efficient quality management

Our response to Sterling Wire & Cable regarding the job of finding a consultant:

Consultants are savvy sales-people first and knowledgeable resources second and their personalities sometimes clash with their Clients. We did the “Consultant-thing” once and learned there’s good money in the business but living that battle day-after-day was not our cup-of-tea. We found our calling so that’s what we do and we share our experience at no-charge – we’re here to give honest feedback to people trying to get to their next action item in a business process that we thoroughly understand.

We learned the best way to find a Consultant is to search the Registrar logs for businesses in your area. Almost every Registrar likes to brag about their certifications so they display all the businesses that they’ve certified. Those lists are searchable so you can find businesses in your industry in your area that have the certification that you are targeting. Get your list of businesses then call them to see how they achieved their goal – everyone we’ve spoken with likes to brag about their achievement so they’re a good resource.

We provide the tools that are needed to get the job done without a Consultant – no matter what the task – you’ve got to do the work. You’ll spend more than $20,000 for a Consultant to help you achieve certification to an industry standard. You’re going to spend that much anyway in a short time via group-hugs and orientation meetings. No matter what, you’re going to need a subject-matter-expert. We suggest you spend 10% of the Consultant fee on certification of one of your employees to become an ISO or aerospace auditor, then you’ll have your expert to guide the transition process. Of course, you don’t need a certified auditor to make an expert on the subject. Since you already have to do the work then anyone can educate themselves about the project – click here to see our Auditor training slides and orientation slides to become educated.

People with a master degree or PhD always start from a place called “I don’t know” and learn to achieve their degree. There are no mysteries if you’re willing to do the work – everybody in the business has to do their share of the work to achieve certification.

Hope this information helps your project.

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