IQ celebrates a decade in Australia

17 June 2010

The IQ Business Group (IQ), a worldwide provider of comprehensive business solutions and the technologies that enable them, today announced a decade of successful local operations. The company supports a diverse range of clients across the superannuation, banking, insurance and general financial services sectors, making Australia a key contributor to the IQ Group’s worldwide operations. Since 2000, IQ has established a reputation as an operationally-focused consulting firm with specialist expertise in operations, risk and technology. Within the Australian superannuation sector, the company has created a niche reputation as the “fix-it” firm. Today it maintains a team of experts with hands-on industry knowledge and specific expertise for each client engagement. This has enabled IQ to increase its business footprint via measured and controlled growth levels and in 2010 to produce its most successful year of growth. According to Graham Sammells, CEO for The IQ Business Group in Australia, IQ is proud of its reputation and is now delivering broader-based solutions into defined industry sectors. “We have worked across many engagements with our clients and this financial year alone we have facilitated successful outcomes in excess of 100 projects. This can range from the planning and development of strategy, right through to delivery and assistance with mitigating risks in that delivery. We have continued to expand our practice offerings to cover Operations, Technology, Risk and Solutions to meet the needs of a growing range of clients,” he said. Historically catering for Australia’s superannuation sector, IQ expects that its future growth will also include clients from the banking, insurance and managed investment arena. Sammells continued, “Ten years is a significant milestone for IQ Australia. Our motto is ‘Intelligence. Applied’ and we believe that we have achieved this by remaining innovative, pragmatic and practical with our approach.” “Based on our depth of experience we consider that we have a very thorough understanding of the business requirements of the Australian financial services marketplace. In particular with financial sectors under renewed levels of scrutiny such as the superannuation arena with the Cooper Review and its drive for new benchmarks in efficiency, our long term commitment to maximising business efficiencies and mitigating risk will be seen as a key strength by many organisations.”