In Excellence: the world‘s best kept secret blueprint for success I reported that excellent companies grow more than twice as fast as ISO 9001 certified companies. Sadly just a few thousand organisations globally have achieved the highest levels of excellence in the past 30 years that excellent frameworks have been in existence.

​Flying is reportedly a 100 times safer way to travel than driving a car. Over the past 5 months two flights involving different operators using the same Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft crashed killing all on board. This is shockingly unexpected from an aircraft that has been in service for 3 years and for an industry which prides itself on having a great safety record.
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​How could this possibly happen?

D​id you find it difficult to keep up with your schedule for planned management system audits last year?

Are you auditing the same procedures time after time?

Is the number of findings decreasing each time you audit?

​If you answered yes to at least one of these questions, then it may be that you are a slave to your audit schedule and stuck in the compliance audit trap.

​You conduct regular internal audits to make sure that everyone is following procedures that keep people safe and products working correctly. These internal audits are necessary to

• comply with your own policies,
• demonstrate that you are acting responsibly, and
• meeting the requirements of the internationally recognised ISO management system standards.

While everything may appear to be fine, you can be stuck in the compliance audit trap without even being aware of it.

I hear you are ‘working even harder than before and still not making progress’ in your market. ​Perhaps it’s just that you don’t think that you are making progress. Especially when you know how your business is performing today compared to how it was in the past. ​However, what you don’t know is how much better your business could be performing.

​With the pace of change today, businesses need to be cruising in overdrive to remain relevant now and sustainable for the future. Yet many are stuck in second gear. Often there is an unknown bottleneck or barrier that is holding them back.  
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​By conducting an assessment, you can see if your business is one of those that is stuck in second gear when you need to be in overdrive.