Reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist now being used in medicine, aviation, the armed services, homeland security, investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.

Poor data quality wastes time, effort, and of course, money. Through this report, we intend to raise the level of awareness about the critical nature of data quality for organizations today. In addition, we'll offer IT and business professional's advice and best practices to guide them towards improved data quality throughout the enterprise. This program features data quality expert Rex Ahlstrom. Mr. Ahlstrom is Chief Strategy Officer at BackOffice...

Let's be realistic, it is human to make mistakes, so it's impossible to have a system with no errors; it is, however, possible to have a system that improves itself and learns from its mistakes. Internal audits are a crucial part of such a system. In this book, Dejan Kosutic, an author, and experienced ISO consultant is giving away his practical know-how on ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 20000, ISO 22000, OHSAS 18001, ISO 13485, AS9100...

Conformance to requirements is Quality. Assuring Quality means process by which undesirable elements are removed and those which suit the cost, design, and performance are solely selected. Quality assurance is everybody's job and responsibility of the organization

Quality is not the sole responsibility of QA. If the whole team doesn't take quality seriously, the release of new features will always be delayed or worse, buggy software gets released. I have heard many people referring to QA as just a testing entity, which possibly means QA does nothing within the agile environment other than testing. In addition, speaking of agile software development QA, some people may also think that it is just for monitoring...

"There are many misconceptions about ISO standards that very often do not allow the standard to become a serious candidate for consideration, let alone for the actual implementation." In this book, Dejan Kosutic, author and experienced ISO consultant, is giving away his practical know-how on preparing for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 20000, ISO 22000, OHSAS 18001, ISO 13485, AS9100, and IATF 16949 implementation. No matter if you...

What if your business could consistently operate with excellence no matter what and keep evolving for years to come? Your company is a living organism. Provide an environment that will encourage it to grow with the Heptagram method, the 7-pillar business design system for the 21st century. No matter your organization, you can learn to work with a defined operating structure that ensures you deliver high quality and consistency to your customers....

In this book, Dejan Kosutic, author and experienced ISO consultant, is giving away his practical know-how on managing policies, procedures, plans, forms, reports, and other documented information. No matter if you are new or experienced in the field, this book gives you everything you will ever need to learn on how to handle ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 20000, ISO 22000, OHSAS 18001, ISO 13485, AS9100, and IATF 16949 documents. Many...

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...