Insights from the works.
Practical notes on compliance, procurement, quality and back-office operations — written by the consultants who do the work.
Getting specified: the three places your product has to appear on a drawing set.
Specification is where work becomes revenue. If your product does not appear in the right places on a drawing set, it will not get built — no matter how good the submittal looks.
5 min readModern Slavery Act 2015: what a compliant statement actually needs to say.
Most Modern Slavery statements are boilerplate. The Home Office guidance is clear on what a compliant statement must include — and most companies are falling short.
6 min readISO 9001 internal audits: why most NCRs get graded wrong.
The difference between a minor and major nonconformity is not severity — it is systemic risk. Most internal auditors grade on gut feel rather than the standard.
7 min readThe institutional memory problem: why compliance knowledge walks out the door.
When your compliance lead leaves, they take years of context with them. The cost is not the hire — it is the ramp-up time and the mistakes made in the gap.
5 min readCarbon reduction plans: what PPN 06/21 actually requires.
PPN 06/21 mandates a Carbon Reduction Plan for any supplier bidding on central government contracts over five million pounds. Here is what yours must contain.
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