It's a world standard that corporations can voluntarily sign up for. These standards can effect everything from what measurement system to use, to how small groups should be organized, or what a company's supply chain should look like. It's all encompassing and in my experience, companies who decide to adopt the certification make a half hearted effort, claim they are certified and then promptly discard the aspects of the certification that are too hard to maintain.
The advantage of this certification is that many companies will prefer to do business with other companies that are certified. The disadvantage is that there's a tremendous amount of micro managing that is required to achieve and maintain the certification, inevitably creating a large bureaucracy within the company that is responsible for it. This, in turn, slows production and causes a burden on the company's pocketbook. This is why most companies cheat throughout the certification process and then fail to maintain the standards of the certification.
Like many things dreamed up by academics, it's mostly unworkable in the real world.
ISO standard tend to focus on quality control, consistency, and extreme vetting. (They call it due diligence when selecting things like vendors, software, purchases, etcc but its extreme vetting.)
It's a world standard that corporations can voluntarily sign up for. These standards can effect everything from what measurement system to use, to how small groups should be organized, or what a company's supply chain should look like. It's all encompassing and in my experience, companies who decide to adopt the certification make a half hearted effort, claim they are certified and then promptly discard the aspects of the certification that are too hard to maintain.
The advantage of this certification is that many companies will prefer to do business with other companies that are certified. The disadvantage is that there's a tremendous amount of micro managing that is required to achieve and maintain the certification, inevitably creating a large bureaucracy within the company that is responsible for it. This, in turn, slows production and causes a burden on the company's pocketbook. This is why most companies cheat throughout the certification process and then fail to maintain the standards of the certification.
Like many things dreamed up by academics, it's mostly unworkable in the real world.
ISO standard tend to focus on quality control, consistency, and extreme vetting. (They call it due diligence when selecting things like vendors, software, purchases, etcc but its extreme vetting.)