If you are considering the implementation of ISO 9001,ISO 14001 or any other ISO management standard you probably overcome with various approaches on how to start and how to finish the course successfully.But the strategy plays an important role in any ISO standards.ISO will make every effort to be attractive and effective to the need of industry as well as regular customer,and another stakeholder.The ISO strategy 2016- 2020 is built on foundation and help will guide the organization in such a way that every organization will get benefited by the next five year.Strategy will help the organization to respond to the future where:
- Stakeholder engagement and challenges to ISO intellectual property will continue to be both a keyword opportunity and risk of ISO.
- Technical,economic,legal,social and political challenges will require examination and continual improvement of the ISO system.
According to my opinion, there is three basic option to implement these standards.
- Do it completely using your own employees,
- Use a consultant
- Implement the standard with Do-it-yourself approach and using external know how
Implementing the standard using your own employees-
This is when you have decided to implement the standard without taking external help, using the capacity of your employees.In this option the first thing you have to motivate your employees to take inactive and your employee are doing all the analysis, performing all the interviews , writing the documentary etc.
This is one of the cheapest options because you are not paying anything for external service as well as you are not sharing any details about your internal process and documentation, writing your own documentation increases the commitment of your employee toward the changes required. But if your employee is not skilled enough so this will be probably the slowest option .
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Use a Consultant
In this strategy, you have decided to hire an expert from outside. That expert will implement whole thing behalf of you like analysis, performing all the interview, writing the document etc.This is one of the quickest ways to implement the standard.If your consultant has a good experience and knows how to organize the project and finish it quickly.If you have higher a consultant then obviously the cost will be high and you have to share personal details of the organization but when someone from outside is writing documentary for your organization you may have not a same continuity in a relationship as you would in an employee and mainly you have limited control over the consultant.
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Implement the standard with Do-it-yourself approach and using external know how-
This option becomes more popular in the last couple of year and it's basically between the first two options. In this, your employee will do entire implementation but they get the complete know how documentation and commitment to the external parties.This option is not expensive as the consultant and yet you know how and support,further you don't open the confidential information to anyone.Since your employee is writing the documentation,their commitment to follow the new rule is probably higher and effective.If your employee knows the implementation that's good if he doesn't then your employee need some time for implementation.
