ISO 9001:2015
Sustainable Procurement in Practice: 6 thoughts
This edition of the newsletter is on an essential topic for the future of business - sustainable procurement. Do you know how to align your organization's existing procurement processes with sustainability, incorporating environmental, social and governance criteria? Here we'll cover the subject in 6 topics, based on national benchmarks...
Risk and Opportunity Management in 9 Tips
Risk and opportunity management is a crucial component for any organization seeking to implement an effective quality management system. In this newsletter we will explore what this means and how to implement it in practice. Making a metaphor about this topic, managing risks and opportunities is like being the...
Performance Indicator 6 reflections on Quality and Sustainability
This newsletter deals with a topic that unites Quality and Sustainability: performance indicators. Just like Quality Management, Sustainability also needs its performance indicators. The same thoughts and principles are needed to structure them. By consolidating the concepts of the 6 requirements of ISO 9001,...
Integrated management system: 7 initial guidelines
This newsletter deals with a very interesting and relevant topic for quality professionals: how to implement an integrated ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 management system. We received this question from a participant in our community: "I have a challenge, to participate in my first follow-up for integrated management, 9001, 14001...
Critical Management Analysis: 7 possible mistakes and how to solve them
This newsletter is aimed at a periodic, laborious and important activity that takes place either at the end of the year or in the first two months of the year in all companies that have a Quality Management System in place: the Management Review meeting. The Management Review is...
Quality Plan: 5 tips for Quality Planning
If you work with quality planning in projects, products or services, this newsletter is for you! There is a key document that is usually the result of quality planning (part of quality management focused on establishing quality objectives and specifying the resources and operational processes needed to meet...
Time for Disruption - A CQI & Qualiexpert article
This newsletter is special for an extraordinary reason: this semester we made it into the CQI - Chartered Quality Institute, through the "time for disruption" report, and I'd like to share this incredible achievement with you. I, Patricia Vasques, gave an interview to Quality World magazine, exclusive to the CQI, about...
Quality principles: 4 essential tips
The theme of this newsletter is Quality Principles. A subject that is the foundation for the requirements of the standard and is essential to know in order to have a systemic understanding of the ISO 9001 standard. In today's newsletter we're going to talk about: what the Quality Principles are where to find the Quality Principles...
Opportunity for Improvement: Quality and Sustainability
The theme of this newsletter is improvement, continuous improvement and improvement opportunities for sustainability - that new and essential subject where the Quality professional can be of great help. In today's newsletter we're going to talk about: What is the difference between improvement and continuous improvement How to start the continuous improvement process...
Management system: 6 essential guidelines
Let's talk fundamentals today! Understanding the fundamentals, entries and initial processes of Management standards is the first step towards a more solid and successful career. If you already have a good understanding and are an expert in the subject, the newsletter will be a brief lesson in concepts. But if you...