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The consultancy was started just over 10 years ago by Andrew Kerr. He had significant experience in dealing with mainstream Consultancy companies and realised that most did not have the ‘on the job’ experience that was really needed.
He also agreed with the widely held view that consultants ‘look at your watch and tell you the time’. Companies and businesses required an altogether different type of help, one that closely identified with the customers problems and whose costs were more appropriate to the ability to pay and to the actual benefits achieved. There was therefore a need and an opportunity for experienced people with the knowledge of actually having done the job to be able to provide a range of services to both large and small organisations.
Kerr Consulting is not another Consultancy but one with a clear focus on customer needs and one that aims to create significant customer value.
The vast majority of Kerr Consulting business comes from repeat customers, this is a testament to their performance and to the relationships established.
Profiles
- Andrew Kerr MBE
Andrew was a very senior manager with a large multinational company for over 30 years. During that time he managed both the engineering functions and the main production and operations function. At one time he was directly responsible for over 2000 people in multi-disciplined departments. This included introducing new products and major cost reduction programmes.
Latterly he was Chairman of the Engineering Industry Training Board and Advanced Learning Systems. He still is a Chairman of a local Enterprise Company and plays an active role in fostering new business start ups This huge amount of experience and knowledge of production and industrial engineering spans over 40 years has been put to use in a wide range of projects covering both large companies and SME’s.
- Ian Kerr MBA, Dip Ind. Mgmt, AIBA
Ian was a main board director of two large companies, one a multinational based in Scotland the other based in Northern Ireland. All in all he has over 25 years at senior management and director level.
His expertise has been mainly in Materials, Supply Chain Management and Operations and also creating the platform to allow change management techniques to succeed. He has recently been involved in a number of large-scale projects with large multinationals including key person recruitment and project evaluation. Ian is currently involved with a large number of small companies who are receiving ongoing mentoring, general and specialised business assistance. This includes a wide range of services from manufacturing software appraisal to programme evaluation.
Ian is SFEDI accredited for mentoring and training and is also involved in delivering Business Start Programmes.
- Kenneth McConkey BSc (Hons) Microbiology, Diploma in Brewing and Distilling, MBA
Kenneth was a key member of the quality management team in a large multinational company for many years. During that time he has maintained and developed the existing quality system. He has also been responsible for designing and implementing quality systems successfully in local SMEs. Kenneth has built up vast experience and knowledge of the quality function, especially ISO and total quality management, over his career in various industry sectors.
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