Sometimes the office chatter gets around to the outcome of a pending ISO 9001 certification.  With a healthy combination of fear of the unknown coupled with serious concern for getting the job done right, I often hear key players speculating whether the auditor “is going to pass us.”  Perceptions of over-zealous or inexperienced ISO 9001 […]

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A colleague who is an attorney and an ISO 9001 advocate requested my comment to his recent blog post.  In his post he asserts that several recent defense contractors settled law suites with the Department of Justice because “their ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems were broken.”  He also goes on to state that “it also […]

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