All projects are clearly specified at the outset and will be agreed with you in a detailed 'Project Charter'. Ideally these projects are positioned within your business management system – i.e. the means by which you run the business. This ensures that every project sits within a structured framework of improvement activity to ensure that it delivers maximum value for money, rather than being a stand-alone, fragmented initiative.

Where you do not have a defined business management system in place for generating and sustaining continuous improvement in their business we are willing and able to share best practice with you – based on our own internal system RAPID™.

Irrespective of the work we are commissioned to do, you will be are offered an intensive half-day workshop that is conducted with members of your management (or business unit) team. In 2001 this approach was piloted by the East Midlands Development Agency and subsequently became a key part of the Aerospace Recovery Programme in the East Midlands following 9/11.

The half-day workshop generates a high level and robust 'vital few' action plan within the context of a Balanced Business Scorecard covering Customers, Employees, Market Share and Business Results and is conducted under a strict non-disclosure agreement.

Since 2001 this fast-forward approach has been adopted by:-

It has been successfully used in a variety of industry sectors - e.g. aerospace, automotive, chemicals, construction, distribution and engineering.