ISO 9001

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• Entry #1: ISO 9001 - Why I Question It's Value

  Thu, 16 Feb 2012:

  The first line of from wikipedia...

  "ISO 9000 is a family of standards related to quality management systems and designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders"

  Sound like a great certification, but I'll be a bit skeptical after reading a bit further on wikipedia and seeing

  Rank	Country	No. of certificates
  1	China	257,076
  2	Italy	130,066
  3	Japan	68,484
  4	Spain	59,576
  5	Russian Federation	53,152
  6	Germany	47,156
  7	United Kingdom	41,193
  8	India	37,493
  9	USA	28,935
  10	Korea, Republic of	23,400

   

  hmmm... China is first? CHINA HAS THE HIGHEST STANDARDS?!!... After going to Shanghai and seeing first hand their 'great' standards, I find it hard to accept that any company with ISO 9001 certification is automatically deemed respectible. From what I saw, companies in China work real hard to have everything on paper, but the enforcement and execution of such quality measures are far from present...

  Its like the delinquent student who pulls off all kinds of cleaver jazz to make their homework not look too much like their buddy's... if your gonna work so hard, why not just do it... right?