KTS Global to Launch 360DIRECT Service at SportAccord Convention

The 360DIRECT offering is a unique integrated suite of software and consultancy services that aims to address a growing concern for bidding cities and local organising committees; inaccurate and unrealistic budgeting combined with Functional Area integration and operational management. 360DIRECT will support bid cities and Host nations to develop and manage their estimate, budget creation and management programs from decision to bid, through to successful completion of the event, by providing a turn key end-to-end solution comprising unique software and expert consultancy.

The development of 360DIRECT has brought together a partnership and collaboration of global expertise and experience from some of the industry foremost experts who have designed, delivered, and operated successful major events.

The 360DIRECT suite comprises of:

360PMR - Plan, Manage, Respond: live visual planning and management

360CAP – Cost Accord Program: cost estimating, benchmarking, planning and management

360EXPERT – Proactive advice and advocacy from an experienced team of industry experts

The key benefits of the 360 offering include:

• A new and unique answer to the challenges faced by bidding cities and organising committees

• Developed from global expertise and experience by people who have a solid record delivering successful events

• Assists cities and organising committees to develop and manage their time and cost programs from decision to bid through to successful completion• Alleviates many of the difficulties that come from the substantial commitment to the city and nation that bidding requires• Saves abortive time and cost by not reinventing the wheel

• Provides not only reliable information, but proactively encourages and supports human interaction in a powerful way

Steve Kilby CEO of KTS Global commented,

"We had witnessed the difficulties faced by both bidding and host nations in the past and believed there had to be a better way to overcome the challenges that are widely experienced in the industry today.

Thus we brought together a team of experts in sports and events, all of whom had been involved in the successful delivery of Olympic Games and other major events for many years. We believe 360DIRECT is a better way to provide integrated project and cost management services and is the next generation in the evolution of the event management professional.

Our team concentrated on the fundamental problems of how to help bidding and organising committees to understand the what, why and how to achieve a successful event and to avoid the pitfalls of the past. We set out to find a way to do this in a new and unique way, which was the catalyst for the 360DIRECT offering. We have been careful to establish a flexible and supportive solution that can truly assist each clients needs, which will always be, quite rightly, unique and specific to their own requirements. As our industry continues to evolve and change for the better I consider our role is to facilitate solutions and provide the collaborative framework that saves clients time, money and helps mitigate risk………not to dictate a particular model. We believe our solutions are user friendly and the best that are currently available and we are happy to support all event professionals who may find benefits in our services."

One of the collaborators has been Rider Levett Bucknall. David Higgins, Major Events Partner at Rider Levitt Bucknall commented,

"The 360 suite of services helps bring together the many disparate methods of controlling budgets and managing complex projects with consolidated information in an efficient way. RLB has been pleased to assist and support the development of the 360CAP service. We see the system as providing significant benefits to clients in the sports and event industry, helping to provide market leading cost management services. This is definitely the way of the future."

Jeremy Troughton, Operations Director, Team Origin, Americas Cup World Series commented,

"360CAP allows for budgets to be produced quickly and accurately, and then very simply adapted as changes occur, which they inevitably do. Combined with 360PMR the planning of major event infrastructure should be more efficient and much faster with easily understandable information and reports generated for internal and external use."

Paul Grecian, Chairman of Gallowglass Group commented

"My colleagues and I have inhabited the world of global events for over 20 years now and this is the most significant and exciting software development we have seen in that time. We have no doubt that the software will galvanise change in the way that large events are planned, managed and costed."

Roger Gomm, Former Metropolitan Police, Crisis and Emergency Planning Expert commented

"In my opinion the 360PMR system is an extremely valuable tool for decision makers as it has the ability to present critical information and support situational awareness. Furthermore its flexibility lends it to planning and pre-event/incident exercises, which will help to prepareteams to manage and respondas the day unfolds. A great tool that I wish I had available to me and my colleagues in Londonwhen planning and managing events."

For more information, please contact:

info@kts.global

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