Part Four - Thatcher, Tebbit, and Enter BS5750.. Meanwhile in the UK, way before the characters ISO9001 had ever been linked together, our own...
A Short History of Standards and ISO9001
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Quality Management – A Short History in Four Parts (ISO 9001, and How We Got There)
Part Three - Japan, Bikes, and Quality Management ISO 9001 wasn't invented by consultants - there are specific reasons as to "how we got here",...
Wars, Shells, and The Quality Management System. The Emergence of Standards.
Part Two - Manufacturing, Management and The Military. Armed Conflict changes a lot of things, and it led to the quality management system....
A Short History of Quality Management in Four Parts (How We Got to ISO 9001)
Part One – Artisans, Victorians and World War No, this is not a cure for insomnia. Hopefully it will help to explain how we got from Mediaeval...
An ISO Consultant Reveals Ten Myths and Legends of ISO Certification
What can you compare the job of ISO Consultant to? Occasionally, it seems a very strange job, running an ISO Consultancy. There are parallels with...
ISO 9001 – How to Make it Work
I received a call from a prospective customer. who explained that he’d bought a business which held an ISO 9001 certificate from a reputable...