How ISO can benefit your business

How ISO Certification can benefit your business. Today's blog will be detailing how many businesses from SME'S to national corporations. Over 50% of small and medium enterprises don't understand how utilising a ISO strategy can really benefit their business. There are many different ISO Certification that all benefit your business in a different way. ISO 9001: ISO 9001 helps improve a businesses Quality Management Systems. This includes improving customer focus and developing and improving the quality of management. ISO 14001: ISO 14001 tackles Environmental Management Systems. Helping a business understand it's effect on the environment and how money can be saved by being more efficient throughout the business. From streamlining processes and use of materials to saving energy by analysing your costs and ways to improve. Simple things can save your business money over the long term and without thinking about it your money could be running down the drain. BusinessGreen.com published a report in 2013 detailing a simple analysis of how easily you could be wasting money. Implementing an ISO 14001 strategy may allow you to greatly decrease your waste, saving you sums of cash in both the short term and long term. Lighting - A light bulb typically uses 60w of electricity when on, which is 0.06 kWh, or 0.906 Pence Per Hour. Suggesting your lighting is on unnecessarily for two hours a day then for every 100 light bulbs within your business you are wasting approximately £471.12 per annum. For small business you may just save between £50 - £100 a year but if you are a company that has an office full of people you could be running 1000's of light bulbs, wasting energy needlessly. Desktop Computers - Computers are now a necessity in modern day business regardless of if you are a small 2 person operation or a multi-national corporation. BusinessGreen.com report points out that an idling desktop PC typically uses 100 watts which amounts to 1.5 pence per hour. Suggest every PC is idling for 2 hours a day ( which is more than likely in any business) you would be wasting 3 pence per PC. 3 Pence you may say hey, it's only 3 pence I walk past that in the street everyday without thinking about picking it up. But if you have 100 computers in your business you need to think again. ( 3 Pence x 100 PCs) x 260 Days = £780 per Annum ( Based on 5 days a week - 52 weeks a year) As we can see it all add's up. At Jeff Ayres Associates we can help you organise your business strategy and direct you with implementing an ISO strategy to help your business be more efficient in many different fields such as Environmental Management, Information Security and Quality Management. Visit our website for more information on how we can help your business improve and grow. www.jeffayres.co.uk