ISO 9001

The downside of entrepreneurialism

Posted by on 02/11/2011 at 1:38 pm

Companies that employ highly skilled labour often tolerate inherent wasteful practices due to the powerful ‘can do’, entrepreneurial attitude that bright people apply to their work. Not only can this cause corporate indifference to the sheer hard work it takes to succeed, but it can also mean waste actually grows as clever people enthusiastically create [...]

At long last Quality means business

Posted by on 20/10/2011 at 10:09 am

The boys behind the ISO 9001 standard and its many derivatives have been busy under the radar. They have been making fundamental changes to its underlying requirements which present huge cost and risk saving opportunities to businesses which understand them. Whilst early compliance was largely about codification: stating what the organisation did and how it [...]