Business Benefit Perspective – Kimomanzi Integrated Management Systems

Kimomanzi Integrated Management System (Kims): Benefit Approach

Approach Solely from a Business Benefit Perspective

If there is no practical business benefit – IT DOES NOT BELONG!

Our approach is from a business perspective – our business model is built into our Kims software although you are free to modify it to suit you.

Benefits come from practical operational execution, not from reams of theoretical documents)

(See benefits that current customers got)

Your management system must work for the business – not the business working for the management system.

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High Level Contractor Business Model

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The high-level diagram summarises the 4 main components of our business model – which you can modify to suit your requirements

We drill down the lowest level of detail including procedure templates and operational execution – again, easily modified or replaced to suit your requirements.

Formal Benefit Research Project

(In collaboration with UJ and with contributions from the SABS)

Research

In order to ensure that we stay on the right track for our customers to derive real benefit from implementing SANS 1393:2013 we conducted a formal research project in Collaboration with the University of Johannesburg and with contributions from the SABS

The purpose of the research was to “Determine the Impact of Implementing “Sans 1393:2013 Construction Management System – Requirements at SME construction Contractors in South Africa

The findings of this research exceeded all our expectations as reflected in the accompanying summary graphs.

To ensure the continuous improvement of our service, this research is ongoing and the results published regularly on this page.

Research Findings: Nature of the Impact

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86% of procedures developed / adjusted during the implementation project will have benefit to the participants

10% were neutral were some of them already had something in place

Research Findings: Type of Impact

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The most interesting is the time saving – it dispels the notion that implementing a management system standard is just a waste of time – it actually saves time!

Compliance is made easier & better by a whopping 41%

Risk at 35% is mainly the result of better monitoring and management of identified risk

25% direct financial benefit or cost saving can be a lot of money!

Note: The total is more than 100% as one procedure can have multiple types of impact.

Research Findings: Severity of the Impact

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This graph summarizes the benefits in accordance with the business model and shows that there are major benefits in all areas of the business.

Note the HUGE positive impact of 5,9/10 (59%) on the business operations as a whole

Research Findings: Severity of the Impact – next level

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Note that the document management has the biggest impact, which is a result of everything being more organised & structured, leading to use of correct documents, less mislaid/missing documents, etc.

Second is the improved project planning which reduces the “on the run” doing of things and thereby saving time and cost.