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Applying Lean principles in management systems auditing
Jessen Yeoh, Principal Advisor at Business Improvement Services (Australasia) for Lloyd’s Register, explains how Lean can help auditors reduce waste and achieve a value-added audit experience.
Become a STEM Ambassador
Inspire the next generation and help them learn about quality
Risk Based Thinking
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) have put together an Auditing Practices Group Guidance on: Risk Based Thinking. Read how ISO 9001 – Quality management can address risk planning in your organisation
Meet the new Fellows
Three of the CQI’s latest members to regrade as Fellows talk to Alicia Dimas about the reasons behind their applications, the process and what advice they would like to give to future applicants
BaxterStorey: Our sustainability journey
Henry Cawson, Sustainability Manager at hospitality provider Baxterstorey, reveals how the company is improving its sustainability practices by transitioning to ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Certification.
David Hutchins celebrates gold anniversary as CQI member
David Hutchins, CQP FCQI, Chairman and Principal at David Hutchins International, is marking 50 years as a member of the CQI, the same year the Institute celebrates its centenary. Alicia Dimas, from the CQI, talks to him about being involved with the organisation and how he discovered the benefits of the Japanese approach to quality early in his career
The 2018 CQI and IRCA training statistics report
Gain valuable insight into the key global trends for our CQI & IRCA Certified Courses. The statistics are based on all the data from course delegates uploaded in 2018 by our Approved Training Partners (ATPs).
Let’s get Brazil talking about quality!
The quality profession wants to be heard in Brazil. That is why the Brazilian Academy for Quality is working to make senior managers understand how important quality management is for their businesses’ success. Basilio Dagnino, CQP FCQI, former President of the Brazilian Academy for Quality, talks to Alicia Dimas about how the Academy is promoting quality management and what challenges quality professionals face in the country
Kimberly-Clark shares quality approach
“If you don’t know how well you’re doing, you’ll never know when you are done or if you have succeeded,” Richard Allan, Director of Global Quality Assurance at Kimberly Clark, told CQI Surrey and Sussex Branch members. Heather Kane, MCQI, Assistant Quality Manager, Vendor Management, Auditor and Compliance at GlaxoSmithKline, reports on the branch’s latest event
Thriving in the digital age: four strategies to enable supply chain productivity
It has been advocated that ‘supply chains compete, not individual firms’ for over 30 years, but this often fails to be the case in practice. Jan Godsell, Professor at the University of Warwick, asks why this is so difficult to achieve, and why advances are on the horizon