OPAL, QSM Is Helping Small Businesses Grow and Develop
OPAL, Quality Systems Management is a small business with great, big ideas about changing the way the small business person thinks.   Based in Oakland, CA, OPAL has been working with Bay Area companies for over 10 years building business systems, enhancing control processes and implementing ISO 9000 compliant quality systems.   Recently, OPAL has worked feverishly to infiltrate the construction industry with the explicit intent of showing small, minority, and underutilized contractors that they, too, can turn their “underdog” companies into noticeable, respected organizations that look and feel like “The Big Boys”.

Small business owners are tired of being passed over for large projects.  They know that they have the experience.  They know that they have the capabilities.  “So why can’t I get the job?”  OPAL has set out to shift the paradigms that keep small businesses from excelling.  This is so important, especially in this economy.   Business owners have to gear up for the market’s up-swing.   As Deirdre Mercedes, the founder of OPAL, states on the website, www.opalqsm.com , “You don’t want to find yourself sitting on the sidelines when this economic beast turns towards recovery.  When it starts rising to the next level it will jump so high and so fast – - and for small, unrecognized businesses, if you don’t grab hold of it now, it will be too late.”  Mercedes goes on to say, “….  I think the beast will crouch in Q2, 2010 but it won’t actually take that first of many leaps until later in the year and maybe not until 2011.   Now is the time to get in the saddle.”
Although OPAL is based in Oakland, there are very specific goals for expanding across the United States and introducing small business owners to big operation ideas and strategies.  As stimulus packages roll out across the country, OPAL is looking for ways to energize the economy.  President Obama has asked us to help him to make a change.  Opal seeks to make positive changes within the grass roots of our society by taking small businesses and potential business owners to their individual next levels.
You can be sure to see more from OPAL, Quality Systems Management – The small company with big business ideas. OPAL, Quality Systems Management website: www.opalqsm.com