Quest Worldwide
Since 1988 Quest Worldwide, a global management consultancy, has been enabling multinational organisations in all sectors to achieve large scale change by transforming performance and culture. From bases in Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.
Quest Worldwide focuses on helping business leaders to achieve sustained results through:
- Focused strategy development and implementation
- Improved operational excellence and agility
- Greater people engagement and energy and motivation.
Quest’s expertise lies in harnessing the knowledge and skills that already exist within an organisation and focusing them on achieving ambitious business objectives. It is a powerful approach which looks at an organisation as a whole to add value at every level, from senior leaders to individual employees. Experienced consultants work in a collaborative, participative style to ensure that the impact of working with Quest Worldwide does not end when a project ends – the positive effects are embedded in the culture of our client organisations to deliver long-term improvement.
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Owning the world of simple paymentThe financial services market was changing rapidly through recession and the different technologies converging on payments – mobile, consumer electronics and internet. Barclaycard had already put out an experimental marker in London with the Barclaycard OnePulse card which incorporated an Oyster travelcard, contactless technology for small payments...
Engaging a global leadership team in a new visionIn Q3 2007 the Philips Board of Management announced their ambitious Vision 2010. This Vision was radical: a structural shift from product divisions to customer segments; a ‘One-Philips’ way of managing; and stretching ambitions leading to doubling of profit in three years.
The biggest challenge set by this Vision was not the structural...
Quest was asked to help design an overall Organisation Effectiveness (OE) programme. Strategy into Action (SIA) was first launched in 2000 and a Balanced Business Plan (BBP) created for the Board at company level and then cascaded down into 11 divisions, all generating plans strongly aligned to the Board’s vision, goals and objectives. A holistic...
Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc. (MBI) a leading manufacturer of high purity chemicals needed a clearly defined strategic plan supported by “disciplined execution” in order to achieve accelerated profitable growth. Quest proposed using its Strategy into Action™ methodology to provide a disciplined process of strategic planning and deployment....
Olympus-Europe awarded Quest Worldwide an assignment for a pilot development programme for high potential managers with the objectives of building up leadership competences, encouraging international team working and enhancing cross-cultural competence. Quest’s training style was highly interactive, with much use of case studies, role plays,...
Philips contacted Quest to request help to run its Global Finance Conference (GFC) for 70 key finance personnel across all five divisions, worldwide. Quest proposed that the conference style should be innovative, visually impressive and participative, with few formal presentations, and worked with the Philips GFC planning team to develop a proposal...
Following initial success with its First in Service campaign, 1994 assessment feedback identified the need for Clarke American to expand customer focus throughout the entire company to match levels already achieved in the Customer Services unit. A Critical Needs Review was conducted for each business unit and corporate function and a company-wide Opportunity...
In October 2002, Goodrich bought the engine controls businesses from TRW for $1.5bn. In 1997 Lucas Aerospace, as the company was then known, asked Quest Worldwide to help it become ''the best aerospace company in the world”, initiating what became known as “a trusted partnership” with Quest, which has continued through TRW ownership...
Pall Corporation needed to make its European Manufacturing more effective. Quest Worldwide assessed Pall’s four UK plants and proposed a continuous improvement (CI) programme. The implementation of the programme involved all of the 1550+ UK employees and has proved to be self- financing within the first year. It has also improved customer service,...
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