1. We are doers and improvers who prioritise action over action lists; outcome over output
Rather than being a pure consultancy, QR_ combines strategic insight through business-improvement consulting with hands-on operational implementation — via PDM analysts and SMEs supported by digital tools from our in-house Special Projects development team, and a panel of internal and external advisors available to every client.
With our focus on engineered products, portfolios, and supply chains, our consultants, analysts, and developers can be domain experts familiar with stakeholder workflows and the client's enterprise architecture. We can get to work faster, less obtrusively, and still deliver pertinent outcomes.
This combination of insight with the means and tools to accelerate and de-risk projects and programmes is well captured by our involvement in the VCUK consortium.
2. We target the cause, not the symptoms — data is absolutely the right place to focus
QR_ has moved beyond our early focus on product data management, but the foundational impact of data quality — and the ability to provide decision-driving reports to the right people at the right time — remains. Data is an organisation's lifeblood, and a key aim should be transforming that information into knowledge.
Previous benchmarking for QRonos, our BTRS tool, revealed that as little as 14% of a part's development time is tracked. That means early issues and slippage only become visible as production approaches — resulting in a hockey-stick release curve and the expensive remedial actions that follow: tooling changes, emergency logistics, or underutilisation of engineering teams waiting for blocked components to catch up.
Time spent on data quality early in a project delivers significant improvements in engineering output throughout a programme — while also reducing the risk of burnout and disgruntlement among client engineering teams.
3. We set you up for sustainable success, not continued dependence
Ensuring momentum is not only gained but maintained — embedded by scalable enterprise infrastructure and delivery-focused processes — QR_ sets clients up for long-term success and sustainable growth, not continued dependence on expensive external resource.
Clients have consistently praised our delivery of programme-specific and whole-business-changing results that build on existing systems and process frameworks — rather than relying on ground-up transformation projects that are often unwieldy, unpopular, expensive, and indifferently effective. Long development cycles make for short memories, and this approach to building capability allows the repeated leveraging of hard-won successes across multiple programmes and avoids reinventing the wheel.
Thank you to all our team, clients, and partners for making 2022 what it was. Keep an eye on us in 2023 for some interesting developments.