Market sectors
- Central civil government
- Health
- Defence
- Police criminal justice
- Local government
- Not-for-profit
- Commercial
Market sector: Not-for-profit
Qi Consulting is able to provide a wide range of consultancy services to not-for-profit organisations. These organisations’ requirements are similar to those of the public sector (our core customer base) with some important differences. We have clients in a number of not-for-profit organisations, such as housing associations, charities and professional membership bodies; we welcome the opportunity to work with not-for profit organisations. Many government frameworks, including those managed by Government Procurement Service are available to not-for-profit organisations to make it easier to procure our services.
We offer a unique blend of management and technical consultancy expertise and proven understanding of not-for-profit organisations’ issues at senior management level, supported by a wide range of business and technical specialisms. Management, business and IT specialist consultancy services are offered in the following areas:
- IS strategy development;
- programme and project management;
- IT architecture design, inc. networking and communications;
- requirements specification, system acceptance and implementation;
- advice on e-commerce, EDI, multimedia and Internet/intranet services;
- advice on computer and communications security, systems auditing, contingency planning and disaster recovery;
- advice on sourcing, procurement and market testing;
- telecommunications consultancy;
- Human Resources related consultancy;
- marketing communications consultancy;
- business and management consultancy;
- knowledge, records and data management;
- financial services consultancy;
- business information and research services;
- interim management services.
The profile of Qi Consulting’s consultants and interims
All of our consultants and interims are familiar with the policy issues and operational challenges facing the public sector; many have first-hand experience of the different challenges for not-for-profit organisations. In addition to our mix of private sector and public sector experience we offer advantages that distinguish us from other service providers:
- all of our consultants are senior professionals with considerable experience in their chosen field of expertise;
- we offer a wide range of expertise and capability to deliver as well as supervision and management support for all consultants on assignment;
- our consultants place a high value on sharing knowledge and experience;
- many consultants have worked together on multi-skilled team assignments;
- many of our consultants have made significant contributions to the development of public sector methods, guidance and best practice;
- our consultants are independent of any delivery solutions recommended;
- our consultants are experienced in delivering outcomes as well as outputs;
- we have minimum levels of overheads;
- research capability of new trends in IT and business management.
This enables us to offer all of the benefits of a large organisation but with minimum levels of overhead. We are able to offer a wide choice of senior people with proven track records and with demonstrable experience in their chosen field of specialism.
