Ben Tan Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

• Help organisations remain competitive by analysing business practices and devising strategies for improvement. • Help define company markets, identify industry trends, and create strategies for improving performance and revenue.• Work across every industry on a wide range of issues and offer an outside, expert perspective on their business challenges.• Formulate growth strategies to capitalise on opportunities and transform businesses under Enterprise Singapore’s “BUSINESS STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT” initiative.

Woodlands, Singapore

• Provide training and consultancy services to enterprises based on the internationally benchmarked Business Excellence (BE) framework.• Assist enterprises in assessing their organizational performance by providing an external perspective of their business’ strengths and areas for improvement to achieve superior performance. This includes helping enterprises in attaining the various BE certifications and awards. Wealth of experience with public sector agencies ie. Ministry & Statutory Boards• Support SMEs in the identification and adoption of solutions to improve business efficiency and productivity, with funding support from the government.• Assisted companies in the retail & food services in productivity improvement.• Help private education institutions (PEIs) in attaining the EduTrust mark.• Act as a Resource Person cum Subject Matter Expert for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), Japan.

Singapore

• Responsible for carrying out lecturing duties for the School of Engineering.• Involved in the design of teaching aids and course materials.• Actively leading class discussion and encouraging debate.• Assessing student course work and materials.• Involved in the setting up of assessment and marking of results.• Providing advice & support to students at a personal level.• Responsible for organising field trips and executing routine administrative tasks.

Singapore

• Provided focused consultancy to organisations based on the SQA framework for business excellence. • Conducted both public and in-house training courses in a wide spectrum of topics such as SQA, Cost of Quality, Total Quality Process, Total Productive Maintenance, Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, etc. • A certified trainer for the Unleashing Your Creativity(TM) programme, a course specially licensed by the Centre for Creative Leadership from the United States. • Involved in business development activities and the research and designing of new courses and materials.• Supported MINDEF in driving the MINDEF Excellence Award (MEA) initiatives SAF-wide.• Collaborated with MINDEF's Innovation & Transformation Office (MITO) in the development and facilitation of creative problem-solving programme SAF-wide.

Singapore

• Provided focused consultancy to organisations, both public and private, based on the BE framework.• Served as a certified Singapore Quality Award (SQA) National Assessor for Enterprise Singapore to lead and participate in numerous SQA assessments.• Trained local & internationally (e.g. Vietnam, Malaysia, Botswana) for APO Japan, in programmes such as Regional Training Programme for Commonwealth Countries and Third Country Training Programme.• Worked with companies and key industry partners through engagement sessions and outreach events to encourage companies to leverage on BE standards as a strategic growth tool to strengthen their business fundamentals.

Singapore

• Worked closely with organisations, both local & overseas, in the development and implementation of effective management systems (i.e. ISO 9001 & ISO 14001). Consultancy projects cover a wide spectrum of industries, ranging from manufacturing, M&E to service sectors.• Developed and conducted both in-house and public training courses on topics such as ISO Awareness, IRCA Lead Auditor, ISO Internal Quality/Environmental Auditor, etc.• Performed third party independent quality/environmental audits to verify the compliance of companies’ management systems against the various ISO standards.

Singapore

• Generating component specifications for R&D, test parts per specifications and coordinate approval of electrical and electro-mechanical components.• Providing guidance to R&D on the relative merits of new technologies available.• Assist R&D in development of new component specifications with vendors and procurement department.• Perform vendor audits (both local & regional) based on ISO 9001 requirements and liaise with vendors on quality issues.