system hosted from our highly-secure data-centre in London
· Flexible data import and export in formats
· Provision of an on-line reporting portal which provides real-time access to summary statistics during the survey.
· On-line reporting with drill-down facilities for customers
· Ability to conduct complex analysis and reporting of attitudinal responses

All of this delivered within an adaptable and transparent project management environment; with full quality assurance at each stage and of every deliverable.

The online survey was hosted from Sigmer's high security data centre in London. The Javelin Project Team was provided with an on-line reporting portal that allowed them to monitor overall response statistics for the survey and to view a standard summary report of attitudinal responses. A further detailed reporting portal was provided at the end of the survey allowing viewing and downloading of survey data.

The survey has been a considerable success for the Javelin and it has provide a valuable insight into the attitudes and satisfaction of their staff. It has also created a baseline of attitudinal data from which changes over time may be measured.

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Survey Suite
Sigmer Technologies was formed in 1999 and is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre,
on the University of Sussex Campus in Brighton. We are experts in survey design,
survey development and management of response data. During the survey design stage we use demographic profiling of invitees, and a thorough assessment of usability and accessibility needs, in order to ensure that the survey is as inclusive as possible for each cohort. See our range of survey case-studies at
http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies/index.php

Sigmer provide the Survey Suite range of products and apply these to many different
survey projects including:
Staff surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys
Marketing surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/marketing_surveys
Customer surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/customer_surveys
General and Research Surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys

Sigmer provide secure hosting of on-line surveys from their secure datacentre based in
London. More details of our technologies can be found at
http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/Technology

And our services are detailed at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

The EMEA operations of HTC has grown rapidly and the leadership team decided that it was time to undertake a formal survey of employees in order to gather high-quality feedback on a range of key aspects from work - life balance to employee satisfaction.

Falmer, Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/17/2011 -- Mobile telephone manufacturer HTC uses Sigmer's on-line staff survey system

HTC Corp. choose Sigmer Technologies to provide first staff survey

Founded in 1997, HTC made its name as the company behind many of the most popular operator-branded devices on the market. It has established unique partnerships with key mobile brands, including the leading five operators in Europe, the top four in the US, and many fast-growing Asian operators. It has also brought products to market with industry leading OEM partners and, since June 2006, under its own HTC brand.

HTC is known for its innovation. It is constantly broadening the range of devices it offers – introducing devices to support specific applications and new form factors that meet the increasingly diverse needs of its customers and partners.

HTC is one of the fastest-growing companies in the mobile sector and has achieved remarkable recognition over the past couple of years. Since launching its own brand 18 months ago the company has introduced dozens of HTC-branded products around the world. The EMEA operations of HTC had grown rapidly and the leadership team decided that it was time to undertake a formal survey of employees in order to gather high-quality feedback on a range of key aspects from work - life balance to employee satisfaction.

HTC preferred to use an on-line staff survey provided by external agency as this provided anonymity and confidentiality for respondents and gave staff the freedom to express their views and feelings in a non-attributable way.

Sigmer Technologies Ltd. was chosen as the external agency as they were able to work with the consultants advising HTC to deliver a high-quality bespoke on-line survey within tight time constraints dictated by the company calendar. The Sigmer offering included:

• Availability of a range of template staff surveys for on-line and paper which are easily bespoked to suit individual requirements
• In-house team for technical survey design for on-line and paper modes
• Graphic and accessibility design for on-line and paper questionnaires
• A robust 'industrial strength' survey system hosted from our highly-secure data-centre in London
• Flexible data import and export in formats
• Provision of an on-line reporting portal which provides real-time access to summary statistics during the survey.
• On-line reporting with drill-down facilities for customers
• Ability to conduct complex analysis and reporting of attitudinal responses

All of this delivered within an adaptable and transparent project management environment; with full quality assurance at each stage and of every deliverable.

The online survey was hosted from Sigmer's high security data centre in London. The Project Team was provided with an on-line reporting portal that allowed them to monitor overall response statistics for the survey and to view a standard summary report of attitudinal responses. A further detailed reporting portal was provided at the end of the survey allowing viewing and downloading of survey data.

The survey has been a considerable success for the HTC and it has provide a valuable insight into the attitudes and satisfaction of their staff. It has also created a baseline of attitudinal data from which changes over time may be measured.

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Survey Suite.
Sigmer Technologies was formed in 1999 and is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre, on the University of Sussex Campus in Brighton.

We are experts in survey design, survey development and management of response data. During the survey design stage we use demographic profiling of invitees, and a thorough assessment of usability and accessibility needs, in order to ensure that the survey is as inclusive as possible for each cohort.

See our range of survey case-studies at
http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies/index.php

Sigmer provide the Survey Suite range of products and apply these to many different survey projects including:

Staff surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys
Marketing surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/marketing_surveys
Customer surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/customer_surveys
General and Research Surveys - http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys

Sigmer provide secure hosting of on-line surveys from their secure datacentre based in London. More details of our technologies can be found at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/Technology

And our services are detailed at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems

Contact Info:
John Archibald
Director of Operations
Sigmer Technologies Ltd
Phone: 01273 669 710
Email: surveys@sigmer.com
Web: http://www.surveysuite.co.uk

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Russell Group University updates worldwide alumni database. The University of Manchester, like many organisations, has found that their alumni contact and preference data degrades rapidly and keeping it up to date is a challenge, especially if your 270,000 alumni are situated worldwide. Even more of a complication when you have a mixture of postal address and email addresses. Sigmer Technologies Ltd won the procurement competition to act as survey partner for the project.

Falmer, Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/03/2010 -- The University of Manchester, a leading UK higher education institution, wished to undertake a communication exercise to its 270,000 alumni members. The aim was to update alumni contact details as well as to gather preference and attitudinal feedback on a number of topics key to the University's communications strategy. The requirement was for a well-designed, accessible communication that combined a welcome from the head of alumni relations and a questionnaire that would be attractive and functional across both on-line and postal channels. E-mail addresses were available for approximately 95,000 alumni and the remaining 177,000 were invited to the survey via paper questionnaires.

The competition was won by Sigmer Technologies which provided a high-quality service at a competitive cost and was able to offer:
• In-house team for technical survey design for on-line and paper modes
• Graphic and accessibility design for on-line and paper questionnaires
• A robust 'industrial strength' survey system hosted from our highly-secure data-centre in London
• Low-cost printing & International mailing
• Cost-effective and secure data management, data entry and confidential recycling
• Flexible data import and export in formats designed to simplify university effort in the extraction of invitee data
• Updated alumni contact information in formats ready for systems such as Raiser's Edge
• Pre-population of both on-line and paper questionnaires with data particular to each invitee.
• Provision of an on-line reporting portal which provides real-time access to summary statistics during the survey.
• Ability to conduct complex analysis and reporting of attitudinal responses

All of this delivered within an adaptable and transparent project management environment; with full quality assurance at each stage and of every deliverable.

Sigmer survey design team worked closely with alumni relations department to develop the paper based and online surveys both of which were fully compliant with the Universities' branding guidelines. The postal survey pack consisted of an A3 page folded into 4 x A4 pages which allowed a covering letter and 3 sides of questions. This was dispatched in a branded envelope and included a branded business reply envelope for certain invitees.

A novel feature of the survey was the pre-population of contact information in both on-line and postal questionnaires to encourage a higher and more accurate response rate. This inclusion was subjected to rigorous quality assurance both in terms of accuracy and also for position within the on-line and postal questionnaires.

As part of the personalisation of the postal surveys packs, each postal invitee was given a unique invitation to an on-line version of the questionnaire to encourage them to utilise this lower-cost and more energy-friendly response channel.

The online survey was hosted from Sigmer's high security data centre in London. The alumni Relations Department was provided with an on-line reporting portal that allowed them to monitor overall statistics for the survey and to view a standard summary report of attitudinal responses. A further detailed reporting portal was provided at the end of the survey allowing viewing and downloading of survey data in many cross-tab arrangements.

The survey has been a considerable success for the University and it has provide a valuable insight into the attitudes and preferences of their alumni. It has also allowed the updating of a large volume of alumnus personal, contact and business information.

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Survey Suite
Sigmer Technologies was formed in 1999 and is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre,on the University of Sussex Campus in Brighton. We are experts in survey design, survey development and management of response data. During the survey design stage wuse demographic profiling of invitees, and a thorough assessment of usability and accessibility needs, in order to ensure that the survey is as inclusive as possible for each cohort. See our range of survey case-studies at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies/index.php

Sigmer provide the Survey Suite range of products and apply these to many different survey projects including
(http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys/alumni_survey.php) alumni surveys
(http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys/project.php), customer surveys
(http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/customer_surveys/project.php) and research surveys
(http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys/project.php)

Sigmer provide secure hosting of on-line surveys from their secure datacentre based in London. More details of our technologies can be found at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/Technology/
And our services are detailed at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/
Contact Info:
John Archibald
Sigmer Technologies Ltd
Email: surveys@sigmer.com

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Sigmer Technologies has successfully completed an Advertising Campaign Tracker Survey for RH Advertising and on behalf of Traveline.

Falmer, Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/25/2010 -- RH Advertising had conducted an advertising campaign for Traveline regarding travel requirements in the South-West of England. Although a campaign tracker survey was executed, response data indicated that university students, a particular target of the advertising, had not been fully accessed by the primary tracker campaign. A supplementary tracker campaign was therefore urgently required and the advertiser turned to Sigmer Technologies Ltd and their Survey Suite facilities for this. See http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/ for further details.

The survey required face to face interviewing of a number of respondents in 10 Universities in the South-West of England. The Sigmer Survey Team commenced the project and developed the survey rapidly within a two week timeframe; including design of the paper based element and an on-line repository. Survey planning also involved the logistics of getting the survey interviewers on the ground as rapidly as possible and providing scheduling and access for a survey project covering two weeks and many hundreds of miles. See http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies/RHA_case_studies.php for more details

Despite adverse weather conditions the minimum quota for each location was exceeded and all results were collated and given to the Data Entry Team for processing. The survey was executed rapidly and efficiently and the results returned to RH Advertising on budget and ahead of schedule. The success of the survey was due in no small part to Sigmer's approach to survey projects - see http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/marketing_surveys/project.php for more details.

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Survey Suite
Sigmer Technologies was formed in 1999 and is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre, on the University of Sussex Campus in Brighton. We are experts in survey design, survey development and management of response data. We can help you gather reliable data from your target audience and achieve high response rates by conducting demographic profiling and a thorough assessment of usability and accessibility needs, during the survey design stage. See our range of survey case-studies at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies/index.php

Sigmer provide the Survey Suite range of products and apply these to many different survey projects including staff surveys

(http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys/project.php ), customer surveys
(http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/customer_surveys/project.php ) and research surveys
(http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys/project.php)
Sigmer provide secure hosting of on-line surveys from their secure datacentre based in
London. More details of our technologies can be found at
http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/Technology/

And our services are detailed at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/

Online Surveys, Advertising Tracker Surveys, Customer surveys, Marketing surveys, General surveys, Alumni surveys, Staff Surveys, Employee Surveys, Communications Surveys

Contact Info:
John Archibald
Director of Operations
Sigmer Technologies Ltd

Phone: 01273 669 710
Email: surveys@sigmer.com
Web: http://www.surveysuite.co.uk
Address: Sussex Innovation Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9SB

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Change happens; it is how it is dealt with that counts. Sigmer Technologies have recently executed an internal communications survey for the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to establish attitudinal benchmarking for future staff surveys as the organisation moved forward.

Falmer, Brighton, Sussex -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/09/2010 -- The STFC; composed of seven establishments, in three different countries; had undergone considerably organisational change and the Council sought to gather attitudinal feedback from the 6,500 scientists, technicians and administrators that comprised its workforce. A key aim was to establish an informed baseline for all future employee surveys. The outcome of the employee survey would help to define the internal communications programme and be incorporated into the overall Communications Strategy. A primary objective of the survey project was to collate staff opinions on whether the existing communications channels provided effective delivery and which of the multitude of channels, staff actually preferred.

STFC selected Sigmer Technologies Ltd. in the competitive procurement because of Sigmer's experience, its Survey Suite range of products and survey methodology, and because of its very competitive pricing.

The survey project, which used a combination of an on-line questionnaire, clip-board survey and paper questionnaire, consisted of a number of activities including:

1. Development of questions
2. On-line questionnaire design
3. Accessibility design
4. Questionnaire visual design
5. Survey database design
6. Development of on-line invitation
7. Execution of the on-line survey
8. Execution of the clip-board survey
9. Execution of the paper survey
10. Consolidation of the survey datasets
11. Analysis of the survey datasets
12. Reporting of survey results

The survey project was led by Professor Charles Jackson, a senior academic in the field of Occupational Psychology and the Sigmer survey project team included survey designers, visual designers and database specialists. The Sigmer team worked closely with the STFC Team to develop the employee attitudinal questions as well as the requirements for the full analysis and reporting of the survey response data.

The survey project was based on Sigmer's Survey Suite survey team, survey methodology and survey system
(see http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys/project.php )

Sigmer provided the SFTC with an on-line reporting portal, allowing them to view a dynamic report of the employee responses at anytime during the survey. The final response dataset was analysed and a detailed report prepared to the specification required by the STFC.

The survey was anonymous and staff were encouraged to be open and honest in their response. However, in order to further support the on-line survey, STFC staff were also approached by interviewers to complete a paper questionnaire or a clip-board survey - the information gathered being data-entered into the on-line repository to create a consolidated survey database.

In conclusion, the employee communications survey was extremely successful and achieved a high response rate from staff. The project was executed promptly and efficiently by Sigmer Technologies and at a cost that was very attractive to STFC.

The staff survey provided a baseline for future evaluations of staff perceptions and organisational engagement.

About Sigmer Technologies Ltd. and Survey Suite
Sigmer Technologies was formed in 1999 and is based at the Sussex Innovation Centre, on the University of Sussex Campus in Brighton. We are experts in survey design, survey development and management of response data. We can help you gather reliable data from your target audience and achieve high response rates by conducting demographic profiling and a thorough assessment of usability and accessibility needs, during the survey design stage. See our range of survey case-studies at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/case_studies/index.php

Sigmer provide the Survey Suite range of products and apply these to many different survey projects including staff surveys (http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/staff_surveys/project.php ), customer surveys (http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/customer_surveys/project.php ) and research surveys (http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/general_surveys/project.php)

Sigmer provide secure hosting of on-line surveys from their secure datacentre based in London. More details of our technologies can be found at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/Technology/

And our services are detailed at http://www.surveysuite.co.uk/survey_systems/

Contact Info:
John Archibald
Director of Operations
Sigmer Technologies Ltd
Phone: 01273 669 710
Email: surveys@sigmer.com
Web: http://www.surveysuite.co.uk

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