How our Members can help you
Who are we?
Productivity and quality improvement is our main concern for we believe that only by improving business performance can we enhance the living standards of the nation. Our members are there to help organisations be as effective as possible.
The Institute's mission is to ensure that the importance of simultaneously improving productivity and quality is fully understood by all levels of government and management. We recognise that we live in a fast changing world and we are alive to what this demands from our members.
Members of the Institute of Management Services are qualified by examinations conducted by the Institute which are recognised as the mark of professional excellence in our field. These take the form of formal written and practical tests, or a searching investigation of the candidate's professional capability and experience. You can be assured that a management services practitioner who is an Associate (AMS), a Member (MMS or MMS Dip) or a Fellow (FMS) of this Institute is properly qualified to work in management services.
Furthermore, all our members are bound by the IMS code of professional ethics, which was drawn up to ensure confidentiality and integrity of professional activity. Members who transgress the Code can be subjected to disciplinary measures.
What Do Our Members Do?
Institute members work in many different fields, investigating, advising and carrying out solutions to organisational problems. They are consulted on problems of resource allocation and utilisation and measure the effectiveness of organisations, systems, methods and procedures. They are actively involved with designing and installing integrated systems of materials, equipment, people, information and energy to achieve maximum effectiveness. The use of information technology is now an integral part of management services practice.
The particular management services skills of measurement, analysis, planning and implementation make our members the natural agents of change and in particular they are ideally suited to play a key role in total quality management systems.
Using Management Services
The breadth of the management services field means that you can find professionals with the appropriate mix of skills and abilities to help with your particular problems. Use IMS members to help you to plan change, find solutions to problems, carry out investigations into any facet of your operations which can improve your productivity and profitability.
IMS members can maintain all your systems of management control and see that these systems are founded on correct and pertinent data rather than guesses or estimates. Today's management services professional can command a range of skills and techniques as wide as any. The profession has a great deal more to offer than just the traditional activities of time study and labour bonus schemes, although these still have their place.
You can use management services people to disseminate their problem solving and fact finding skills among your staff by example and training. Using the unique skills of management services properly will make the best use of your resources and maintain your competitiveness.
