In the dynamic world of management and services, achieving excellence and efficiency is paramount. Standards in this sector provide frameworks for best practices, ensuring quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. They cover a wide range of areas including strategic planning, process optimization, and service delivery, catering to the diverse needs of businesses and communities.

Insights

Quality management principles: The foundation for success

At the heart of organizational excellence lies quality management, a systematic approach that has transformed how businesses operate, compete and thrive. The ISO quality management principles serve as a fundamental framework that guides organizations from proficiency to peak performance.

Quality assurance: A critical ingredient for organizational success

Trust makes the world go round. Without it, democracies crumble and relationships suffer. The same goes for organizations and businesses – without the trust of their customer base, they simply cannot succeed.

The circular economy: building trust through conformity assessment
Standards and conformity assessment provide assurance on aspects of the circular economy including product lifetime and recyclability, safety and efficiency.

Sample standards

Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services — Amendment 1

Learning technology — JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data model format and Representational State Transfer (RESTful) web service for learner experience data tracking and access
Part 1-1: TBD

Respiratory equipment — Breathing apparatus performance requirements for diving and hyperbaric applications

Human resources management systems — Requirements

Authenticity of information — Content credentials

Chain of custody — General terminology and models — Amendment 1: Update to Figure 1