Category: ISO 9001

  • We need to talk about quality!

    We need to talk about quality!

    A little while ago I created an article on LinkedIn about the use of the term ‘Management Review’, which references an article in CQI’s Quality World magazine going back to 2011. Fast forward to 2024; are we any further forward? Has the world of quality moved on in the last 8 or 13 years? Taking…

  • ISO 9001:2015 – risk and opportunities

    Below is an article I added to CQI’s blog in November 2015. In the third instalment of our guest blog series in collaboration with PMI, Paul Simpson asserts that, just as there are risks and opportunities that we respond to in daily organisational life, quality professionals should focus on the opportunities for improvement presented in ISO 9001:2015.…

  • ISO 9001:2015 Context is King

    In the article added to CQI’s blog in October 2015, the focus is on the significance of ‘context’ in ISO 9001:2015. Using a local corner shop as an example, the article emphasizes the need for organizations to understand and adapt to their operating environment. It highlights the responsibilities and implications of the standard’s requirements.

  • 50% time elapsed – does that equal 50% complete?

    15 March 2017 has been and gone, it marked the halfway point for transition to certification to the latest edition of ISO 9001. If the project plan to have all certified organisations transition to the 2015 edition by 15th September 2018 is half complete then where are we compared with the gantt chart or resource…

  • Management Review – it’s all in the name

    I was in a discussion with a very earnest young man a while back and one of the topics we covered was Management Review as part of the ISO 9001 quality management system he had responsibility for. Let’s just say the conversation was a little heated in places and that lead me to write an…

  • New role for TC 176

    19th May update The first significant piece of work for my new role was to attend the ISO CASCO plenary meeting in Vancouver, Canada from the 24 – 28 April 2017. The main meetings I attended were: Chairman’s Policy and Coordination Group Strategic Alliance and Regulatory group The Plenary meeting itself A ‘Growing the Services…

  • ISO 9001:2015 one year on book is selling well

    One year on the book I co wrote with Jan Gillett and Susannah Clarke of business improvement consultancy PMI continues to sell well – top of the searches on the UK Amazon site for ISO 9001 and sitting at Number 4 in books on Productivity. If you’ve bought a copy please let me know what…

  • The next edition of ISO 9001

    You may have heard of it as ISO 9001:2015 but nobody knows when the next edition of ISO 9001 will be published. As with many things to do with the standards development process the publication date will depend on multiple factors, most of them invisible to the user  – you and I. Too much and,…