Helpful Tools for Managing your Process Flows

Helpful Tools for Managing your Process Flows

We’re going to take a short departure from our regular column on standards, to talk about techniques for managing your yard better, in the spirit of this issue on Operations. Do you have a process flow that you need to follow, but find that there are a lot of moving...
Context of the Organization – Internal Issues

Context of the Organization – Internal Issues

We discussed the overall concept of Context two weeks ago in this post, and spent time looking at External Issues in this post; today we’re going to dig in to the topic of Internal Issues. Context of the Organization – Internal Issues Context requires an...
Context of the Organization – External Issues

Context of the Organization – External Issues

In last week’s post, we talked about the need for clearly and fully defining Context of the Organization as a basis for a strong and aligned Management System (MS) – this week we’re going to dig in to Context’s External Issues in a bit more...
Context of the Organization – Essential list

Context of the Organization – Essential list

Context of the Organization is a new term in the recently released ISO standards.  It’s a term that many folks are confused by – there are no definitions provided by ISO, although there is significant guidance. Context of the Organization = Internal and...