BluePebbles provides the following general or customized services to clients:

Management System and Process Improvement

Benefit by letting us be an outside third party that will provide an unbiased system assessment.
For example to help your staff

• Prepare for ISO 9000
• Prepare for customer or potential customer's qualification audits and align to your customer's quality management system
• Execute your own company's Vendor/Supplier qualification program
• Execute a self-assessment to improve operational effectiveness and efficiency
• Execute reviews of business and operational processes

We will support your objectives by preparing and executing an assessment of any or all of the following areas

• Management system and operations
• Product Life Cycle or Service Management process
• Product Development process
• Competence, capability, and capacity of R&D/Engineering management and resources

An assessment concludes with a written report containing

• Feedback and analysis of strength and weaknesses and general observations
• Risk and potential risk and non-compliance identification
• Recommendations for improvement

We will provide assessment follow-up by providing

• Improvement action plan and tracking
• Process analysis and improvement; update or create new written process descriptions
• Help to align process and operations of external customers with your own
• Planning, development, and execution of relevant training

Program/Project and Risk Management

Benefit by letting us provide program and/or project management support.
For example, to help your staff

• Gain additional insight and provide support to pre-planning and program/project planning stages
• Effectively apply existing processes to program planning; understand the clear distinction/advantages between a process and a plan.
• Apply best practices in program management tactics
• Evaluate your existing program/project status and current state risks
• Understand the direct relationship between level of risk taken and how competitive your project goal is
  (if there is little or no risk anyone can do it! You might then want to ask yourself just how competitive is your endeavor?)
• Learn how to plan and manage risk and to survive with recovery planning
• Learn how to take "lessons learned" from today's project and integrate to future process improvement

Special Projects

Benefit by letting us provide short term special project support.  For example

• To start and gain momentum for a new project.
• To apply a temporary manager for a short term objective where it does not make sense to hire an employee full time or you want to get something started now but need more time to find the longer term resource to carry it to completion.
• To provide assistance to organize a company management meeting, special objective, or training program.

There are of course, in addition, times when a company's needs may not be so straightforward or even yet fully realized or understood. BluePebbles can help you establish some clear goals, objectives, and the integration of new ideas. For more information, contact John R. Gelm.