The business world is changing rapidly, and it can be challenging to maintain and improve a management system to keep pace. Sometimes you find that you just need a helping hand. It may be to fill a short-term resource gap, to update or help expand your existing system to cover a new topic or even just to allow your in-house team to concentrate on what they do best. When you need that support, Qudos is there to provide it with our team of qualified and experienced consultants.

A growing number of clients are taking advantage of our Management System Business Partner Service. This offers custom arrangements to include the services as required. These may include:

Management System Review / Strategy Report

Review of existing management systems, and the development of a strategy for maintaining compliance while improving efficiency. This may include review of documentation and recommending / making changes to streamline, simplify, and better integrate the documents.

Management system consultancy services

Delivery of solutions to address any existing issues, improve the system, and prepare for certification audits.

Mentoring and guidance of key players within your in-house team. With their extensive experience in developing and maintaining management systems, our consultants can take the lead in communicating to your team with confidence and authority just what needs to be done.

Gap Analysis

A professional service to help you expand your system to comply with additional ISO management system standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 45001 or ISO 14001.

The first step in developing or updating a system is to identify any gaps between what is currently in place, and the requirements of the relevant ISO standard(s). Qudos has successfully provided Gap Analysis services to a wide range of clients over many years. This service is available to help your organization bridge the gap to ISO standards compliance. The service can be based on just one or any combination of the standards that you need to address. More on the unique advantages of the Qudos ISO Gap analysis service.

Management system development

• Our consultants will assist the development, updating, or expansion of your management system. Services include:
• Strategic planning
• Documentation
• Coaching in-house team
• Organizing and participation in management system project meetings.
• Obtaining competitive certification proposals / Liaison with certification body.
• Attendance at external certification audits

Internal Audits

On of the most common areas for nonconformances to be raised at certification audits is the organizations internal audit programme. Qudos can eliminate that concern with our internal audit services, including:

• Developing an audit schedule
• Planning individual audits
• Performance of audits / co-ordinating others as per the schedule.
• Record written and photographic evidence
• List any adverse findings
• Reporting of outcomes to relevant managers including statistics and charts as applicable.
• Recommending solutions to any findings
• The management of the action process to address findings – including root cause investigation and the consideration of actual / potential similar issues as per ISO requirements

More about our Internal audit services

Management review

Management reviews are a mandatory requirement of all ISO management system standards and should form an integral part of the system. services to include:

• Organizing and participation in management review meetings.
• Recording minutes and actions.

Our consultants

Our consultants are all qualified ISO lead certification auditors for the relevant standards and have extensive experience across a wide range of industry sectors, the requirements of the applicable standards, and how those can be most effectively and efficiently met.

Technical resources

Qudos³ IMS software plays an integral role in providing the professional services listed above and facilitating the actions required to implement a robust system that works consistently for the business, improves the flow of information, and better supports certification compliance. It is designed to add automation and integration of many tasks needed to be performed by your in-house personnel via the MyCalendar tool – a dynamic To-do list automatically configured for each user. This includes the management of Internal Audits, Nonconformances, IMS Project meetings, Management Review meetings, Training, Licences, Document control and more. We therefore, typically include Qudos³ IMS software in our management system business partner proposals.

If you could use a hand with your management system, Contact us now to discuss your needs.