The management systems community
2nd Jul 2007 by Tim Kitchin
If we are to trade our way out of climate change, consumers are going to need to make much better environmental choices.
Realistically, they will need a lot more information; honestly produced and simply presented.
15th May 2007
The launch of the new climate change section is highlighted by a podcast featuring some of the most influential people in the carbon industry.
Conducted at the CarbonExpo conference in Cologne, and presented by business podcaster Neville Hobson, this podcast features leading industry experts discussing issues around carbon emissions and trading.
29th Mar 2007
Deming argues that managers must ‘adopt the new philosophy’ — in this case, his new philosophy — but the rationale is applicable whether or not we examine his approach.
His argument was thus: unless management adopt the reforms they put in place, they shouldn’t expect their workforce to do so; the same goes for management systems.
28th Mar 2007 by Tim Kitchin
“Chinese consumer confidence in foreign brand-name products is decreasing after frequent media reports about their shabby quality.”
So says this piece from China Business News.
4th Jan 2007
There’s been plenty of acknowledgement that CEO involvement helps adoption of management systems - the recent research conducted by LRQA confirms this - and plenty of grumbling that senior management often ignore them entirely.
5th Dec 2006
Alan Knight, Head of Standards and Related Services at AccountAbility, Deborah Evans, Business Manager - Corporate Reporting and Assurance at LRQA and Chris Tuppen, Head of SD & Corporate Accountability at BT present the concept of materiality, how different companies have tackled the issue, and propose a Materiality Framework that everyone can use.
28th Nov 2006 by David Lawson
Here at the Business Assurance Summit in Barcelona, I have just finished presenting the topline findings from LRQA’s 7-country analysis of senior managers current attitudes and approaches to management systems improvement.
28th Nov 2006
Mike James, Vice President of EMEA for LRQA, outlines the critical issues facing management systems over the next ten years.
He also discusses the management systems challenges highlighted in LRQA’s senior management research study.
28th Nov 2006
This research, based on 350 depth interviews with international board directors and senior managers with overall responsibility for management systems, shows conclusively that senior management believes in the power of management systems.
24th Nov 2006 by David Lawson
I’ll be off to Barcelona at the weekend in time for LRQA’s Business Assurance Summit, “Setting the Agenda for Change”.
We’ve invited a small group of clients to come and share our latest thinking on management systems performance. It promises to be a very interesting gathering indeed.
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