2018: A year of ISO standards revisions and transitions by Ashleigh Cunningham – Wednesday, 14 February 2018 The ISO industry can expect several interesting changes and challenges, during the course of 2018. There are a number of standards that have been revised and are impending release in months to come; there are also deadlines for … Read more
Corporate Governance: How to build organisations and nations with ISO standards by Ashleigh Cunningham – Wednesday, 6 December 2017 Governance, economic stability, basic infrastructure, health, education and security – these are all factors that, when positively embraced, allow for successfully building organisations and nations. With the world becoming increasingly interconnected, through modern information, communications and … Read more
How to be a Better Leader in Quality: Guiding and Influencing Top Management by Ashleigh Cunningham – Thursday, 2 November 2017 Leadership within the context of ISO Leadership is one of the seven principles on which ISO 9001:2015 is built. ISO 9000:2015 states the terms, principles, definitions etc. used within the ISO 9001 standard. To … Read more
Transition Planning Guidance: ISO 9001:2015 by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 There is a lot of discussion in the world regarding the change from ISO 9001:2008 to ISO 9001:2015. This blog post seeks to offer some insight into the published facts, in order to assist those implicated by the changes. It therefore in … Read more
5 Steps to Organisational Knowledge Management by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 What is Organisational Knowledge? One of the new requirements of ISO 9001:2015 includes the need for management of Organisational Knowledge (Clause 7.1.6). The challenge with this need is that most companies find the requirement rather ambiguous. Organisational Knowledge is not defined … Read more
Revision of ISO 17025: What you need to know by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 Like so many other ISO standards, ISO 17025 is under revision to accommodate the new high-level structure published in ISO Directive 1 Annex SL and considerations from the revised ISO 9001:2015. Publication is expected late 2016 or early … Read more