#40 – REKINDLE YOUR VOCATIONAL ROMANCE – DR. TRUDY

Dr. TrudyThere was an old Chinese saying, “the biggest fear in a man’s life is choosing the wrong profession; the biggest fear in a woman’s life is choosing the wrong husband.”

In the old days in the West or the East, women were deprived the opportunity of receiving education and job opportunities.  With the high divorce rate in modern societies, women’s career choices are no longer limited by choosing a spouse.  Under extremely demanding global economy and competition, both men and women are subject to tremendous demands for productivity, performance, and preeminent innovation in the workplace.  Continue reading

#40 – WILL THE REAL USERS OF ISO 9001 PLEASE STAND UP? – T. DAN NELSON

T. Dan Nelson - Screen Shot 2013-09-06 at 8.16.28 PMIn America, the law is written in English.  Lawyers speak English. Yet they require training for how to properly understand and apply the law.

ISO 9001 is no different in this regard.  The standard assumes proper training to understand ISO 9001 requirements, good enough training to assure a consistent understanding of the requirements’ intent.

The challenge is that professionals in the ISO 9000 business don’t seem to consistently understand or appreciate the fundamental importance of the process approach and its implications for QMS implementation and assessment.  So even between two ISO 9000 professionals discussing ISO 9001-certified QMSs, unknown to both, they might be talking about completely different things.  One might be talking about systems of ill-conceived documents, while the other might be talking about an actual systems of processes outputting product. (Only the latter is really talking about QMS) Continue reading

#40 – INTERNATIONAL QUALITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT – JULIUS HEIN

Julius HeinThe age old struggle is on again ‘Risk Management vs Quality.’

All customers want to buy and own ‘quality products.’  The manufacturers want to make a profit.

To design and build a product, certain ‘Risks’ have to be acceptable by the manufacturer.  There is no specific formula for ‘Acceptable Risk.’. Continue reading

#40 – CYBER SECURITY RISKS & PROCESS IMPROVEMENT – ADINA SUCIU

One of the big 2014 trends for IT is the increased shift from being a division supporting the business to becoming more and more a business partner.  When technology is deployed and managed to fully support business processes and advance effectiveness and efficiency on the E2E (exchange to exchange) outside in customer view processes, the overall organization has increased agility that is easier to sustain. Continue reading