by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
Part Four – Thatcher, Tebbit, and Enter BS5750.. Meanwhile in the UK, way before the characters ISO9001 had ever been linked together, our own manufacturing industry lost competitiveness at an exponential rate during the 1970s. Enter The Iron Lady, and her...
by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, Quality Management System
Part Three – Japan, Bikes, and Quality Management ISO 9001 wasn’t invented by consultants – there are specific reasons as to “how we got here”, along with some surprises. Remarkably, Japan used to have the reputation of producing cheap...
by PsyphaDeejay | Jul 2, 2013 | General, ISO 9001, The Diary of an ISO Consultant
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 being a vicar, priest, or miscellaneous other minister of religion. Now, I wouldn’t say that being an ISO...
by PsyphaDeejay | Mar 27, 2013 | General, ISO 9001, The Diary of an ISO Consultant
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 certification body. However, he’d identified that discipline within the business wasn’t good, and that most of the staff...
by PsyphaDeejay | Mar 12, 2013 | General, The Diary of an ISO Consultant
Image copyright Steve Cole. No unauthorised use. From time to time, a scandal emerges which reminds us that although we (supposedly) live in a highly-sophisticated, carefully-controlled, global manufacturing world, things “being right” are only as good as things being...
