Picture: Jules Serkin with Toby Ford
Getting locked into buying products and services that have built-in obsolescence is all too easy to do, and rather harder to break free from.
The topic of buying equipment around the home that sometimes just a few years of even months later needs replacing expensively and at intervals came up when Toby Ford, a Director of IQ Property Services, was interviewed on Kent’s ‘Business Bunker’ podcast on Kent Business Radio recently. You can listen here as Toby helped hosts Paul Andrews and Jules Serkin navigate their way through the often complex and, done well, highly rewarding, world of home automation and more in episode 742 of the podcast!
The interview built on earlier appearances for the company by Founder and Managing Director Tony Cheeseman, who is, ironically, well-known for talking about the ‘unknown unknowns’ in planning and delivering property projects. Eliminating or minimising those unknowns, and mitigating their consequences, is at the heart of what the company does when project managing for a client.
There is a well-known saying, sometimes attributed to the late musician John Lennon, that “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
IQ Property Services makes plans that minimise the risks of events happening that can derail a project, make it more expensive, or render it unfeasible. By co-ordinating any services and suppliers involved and setting robust plans, expectations and processes in place, jobs get done without undue fuss.
At the heart of this is Due Diligence, defined by Wikipedia as “the investigation or exercise of care that a reasonable business or person is normally expected to take before entering into an agreement or contract with another party or an act with a certain standard of care.”
“We take great care that no stone has been left unturned in planning any project before the first serious work on site even begins”, says Tony, “That means a careful and painstaking approach in the over all plans for delivery, but also our monitoring of contractors and suppliers. Due Diligence pays off and saves money, time and stress.”
“We don’t have to oversee or run a project from the very start to achieve these aims. Sometimes, we’re called in as trouble-shooters when things go wrong on a project. Our ideal, though, is to help people get things right from the start and then to ensure that they stay that way.”
Would you like to know more? Give Tony Cheeseman, our Founder and Director, a call for a free, no-obligation chat on 01959 533788.
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