Change management a vital enabling skill for collaborative improvement initiatives. The NMI operates working groups that bring together the appropriate experts in the industry to identify how cost savings and improvements can be made. This may involve identifying best practice and adopting it across the industry. Most work is carried out in these working groups. Thus, although the direct cost of the NMI is around 350,000 per year, well over 2 million per annum is contributed in kind to NMI activity by industry, its suppliers and educational bodies.
Many initiatives require benchmark data to be collected.
NMI acts as a trusted intermediary to collect any confidential information. This is then distributed as on overall analysis of the data so that the confidentiality of participants is maintained. Only those companies that contribute data to any benchmarking activity gain access to the full results. NMI is committed to working with all relevant trade organisations in the industry. For example, both JEMI and SSSF are working with NMI to communicate the Health and Safety pass throughout the industry, gain feedback and improve the final system.