Press Release - SBACC Certification Levels

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Consultants Board assist SMEs recognise professions with
Senior and Fellows
The Singapore Business Advisors and Consultants Council Ltd (SBACC) is an industry-led, not-forprofit organisation representing practising management consultants and business advisors in
Singapore. SBACC is set-up as an independent body that is supported and recognised by
government agencies. The Council governs the activities and certification of professional consulting
fields and the registration of business advisors.
The Council’s mission is to promote and advance the professionalism of business consulting and
business advice by setting and maintaining internationally recognised standards of performance and
conduct for our certified consultants and registered business advisors.
Since the official launch of the PMC scheme in November 2008, the scheme has gained increasing
recognition and support from the industry and government agencies. In Oct 2011, the PMC
Certification Board was formally integrated within the SBACC.
In line with our national agenda to build capacity and productivity of enterprises, SBACC will
facilitate the growth of a talent pool of professional practising consultants. Consultants can help
enterprises to be productive and competitive by introducing new technologies, improving systems
and processes, restructuring enterprises and extending the range of abilities and knowledge to
enterprises. SBACC will also expand the PMC scheme to go beyond certification of generic
consulting skills to domain area certification. This would help small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
identify certified professional consultants with the right expertise. SBACC will be launching the
domain knowledge area certification in the coming months.
Furthermore, in recognition of the contribution and value of consultants, SBACC will launch on the
14th of November 2012, two new Practising Management Consultant certification levels.
The Senior PMC Certification is to recognise practising
consultants with at least 8 years of business consulting
experience fulfilling a minimum of 3000 consulting hours in last
three years.
The Fellow PMC Certification is to recognise the contribution
and experience of long practising, experienced consultants
who have been practising consultancy for a minimum of 15 years and have fulfilled the minimum
requirement of 4000 consulting hours in the last three years. In return, fellows will provide
mentorship to upcoming PMC members.
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“Since inception in November 2008, we have certified more than 500 PMCs to date. PMC has
come a long way from when we first launched at the end of 2008 as a pilot program. We have
evolved with the needs of the industry landscape. Already we are starting to see consultants from
different segments of the business do well with PMC endorsement especially entering the regional
markets. With that, we are pleased to announce that we will be the first bilingual council in
Singapore for certification. We have formed a Chinese Committee Panel to address the further
needs of SMEs.” Mr George Huang, Chairman of SBACC
“Enhancing the professionalism of our consultants and raising their profiles will remain a key
priority for SBACC. We are addressing this by launching the new certification levels recognizing
very senior consultants and also the Knowledge Domain Areas such as Productivity, HR, and
Financial Management. More importantly, SBACC strives to match the needs of the SMEs locally
and in the region. You will see us expanding into other areas and scope to continually
professionalise our consultants we are starting Continuing Professional Education to align the
PMCs skills to international standards. More importantly our additional role is to facilitate and match
the SME needs with professionals through multiple network platforms.” Ms Isabella Loh, Chairman
of PMC Certification Board
“SPRING welcomes SBACC’s enhanced PMC scheme of tiered certification levels for consultants.
This scheme works towards upgrading the competencies and accreditation standards of PMC
consultants and in turn raises the professionalism of the consultants. SMEs would benefit directly as
they work with these consultants on upgrading projects to sharpen their competitive edge” Ms Choy
Sauw Kook, Assistant Chief Executive (Resources, Capabilities & Planning), SPRING Singapore
“This is an important step in further professionalising the consulting industry in Singapore and will
allow SMEs to make discerning choices regarding which consultant to engage.” Mr David Wilkins,
Partner, DPI Asia. David is also a certified Practising Management Consultant.
“Like all professionals, business advisors and consultants should aim to achieve excellence. By
allowing different levels, SBACC will help goad players in this field to continue to upgrade, thus
benefitting the business community, and to a larger extent, the economy.” Mr Albert Kong,
CEO/Managing Director, Asiawide Franchise Consultants Pte Ltd. Albert is also a certified
Practising Management Consultant.
“Great to have distinction between levels of consultants. I am in favour of having different classes of
certified consultants such as senior & fellow consultants.” Ms Stella Lim, CEO, ServiceWorks Pte
Ltd
About us
Further to our mission, Singapore Business Advisors and Consultants Council not only promotes
the continual upgrading of knowledge and skills of business consultants and advisors, it has been
core to our organisation’s philosophy since its inception, to create platforms for business
opportunities for our PMCs and the SMEs. In line with international best practice, the Council adopts
the international standard ISO/IEC 17024:2003 for the certification of personnel.
For further information kindly contact;
Ms Juliana Ong
Senior Manager
Singapore Business Advisors and Consultants Council (SBACC)
D: +65 6272 3238 | F: +65 6273 3023 | www.sbacc.org.sg
2 Bukit Merah Central #18-03, Singapore 159835
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