Comments on: Anti-Procrastination Month ’08: Day 15 http://blog.cristinafavreau.com/2008/10/anti-procrastination-month-08-day-15/ The How To Marketing Blog For VAs and Service-Based Professional Entrepreneurs Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:55:12 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Bruce Nunnally http://blog.cristinafavreau.com/2008/10/anti-procrastination-month-08-day-15/comment-page-1/#comment-73014 Bruce Nunnally Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:23:33 +0000 http://blog.cristinafavreau.com/?p=604#comment-73014 First, I should mention that I am NOT an ISO expert, but talking through this to get it clear in my mind as we chat. So please also forgive me if you ARE an ISO expert.<br><br>ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 9000 is a series of quality standards which describe the fundamentals of a comprehensive quality management system. The previous ISO 9001-1994 could be characterized as 'Say what you do / Do what you say / Prove it'.<br><br>The revised ISO 9001:2000 promotes the adoption of a process approach and the interactions of these processes. So it might be characterized as 'Plan your process / Control your process / Improve your process'. <br><br>Example: <br><br>Under 9001:1994 I might have a procedure which says I check the internet each day for new info on Cadillacs, highlight interesting items I find, and post them to the <a href="http://Caddyinfo.com">Caddyinfo.com</a> forum or blog with commentary and a link to the article. I would then actually follow this procedure, and be able to show that each day I posted new info or articles to the forum or blog.<br><br>Under 9001: 2000 I might have a process map that shows I need to check news site A, news site B, commentary site C, press release site D, and blog E. If a news item fits criteria AA, I write a blog entry about it. If a news item fits criteria AB, I write a post in the forum about it. If a news item fits criteria AC, I file it away for a future article. I then measure each source site to determine how many items of interest each site yields, (control the process) and replace poor or slowly updated sources with higher yield sites, (improve the process). I also might measure how much time it takes to scan / understand various sources of input and prioritize them that way to control and improve my process. First, I should mention that I am NOT an ISO expert, but talking through this to get it clear in my mind as we chat. So please also forgive me if you ARE an ISO expert.

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 9000 is a series of quality standards which describe the fundamentals of a comprehensive quality management system. The previous ISO 9001-1994 could be characterized as 'Say what you do / Do what you say / Prove it'.

The revised ISO 9001:2000 promotes the adoption of a process approach and the interactions of these processes. So it might be characterized as 'Plan your process / Control your process / Improve your process'.

Example:

Under 9001:1994 I might have a procedure which says I check the internet each day for new info on Cadillacs, highlight interesting items I find, and post them to the Caddyinfo.com forum or blog with commentary and a link to the article. I would then actually follow this procedure, and be able to show that each day I posted new info or articles to the forum or blog.

Under 9001: 2000 I might have a process map that shows I need to check news site A, news site B, commentary site C, press release site D, and blog E. If a news item fits criteria AA, I write a blog entry about it. If a news item fits criteria AB, I write a post in the forum about it. If a news item fits criteria AC, I file it away for a future article. I then measure each source site to determine how many items of interest each site yields, (control the process) and replace poor or slowly updated sources with higher yield sites, (improve the process). I also might measure how much time it takes to scan / understand various sources of input and prioritize them that way to control and improve my process.

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