A successful QMS? It's 'the Tortoise vs the Hare'!
“Nothing can grow in a self-sustaining way unless there are reinforcing processes underlying its growth.” (Dance of Change, by Society for Organizational Learning founder, Peter Senge).
Congratulations to League 1 Champions
A fantastic hattrick from a French-Morroccan, combined with an impressive win by Fife neighbours, Cowdenbeath away at Peterhead, granted Dunfermline Athletic the well-earned honour of becoming the first league champions for the domestic football season in Britain.
How to get started with ISO 9001:2015
OK, so ISO 9001:2015 is really here, and becoming well established. As a UKAS Certificating Body Auditor, a Management Systems Consultant and a trainer of auditors to IRCA approved level, I’ve had a fair amount of involvement with it, particularly drawing up transition plans for companies.
What does Quality look like?
Last year, Ian Hannah wrote a blog piece describing how well Enterprise Rent-a-Car performed at one of their Norfolk offices. So here’s my experience of dealing with the Aberdeen-based Communications Technology provider, Coltel Ltd...
One for the Training & HR Managers...!
This is an an extract from an email I sent to a client...
SQMC Sign up at Dunfermline Athletic Football Club
2016 is set to be a grandstand year for the Scottish Quality Management Centre (SQMC) after announcing a new sponsorship deal with Dunfermline Athletic Football Club.
3 smart reasons to get registered to ISO 14001 in 2016
If you read the newspapers, you’ll appreciate how gravely the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) consider the contravening of environmental requirements within Scotland; clamping down with hefty fines on companies it judges to be neglectful of their social duties.
World Quality Day Awards 2015
World Quality Day is a United Nations initiative championed in the United Kingdom by The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) and supported in Scotland by the Scottish Quality Management Centre (SQMC).
5 Practical Tips for New Auditors
In my day-to-day role behind the scenes here at SQMC HQ, I’ve lost count of the noteworthy tips I hear in casual conversation with our auditors, trainers and consultants. So I decided to start scribbling them down and sharing them through the Insight Column. Here are the first 5 that spring to mind:
ISO 9001 Q & A - What is meant by "scope"? (video)
The rudiment of the Standard, Ron Rivans explains the scope (essentially the purpose) of ISO 9001.