Author: Christopher Paris

The Future is Risky: How Risk Sellers Have Usurped the Quality Profession

Quality has always been a profession lacking in unity and vision. With rare exceptions, few rock stars have emerged to drive quality forward, and nearly none since the retirements of Crosby and Juran. We have watched our profession waft from fence post to fence post, pausing only temporarily on “the next big thing,” such as quality circles, statistical process control, Lean, Six Sigma, and ISO 9001. Nowadays, the loudest salesman is often the only voice left in quality. So it’s not a surprise that ISO caved to the newest, loudest salesman: the risk sellers.

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Visual Analysis of ISO TMB’s Transparency Rules

The ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) is responsible for the development of the Annex SL content and “high level structure” requirements that must now be used by all ISO Technical Committees (TCs) when drafting ISO management system standards. Oxebridge has analyzed the language of TMB Rules and discovered that a majority of the language acts to limit or restrict concepts normally considered related to transparency.

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