Consultancy

The power to transform your people, processes, and systems is well within your reach.

Our mission is to help ambitious owners and managers become great leaders. The benefits and capabilities that we want to help you and your teams deliver are:

  • Better strategies
  • Better systems (the ISO bit)
  • Better measurement
  • Engaged people delivering…
  • Better results (the interesting bit!)

 

It has been (perhaps unfairly) claimed that ISO standards are “wide and shallow” in the areas they focus on within a business. Our strategy, when appropriate and beneficial, is to provide services that go “narrow and deep”.

Imagine your people delivering:

  • Better strategies – your people crafting business plans with robust, ambitious but achievable objectives, refining your marketing and sales processes even perhaps suggesting buying or selling companies. Imagine them taking responsibility for getting “your bus” heading in the right direction.
  • Better systems – your people leveraging your marketing, sales, operational and support processes using flowcharting, 5S, lean, supply chain management. Imagine systems and processes, even ISO systems and processes, that actually work for you not against you.
  • Better measurement – your people making better decisions from better data driven insights. Imagine your people using data to know when a change has led to an improvement for any of your key numbers; profit, sales, marketing, cash in the bank, productivity, scrap rates, stock turn and more.
  • Engaged people – this is about getting the right people in the right seat on “the bus”! Imagine your people as a dynamic motivated team, not just engaged in, but invested in, delivering the bit that’s important to you…
  • Better results.

Whilst ISO is at our core, we want to bring a wider management view to the way which management systems are used. To reinforce this, we’ve been developing our blog pages where there is a lot more information, downloadable resources, hints and tips… all free!

Why use a consultant?

Businesses today face increasing pressure to maintain high standards in quality, efficiency, and compliance. Engaging ISO consultants can be a game-changer in achieving these goals. Choosing the right ISO consultant allows companies to navigate the complexities of standards with precision and depth, ensuring that their processes are not just compliant, but optimised for success.

All of these points mean that we can help you deliver your projects better, quicker and slicker then you would be able to without a consultant.

You have a day job

These days most organisations don’t have heaps of slack waiting to be taken up for a project like ISO.  Whoever takes on board the ISO project will have to squeeze out some other usually important activity.

We know the shortcuts

Reading and understanding most ISO standards are not like sipping a glass of exquisite red wine.  Reading and understanding an ISO standard has more in common with chewing on glass.  (Which obviously says something about us and our consultants).  We can put the requirements off the standard into a common business language shortcutting your learning process.

We have done it (implemented ISO) may times

We have been in the ISO business for 35 years implemented literally hundreds of ISO systems across many sectors and industries.  This means we can take what we’ve learned from previous implementations and apply it to your project.

Who we are not for

Engaging an ISO consultant may not suit everyone; we’ve observed several businesses and industries where our services might not align well with their needs. We can’t be everything, everywhere, all at once.

Therefore, here are some specific areas and types of companies where we may not be the ideal match.

However, if you have any questions about ISO and whether an ISO consultant could help your company, feel free to get in contact or book a free 1 hour consultation today.

Very small companies (typically less than £1m turnover or maybe 10 people)

Very big companies

Public sector organisations

Companies that have no interest in changing or improving

Companies that have a preference for doing things quickly at the expense of propriety

Companies that want a one size fits all untailored approach

Companies that are not ambitious