Quick hit. I don’t usually go after competitors, because I believe there’s enough work for everyone, but this is just deserving of some “attention.”
The 9000 Store, that wellspring of boilerplate documents that suck, has taken their marketing to an entirely new level of crazy. Sez them: 
So, according to the expert typists consultants at 9000 Store, Deming and his idea of building reliable, mutually beneficial relationships with a small set of key suppliers should just die already, because ISO 9001’s new risk requirement would have “required” adding a presumably huge and unwieldy set of suppliers to offset the risk of tsunamis.
There’s so much wrong with that, I won’t even bother dissecting it. You can use your imagination.
Christopher Paris is the founder and VP Operations of Oxebridge. He has over 35 years’ experience implementing ISO 9001 and AS9100 systems, and helps establish certification and accreditation bodies with the ISO 17000 series. He is a vocal advocate for the development and use of standards from the point of view of actual users. He is the writer and artist of THE AUDITOR comic strip, and is currently writing the DR. CUBA pulp novel series. Visit www.drcuba.world
