PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTE FROM DAVID MURRAY AT THE FOOT OF THIS PAGE

History, Emphases and Capability

Maine Consulting Services was from 1991 the trading name of David Murray, serving clients by researching, writing, public speaking and advising in many parts of the world. David was previously a partner in a major global consulting firm following an earlier career in manufacturing industry. Consultancy capabilities were developed since 1979 through widespread UK and international experience of advising organisations on strategic and organisational issues from boardroom to shopfloor. More recently his work has centred around human aspects of organisational improvement - especially in the areas of corporate and professional ethics, anti-corruption and overall organisational effectiveness, including service quality.

Publication
In 1997, the London management publisher, Kogan Page, released David Murray's book on managing corporate conduct. "Ethics in Organizations" was widely welcomed as down-to-earth and practical, free of both philosophical mystique and the anti-business campaigning which are often associated with the topic. It was reprinted and is still available.

Recent Years' Consultancy Work
In recent years David has carried out advisory projects for businesses, professional institutions, government and NGOs on five continents. This has covered a variety of topics including micro-enterprise development, self-assessment and peer-appraisal processes, organisational performance review, and anti-corruption research. He can also provide both standard and tailored training courses on business ethics and anti-corruption; and facilitated "management think sessions" on service quality (with an ethical slant) and continuous improvement.

David is also widely travelled as a speaker, lecturer, researcher and writer. During 2005-6 he served on an approximately half-time basis as Senior Adviser to the Chairman of the International Advisory Group which was planning the future of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) - working to increase the transparency of natural resource revenues, especially in developing countries with widespread poverty.

Experience outside consultancy
From 2000 to 2005 David Murray was Deputy Chairman of the UK chapter of Transparency International, the global anti-corruption coalition; he also chaired the steering group for TI(UK)'s project on reducing corruption in the official arms trade, and led TI's involvement internationally in both the UK-government-led Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the civil society movement, "Publish What You Pay". He has been a frequent speaker in many parts of the world on the challenges of achieving greater transparency in revenue management related to the oil, gas and mining industries.

Until late-2004 he was for many years chairman of the Professional Policy Board and a member of Council at the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA), which now (having received its Royal Charter) is the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI). He was active in the Institute's affairs from the early 1970s. In the mid-1990s he chaired its futures project, 2020-Vision. Earlier he was one of the founders of both its Process Industries Group and Service Industries Group. In recent years he was a driving force behind the development of the Institute's "Body of Quality Knowledge". In 2005 the Institute created him an Honorary Fellow. He has a particular interest in the broadening of quality management to include Quality of Corporate Conduct and Impact, but is not over-enthusiastic about management system standards.

David is on the editorial board of the journal, Business Ethics: a European Review; and is Chairman and Visiting Research Fellow of the Ridley Hall Foundation, Cambridge, where he was also a founding co-editor (and now editorial advisor) of the journal, Faith in Business Quarterly. - See also our other series of web pages covering the "Faith and Work Project"

Maine Consulting Services

Note from David Murray

Having reached my mid-60s, although with no intention of retiring,
I have now closed the office at Queen's Head Chambers and work from home near
Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England

In the near future, once a number of administrative matters are tidied up,
I shall cease to trade as Maine Consulting Services, but plan to
continue consultancy (on a less intensive scale and with reduced international travel)
operating in my own personal name.

I can still be contacted at the following:

Telephone: +44/0 1636 63 60 62
Email: maine@davidmurray.org.uk