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Project Management Achieving confident delivery of any major project depends on effective project management.

Depending on the existing range of skills and collective experience made available through their able and qualified people, most businesses are well served when it comes to carrying on their regular daily business. However, a major project will often present a different type of ...

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Business Intelligence Provides clients with internal and external, accurate, focused and timely information and analysis about their organisation and its activities.

This enables them to achieve their strategic objectives, make informed decisions, produce substantive audit trails, gain a deeper understanding of customer and partner relationships and key performance indicators, obtain insights that provide an accurate view of ...

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Change Realisation Enables an organisation to follow a structured path of transition to achieve the realisation of its new future state while allowing its people to adapt to, accept and embrace their new situation.

Communication and training are amongst the key factors in managing and implementing effective strategic, operational, cultural or technological change as part of a change realisation plan ...

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Management Standards Enabling clients to achieve and maintain management standards and systems using Touchstone iSO Systems.

Examples include: quality management, environmental management, health and safety management, information security, integrated systems, energy management, going carbon neutral, business continuity, fire safety regulations, Investors in People, and risk management ...

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Performance Improvement The process of identifying, reviewing and evaluating the current input and output of an organisation, or some or all of its activities, and identifying a way forward to change the way that things are done with the aim of increasing efficiency and output and, where relevant, profit.

Touchstone Renard has advised and supported clients with performance improvement processes for over 20 years, helping to introduce ...

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Risk Management Enables organisations to recognise and deal effectively with the uncertainties faced and to turn them into positive advantages wherever possible.

It is the process of identifying, assessing and prioritising potential threats or unfortunate events or outcomes and following a bespoke plan to monitor them, control and minimise their happening or impact and ...

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Options Analysis Offers a robust, yet sensitive, in-depth review of the purposes and objectives of an organisation against practical achievement. Where requested by clients, alternatives can be suggested to enable an organisation's aims to be achieved more effectively.

In some cases, this could lead to a 'make or buy' decision or consideration of the choice between in-house or external services and ...

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We Are Consultants to the Public and Private Sectors

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All organisations seek to grow while having to keep pace with ever changing circumstances and demands. Successful management of the many facets of business requires skill, knowledge, experience and know-how.

Touchstone Renard partners with clients to provide the support needed, offering effective, sustainable solutions that work, ensuring that day to day operations continue as usual.

Touchstone Renard’s consultants are selected for their ability and 'can do' approach, to provide clients with the management and technical talent required to transform and improve, bringing clarity of purpose and cost effective, flexible solutions. At the same time, knowledge and skills are transferred to clients’ managers and their teams.

Touchstone Renard’s Solution Portfolio – The 7 Solutions

Management Standards

Enabling clients to achieve and maintain management standards and systems e.g. ISO 9001 (Quality); ISO 14001 (Environmental); ISO 27001 and BS 10008 (Information Security and Management); BS OHSAS 18001 (Health and safety); BS 25999 (Business Continuity); PAS 99 (Integrated Systems).

Risk Management

Providing clients with comprehensive support utilising a range of tools, techniques and methodologies including risk registers; quantified risk assessment; risk management systems and management standards.

Project Management

Ensuring clients' projects deliver the commitments made including advice and support with project management systems; training; assurance; diagnosis and turnaround.

Performance Improvement

Providing clients with the benefit of our experience supported by a range of tools including benchmarking; process improvement; excellence model application; 6 Sigma; and productivity improvement with Main10.

Options Analysis

Utilising a proven methodology that delivers independent and validated recommendations applied to make or buy; sourcing strategies; and project or other option selection processes.

Change Realisation

Delivering change programmes and supporting and facilitating change, from change readiness assessment through to realising the change required.

Business Intelligence

Encompassing client research based studies; balanced scorecard visualisation; KPI development and confidential investigations.

About Touchstone Renard

Formed in 1987, Touchstone Renard was subsequently acquired in 1997 by Phil Austin, Managing Director. Andrew Herbert has been Chairman of the Board since 2003, with Richard Wood as HR and Business Services Director since 2007.

Although Touchstone Renard's initial clients were in the rail and metro sectors, we now provide services to organisations of all types and sizes across the private and public sectors, throughout the UK and overseas.