Making ISO certification more straightforward for StonesThro

Building credibility with ISO 9001

StonesThro is a growing UK technology business. And for Andy and the team, ISO 9001 had a clear role to play. 

“It actually sets our stall out as being a quality provider, but also it really helps us with sales and generating revenue.”

But getting certified turned out to be more straightforward than Andy had expected. 

A simpler way to get certified

Andy had worked with certification companies before, but Citation ISO was different. 

“Working with Citation felt like they’d got an established methodology, an established set of policies and procedures — most of which were probably 80% ready for me. The consultancy process made it 100%.”

And the overall process? 

“It was a lot easier than my initial perception.”

Atlas was a nice surprise, too

Atlas stood out to Andy as a well-developed system that gave StonesThro a central place to manage the process and put more structure around the good work already happening across the business. 

“I was genuinely pleased by the Atlas Portal. I’ve worked with a lot of companies’ IT systems which frankly aren’t as well developed. Using the Atlas Portal almost as my kind of trusted friend, it gave me that structure that we could put within the business.”

In fact, Atlas made enough of an impression that Andy says he’d choose Citation ISO for ISO 27001 too, if he were doing it again. 

“If I’d had my life again, I would have done my ISO 27001 with Citation ISO, simply so that I can put everything all in one portal.”

Would StonesThro recommend Citation ISO?

They already have. 

“I would definitely recommend Citation ISO to other similar SME growing businesses like ourselves. In fact, we’ve done that already.”

Andy’s reasoning is simple:

“If we make our clients happy, they’re more likely to buy from us. And I think if Citation ISO have made our clients and suppliers as happy as we were, then that’s a great thing for everybody.”

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