TCBL HANDBOOKS
FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND TCBL
Co-funded by Horizon 2020
TCBL 646133 – HANDBOOK RELEASED AS ANNEX I TO D8.7 31st October 2017
INTRODUCTION The TCBL project generates a great deal of information that is important and useful to know about; however, it’s not always easy to find. This is meant to function as a quick guide to the key TCBL sites: no more, no less.
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THE TCBL WEBSITE
https://tcbl.eu/ is the public face of TCBL. It provides information on the project for public consumption as well as features accessed via a Single Sign-On (SSO) secure login, offering easy access to multiple services. All TCBL participants must be registered as network members here.
Four tabs are worth highlighting. The Labs tab is dedicated to the activities of the Business Labs. This area provides information on all of the initiatives in progress, which partners are involved and what objectives will be realised. Short descriptions of each lab with key contacts can be found there too. Currently, clicking on the link to one of the Labs opens a new window and may require login; if you have registered with Single Sign On, this just requires one click. The Enterprises tab provides details on some of the innovative, special interest projects that partners and members are working on, e.g. eco-friendly production, bacteria dyeing and short run production. Thirdly, the Resources tab provides access to high quality, relevant content available through the zine and to a series of guides on the TCBL case studies, for example. Finally, the #TCBL tab provides access to visual and audio material from the #2016 conference, held in Huddersfield, UK, and the #2017 version, held in Athens, Greece. We’d love to see you at the next one in 2018! Share thoughts, insights and concerns by posting them on our Common Space page: https://tcbl.eu/common-space. See what’s been happening across the TCBL ecosystem on Recent Activities: https://tcbl.eu/news. Find out more about members and create new business links via our Members: https://tcbl.eu/members.
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TCBL ON SOCIAL MEDIA
THE TCBL FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/projecttcbl/ TCBL has a Facebook page and it is kept up to date by one of the account administrators. You can go to our page via the TCBL website.
LINKEDIN LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking service and Luca Leonardi (Palermo) has set up a TCBL group here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/textile-clothing-business-labs-project-luca-leonardi
TWITTER https://twitter.com/tcbl2020 TCBL has an account with Twitter and tweets on TCBL can be found via the #TCBL tag.
PUBLICATIONS ON ISSUU https://issuu.com/tcbl Issuu is a digital publishing platform used for TCBL publications such as this guidebook. It allows you to read them as if you were turning pages and has all the usual facilities you’d expect for ease of use. For ease of consultation, many publications are grouped together into thematic ‘stacks’.
THE TCBL VIDEO CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZcpRQi7vjIxuq50a-8KOxA/videos Most video material about TCBL finds its way onto YouTube. Material can be uploaded to our dedicated channel by a member with access rights or you can upload yourself via your own account. If you post via your own account please tag it TCBL but also let us know where to find it! For ease of consultation, videos are grouped into thematic playlists.
Finding your Way around TCBL TCBL Handbooks Textile & Clothing Business Labs
THE TCBL VIDEO CHANNEL ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/search?q=TCBL This channel has most of the same content as YouTube with additional videos of the launch of theTextileLab in Amsterdam in September 2016. The same rules apply for Vimeo as for YouTube: if you upload your own material, please tell us.
TCBL PRESENTATIONS ON SLIDESHARE You can find copies of many of the key TCBL presentations on the Slideshare platform: https://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=tcbl
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BUSINESS SERVICES
TCBL offers access to an ever increasing number of business services, all of which can (or will) be accessed online by partners and associates via the TCBL platform. Access to these services is simplified by the use of ‘Login with TCBL’, a single sign on service available to other service providers who wish to adhere to the programme. 1. Sqetch provides a means of putting textiles and clothing brands and manufacturers in touch with each other via https://sqetch.co/. The site has a European focus so is ideal for TCBL members. 2. Cleviria’s Thela software provides a clear and intuitive facility to trace your buying / selling textile and clothing supply chain and document your key areas of strategic importance. Go to http://www.cleviria.it/thela/?lang=en for an overview. 3. The business modelling package Strategyzer has been adopted by TCBL as part of its approach to developing new business models for the T&C industry. It is in use with some of the Pilot projects that have been created from 2016 onwards. An overview of the general application can be found via https://strategyzer.com/. Enrico Ferro (ferro@ismb.it) is the key TCBL contact for access to Strategyzer for TCBL projects. 4. The business process and best practice modelling package bpSquare: https://tcbl.bpsquare.ilabt.iminds.be/bpSquare. Marco Paini (marco.paini@sedapta.com) is the key TCBL contact for access to bpSquare for TCBL projects. 5. vDiscover is a tool developed by TCBL partner DITF to facilitate searches for knowledge around the Textiles and Clothing sector. Currently, work is ongoing to provide an improved data model and configuration for users. https://tcbl.vdiscover.eu/plugins/tcbl/ provides a working prototype of the application.
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MARKETING TOOLS
A consistent approach to the marketing and promotion of the TCBL brand is of great importance and considerable effort has been devoted towards developing a professional look and feel. Artwork for roll-up posters, A4 folders, posters, brochures and bookmarks is supplemented by logos, photographs, video title screens and a number of PowerPoint presentations. If you feel that you would like to use the TCBL suite to help market it through your own work, please contact the project management team via tcbl@comune.prato.it and explain why you wish to use them.
CAUTION: WHICH TCBL? We’d like to think that there is only one TCBL that matters. However, the acronym is in use elsewhere in the world, notably through the Toronto Chinese Basketball League. Judicious use of textile related search items should filter out most irrelevant items and allow search engines to bring up what’s important for textiles and clothing.
Finding your Way around TCBL TCBL Handbooks Textile & Clothing Business Labs
DOCUMENT INFORMATION REVISION HISTORY This document is Annex I to TCBL Deliverable 2.2, “Achievements and Perspectives in Knowledge Exchange (with special focus on Scouting and Issue Tracking) – Version 1”. Authors: Jesse Marsh (Prato), and Paul Lefrere, Giorgio Da Bormida, and Marina Cugurra (CCA). This Annex in particular is written by Jesse Marsh. REVISION
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DESCRIPTION Guide for members Updated links New website and updated links Adaptation to guidebook layout
V.1 V.2 V.3
31.03.2017 08.05.2017 31.10.2017
Richard Axe Richard Axe Richard Axe
TCoE TCoE TCoE
V4
20.11.2017
Jesse Marsh
Prato
STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.
COPYRIGHT This work is licensed by the TCBL Consortium under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, 2015-2016. For details, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The TCBL Consortium, consisting of: Municipality of Prato (PRATO) Italy; German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research - Center for Management Research (DITF) Germany; Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Italy; Skillaware (SKILL) Italy; The Oxford Brookes University (OBU) UK; imec (IMEC) Belgium; Tavistock Institute (TAVI) UK; Materials Industrial Research & Technology Center S.A. (MIRTEC) Greece; Waag Society (WAAG) Netherlands; Huddersfield & District Textile Training Company Ltd (TCOE) UK; eZavod (eZAVOD) Slovenia; Consorzio Arca (ARCA) Italy; Unioncamere del Veneto (UCV) Italy; Hellenic Clothing Industry Association (HCIA) Greece; Sanjotec - Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico (SANJO) Portugal; Clear Communication Associates Ltd (CCA) UK.
DISCLAIMER All information included in this document is subject to change without notice. The Members of the TCBL Consortium make no warranty of any kind with regard to this document, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Members of the TCBL Consortium shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The TCBL project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme for research, technology development, and innovation under Grant Agreement n.646133.