QNewZ articles
The New Zealand Organisation for Quality (NZOQ) is NZ’s professional body for Quality Assurance professionals; their website is HERE .
Here are some of Ian’s articles from NZOQ’s professional journal
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Article List:
ROOT CAUSES or reasons or just getting there?
Investigations, risk & safety
Prof James Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model of organisational accidents and the importance in effective safety systems of a Just Culture that ensures issues are reported.
2008-05 QNewz Reason & just culture.pdf
2008-07 QNewz Commensurate with risks.pdf
2009-03 QNewz Get it right.pdf
2009-05 QNewz Right from risk.pdf
Leading and lagging indicators of performance
If you’re not measuring it, you’re not managing it! Last month’s financials are never enough, stopping kidding yourself! So, just what are Critical Success Factors, what’s a KPI and what’s a KRA? What’s the difference, and why do you need both?
2009-07 Newz Lead & Lag Indicators.pdf
2012-11 Getting real with KPIs
2013-03 Critical Success Factors (CSF) – a picture is worth a thousand words
2013-05 Making sense of performance reporting and internal audits (more on CSFs from 2013-03)
Horses for courses
Presentation for the NZOQ Annual Congress 2008 that tracks the history of the mainstream QA methodologies and sets them against whose interests they were aimed to serve first.
Horses for courses, how to pick your winning QA system
Tools to use to make things better
Using the right tools always makes the job easier..
2010-03 Use a dime to save a fortune.pdf
2010-05 LULU competency based training.pdf
2010-07 When is a system not a system.pdf
Click the pic for the latest (even better…) edition of my “Engine” diagram that powers a QMS towards continual improvement; feel free to use it…
2010-12 Digging out the root cause.pdf
2011-03 Hot models, sausages and international auditing.pdf
2011-07 Developing an affinity for problem solving – Affinity Diagram.pdf
2011-09 Working on the relationships – Interrelationship Diagraph.pdf
2012-07 Risk management and the R-Map.pdf
Assigning responsibilities, delegating authorities (RACI chart & deployment flowchart)
2012-07Just whose job is it anyway? Pt 1.pdf
2012-09 Just whose job is it anyway? Pt 2.pdf
Solutions first syndrome; or the easy way to avoid continual improvement
Paper on “Solutions first syndrome” delivered at the World Congress on Business Excellence in Auckland, NZ, December 2012. Talks about causal factor analysis as necessary to determine the problem BEFORE designing the solution…not rocket science but we all suffer from it! Conventional root cause analysis tools miss the point!
2012-12 Solutions First paper – World Congress.pdf
Where did ISO 9001 come from?
Who created it and why? And where did certification come from?
The story so far; ISO 9001 since the 1980s
Picking your winner when it comes to continual improvement systems (LinkedIn version of the article above).
Ever wondered what the process approach was, or how to audit it?
Process auditing for ISO 9001, somewhere to start perhaps?