Category "10 Building Blocks for a Quality Culture"
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Calculating the Cost of Quality – Post #3 of 3
Abstract business background. So what if we know about this 'Cost of Quality' concept? What's in it for me? Well, if we can figure out what it is, maybe we can find ways to reduce it. Let's see... Deborah Kacera, ...
What’s YOUR Problem?!?
When making your non-conformance (problem) statement, be sure to choose words that will get the response that you're looking for. Stating a non-conformance as, "The operator did not follow the procedure" will set the root cause analysis back 30 years. ...
Why Do A Root Cause Analysis – What’s In It For Me?
Root Cause Analysis is one of the best investments an organization can make in itself. Preventing a problem from recurring is like taking a wheelbarrow of money to the bank! As for the 'WIIFM?' let's start with this 'cost of ...
How Can We Create a ‘Risk Based’ Culture?
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, ...
ISO 10004 – Customer Satisfaction!
ISO 10004 has some fine ideas to get your customer satisfaction activities organized. As we're bombarded more and more with surveys, suffering from survey fatigue to the point where we're saying 'Why bother?' we still need to get some information ...
Supercharge Your Internal Audits!
Internal Auditing has been around since before dirt. Some organizations really do a great job and find improvements - this earns a return the investment. Others do it to make the Registrar happy and could do without the grief. This ...
Improvement – Our Path to Success!
ISO Clause 10 requires Improvement - in fact, the word improvement appears 24 times in ISO 9001. And we all know that we have to tweak things continually to stay just a bit ahead of the competition. If we're not ...
Smooth Operator – ISO Clause 8
This is the 'Rubber Hits the Road' clause, especially for ISO 9001. The EMS and OHS standards both include the 'Emergency and Preparedness' in this section - Operations. By using a flowchart to illustrate your workflow you'll be able to ...
SMART Targets…
Clause 6.2 requires that we set measurable objectives. This helps motivate people - just strap a FitBit to someone's wrist and watch what happens! Try SMART targets to make things clear to your folks: Specific Measurable Attainable (or Action-oriented) Relevant ...
I Can’t Get No…Customer Satisfaction!!!
Last Post until January 8th, 2020!! ISO 10004 has some ideas for us on how to go about getting a handle on this elusive number. First, there's a 'concept' diagram - a great place to start: By getting a handle ...