1. We are doers and improvers who prioritise action over action lists; outcome over output
Rather than being a pure consultancy, QR_ combines strategic insight through business-improvement consulting with hands-on operational implementation — via PDM analysts and SMEs supported by digital tools from our in-house Special Projects development team, and a panel of internal and external advisors available to every client.
With our focus on engineered products, portfolios, and supply chains, our consultants, analysts, and developers can be domain experts familiar with stakeholder workflows and the client's enterprise architecture. We can get to work faster, less obtrusively, and still deliver pertinent outcomes.
This combination of insight with the means and tools to accelerate and de-risk projects and programmes is well captured by our involvement in the VCUK consortium.
2. We target the cause, not the symptoms — data is the right place to focus
QR_ has moved beyond our early focus on product data management, but the foundational impact of data quality — and the ability to extract decision-driving reports — remains. Data is an organisation's lifeblood, and a key aim should be transforming that information into knowledge.
Previous benchmarking for QRonos, our BTRS tool, revealed that as little as 14% of a part's development time is tracked. That means early issues and slippage only become visible as production approaches — resulting in a hockey-stick release curve and the expensive remedial actions that follow: tooling changes, emergency logistics, or underestimation of engineering resources waiting for blocking components to catch up.
Time spent on data quality early in a project delivers significant improvements in engineering output throughout a programme — while also reducing the risk of burnout and disgruntlement among client engineering teams.
3. Transforming without the headaches of transformation
90% of businesses are thinking about digitalisation, but only 10% are confident in their strategy. This consensus on the "why" but not the "how" is often rooted in difficult-to-quantify RoI and a disconnect between theory and the realities of working with complex enterprise data stretching back decades.
QR_'s approach is to view digital transformation as a means to an end — and therefore best executed when used to deliver live projects. That emphasis on making digital work, and now, focuses minds on where existing bottlenecks and blockages in the digital plumbing exist. It also adds urgency and time limits that force concurrent thinking and doing. The result: programme-specific tooling and workflows and business-changing results that build on existing systems and processes — rather than relying on ground-up transformation projects that are often unwieldy, unpopular, and expensive.