The management systems community
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.
24th Nov 2006 by David Lawson
One of the critical roles for the BusinessAssurance.com web-site will be to act a repository of knowledge for management systems professionals around the world.
From LRQA’s training experience we recognise that there is no better source of learning than the experiences of others. In the UK alone, we have 12 complete case studies, to show how clients have benefits from implementing standardised approaches.
22nd Nov 2006 by Andrew Kakabadse
One of the most critical applications facing management systems, is their deployment across complex supply-chains, where the same ‘rules and processes’ will need to be adapted into different cultures and risk management frameworks.
9th Nov 2006
Following today’s release of the Materiality Report, LRQA’s Deborah Evans talks about the need for materiality in non-financial reporting, outlining steps that companies can take to ensure that what they report is relevant and useful to management and stakeholders.
9th Nov 2006
Today’s non financial reporting models are broken. The problem isn’t that CSR reports are ‘greenwash’. Or even that they are unread, unloved data dumps. The problem is materiality - determining and reporting on the non financial factors which really matter.
4th Nov 2006
Results from a three-year European study into the benefits of environmental management systems demonstrate a link between certified systems and improved environmental performance
2nd Nov 2006 by Tim Kitchin
Ian Hodgskinson, Director of site sponsor LRQA discusses with Tim Kitchin why Business Assurance is such an important concept for the management systems industry.
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