Financial Services Business Improvement Group
Membership
Why become a member?
- Learn from challenges and issues faced when conducting structured improvement in the financial services sector.
- Learn from the experience of seasoned practitioners to speed up your optimisation and increase impact.
- Utilise FSBIG as a platform for low cost benchmarking.
- Pick from a broad and flexible set of optimisation approaches to suit your situation as the forum is not focused on any single optimisation methodology.
- Suggest topics critical to you and gain from structured discussions on the topic.
- Informally network and share best practices one-on-one with other professionals. You could just pick up the phone and talk to another professional when you need optimisation advice.
- You can test your ideas by presenting and getting feedback in a secure environment.
- Host sessions at your company to give your colleagues and stakeholders the opportunity to benefit from the experience of the forum.
- FSBIG is a special interest group of the Chartered Quality Institute, a not for profit organisation.
Who should join?
To join individuals should be
- working within the financial services sector.
- currently formally engaged in business optimisation as a practitioner on a full-time basis.
- using formal business optimisation quality methods and tools.
The types of professionals in the above categories normally include (but are not limited to) those involved in: Six Sigma, Lean, Process Improvement, Quality, Re-engineering, Change Management, Strategic Change, Best Practice, Transition or Change Project Managers, Sponsoring/Championing of Improvement or Change.
Our aim is that in line with the FSBIG mission and membership criteria all those who are business improvement practitioners within finance industry will automatically become members of FSBIG with access to regular meetings.
All those working in other sectors including consultants who have expressed an interest in the group will become associates of FSBIG with invitation to attend open/general meetings expected to be held every 4-6 months.
To become a FSBIG member
Please complete the application form. Download Factsheet.
Please note: attendance at FSBIG meetings is strictly by invitation only
Join the CQI
Existing CQI members can join the Financial Services Business Improvement Group at any time at no additional fee through the CQI membership department.
Other professionals who are not yet members of the CQI but would like to join should apply for associate membership of the CQI via the CQI membership department and indicate their requirement to join the CQI Financial Services Business Improvement Group.
Other CQI Special Interest Groups
The CQI administers a number of special interest groups and sector groups to promote the interests of the CQI and its membership and to serve the wider community.
- Deming
- Digital
- Food Industry
- Engineering
- Healthcare
- Integrated Management
- Medical Devices
- Pharmaceutical
- Human Factors
- Standards Development
Our sector groups are required to be self funding and to determine their own vision and goals, but in general the purpose of the sector groups is to:
- provide a focus for the sector within the CQI
- provide a focus for quality and quality management issues within the sector
- to develop, if applicable, and publish a specific sector quality management system model
- to develop and publish 'proven practice' for specific activities within their speciality or sector
- to initiate and undertake specific projects of special interest to their speciality or sector, for example developing 'benchmark data' for the sector
- to exchange information and provide a forum for the CPD of members
For more information about the CQI's other Special Interest Groups, please visit: http://www.thecqi.org/communities/
