Business Scale-Up: Quality Management System Benefits
A Quality Management System (QMS) approach is commonly considered when a business intends to Scale-Up its operation, having recognised the need for a more structured approach to ensure a consistent quality output as it expands and more people are involved. An approach that may have initially been overlooked as business owners possibly prioritised the pursuit of sales, whilst also handling all aspects of the operation themselves. Whereas adopting a QMS approach during the business start-up phase can lay a strong foundation for success (starting as you mean to go on). To enable scalability, there may be a need to ‘Get Back to Basics’ to overcome the risks associated with rapid expansion, whilst also enabling business owners to step back and place their focus more towards working ‘On the Business’ rather than ‘In the Business’.
Business Scale-Up: Quality Management System Benefits
- Effective Resources
Providing appropriate resources: People, Infrastructure, Environment & Organisational Knowledge. Encouraging a supportive and well-equipped environment that enables successful employee and business performance.
- Manage Increased Complexity
Optimising resources & increasing output with a structured approach. Having clear roles and responsibilities and ‘one best way of working’ that everyone follows. Streamlining processes that eliminate non-value-added activities and minimise risk.
- Promote Consistency
Introducing organised, accessible, secure and version-controlled documents that help to communicate best practice, facilitate team training, maintain vital records and monitor performance. Embedding best practice.
Implementing a QMS as a business starts to scale-up can help clarify ways of working and create consistent repeatable processes that deliver a consistent quality output. Incorporating many handy tips and tools that can be introduced simply, quickly and fairly inexpensively. Benefiting from the collective knowledge and business best practice expertise, from various industries and countries, as encapsulated in the extensively researched international QMS standard ISO 9001.
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