CDSM's Values
- Quality
- Innovation
- Accessibility
- Community & Partnership
- Knowledge
These values represent our company perfectly.
CDSM consist of a close, hardworking group of professionals who take great care and pride in their work.
The modern knowledge-driven business has to respond to new and emerging challenges more frequently than it has ever before. Global competition, management of change and adapting to an increasingly sophisticated customer base can for some be an uncomfortable and unwelcome experience. CDSM thrives on such challenges. It is because of our values that we are able to continue to develop and grow.
Quality
CDSM is an agile organisation that is focussed on providing quality teaching and learning solutions to its customers. We believe any solution of value is one that is sustainable, continues to develop and is never intangible.
Partnership & Knowledge
At CDSM we recognise experience and talent and respect those qualified to provide guidance and support. CDSM specializes in forming partnerships with companies and organisations that have the knowledge, skills, authority and access to a particular business area.
Knowledge & Innovation
We embrace new opportunities and new developments. If a technique or a technology offers CDSM and its customers an advantage, we will rapidly adopt and exploit it. However specialist evaluation always happens prior to adoption and, by design, always involves CDSM's customers and partners in the process.
Accessibility
“Access for all” is a demanding and rigorous objective that we have set ourselves. In the UK teaching and learning market there is a challenging depth to the requirements of the web accessibility agenda. WC3's WCAG provide a coherent agenda for assistive technologies and browser technologies to find common ground, a framework that promotes interoperation and technological access. The learning technology sector has so many more questions and challenges that need resolution. The scope of learning difficulties, MLDs, SLDs and prevailing learning technology practice represent a body of work that CDSM aims to develop practical and useful responses to. CDSM is committed to improving learning experiences to all via the use of web technologies.
Community, Growth and Development
CDSM is an active member of many communities. CDSM retains its independence, durability and agility by contributing to and receiving from knowledge and skills communities. The sustainability and growth of CDSM is predicated on being an active member and contributor to knowledge communities.
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CDSM is committed to quality. We are an ISO9001 (this link will open in a new browser window) accredited learning organisation that employs a number of Prince2 (this link will open in a new browser window) qualified project managers.
As corporate members of The BCS' Disability Group(this link will open in a new browser window) we are committed to the UK web accessibility agenda, exclusively partnering with UK Pan-disability charity Shaw Trust (this link will open in a new browser window) and are members of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (this link will open in a new browser window).