http://www.financealley.com en-us editorial@financealley.com Whatever the business in question, describing and knowing business processes is essential to improving these processes - thereby improving business performance. Process Mapping is necessary for anyone who wants to be clear on their business, and in every ... http://www.financealley.com/article_681542_15.html 04th November 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Bones Wherever the ISO9001 Standard is talked over, the one particular item will be that of Improvement. Most often considered is the Continual Improvement requirement of the ISO Standard (section 8) or feasible improvements to th... http://www.financealley.com/article_555924_15.html 13th June 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Bones There is an increasing emphasis on the management of environmental factors affecting our personal lives, our community and the world at large. As individuals, it is difficult to see how our contribution can have any effect o... http://www.financealley.com/article_551322_15.html 05th June 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Bones In an attempt to define an effective set of management processes, ISO 9001:2000 has a section devoted to the management of the contract process. Earlier versions of the Standard (e.g. ISO9001:1994) defined this activity as ... http://www.financealley.com/article_549789_15.html 02nd June 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Bones In every human endeavour there is an element of risk; personal, project or financial, or a combination of them all. The task of the responsible individual is to identify the risk and act accordingly. We all do these 'risky' ... http://www.financealley.com/article_545609_15.html 23rd May 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Bones A familier perception of the requirement 'continual improvement' contained within the ISO9001 Standard (8.5.1) is that in some way it associates to an improvement of product or service. Some more stern thought might reveal t... http://www.financealley.com/article_542494_15.html 20th May 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Bones This ISO Standard contains an element (8) intended to encompass a range of features which together support a mechanism to improve the performance of the management system. Internal audit forms part of this set, but only a pa... http://www.financealley.com/article_540243_15.html 20th May 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Bones With the proliferation of companies claiming to conform to the requirements of this international Standard, we might well come to believe that product and service quality has reached its peak and every customer is satisfied ... http://www.financealley.com/article_538420_15.html 15th May 2008