We’re asked often about the future of quality. As a matter of fact – a lot.
Our deck Future of Quality: Risk® went viral. We even have a trademark on this.
Well Clive Robinson, Leading Adviser Quality Management for Statoil’s project group had an interesting point of view. He viewed our deck and was left with the impression that we were predicting that the “Risk Manager will replace (absorb?) the Quality manager role.” This isn’t what we had in mind. It’s too early to tell. Continue reading
Take a look at the latest ISO certification statistics! There are a few interesting trends:
I wrote this piece 11 years ago and it was published by Quality Digest in July 2002. It seems still relevant:
Why have so few companies registered to ISO 9001 – 2000? Quality Digest in its July 2002 reported that “the actual figure (of companies that have transitioned) is probably 8 to 10 percent.”[i] Companies now have a little more than a year to transition to the new standard. One major reason for the slow transition may be the perceived value for transitioning to ISO 9001 – 2000 is not sufficiently compelling in these economic slow times. Continue reading
We’ve been involved with ISO management systems since 1987 since the first ISO 9001 standard was developed. We consulted and trained with the first NA ISO registrar (certification body).
A long time ago. We’ve see the growth of the certification industry and have a number of lessons learned. What’s one of our biggest lessons learned? Continue reading
Quality auditors already conduct value added audits. Examples of value added audits include: