November 11, 2026

Process Management, Part 2: Where Things Often Get Stuck in Practice

Five observations from practice on where process management often gets stuck: lived versus documented processes, documentation, organizational structure, indicators and the clarity of process representations.

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November 4, 2026

Process Management, Part 1: Five Principles That Turn Workflows into Controllable Processes

Every company has workflows. Whether they become processes that can be controlled, measured and improved depends on a few basic decisions. Five principles, classified against ISO 9001 and viewed from a practical perspective.

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October 28, 2026

Quality Management in Aviation and Defence – Common Ground, Additional Requirements

Anyone supplying the aerospace or defence sector encounters sets of requirements that build on ISO 9001 and add sector-specific requirements. This article explains what the sectors have in common, what each one adds, and what this means for the management system.

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October 21, 2026

What 25 Years of Quality Management Teach About Leadership

Quality is not a department. It is a leadership decision. Five insights from quality management: on authority, methodological competence, transparency, shared standards and the interplay of challenge and support.

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October 14, 2026

What a 2nd-Party Audit Reveals About Supplier Risks

An ISO 9001 certificate says that a supplier has a system – not whether it can deliver the required quality. A structured 2nd-party audit uncovers exactly this difference.

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October 7, 2026

How Companies Can Save Costs: One Management System Instead of Many Parallel Worlds

Alongside the management system that is lived in everyday work anyway, many companies run a second one: the formal quality management system. A case for merging the systems – with top management as the bearer and the quality department as an advisory unit.

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September 29, 2026

Why Quality Management and Sustainability Reporting Belong Together

In many companies, quality management and sustainability reporting still run in separate worlds. Yet both topics structurally follow the same logic – and recognizing this saves duplicate work.

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September 22, 2026

ISO 9001:2026 Part 3: Risks and Opportunities Are Now Treated Separately

Clause 6.1 is being split: risks and opportunities each get their own subclause. Why this often reveals an imbalance in practice – and what companies should do now.

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September 17, 2026

ISO 9001:2026 Part 2: What Changes in the Context of the Organization

ISO 9001:2026 has been published. What changes in the “context of the organization” – and why the context analysis often stays just a document for the audit unless it's linked to strategy work.

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