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Having values, we offer strictly professional services and through the recognition and reputation of the A CERT, our associated companies and structures and strategic collaborators, we add value to the products, services, institutes and organizations giving them a competitive advantage and making them capable of achieving a dominant position in national and international level.
Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets
Intellectual property is a general term for the set of intangible assets owned and legally protected by a company from outside use or implementation without consent. There is an extensive international system for defining, protecting, and enforcing intellectual property rights, comprising both multilateral treaty schemes and international organizations.
This evaluation process typically includes:
- Identifying and Categorizing Intangible Assets: This involves identifying all relevant intangible assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and brand value.
- Valuing Intangible Assets: Certification bodies may use various valuation methods, including market-based approaches, income-based approaches and cost-based approaches.
- Assessing Ownership and Legal Rights: This involves verifying the ownership of intangible assets and ensuring that all necessary legal documentation is in place.
- Identifying Risks and Vulnerabilities: This includes assessing the risks associated with intellectual property infringement, unauthorized use and loss of value.
- Developing Protection Strategies: Certification bodies may provide recommendations on how to protect intangible assets, such as registering trademarks and patents, implementing security measures and enforcing intellectual property rights.
By following these steps, certification bodies help organizations to accurately assess the value of their intangible assets, protect their intellectual property and make informed business decisions.
Certification for a quality management system is no other than an official recognition of its actual implementation and introduces a competitive advantage for a company towards competition.
Without satisfied customers, an organization is in peril! To keep customers satisfied, the organization needs to meet their requirements.
The ISO 9001:2008 standard provides a tried and tested framework for taking a systematic approach to managing the organization’s processes so that they consistently turn out products that satisfies customers’ expectations.
Safety net & build wealth
You can transform your business to a revenue-producing asset that lets you work as much or as little as you want.
Business planning & strategy
Our clients are often surprised by the possibilities we present to them; by thinking outside the box we present exciting new ventures:
- Work fewer hours — and make more money
- Attract and retain quality, high-paying customers
- Manage your time so you’ll get more done in less time
- Hone sharp leadership skills to manage your team
- Cut expenses without sacrificing quality
- Automate your business, so you can leave for days,
Research beyond the business plan
The requirements for a quality system have been standardized – but many organizations like to consider themselves as unique. So how does ISO 9001:2008 allow the multiformity, on the one hand for a sole trader, and for a multinational manufacturing company with service components, or a public utility, or a government administration on the other hand?
The answer is that ISO 9001:2008 lays down the requirements a quality system must meet, but does not indicate how they should be met in a particular organization. This leaves great scope and flexibility for implementation in different business sectors and business cultures, as well as in different national cultures.
- The standard requires the organization itself to audit its QMS according to ISO 9001:2008 – in order to verify that it is managing its processes effectively – or, in other words, to check that it is fully in control of its activities.
- In addition, the organization may invite its clients to audit the quality system in order to give them confidence that the organization is capable of delivering products or services that will meet their requirements.
- Lastly, the organization may engage the services of an independent quality system certification body to obtain an ISO 9001:2008 certificate of conformity. This last option has been proved extremely popular in the market due to the perceived credibility of an independent assessment.
The organization may thus avoid multiple audits by its clients, or reduce the frequency or duration of client audits. The certificate can also serve as a business reference between the organization and potential clients, especially when supplier and client are new to each other, or far removed geographically, as in an export context.
ISO 9001:2008 introduces no new requirements. ISO 9001:2008 introduces just clarifications for the existing requirements of ISO 9001:2000 based on eight years of experience of implementing the standard world wide with about one million certificates issued in 170 countries up to date.
It also introduces changes intended to improve consistency with ISO14001:2004.
As the name “International Organization for Standardization” would have different acronyms in different languages (“IOS” in English, “OIN” in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), its founders decided to give it also a short, all-purpose name.
They chose “ISO”, derived from the Greek isos, meaning “equal”.
Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of the organization’s name is always ISO.
Business plan market
A strong business plan requires going beyond intuition and experience, and supporting your idea with fact-based market research. Investors need to have confidence in your understanding of the market, so don’t let yourself down by skimping on research. We have access to fee-based, subscriber-only resources such as:
- Don James/Semplice – Article and News Research
- VoltageBusiness – Company and Industry Research
- Goovers – Company and Industry Research
- IRISpace – Article and News Research
- Lexos-Nexos – Company, Industry, Market Research
- Plombett – Article and News Research
- Pronounce – Market Analysis report “Slices”
