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PMI are proud to present a series of master classes with leading business thinker Professor H. Thomas Johnson and his equally renowned wife Professor Elaine Johnson.

Following on from their successful visit in 2006, Tom and Elaine will be leading a series of 3 master classes focused on Managing by Means and Managing for Life.

We have developed a comprehensive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy which will enable us to minimise our environmental impact.

The development of this strategy has seen us look into and understand the true environmental consequences of all our business activities from raw materials consumption through to energy use.

We have sought new ways to reduce these factors and raise awareness of them with the overall objective being to minimise our impact on the natural environment.

For more information please see our CSR page.

True to form, we are looking to continually update and improve our policy so please get in touch if you have any ideas for us!

Welcome to the new look PMI website. After listening carefully to how people use our site we are confident that the refreshed design and navigation structure makes our website easier to use and information quicker to find. If you have any comments or if there is something else you’d like to see on the site let us know: info@pmi.co.uk

As part of the site relaunch we are delighted to announce the introduction of an Online Booking system for our public training courses. The PMI CQI public training courses are proving ever popular and with the addition of a full course programme for Scotland, there’s even more choice of venue.

For more information on our range of courses and online booking please see our public training pages.

As always, we’d love to hear from you so why not give us a call on +44(0)1676 522 766.

In October 2007 PMI’s Jane Seddon and Jan Gillett addressed the 5th Asian Network for Quality Congress (ANQ), held in Seoul, Korea. They presented their recent paper: Beyond Six Sigma – Heart Centred Improvement (PDF, 88K). With an impressive range of research and practice papers from over 20 countries across Asia, this is a landmark event.

The conference has a leading edge position in terms of improvement and innovation, and PMI are honoured to be invited to share our experience and practice with some of the leading thinkers in this field.

PMI and CQI are pleased to announce a public six sigma training programme in Scotland. Due to an ever increasing demand for more public courses in a wider range of locations we are delighted to offer our courses in Scotland in partnership with the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Business School. The Business School’s excellent reputation and professional learning environment will ensure you can rely on the first class nature of our joint public courses.

In addition to our already busy training locations in London and the Midlands, our courses will now also run at the Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline; within easy reach of Edinburgh airport and all major transport links.

Public courses will begin in December with a ½ day introductory forum, followed by a full Black Belt programme running until April 2008.

For more information about our public training programme please see our public training pages.

PMI is delighted to announce the publication of new dates for our popular public training course programme offered in association with the CQI (Chartered Quality Institute).
Our public courses are designed for anyone who wants or needs to know more about six sigma and business improvement. For more information please see our public training programmes pages.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss your training requirements further.

PMI is delighted to announce the winner of its annual competition to find the best business improvement story. The 2006 prize was awarded to Beverley Gibbs, Director of Service Development and Planning in a large UK based multinational.

Each year PMI sets out to find the most inspirational example of its improvement methodology being put to use. Each entrant is required to submit a documented example of their improvement work in which they must demonstrate a clear understanding not only of the tools, but also application of the principles that lie at the root of the PMI approach. Beverley impressed the judges with her well documented improvement programme within the IT division of the company.

The goals of the programme team were to instill process-thinking throughout the department, build up the expertise in service improvement and to see acceleration in the delivery of measurable benefits. The initial deliverables were a revised procedure for planned network outages and a reduction in the administrative burden of the Change Management process. The latter achieved a 62% reduction in number of approvers per change request and 56% reduction in cycle time. 

PMI have been helping businesses around the world achieve unprecedented, sustainable improvements since 1984. In July 2006 PMI became a partner of CQI the Chartered Quality Institute (formerly IQA), together PMI and CQI operate a unique range of Six Sigma training programmes open to delegates from any organisation. The award of a Royal Charter in January 2007 for CQI puts the partnership firmly at the forefront of the business improvement arena.

PMI would like to congratulate its six sigma partners IQA on receiving a Royal Charter. The IQA officially became the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) on 18 January 2007.

Since the launch of the PMI and CQI partnership in July 2006, we have been making waves with our exciting range of six sigma services.

The public course programme has been filled to capacity and the comments and feedback from delegates in both London and the Midlands has been positive and encouraging.

The PMI and CQI collaboration will continue to grow with the launch of a new ‘real time’ online booking system and a wider range of courses.

For more information about our public training programme please see our training pages.