Business Management and Improvement Introduction

Foster and Associates Inc. is a company that provides on site consulting services, on line training through our virtual university, as well as electronic training publications available for purchase and download. These services are directed at ISO-9001, ISO-14001, OHSAS-18001 and TS-16949 Quality Management Systems, as well as other general areas. For additional information and descriptions checkout our web site at http://www.lcfiso.com/.

Our experience has shown that, too often, companies become overwhelmed with the "legal-speak" contained in the standards. Consequently, the management teams over analyze and over-react and implement procedures, work instructions and extreme quantities of useless documentation that only serves to provide the management team and employees with additional confusion and non-value added actions and waste.

Our goal is to provide our clients with a working knowledge and understanding of the intent of standard clauses so that the client management teams can assimilate that knowledge into their own business operating system and processes to improve their effectiveness and efficiency.

We will be using this blog as a vehicle to provide interpretation of specific standard clauses, thought starters for system implementation, and/or simple general discussion topics and updates.