Emirates Business Management International Consultants

Dubai-based EBM, formally Emirates Business Management International Consultants, brings together several professional services companies. It combines management consulting, business excellence work and software with two associated firms, Visual ACE Business Solutions and Kant and Clients Auditors and Chartered Accountants. By its own account, the group has 25 years of experience and has worked with more than 1,000 clients in over 30 countries.

Management consulting and corporate governance

The consulting arm covers business and management consulting, corporate governance and strategy work for organizations in the UAE and wider region. Specialist offers include Six Sigma consulting, balanced scorecard consulting, KPI and key performance indicator design, corporate vision and mission work, and business process re-engineering. The group also runs employee and customer satisfaction surveys, management training and workshops, and human resource consulting, including job role descriptions and management position recruitment support.

Business excellence and quality awards

Quality is one of EBM's specialist areas. Its quality consulting follows the EFQM model, and it helps organizations prepare for regional awards such as the Dubai Quality Awards, the Dubai Human Development Award, the Dubai Service Excellence Scheme Award, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award and the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award. Benchmarking clubs and visits are another part of the excellence offer, letting organizations compare their performance with peers.

Business setup, restructuring and VAT

For companies that are being formed or reorganised, the group offers business setup and restructuring advice. Its VAT consulting covers value-added tax compliance, and it publishes brochures on VAT for jewellery businesses and for software users.

Visual ACE software

The group's software arm, Visual ACE, sells enterprise business management software and human resource management software, with versions for gold jewellery businesses and for property management. The software is delivered as verticals, so that a company can choose the module that fits its trade rather than a general package. EBM's own materials describe its software providers as among the top ERP providers in Dubai.

Gulf and Middle East clients

Its customers are spread across the UAE, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, the Middle East and North Africa, and further afield. The mix of consulting, auditing and software means that many of its projects combine advice with the systems needed to carry it out.