QPR Software and its Turkish Advanced Value-Added-Reseller Ironman Consulting have signed a joint co-operation agreement with the Turkish Quality Association (KalDer) . Thanks to this co-operation KalDer will be able to better monitor its operations linked to the strategic targets with the support brought by QPR products, Ironman’s consulting and the balanced scorecard methodology and spread strategy oriented approach throughout its organization as a management culture. Kalder, founded in 1991, supports corporations, institutions, local and central government organizations, Non-Government Organizations (NGO), private sector and universities in Turkey to enhance competitive advantage and provide guidance throughout the process of institutionalization and improve corporate culture. It has more than 2000 members. As part of the three years long co-operation agreement QPR provides licenses of its QPR Metrics performance management software for KalDer’s internal use. Ironman Consulting will install the software and train KalDer people to use the product. Ironman will also run strategy consulting workshops for identifying KalDer’s 2014 Strategy map and Corporate Scorecard. KalDer, on its behalf, provides free of charge visibility both to QPR and Ironman in the Turkish National Quality Conference as well as in its print and online media. “With the features offered by QPR Metrics, we enable access to our strategic targets and relevant performance indicators by all of our branch offices and representative offices. The system will provide a single point of access to current information to which we access from different points. Similarly, with the periodic reporting feature supported by QPR, we can run our Executive Board meetings more efficiently", says Mr. Ak?n Al?kç?o?lu, Secretary General of the Turkish Quality Association. “In QPR we are excited about the opportunity to support KalDer in its strive to develop strategy with the best of the breed tools together with our partner Ironman Consulting. Ironman’s proven expertise had facilitated this co-operation, which will without any doubt help all three parties to achieve their strategic goals”, acknowledges Mr. Raimo Mattila, responsible for QPR’a activities in the Turkish Market. “With our 17 years of strategic management consultancy experience and best of the breed features of QPR Metrics, we will develop best practice management model for KALDER which we believe it will be unique among Quality Associations worldwide” says Mr. Ibrahim Demir, founder of Ironman Consulting. Among QPRs customers in Turkey are Autoliv, City of Istanbul, Mercedes-Benz - Turkey, Teknosa, Aktifbank, ?sdemir. Evyap, Viko Electric and Electronics, Turkish Petroleum. Many of them have obtained their ISO and other Quality Certifications with the help of QPR products and received both national and international recognitions including the European Foundation for Quality Management, EFQM, quality award. “Turkey is an important and established market for us. One solid proof of this is that our software is available in Turkish - in addition to many other languages. We believe strongly in to the Turkish market. The co-operation with KalDer is a major milestone in this market that we expect to grow substantially in the future”, Mr. Mattila says. Performance Management Software QPR Metrics offers your organization a fast upgrade path for turning manual performance reporting into an efficient performance management system. QPR Metrics is capable of supporting multiple management standards, methodologies and initiatives and turns your lengthy, resource-intensive performance reporting cycles into an effective real-time performance management program. Read more at: http://www.qpr.com/products/qpr-metrics.htm About QPR Software:
QPR Software is specialized in operational development of private and public sector organizations. Our mission is to help our customers to become agile and efficient in their operations. We offer software and services in areas of enterprise architecture development, process modeling and analysis as well as performance management. We have more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries and our shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. www.qpr.com About KalDer: Kalder was founded in 1991, to support not only private sector organizations but also, local and central government organizations, NGOs, universities in Turkey to enhance competitive advantage and provide guidance throughout the process of institutionalization and improve corporate culture. KalDer has more than 2000 member companies and branch offices in ?stanbul, Ankara, ?zmir, Bursa and Eskisehir. www. kalder.org About Ironman Consulting: Ironman Consulting was founded in 1996 in Turkey. The Company offers corporate performance management solutions and support through strategic alliances for Financial, Retail, Manufacturing, Service, Media and Technology companies as well as Municipalities and Government Organizations. Solutions developed and implemented by Ironman Consulting are quoted among the best practices. www.ironmanconsulting.com For more information in QPR Software, please contact: Mr. Raimo Mattila. Senior Partner Manager email: first name.last name@qpr.com Tel. + 358 40 568 9923
