Smartcard programme pioneer’s long-held business principles help secure rapid certifications
It’s not been a standard year for Novacroft – the Northampton-based smartcard and software specialist has secured certification to three British and international standards in a record–breaking timescale of just 12 months. This rapid formal recognition of best practice in information security, collaboration and environmental sustainability reflects both the company’s established ethos and processes and the hard work of its Continuous Improvement team.
Novacroft is the only company known by the British Standards Institute (BSI) to have achieved all three standards in such a short period, and one of only 100 companies in the UK to secure certification to BS 11000, the national standard for collaborative business relationships. BS 11000 alone commonly takes two years to implement. At Novacroft it took just seven months.
The Novacroft team was invited to an official BSI certificate presentation event on Tuesday 9th June 2015 to receive formal recognition of their achievement, and will now be filmed as the focus of a BSI case study on what this level of achievement means to a growing business and its clients.
Designed to enable companies to implement tried and tested best practices, the certification process for BS 11000, ISO 27001 and ISO 14001 has strengthened the company’s existing practices through the addition of a structured and systematic approach.
Karen Waldock, Novacroft’s Head of Compliance and Business Improvement, says:
Achieving these certifications in three important business disciplines means that our clients can have even greater confidence in the consistency and quality of the standards we set ourselves across all our activities.
Debra Charles, founder and CEO of Novacroft, says:
Novacroft is all about adding value, being collaborative, being ambitious and making things happen. And I think it’s fair to say we’ve certainly been true to these values in terms of this trio of certifications.
