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

Information technology — Security techniques — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of information security management systems

Information and documentation - Trusted third party repository for digital records

Medical devices — Hierarchical coding structure for adverse events
Part 1: Event-type codes — Amendment 1

Cross-border trade of second-hand goods

Space data and information transfer systems — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy digital repositories

Information technology — Service management
Part 10: Concepts and terminology