Excellence programme for small businesses in Oman announced

Muscat: National Business Centre (NBC), which pertains to the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE), continues its mission and commitment to building small and medium businesses through supporting Al Tamayuz programme.
Al Tamayuz programme is an initiative spearheaded by two SMEs – Fatma Al Riyami Consultancy (Xeem) and Tawasul, which are incubated businesses at the National Business Centre. The two SMEs signed an agreement on Tuesday to implement this excellence programme for SMEs.
The programme is based on practiced Business Excellence and Quality frameworks and standards, offering a structured approach bringing to SMEs profound experience that provides practical and integrated approaches towards a healthy organisation fulfilling its goals from meeting customer expectation to monitoring risks and hazards and maximising performance and more.
The programme has a vision to create national competitive SMEs and is in a mission to drive excellence in Oman SMEs. The programme shall be launched on April 4, 2016, designed to boost SMEs competitiveness and differentiation brining valuable benefits to Oman SMEs, including setting up quality management system for 15 national SMEs, with expected engagement of 8to 10 months.
Al Tamayuz program opens registration for organisations interested to support the initiative and award their own suppliers of SMEs with an opportunity to join the programme; organisations willing to express their commitment to support potential SMEs and contribute to the national strategy directed to empower Oman SMEs; and SMEs interested in the programme and seek to improve and excel.
Meeting
Meanwhile, NBC hosted a meeting yesterday in cooperation with Injaz Oman and in the presence of the student companies that graduated from Injaz Oman’s Sharikati programme 2015. The meeting aimed at getting acquainted with the student companies and discussing the opportunities to incubate these companies at NBC. The students were briefed on the vision of NBC, its objectives and services offered to the incubated businesses.
The National Business Centre is an initiative launched by PEIE at the Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM) to offer promising Omani entrepreneurs a platform to develop their business ideas and advance them into growing ventures. The centre offers a premier platform for Omani entrepreneurs by providing business development support and guidance, training and mentoring, access to markets and industry experts, and state-of-the-art and fully equipped office space, meeting rooms and presentation facilities.