Management Advice
Should My Business Get Certified?
The question is usually fielded by a business proprietor or a newly-hired manager at an engineering company considering certification after hearing that they needed one...
The Costs of Certification – A Reality Check
The answer to “To Certify or Not to Certify?” really depends on a few key considerations. We discussed the scenarios in a different article, presenting a decision tree to help your company evaluate your situation...
Saving Money on Management Consultants
If you found out how much your competitors were actually spending on management consultants would you be pleasantly surprised or flabbergasted? To illustrate, let’s take maintenance for example...
It’s Not Business, It’s Personal – Why Family Businesses Need Management Consultants
Family businesses account for a whopping 70% of all businesses in Australia! And they are significantly different from regular businesses...
4 Steps to Self-Maintaining Management Systems
If you have not asked your competitors what they spend on Management Consultants – don’t! Especially if you have a weak heart. Just know this, some companies have...
Fast Track Your Certification Process
From start to end, most certifications take between 10 and 16 weeks. But not always. As every business understands – sometimes opportunity comes knocking and requires expedient solutions...
Succession Planning – PQMC’s Approach
Business owners want their legacies to live on. But often, children of business owners are either un-interested or not up for the job. This is where we come in. Succession planning is ultimately about capacity building. Whether this means the capacity to run the company or the capacity to be a responsible owner of the company, this task is harder than it sounds.
The PQMC Difference
The Costs of Certification – A Reality Check
The answer to “To Certify or Not to Certify?” really depends on a few key considerations. We discussed the scenarios in a different article, presenting a decision tree to help your company evaluate your situation...
Saving Money on Management Consultants
If you found out how much your competitors were actually spending on management consultants would you be pleasantly surprised or flabbergasted? To illustrate, let’s take maintenance for example...
It’s Not Business, It’s Personal – Why Family Businesses Need Management Consultants
Family businesses account for a whopping 70% of all businesses in Australia! And they are significantly different from regular businesses...
Fast Track Your Certification Process
From start to end, most certifications take between 10 and 16 weeks. But not always. As every business understands – sometimes opportunity comes knocking and requires expedient solutions...
Niche Standards – We’ll Go There With You!
The International Organization of Standardization (ISO) has published over 21,500 standards to date! You may know the common ones but out there is a whole plethora of niche, upcoming, industry-unique standards and accreditations. PQMC has a particular passion (and track record) for learning and applying unfamiliar standards...
Succession Planning – PQMC’s Approach
Business owners want their legacies to live on. But often, children of business owners are either un-interested or not up for the job. This is where we come in. Succession planning is ultimately about capacity building. Whether this means the capacity to run the company or the capacity to be a responsible owner of the company, this task is harder than it sounds.
Client Stories
Keeping them honest: SAI Global’s first ‘five ticks’ for fall prevention gear
“The salesman will tell you the product complies. Most manufacturers think their products comply but, in my experience, few actually do,” says one of Australia’s most senior auditors, Ehab Melek. “If your life depended on a piece of equipment, would you be happy to rely on the salesman’s spiel...
The McLeod Rail Way
In Melbourne where trains are 98% reliable, you would be forgiven to assume that they simply run on-time by default or that railway infrastructure rarely needs any heavy maintenance. As Management Consultants to McLeod Rail, one of the top players in the railway infrastructure space, we can testify that the reality...
Rising from the Ashes of Black Saturday
The Black Saturday fires were still raging when Chris Garlick received the call from AusNet Services in February 2009. The situation was critical. Fires had hit the backbone of the grid and thousands of homes across central Victoria were without electricity. The energy company desperately needed all the resources they could mobilize to restore power.
Making Magic
4 million people will take to the sky today on the back of Rolls Royce engines. Cruising at 35,000 feet to get to that perfect beach, to close that deal overseas, to embrace a loved one. That all of them will get to their destinations safely and fulfill their desires is due, in some small measure, to the work of Jill Barnett.
Changing Tracks – The SWS Story
Way back in the late 1990s, Jim Talbot saw the writing on the wall. The Victorian railways were going through a massive privatisation exercise and change was speeding down the tracks like a freight train. A “collision” with old companies, practices and people was imminent. In particular, the move away from...
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