Many years ago, I wrote 4 books on ISO 9001.  Books sold well.  Eight languages.  Best selling books on ISO 9000.  We really liked the international management standard.

Now, more than 1,000,000 companies worldwide are registered to the standard.  Unbelievable.  When we worked with the first registrars in North America, there were less than 400 companies registered.

The standard every 5 to 7 years is updated.  The next revision is in 2015.  So, what will it look like?  Mike James, the GM for LRQA, one of the biggest registrars speculated in a recent Quality Digest article (3/29/12):

“For instance, acknowledging the fundamental purpose of all management systems standards, currently numbering in excess of 40, is to prevent things from going wrong. Therefore, if prevention is to become the defining purpose of an ISO 9001 management system, this must inevitably lead to the consideration of risk; not a risk management system that focuses solely on risk, but the systematic control of risk through the management system, which is subtly different.”

We like this a lot since there may be more than 1M companies that will need to be CERM’ed.

Bio:

Greg Hutchins PE and CERM (503.233.101 & GregH@QualityPlusEngineering.com)  is the founder of:

CERMAcademy.com
800Compete.com
QualityPlusEngineering.com
WorkingIt.com

He is the evangelist behind Future of Quality: Risk®.  He is currently working on the Future of Work and machine learning projects.

He is a frequent speaker and expert on Supply Chain Risk Management and cyber security.  His current books available on all platform are shown below: