Recipients of 2015 Baldrige Award Announced
U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has named four U.S. organizations as the 2015 recipients of…
Keeping It Simple Leads to More Effective Root Cause Analysis
Selecting the right root cause analysis tools to solve a problem is paramount to not…
Redundant QMS Requirements Affect Efficiency and Response Times
Quality professionals have long known that compliance to QMS requirements is paramount to achieving performance…
How Your Personal Attributes Get Your Career Started
By Peter Holtmann As a developer of certification and credentialing systems, I long ago realized…
Chiseled in Stone: Internal Audit Schedules that Never Change
By Denise Robitaille There are some organizations that I’ve audited whose internal audit schedules never…
The Auditor Career Pathway and the Case for the Vanishing Auditor
By Peter Holtmann The prospect of a clear and well-developed auditor career pathway is an…
ISO 9001:2015 Approved; September 23 Release Date
ISO 9001:2015 Approved! The ISO 9001:2015 ballot has been approved. According to ASQ, who released…
Auditor Competence: Too Many Chiefs, Not Enough Indians?
by Peter Holtmann. Here’s an inflammatory statement I keep hearing about auditor competence: “Good” auditors…
Exemplar Global Issues ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 Transition Requirements
Exemplar Global Certification has released its ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 transition requirements. All Exemplar…
ISO 9001:2015 Transition – Getting Started
By Denise Robitaille With the release of the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS), the long-anticipated…