You might find it helpful or handy to inter relate Process Areas by grouping them into functional categories. Using or even recognizing this grouping is not mandatory for model success, but you might find it’s a useful way of organizing things in your head. The grouping is sorted like this: in the model, six Process Areas (PAs) deal with project management, six deal with engineering, five others deal with the support functions of project execution, and five deal with process management within the organization.

Here’s how the PAs are organized by functional category.

Project Management:
• Project Planning
• Project Monitoring and Control
• Integrated Project Management
• Quantitative Project Management
• Risk Management
• Supplier Agreement Management

Engineering:
• Requirements Management
• Requirements Development
• Verification
• Validation
• Technical Solution
• Product Integration

Support:
• Process and Product Quality Assurance
• Configuration Management
• Measurement and Analysis
• Decision Analysis and Resolution
• Causal Analysis and Resolution

Process Management:
• Organizational Process Focus
• Organizational Process Definition
• Organizational Training
• Organizational Process Performance
• Organizational Innovation and Deployment

Each PA is supported by one or more specific goals, which can be reached using the recommended specific practices. To support the implementation of each PA, CMMI also uses generic goals. The generic goals help institutionalize the activities of a Process Area into a project. There are five generic goals, each with its own generic practices.

That’s a lot of best-practice data. And if you were to look at the CMMI components as a single model, the way that ISO 9001 and Six Sigma are, you might reach the conclusion that there’s more than enough there, maybe too much. But CMMI was designed with scalability in mind. In fact, you can implement CMMI within your organization one of three ways. In each way, you select only certain portions of the model to use: portions that best suit your own process improvement needs, portions that address your chief management concerns, portions that get you to your process goals. One way is called the Continuous Representation. Another is called the Staged Representation. The third way in my term is called the “any way you want” way.

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Well, as the business owner, you cannot just rely on a specialist or a consultant to do the strategy for your business. More often than not, since they are not very familiar with the ins and outs of your business, something may go wrong. Perhaps the strategy is not achieving the desired results, or worse, a misguided strategy can put the entire business at risk. Regardless of the severity of your concern, it is up to you as the business owner to make the necessary changes along the way.

Take this for example. If you realized that your posters are not achieving their purpose, will you pull the fire alarm right away? You can do this, but will it help the business? It is important to find ways to express your concerns in a manner that will not adversely affect the reputation of your business. By acting cautiously and thoughtfully, you can address your concerns without alarming the general clientele and your team.

Admittedly, business strategy development is a challenging task because it is time-intensive and often involves a messy process. The result is never perfect. Far from it! However, as the business owner, you have the obligation to act if you see that there is something wrong in your business strategy. You have to, as experts suggest, nip it in the bud. You have to act decisively before the problem becomes a disaster. You have to face the obstacles squarely to ensure that it does not get out of hand. Waiting and dilly-dallying will not help your business; you have to admit that there is something wrong and then do something about it. Remember however the earlier suggestion that you do this cautiously and without much fanfare.

To get the big picture, do not just rely on your team. Often, your team has been so immersed in the business that they fail to see the big picture. Ask around. Talk to your clients. Discuss your observations with colleagues in the same network. The more people you talk to about these apprehensions, the better. If the image in the poster printing for example is an affront to the values of some people, is this a general sentiment or there is just one noisy sector complaining about that particular image? You might even consider the noise about the image as a welcome distraction so that your print posters are being highlighted. Bad publicity is still good publicity, isn’t it?

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Transportation and Distribution
MRM solutions effectively use technologies in market such as GPS technology to help fleet managers track vehicles in real time, enhance employee productivity, reduce fuel costs, and manage the risks. MRM solutions provide better driver activity tracking, monitor the speed and direction of vehicles, and reduce fuel costs etc. MRM solutions like Fleet Management systems can also be employed by transportation businesses to improve vehicle efficiency, reduce emissions etc. For those businesses largely in distribution, MRM solutions can help ensure route optimization, provide service alerts, monitor driver activity, effective navigation, and efficient dispatch process etc. It will help to plan a new efficient route with more stops that will increase profits and productivity.

Construction
MRM solutions assists contractors to complete their projects on-time and within the budget. It provides efficient vehicle tracking, exact location of vehicles and assets, pin point tools and equipments at various sites, and navigation for vehicles that helps to respond to emergencies in unexpected situations. MRM solutions also provides for engine diagnostic/telemetry tools which alerts on engine performance, coolant temperature, oil pressure etc which helps to avoid engine breakdown at work sites and costly repairs. The driver tracking facility enhances productivity and attendance at jobsites. It helps to cut down on idle crews.

Public Safety Such As Police and Fire Services
The police and fire department have to immediately respond to emergency situations. Effective MRM solutions help to reduce response time through efficient management of critical resources. MRM solutions manage call receipts and resources, and effectively integrate geospatial technologies to equip fire fighters and police personnel with maps from where the emergency call was made. It also helps to reduce fuel and overtime costs.

Public Transportation
Effectively employing MRM solutions in public transportation ensures efficient routing and scheduling of vehicles resulting in reducing fuel costs, less emissions, and increase in driver productivity. The regular inputs on driver safety reporting will help in passenger safety and satisfaction. MRM solutions provide with maintenance alerts, service alerts, and environment friendly fuel consumption and CO2 emission monitoring. It provides better driver/technician activity monitoring which increases productivity, vehicle performance, and reduces accidents etc. The fuel purchase tracking allows monitoring for fuel theft and unauthorized use of fuel cards.

Oil and Natural Gas
MRM solutions help to manage the maze of big and small oil and natural gas pipelines spread across a large region. The solutions which incorporate geospatial technology help to view the entire network of pipelines, store data pertaining to pipeline functioning, and key locations. It makes it easy to arrive at particular pipeline location quickly in case of emergency and make immediate repairs with data already available. Implementing MRM solutions also increases labor productivity, improves engineering processes, and increases utilization of assets etc.

Service Organizations
Service oriented organizations that provide electricity, water, communication facility etc also get benefited by implementing MRM solutions. The MRM solutions provide real time routing and engine diagnostic/telemetry tools that help personnel reach the destination quickly when problem arises. The routing tools help to plan an optimized route that reduces fuel consumption, saves time, and increases productivity of drivers. The web-based mapping features provides information on worksites, technician names, two-way messaging to keep in touch with technician etc.

The MRM solutions are proving to be an important aspect for businesses to manage their field resources, increase the productivity of employees, and stay ahead of competitors. With advancement in technologies, the navigation and tracking capabilities can be implemented in mobile phones or smartphones as a part of MRM solution for an organization.

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ISO standard has extensive experience implementing quality management systems, and has worked in a variety of industrieA good consultant, therefore, rapidly understands the processes that are part of your company and how best to approach implementation of ISO 9001 requirements. The cost of hiring a consultant and the time spent to implement your quality management system will definitely pay off in the long run. The following story is a good example of ISO 9001 implementation—the hard way.

Understanding the requirements, needs, and implementation methods for an ISO 9001 based quality management system (QMS) can be a difficult task. Organizations spend a great deal of time and money in simply trying to understand what they need to do. This time and money is better-spent improving the business and providing products or services to the customer. In order to eliminate the time and expense of discovery, the comprehensive approach that provides your organization with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively develop, implement, and maintain of a lean and high performance Business Management System.

Wide acceptance- ISO 9001: 2008 certification is recognised in more than 120 countries and is the logical choice for any organisation involved in international business or committed to quality.

Why seek certification to ISO 9001?

* Registration to ISO 9001 by an accredited certification body shows committed to quality, customers, and a willingness to work towards improving efficiency.
* It demonstrates the existence of an effective quality management system that satisfies the rigours of an independent, external audit.
* An ISO 9001 certificate enhances company image in the eyes of customers, employees and shareholders alike.
* It also gives a competitive edge to an organisation’s marketing

Quality management guarantee – This certificate also guarantees that the products and services of the organisation satisfies the customer’s quality requirements and comply with all the regulations applicable to those products or services.

To help our clients in expanding their business, we provide them with our gap analysis. Gap analysis is a tool that helps a company to compare its actual performance with its potential performance. At its core are two questions: “Where are we?” and “Where do we want to be?”. If a company or organization is not making the best use of its current resources or is forgoing investment in capital or technology, then it may be producing or performing at a level below its potential. This concept is similar to the base case of being below one’s production possibilities frontier. The goal of gap analysis is to identify the gap between the optimized allocation and integration of the inputs, and the current level of allocation. This helps provide the company with insight into areas which could be improved. The gap analysis process involves determining, documenting and approving the variance between business requirements and current capabilities.

Gap analysis naturally flows from benchmarking and other assessments. Once the general expectation of performance in the industry is understood, it is possible to compare that expectation with the company’s current level of performance. This comparison becomes the gap analysis. Such analysis can be performed at the strategic or operational level of an organization.

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What is ISO 14001?

ISO 14001 is the internationally recognised standard for the environmental management of businesses. It prescribes controls for those activities that have an effect on the environment. These include the use of natural resources, handling and treatment of waste and energy consumption.

Implementing an Environmental Management System is a systematic way to discover and control the effects your company has on the environment. Cost savings can be made through improved efficiency and productivity. These are achieved by detecting ways to minimise waste and dispose of it more effectively and by learning how to use energy more efficiently. It verifies compliance with current legislation and makes insurance cover more accessible.

Advantages of ISO 14001 certification:

* Environmental legal liability.
* Improved corporate image; strategic investment; improved regulatory relations.
* Improving the quality of the environment.
* Assuring commitment to manage and improve environment
* Reducing incidents that may be detrimental to working in the long run and causing liability
* Conserve natural resources and energy and help in getting the required legal consent
* Sharing environmental solutions and improving industry and government relationship
* Evaluates system performance through management review and correct management system deficiencies.

The ISO 14001 certification provided by OSS, offers quality control system defines the organisation, responsibilities, objectives and procedures used to assure quality and reliability of products and services. The policies of the ISO 9001:2008 quality control program should be implemented and maintained at all levels of the business operation and be accessible to all employees.

The ISO 14000 standardization series establishes standards, guidelines, and policies governing correct environmental management by certified organizations. ISO 14001 is, thus far, the most recognized of the ISO 14000 series, as well as the sole ISO standard that can be certified. In an era of environmental consciousness, this certification is crucial for a business or corporate entity to remain competitive in not only a national market, but the international market.

Wide acceptance- ISO certification is recognised in more than 120 countries and is the logical choice for any organisation involved in international business or committed to quality.

The certification process is undertaken by a third party uninvolved in any way with the organization seeking certification. A sizable number of certification organizations, known as auditors, will provide materials, mentoring, and monitoring to ensure that organizations recognize and comply with the various management guidelines. Once the standards have been met, the auditing organization will certify the applicant organization as ISO 14001-compliant.

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What is ISO 22000?

ISO 22000 specifies requirements for a food safety management system where an organisation in the food chain needs to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption. It is applicable to all organisations, regardless of size, which are involved in any aspect of the food chain and want to implement systems that consistently provide safe products. The means of meeting any requirements of ISO 22000 can be accomplished through the use of internal and/or external resources.

The new ISO 22000 standard delivers a common global framework of safety requirements for all organizations in the food supply chain, including crop production, processing, distribution, and related operations. It is an international standard that harmonizes various existing national and industry certification schemes. ISO 22000 incorporates HACCP (Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points) principles and implementation plans. Overall, ISO 22000 creates an effective framework for food safety management, communication along the food supply chain, and control of food safety hazards.

What need to be an ISO 22000 certification specified organization?

* To plan, implement, operate, maintain and update a food safety management system aimed at providing products that, according to their intended use, are safe    for the consumer,
* To demonstrate compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety requirements,
* To evaluate and assess customer requirements and demonstrate conformity with those mutually agreed customer requirements that relate to food safety, in order to enhance customer satisfaction,
* To effectively communicate food safety issues to their suppliers, customers and relevant interested parties in the food chain,
* To ensure that the organization conforms to its stated food safety policy,
* To demonstrate such conformity to relevant interested parties,
* To seek certification or registration of its food safety management system by an external organization,

How Registration Can Benefit Your Organization Adopting the ISO 22000 standard gives you competitive efficiencies worldwide. With registration to ISO 22000, you get:

* A single, globally-accepted standard
* Uniform food safety procedures worldwide
* Improved communication with your trading partners
* Better understanding and implementation of HACCP principles
* A driver for continuous improvement
* Improved food safety hazard control
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* Identifies and prevents hazards from contaminating food
* Based on sound science
* Places responsibility for ensuring food safety on the food manufacturer or distributor
* Helps food companies compete more effectively in the world market thereby reducing barriers to international trade.

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According to JTC1/SC27, the ISO/IEC committee responsible for ISO27k and related standards, ISO/IEC 27001 “is intended to be suitable for several different types of use, including.

Use within organisations to formulate security requirements and objectives.

Use within organisations as a way to ensure that security risks are cost-effectively managed,

Use within organisations to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.

Use within an organisation as a process framework for the implementation and management of controls to ensure that the specific security objectives of an organisation are met.

The definition of new information security management processes.

Identification and clarification of existing information security management processes.

Use by the management of organisations to determine the status of information security management activities.

Use by the internal and external auditors of organisations to demonstrate the information security policies, directives and standards adopted by an organisation and determine the degree of compliance with those policies, directives and standards.

Use by organisations to provide relevant information about information security policies, directives, standards and procedures to trading partners and other organisations that they interact with for operational or commercial reasons.

Implementation of a business enabling information security.

Use by organisations to provide relevant information about information security to customers.”

As with BS7799-2, a robust audit and certification scheme supports the standard. For those already certified against BS7799, accredited certification bodies will establish transitional arrangements. More detail and explanation is available on our specific certification page.

To help our clients in expanding their business, we provide them with our gap analysis. Gap analysis is a tool that helps a company to compare its actual performance with its potential performance. At its core are two questions: “Where are we?” and “Where do we want to be?”. If a company or organization is not making the best use of its current resources or is forgoing investment in capital or technology, then it may be producing or performing at a level below its potential. This concept is similar to the base case of being below one’s production possibilities frontier. The goal of gap analysis is to identify the gap between the optimized allocation and integration of the inputs, and the current level of allocation. This helps provide the company with insight into areas which could be improved. The gap analysis process involves determining, documenting and approving the variance between business requirements and current capabilities.

Gap analysis naturally flows from benchmarking and other assessments. Once the general expectation of performance in the industry is understood, it is possible to compare that expectation with the company’s current level of performance. This comparison becomes the gap analysis. Such analysis can be performed at the strategic or operational level of an organization.

The goal of gap analysis is to identify the gap between the optimized allocation and integration of the inputs, and the current level of allocation. This helps provide the company with insight into areas which could be improved. The gap analysis process involves determining, documenting and approving the variance between business requirements and current capabilities. Gap analysis naturally flows from benchmarking and other assessments. Once the general expectation of performance in the industry is understood, it is possible to compare that expectation with the company’s current level of performance. This comparison becomes the gap analysis. Such analysis can be performed at the strategic or operational level of an organization.

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As with BS7799-2, a robust audit and certification scheme supports the standard. For those already certified against BS7799, accredited certification bodies will establish transitional arrangements. More detail and explanation is available on our specific certification page.

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What is ISO 27001?

ISO 27001 is a specification for the management of Information Security. It is applicable to all sectors of industry and commerce and not confined to information held on computers. It addresses the security of information in whatever form it is held.

The information may be printed or written on paper, stored electronically, transmitted by post or email, shown on films, or spoken in conversation. Whatever form the information takes, or means by which it is shared or stored, ISO 27001 helps an organisation ensure it is always appropriately protected.

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Information security can be characterized as the preservation of:

* Confidentiality – ensuring that access to information is appropriately authorised
* Integrity – safeguarding the accuracy and completeness of information and processing methods
* Availability – ensuring that authorized users have access to information when they need it

ISO 27001 contains a number of control objectives and controls. These include:

* Security policy
* Organizational security
* Asset classification and control
* Personnel security
* Physical and environmental security
* Communications and operations management
* Access control
* System development and maintenance
* Business continuity management
* Compliance

The ISO 27001 consultants provided by OSS, offers quality control system defines the organisation, responsibilities, objectives and procedures used to assure quality and reliability of products and services. The policies of the ISO 9001:2008 quality control program should be implemented and maintained at all levels of the business operation and be accessible to all employees.

Energy audit involves a systematic study undertaken on major energy consuming sections and equipments including construction of heat and mass balance with a view to identify the flow of energy, utilization efficiency of energy in each of the steps and pin-point wasteful energy used. A well-conducted energy audit would reveal the areas of wastage of energy and it would be possible to suggest saving of energy.

The Energy Conservation Act requires the energy audit report to contain recommendations for improving energy efficiency with cost benefit analysis and an action plan to reduce energy consumption [Clause 14(i)]. The conduct of energy audit and implementation of its recommendations on cost-benefit basis through accredited energy auditors is expected to help the designated energy consumers to achieve significant reduction in their energy consumption levels. With wide expertise and dexterity, we successfully offer the best energy auditing services that are in high demand in the domestic market.

With wide expertise and dexterity, we successfully offer the best energy auditing services that are in high demand in the domestic market. These are efficiently carried out by our team of dedicated professionals who are well versed in their respective jobs. They help in offering the best solutions to our clients in different organizations.

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Advantage of OHSAS 18001 Certification:

* Reduces accidents and interruptions in production by assuring better control over hazards at the workplace.
* Focus on employee safety.
* Legal compliance with minimal administrative effort.
* Improves company image and boosts international competitiveness.
* Demonstrates an innovative and forward thinking approach.
* Reduction in insurance costs.
Managing occupational health and safety (OH&S) issues in the workplace represents an enormous challenge.  Effectively managing these issues means taking account not only of legal requirements, but also the well-being of your personnel in their working environment.

Why develop an OH&S system.

To comply with legislation, such as the Health & Safety at Work, etc Act 1974.

To implement a health & safety policy.

To continually improve the policy to reflect the reality of the workplace.

What will an OHSAS 18001 audit cover.

Policy statement.
Planning.
Legal & other requirements.
Objectives.
Management systems.
Structure & responsibility.
Training, awareness & competence.
Consultation & communication.
Documentation.
Document & Data control.
Operational control.
Emergency preparedness & response.
Performance measurement & monitoring.
Accidents; corrective &  preventive action.
Records & record management.
Management review.

An effective OH&S policy is a means of managing risk, by ensuring that operations are properly documented and controlled, and that everyone is aware of their own responsibilities.  When properly implemented, an OH&S system will automatically lead to continual improvement.

These programmes are offered to various industries, enabling them to get the complete understanding of the standards and requirements for certifications. These programmes eliminate the need for external consultants hence provide a cost effective method to achieve certification. These training programs are designed to cater the needs of the company.Our specifically designed comprehensive training programs eliminate the need for external consultants and hence provide a cost effective method to achieve certification.

Also referred to as “best practice benchmarking” or “process benchmarking”, it is a process used in management and particularly strategic management, in which organizations evaluate various aspects of their processes in relation to best practice companies’ processes, usually within a peer group defined for the purposes of comparison. This then allows organizations to develop plans on how to make improvements or adapt specific best practices, usually with the aim of increasing some aspect of performance. Benchmarking may be a one-off event, but is often treated as a continuous process in which organizations continually seek to improve their practices.

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ISO Certification Services Pvt. Ltd. is an established and JAS-ANZ Accredited Certification body. Our main objective is to safeguard life, property and environment through quality assurance services. The company is a renowned consultancy organisation offering ISO certificates, to organisation of all nature and size. OSS is considered as a professional organisation which holds some of the highly qualified individuals in the pool, serving for a wide range of areas by providing customer preferred and efficient certification services.

The company toils for rendering a complete suite of consulting services and training in the field of Quality Management and Environmental Management to the organisation across all the industries verticals for building a progressing and profitable organisation by creating competitive advantage in the market. OSS helps you transform to your business so that it responds quickly to ever-changing levels of competition, customer expectation and market flux and it means to rethink how processes, people and information can incorporate across the company.

ISO certification services  provides effective, competitive, result oriented & practical business solutions to the organizations to optimise their operational efficiency in order to maximise return on investment to achieve their GOALS. To accomplish this, we: Provide the best in terms of quality of service we are committed to continual improvement Are committed to the prevention of pollution Focus on environmental aspects and impacts Focus on occupational, health & safety hazards and risk Commit to comply with all applicable legislation, regulations, and other requirements to which we subscribe Invest in our future to maintain growth and profitability Partner with others.

Service Portfolio

* ISO 9001:2008
* ISO 14000:2004
* OHSAS 18001:2007
* ISO 22000 certification services
* ISO 27001 certification services
* Internal Audit Training Program
* Gap Analysis
* Benchmarking
* Energy Auditing

We ensure that you will consider ISO certification services as an extension of your staff.Our quality management programmes and on-going services are designed to minimize any disruption in the day-to-day operations of the client company. We hold extensive knowledge on organizational behaviour patterns and are an effective counselor & trainer to the employees. These attributes enhance our capability to induce quality control changes comfortably into the on-going work process.

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