Stepping Up to ISO 9004:2000 contains a comprehensive overview of ISO 9004:2000's components, including:
- Setting strategic direction and implementing action plans
- Focusing on the customer
- Focusing on resource management
- Assessing and managing risk
- Focusing on product realization
- Focusing on measurement and analysis
- Focusing on continual improvement
- Benchmarking
- Applying project management techniques to achieve continual improvement
About the Author
Russell T. Westcott is president of R.T. Westcott & Associates, a consulting firm that assists clients with strategic planning, the ISO 9001/9004 quality management system implementation and registration process, the application of lean manufacturing and benchmarking as well as qualifying under Baldrige-type criteria. He's a fellow of the American Society for Quality and an ASQ Certified Quality Manager. Westcott serves on several committees of ASQ's Quality Management Division.