The path to comfort with your risk management plan can be a complicated on one hand and scary on the other. This may help get you started down this path with a plan to work with. Since the 1960s we’ve used Ishikawa’s fishbone diagram to great benefit. The premise here is that all non-conformances have […]
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When the final version of ISO 9001 arrived, we saw a new phrase, ‘risks and opportunities’ in clause 6.1. We have seen thousands of posts on ‘risk’, I’ve done webinars and videos on the topic and it is always a ‘hot ticket’. But what about the ‘opportunities’ side of the coin. Turns out they go
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ISO Standards, for the most part have moved to ‘Risk-based thinking’ as one of their themes. It makes complete sense to include this as part of the fabric of our organizations in order to reduce the chaos of unexpected events, as least the ones we can control. ISO 31000:2018 has some ideas that will help
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It’s all about the risk, these days, and the better we manage it, the better off we are, period! The new Standard calls for it, yes, but it’s just good business practice to assess where the potholes are in our workflow and steer clear of them. Every hour of proactive planning will save 10 hours
