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Take a risk to mitigate climate change
Could a structured risk assessment help organisations achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals while mitigating climate change, asks Zoi Kontodimou, Chair of the CQI’s Sustainability special interest group.

Auditing climate change
Richard Green, founder and owner of Kingsford Consultancy Services, examines the implication of ISO’s climate change amendments to management system standards for auditors.

Taking action on climate change
In February, the International Standards Organization (ISO) added two new statements of text into 31 Type A management system standards, to ensure that climate change issues are considered. Geoff Vorley, Director of Quality Management and Training Limited, UK, takes a closer look at the impact of this on several of the key standards.

ISO 9004:2018 – little known but highly useful
Carew Hatherley, Managing Director of IT consulting company IQM Group, examines how the scoring system of ISO 9004 can be used for a different style of reporting or analysis.

The High Level Structure is dead. Long life to the Harmonised Approach?
Horacio Martirena, a CQI technical assessor, IRCA Lead Auditor and Independent Consultant in management systems, outlines the development of the Harmonised Approach and the issues it addresses, and what it needs to resolve.

A future direction for quality management standards
Richard Green, CQP FCQI, Managing Director of Kingsford Consultancy Services, UK, provides information on the updates the quality profession could expect to see in the 9000 and 10000 series of quality standards.

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

ISO 14001 – The green business’ standard
Danièle Huet-Kouo talks about companies’ environment and social responsibility and how the ISO 14001:2015 certification process can help them achieve their environmental goals

Why the world needs ISO 41001
The new standard aims to help facilities management teams improve efficiencies across a range of areas, from procurement to operations to maintenance. Chris Craggs explains why it’s needed now more than ever.