The management systems community
– 14th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs
A new study by Accenture in Sustainability Magazine shows that 93% of global corporation CEO’s believe that sustainability will be critical to their future success, 78% say that sustainability is now viewed as a source of revenue growth and 72% said that stakeholder education is critical.
– 26th Jun 2010
Here is another great article, business and product quality consultant Tom Gaskell, looks at how good quality improves business performance and bad quality damages it and is costly in so many ways. The article looks at how you can audit yourself and continuously improve the way your business runs…
– 25th Jun 2010
A great blog from Tom Gaskell looks at the fundamental principle at the heart of many quality management systems, “Plan – Do – Check – Act”, first championed by Deming in the 1950’s.
– 24th Jun 2010 by Alex Briggs
Health & Safety Managers are increasingly seeing Environmental Management (EM) duties becoming a part of their role. The National Examination Board in Occupational Health and Safety (NEBOSH) carried out research on UK Health & Safety managers and found that over 40% of them now have EM included in their role profile.
“We’ve seen a dramatic change [...]
– 26th Apr 2010 by Alex Briggs
The 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer is out, and the results show that consumers want independent verification of corporate claims.
– 12th Apr 2010 by Alex Briggs
Organisations are making the link between the security of their online data and the potential risk to their corporate reputation. In a recent Websense study 98% of organisations indicated that they are under pressure from clients to protect data.
So what tools are out there to help them deal with it?
– 18th Feb 2010
“Recently, a food manufacturing client asked me why they needed a FSSC 22000 management system certification and Business Assurance from LRQA. The conversation was all about “what could a certified management system approach offer that a checklist approach could not?” Read the full blog!
– 2nd Feb 2010 by Alex Briggs
Andrew Smith is LRQA’s Senior Vice-President for the Americas. In this interview, he talks about some of the key issues that global food organisations are facing. He also talks about the shift from inspections audits to process audits that is addressing the issue of food safety.
– 31st Jan 2010
This is the second blog revisiting my 9/11 Disaster Preparedness article in the February 2002 issue of Quality Progress.
– 26th Jan 2010 by Alex Briggs
The 1.25 million pound salami recall by Daniele Inc. and the associated outbreak have once again raised questions about traceability. This Food Safety News article highlights the seriousness of the issue.
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