Quality Progress

Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress Quality and safety are interdependent variables—you can’t have one without the other. Each reinforces the other, and failure in one almost always signals weakness in the other. These disciplines are deeply intertwined parts of the same professional ethos: Do the right thing, the right way, every time.

Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress A new risk-based approach to internal auditing planning can stave off threats to product quality, ensure regulatory compliance and stabilize business activities. The approach embeds risk evaluation directly into the audit schedule, ensuring compliance efforts are proportionate to the risk involved.

Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress Continuous improvement practices don’t directly drive organizational improvement. The effect is fully mediated by learning. The organizations that improve the fastest aren’t the ones with the most sophisticated tools, but those that create structures for learning from new experiences and new data. ML is the technological extension of that same principle.

Due to scheduled maintenance, access to instructor-led training materials, eStandards, and certification-related eBooks will be unavailable on Friday, July 3, from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Central Time (CT). Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress A digest of trends, research and late-breaking news.

Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress Risk assessment is a core component of effective quality and risk management, helping organizations proactively manage uncertainty, protect performance and support strategic objectives by identifying, analyzing and evaluating risks and opportunities.

Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress In recent years, the cybersecurity discipline has become fully embedded within quality and safety. Cybersecurity touches virtually every aspect of an organization operations and certainly cannot be overlooked or underestimated. In the new Cybersecurity and Risk Management (Quality Press, 2026), the authors address the disconnect between established risk management frameworks and the rapidly advancing field of cybersecurity.

Due to scheduled maintenance, access to instructor-led training materials, eStandards, and certification-related eBooks will be unavailable on Friday, July 3, from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Central Time (CT). Skip to main content Menu Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress Business & Professional Services Open Access Career Coach: The Road Less Traveled Publication: Quality Progress Date: July 2026 Issue: Volume 59 Issue 7 Pages: pp. 8-9 Author(s): Olaisen, R.

Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress As the global business environment becomes increasingly digitized and complex, the guidance and standards that support and govern how we verify quality must evolve in tandem. The 2026 revision of ISO 19011, the international standard that provides guidelines for auditing management systems, represents a pivotal moment in this evolution.

With members and customers in over 130 countries, ASQ brings together the people, ideas and tools that make our world work better. ASQ celebrates the unique perspectives of our community of members, staff and those served by our society. Collectively, we are the voice of quality, and we increase the use and impact of quality in response to the diverse needs in the world.

Due to scheduled maintenance, access to instructor-led training materials, eStandards, and certification-related eBooks will be unavailable on Friday, July 3, from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Central Time (CT). Skip to main content Menu Overview Topics Publications Other Media Quality Progress Business & Professional Services, Consumer Goods - Retail/Wholesale, Healthcare Open Access Seen & Heard: July 2026 Publication: Quality Progress Date: July 2026 Issue: Volume 59 Issue 7 Pages: pp.