Enhance and Advance Your Business Through Best Practices Certifications

Your commercial and government customers are increasingly looking at industry best practices certifications as a way to differientiate between business competitors. They see these credentials as essential and necessary to reduce risk when they contract for products and services. Small businesses were once largely exempted from these certification requirements but, with the expanding role process credentials play in the market, no doubt you’ve noticed they are becoming a necessary investment. If you want to raise your game, It’s important to understand how the tremendous benefits of securing certifications accrue and impact your business success.

The International Standards Organization (ISO), the Capability Maturity Model Integration Institute (CMMI), and the more recent Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) – Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, are key certifications that can position your small business to reap big benefits. They offer a variety of best practices frameworks that cover a range of disciplines, including software development, services, quality management, and security. These frameworks, or models, provide a pathway to organizational excellence that leads to increased opportunities to grow your business. They are underpinned with disciplined, consistent practices and procedures, streamlined repeatable processes, and continual improvement. Becoming certified in ISO, CMMI, and CMMC and adhering to these industry standards helps elevate your business to customers. In fact, we believe the effort to improve processes benefits your organization in a number of ways, to include:

1. Establishing and sharpening your competitive edge
   Companies with CMMI, ISO, and CMMC credentials develop a competitive edge and the capability of taking on bigger, more complex work that helps their businesses expand and grow. Increasingly, Government customers are requiring credentials or are giving additional evaluation consideration to companies who have demonstrated process excellence.
2. Focusing on risk reduction and consistent performance that helps build trust among customers and stakeholders
   Credentialing your company’s business and best practices helps establish a reputation for implementing mature and repeatable processes. As a result, you offer customers and stakeholders performance and financial risk reduction while you protect your reputation as a reliable provider. Implementing organizational operations and improvement efforts based on industry best practices frameworks fosters trust. Since both CMMI and ISO rely on metrics to provide empirical evidence of process performance and methods to measure improvements, customers are CONFIDENT that work execution is consistent, correct, and controlled and practitioners are trained in performance and process requirements.
3. Strengthening your ability to deliver tight cost controls across projects
   Customers trust that credentialed companies are reliable, disciplined in consistently performing to contract requirements, and will provide on-time, quality outcomes within the established, agreed-upon budget. Best practices focus on objective measures of success and offer targeted ways to take corrective actions that prevent cost and schedule overruns.
4. Enabling resiliency across your organization
   In short, your organization will operate smarter under the ISO/CMMI/CMMC models, driving positive change and enabling you to function and REPEATEDLY execute tasks efficiently and effectively. Organizations that operate to established, documented, and trained processes and procedures are agile and adapt and respond well to planned and unplanned changes and service disruptions. Personnel trained in process discipline perform orderly and insightful trouble-shooting, mitigation, and corrective actions, instilling workforce and customer confidence and remediating unwanted impacts on productivity and service quality.

About Kreative

We are Kreative, a small business that practices what we preach! We currently hold nine certifications and we are a CMMI Institute Partner and Registered CMMC-AB Registered Provider Organization. We stay abreast of today’s changing best practices in cybersecurity, big data, IT services, and software delivery. Dedicated to helping small businesses understand and obtain certifications, our knowledgeable, friendly team will help you optimize your resources using Kreative’s forms, templates, and tools.

Visit www.KreativeCorp.com and contact us today to talk about your business goals and how we can help you reach them.