As the Quality Manager you are responsible for Quality Management System (QMS) compliance.  In other words, you must manage all company-wide, quality policies, procedures, processes, programs, and practices, to assure the company of continuous conformance with appropriate standards and regulations.  In a smaller company you may also be the document control manager, quality auditor, and process improvement specialist.

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Are great quarterbacks born as great football players or did they have to learn how to play football?  Great players practice all week for the game on Sunday.  But what do they practice?  They are already great.  They practices plays — football procedures.

In business, employees are expected to perform their job all day long.  But how much time is allocated to practicing their job?

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Over the last four weeks, we have focused our discussion on process maps. We’ve tried to answer some of the most common questions about process maps by taking a look at seven different types of process maps and how they’re used to describe processes.  A process is a structured set of activities that transforms inputs into outputs, but the way we describe a process may vary dramatically, from a text-based procedure to different forms of process maps.

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ISO 22000 Food Safety
Policies & Procedures

Establishing policies and procedures for Food Safety Management System (FSMS) issues like hazard analysis, HACCP Plan Management, Food Safety Records, or Receiving and Inspection is now easier than ever using the new ISO 22000 Food Safety Policies, Procedures, & Forms from Bizmanualz.

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Part Four of a Five-Part Series

Before we discuss Implementation, let’s do a quick recap:

In Phase I (Discovery), we learned how your organization specifies the project mission, objectives, and effectiveness criteria. Phase II (Planning) entailed setting requirements for project tools, budgets, and schedules to manage your project. Phase III (Development) taught us about identifying and testing processes within the system.

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Phase Three in a Five-Part SeriesPhase One: Discovery

Before beginning our discussion of The Development Phase, let’s recap. In Phase I (Discovery) we learned how your organization specifies the project mission, objectives and effectiveness criteria. Phase II (Planning) entailed setting requirements for project tools,

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The Complete Five Phase Process

Phase I – Discovery

Imagine what a professional football team would be like without a regimen of practice drills? Now take away their playbook and player statistics. What you have in this extreme scenario are highly talented (and perhaps overpaid) individuals participating in organized chaos. They might actually win a game or two, but

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