Business Excellence Through Action

What is beta™?

Business Excellence Through Action is a service to help you examine your business's performance and develop practical improvement plans. You are supported through the service by specially trained advisers.

Based on the Business Excellence Model, beta™ is an extremely powerful tool giving major performance benefits to smaller businesses. Specifically, beta™ is designed for businesses who are less familiar with the Model. It brings the benefits of the Model to your business without the cost of learning its language.

Excellent businesses know that they can't stand still. They understand the importance of continuously improving. beta™ places strong emphasis on this through the continuous improvement cycle of Plan-Do-Check-Act.

Why should I use beta™?

Because it produces results. It makes effective use of approach is focused on action. It is straightforward and understandable, and your adviser is there to make sure you get the most out of it. Through beta™, you can get connected to your local UK Excellence Federation member and the support they can offer you.

Where can I see beta™ working?

Download this document containing 12 case studies on how BETA has worked for various organisations, including one in Northern Ireland.
(Approx 540kb in Adobe Acrobat format)

How do I get started?

Beta™ is only available across the United Kingdom through the members of the UK Excellence Federation. To use beta™ or for more information, CforC is your local UK Excellence Federation member.

If you would like to get a feel for the beta™ process please take a look at this 'taster' workbook. (Approx 220kb in Adobe Acrobat format)

For further information, please contact:
Adrian Gundy
Tel: 0870 240 6668
Fax: 028 9046 8361
eMail: adrian.gundy@cforc.org