Questions an organization needs to ask itself when planning an ISO initiative in order to ensure everyone has a common understanding of the approach to be taken and what is important.
- What Standard(s) are we pursuing?
- What will be our scope of registration (do we have multiple locations)?
- If we have multiple locations will the program be centrally controlled?
- What time frame do we need to get registered in?
- Who will be the management representative?
- Who are the team of people internally that will drive the ISO process?
- What will be the role of this team?
- What is our objective in pursuing ISO?
- What will be our documentation philosophy (are we looking to only document the minimum required by the standard or define and document all of our processes) ?
- Who will be responsible for documenting our processes?
- What format of documentation will be most effective in our organization?
- How do we want to manage and control this documentation?
- How involved in the ISO process will our management team be?
- Does management want to dovetail the ISO program with other initiatives?
- Are there strategic, financial and other goals that need to fit with goals coming out of developing a formalized management system?
Printable version of the ISO Certification Planning Guide.
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