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  • How Companies Gain a Competitive Edge With ISO Certification

    April 7, 2020 by David Jensen, Staff Writer, MasterControl

    The International Organization of Standards (ISO) is a global organization that defines essential requirements for helping businesses improve their products, services and customer relations. Applying these guidelines enables organizations to give their customers the assurance that their products and services are safe, reliable and of good quality. This article introduces the most popular ISO standards and discusses how companies can use them to gain a competitive edge in their markets.

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  • Leveraging the Value of Quality in Your Business Through ISO

    September 11, 2018 by Christine Park, Founder and Owner, Christine Park and Associates

    Rather than viewing ISO as a burden, think of it as a standard upon which you can build a foundation for the sustainability and growth of your business. Learn how to use ISO as a catalyst to align a quality management system (QMS) with the strategic direction of your company.

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  • ISO, Regulatory Requirement Changes Loom

    September 1, 2017 B. Christine Park, Consultant, Christine Park & Associates

    As we near the end of the first quarter of the new year, it’s time for everyone to get really serious with transition plans to the new ISO quality management systems standards and other regulatory requirement changes.  Here are a few of the recent changes:

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  • ISO 9001:2015 - A Powerful Addition to Your Professional Tool Kit

    March 29, 2016 Greg Peckford Founder, Quality Career Advancement

    There are over one million organizations in over 170 countries registered to ISO 9001. That alone is a pretty impressive statistic claimed by www.iso.org. But what this stat is missing are the countless other companies worldwide that have adopted the ISO 9001 standard as a blueprint for the development and implementation of their quality management systems without becoming formally certified.

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  • Quality Management has Moved On!

    March 24, 2016 Andrew Foy Owner, Foy Certification Ltd.

    Quality assurance was originally conceived to document a set of procedures aimed at ensuring that quality standards and processes were adhered to by a business; but has now moved beyond the tick box concept and can play an integral part in improving business performance.

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  • How to Ensure You are Following the ISO 9001 Certification Process

    January 7, 2016 Stuart Patch, Content Writer, Compass Assurance Services

    How to Ensure You are Following the ISO 9001 Certification Process

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  • 5 Lessons I Learned from a Successful ISO 9001:2015 Certification Audit

    December 29, 2015 Lillian Erickson, Global Quality Manager, MasterControl Inc.

    The publication of ISO 9001:2015 in September generated much anxiety among companies fearing a bumpy transition to the new and significantly changed international standard. Admittedly, we at MasterControl were not immune to those worries.

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  • Preparing for ISO 13485:2016 Changes

    December 17, 2015 James Jardine, Marketing Communications, MasterControl

    As 2015 comes to a close, medical device manufacturers throughout the world share one collective concern: how will the ISO 13485:2016 revision compare with other versions of the standard? In a new three-part video series, Walt Murray, MasterControl’s director of Quality and Compliance Consulting (QCC) services, walks through what, why, when and how changes are coming to the standard.

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  • Why Every Business Needs to Make ISO Certification a Priority in 2015/2016

    November 10, 2015 Stuart Patch, Content Writer, Compass Assurance Services; info@compassassurance.com.au

    There are many benefits for organisations gaining certification and for those organisations that are currently certified, ensuring those benefits continue to be realised is very important. Below I look at the benefits of certification and also what are the benefits of keeping abreast of upcoming changes in standards.

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  • ISO 9001:2015 – The Best Thing for Top Management Since Ambien

    August 18, 2015 Matt Leiphart, Cavendish Scott, Inc.

    The best top management sleep aid ever invented may be ISO 9001:2015. I’m not talking about the text, which induces Droopy Eyelid Syndrome. The biggest changes in the new version of ISO 9001 are designed to address top management’s concerns BEFORE problems arise. When systems are in place to prevent problems, top managers feel safe, secure, cared for, nurtured, and they sleep like babies.

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