#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

#40 – ISO 9001:2021 A MARKET ODYSSEY – UMBERTO TUNESI

Umberto Tunesi pixSomewhere, somewhen, it’s year 2022 A.D.

After some decades spent patronizing customers – and consumers, to some extent – ISO Committees have finally realized what’s really going on in their management system  markets and decided to bow before the real market laws.

So they’ve decided that the new ISO 9001 version – replacing the obsolete 2015 edition – will put supplying processes up front. Continue reading

#40 – SOFTWARE INFORMATION SOURCES – CAPERS JONES

Capers Jones pixABSTRACT
This list of software information sources is provided as a public service by Namcook Analytics LLC.  Since this report consists primarily of citations to published books, articles, and web sites it is not copyrighted and may be freely distributed.  However the books and articles themselves normally are copyrighted so permissions would be needed to use the actual books and publications shown in this report.

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