The COI Group was established in the early 1990's by two businessmen to help employees manage a difficult organisational trend, namely the increased pressure on employees at all levels to deliver more - but having to do this with less - less support, less resources, less time etc.

Of course, increased business efficiency is and admirable and essential goal for all organisations. The problem was how to do this whilst keeping employees committed, focussed and yes, happy in their work.

The beginning of COI coincided with the real beginning of the internet. The COI founders saw the business improvement possibilities offered by the internet and developed a leading business improvement software program - Organisational Effectiveness Profiling (OEP). OEP finally gave leaders the set of day to day continuous improvement tools they needed to help maximise team and organisational performance and build a highly committed and productive workforce.

A decade later and these issues are more prominent than ever. Good employees are hard to find and hard to keep. Organisations need to move even faster to stay ahead and only the strongest survive. If employees fail to commit to a continous improvement ethic, eventually their organisation will fall behind. COI's suite of leading continous improvement software products (known as "Profiling') are designed to meet a range of organisational needs - team effectiveness, leadership development, sales team effectiveness, employee opinion surveys (that actually drive bottom up change). managing mergers and acquistions, health checks,