QIC Guru

Many organizations struggle with how to manage and maintain their internal audit and management review processes. While no one sets out to deliberately miss manage these processes, they can take on a life of their own. So, how do you better manage these processes? The ISO 9001 standard does not expressly tell you how, but it does tell you what is expected. Does the standard say you have to actually meet to satisfy this clause of the standard or does it tell you that you have to review the necessary criteria at set interval? If it were possible for top management to review all of the in-puts and out-puts of a management review and assign actions with follow-up, without actually sitting in a meeting, how much more time could be spent on actually improving your systems?

 Meeting/audit module in CIS Software is a powerful management action item tool and may be used for many other functions other than just meetings and audits. Because of its design and ability to assign action items to a manager or group of managers and to follow-up on these action items until completion, this module is truly invaluable.

By using the meeting/audit module, there is no need to hold follow-up meetings to review and ensure that previous action items from a meeting or internal audit were completed. Since holding these follow-up meetings is the normal management approach in most organizations, this module alone will cut your valuable meeting time by more than 30 %.

Furthermore, the meeting/audit module includes special tools for Process Auditing.  Since the management meetings are all shown on the master calendar and audits may be scheduled monthly, quarterly or yearly, the internal audit plan is always at the click of a mouse. Furthermore, the auditor and auditee is always informed of these audits on their personal calendar and on the master calendar