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

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

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

Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services — Amendment 1

Learning technology — JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data model format and Representational State Transfer (RESTful) web service for learner experience data tracking and access
Part 1-1: TBD

Respiratory equipment — Breathing apparatus performance requirements for diving and hyperbaric applications

Human resources management systems — Requirements