Insights - Case Studies - Leadership Skills

About Leadership Skills Foundation

SME, social enterprise, and charity based in Milton Keynes, UK.
Creates courses, trains tutors, and supports learners to help them achieve their potential.
Focuses on developing essential life and work skills in young people, including resilience, leadership, communication, and self-confidence.
The registered awarding organisation for their leadership qualifications and awards is SLQ.

The challenge

As the Leadership Skills Foundation grew and began to diversify its work across the UK, it became increasingly apparent that their existing business management system, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016, was no longer fit for purpose. It was becoming more difficult to work with and offered limited opportunities for further upgrades or support from Microsoft.

Leadership Skills felt they needed a more modern, flexible solution that could support a devolved team operating virtually, streamline operations, and provide a robust foundation for future growth and compliance.

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The solution

When looking at new systems to upgrade to, Leadership Skills Foundation evaluated both Sage and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Sage was quickly discounted, as it lacked the out-of-the-box finance functionality the organisation required.

TVT (formerly known as TVision) were already a known quantity to Leadership Skills. They had been working together since 2016 when they moved their support contract for NAV over to TVT from a previous partner. TVT provided, in the words of Leadership Skills, “sound and helpful technical support as and when we have needed it” and the move to Business Central SaaS from NAV was “quick, uncomplicated and relatively painless.”

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The results

Data democracy

Business Central’s out-of-the-box functionality reporting allows the business to build their own reports and answer business questions directly.

Cost savings Business Central’s built-in functionality has eliminated the need for costly add-ons.

Improved compliance Automated workflows for purchase invoice approvals have reduced manual effort and provided clear audit trails.

Confident, informed decision-making A single source of data plus customisable dashboards ensures that all of Leadership Skills managers have the relevant information they need.

Our happy customers

“Leadership Skills Foundation and TVT have developed a good partnership throughout our business relationship. Since we first moved our support contract to them in 2016, TVT have given us sound and helpful technical support as and when we have needed it. Our move to Business Central SaaS from NAV was quick, uncomplicated and relatively painless.”

Leadership Skills Foundation

“We wanted to be sure the solution we were implementing, and the team helping us, would understand our particular business requirements and be able to meet them. Bevica, and the TVT team, definitely ticked these boxes for us!”

Ripley Wines

“When it came to selecting a Business Central partner, TVT really stood out for us. We found that we got on really well with our implementation team and they had a clear plan of what we wanted to achieve. It, therefore, made complete sense for Bloc Hotels to choose TVT as our partner.”

Bloc Hotels

“TVT were selected because we were very impressed with their consultancy expertise and efforts to fully understand our business requirements.”

Supermassive Games

“TVT are masters of making the complex simple. Our migration exceeded expectations, and the transition to SaaS has been seamless. With TVT’s help, Watco has been able to become part of the SaaS world.”

Watco Group

“They have a practical and realistic approach to ERP implementation. This has resulted in a productive and successful collaboration between RDG Engineering and TVT.”

RDG Engineering