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Achieving Business Excellence is a new theme and activity within Constructing Excellence.
We aim to support the UK construction industry in becoming world-class, through advice on best practice methodologies. We have a network of consultants who will work with companies to transfer skills into projects and organisations, and make the cultural shift needed to embrace change and achieve the desired results. This approach will help you achieve business excellence and enhance innovation, best practice and productivity.
We have worked with many clients in the construction industry, advising and facilitating change in all parts of the construction process.
Our services and products are industry focused, and are relevant to today’s modern construction industry. We offer:
- Measurement
- Diagnostic
- Planning
- Advisory (including mentoring, coaching and facilitation), and
- Audit services.
Our portfolio covers:
- Procurement
- Frameworking and partnering
- Design management
- Supply chain management
- People development
- Continuous improvement
- Productivity
- Supply development, and
- Operational excellence programmes for sites, manufacturers and companies.
We also offer internal leadership, respect for people and KPI programmes to suit your business. And we can develop learning programmes based on your company’s needs.
Achieving Business Excellence follows a logical route map to operational excellence to suit most organisations. Our approach can be applied to all parts of the construction process and by all participants.
Contact
Adrian Blumenthal
T 020 7592 1132
E adrian.blumenthal@constructingexcellence.org.uk
Information Sources
CIRIA
Rethinking Construction Training Toolkit
www.ciria.org.uk
Constructing Excellence
Key Performance Indicators
Network of Advisor
Respect for People Toolkits
Local Government Task Force
www.constructingexcellence.org.uk
Construction Industry Council
Design Quality Indicators
www.dqi.org.uk
Constructionline - owned by the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI)
the UK’s largest register of pre-qualified construction contractors and consultants
www.constructionline.co.uk
Improvement and Development Agency (IdeA)
Beacon councils
Guidance on modern procurement practice in local government
National e-Procurement Project’s e-Procurement Toolkit
www.idea.gov.uk
Local Government Taskforce
Numerous Best Practice Guides including:
Rethinking Construction in Local Government
www.constructingexcellence.org.uk
Office of Government Commerce
Achieving Excellence in Construction: Procurement
Guidance Pack
Guidance on EU Procurement Rules
The Successful Delivery Toolkit
www.ogc.gov.uk
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Creating sustainable communities
National Procurement Strategy for Local Government
Strategic Partnering Taskforce
Taskforce Advisory Notes on Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Partnerships
www.odpm.gov.uk
SIMAP
Transforming European procurement for the information age
Guidance and Forms for notices in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU, formerly known as OJEC)
www.simap.eu.int
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
The only professional accountancy body in the UK with specialises in the public services
Best Value Purchasing - a toolkit for the public sector
www.cipfa.org.uk
The Strategic Forum
Accelerating Change report
Integration Toolkit
www.strategicforum.org.uk
The 4ps
Guidance, procurement packs and case studies on Private Finance Initiative and partnerships
www.4ps.gov.uk
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
RICS is a leading source of land, property, construction and environmental knowledge.
www.rics.org
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
CIPS is an international organisation, based in the UK, serving the purchase and supply profession
www.cips.org