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(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Harness your company’s incumbent advantages to win the digital disruption game.
The book, Goliath’s Revenge: How Established Companies Turn the Tables on Digital Disruptors (Wiley, 2019), is the practical guide for how executives and aspiring leaders of established…
(Cority: Toronto, Canada) -- Cority, provider of environmental, health, safety, and quality (EHSQ) software, announces the availability of its enhanced quality management solution.
Designed to provide quality professionals with a closed-loop, continuous improvement process to ensure product safety…
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published an Electronic User Guide for its Accredited Third-Party Certification Program Portal.
In this voluntary program, established by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, the agency recognizes “accreditation bodies” that…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Scaling a business is not for the faint of heart. It’s a mind-bending journey that causes millions of business owners around the globe to either throw in the towel or avoid risk entirely and suffer from smallness and mediocrity.
Most of these businesses fail because they…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- In the book, Health Care in the Next Curve (CRC Press, 2018), author John Abendshien takes an objective and sometimes scathing look at the current industry structure: a silo-driven culture and entrenchment that is driven by self-interest, as well as the complicity of…
(CBI UBM: Burlington, MA) -- IVT Network, the trusted source for life sciences validation and compliance knowledge, is featuring its flagship event, the 24th Annual Validation Week Oct. 22–24, 2018, in San Diego. Melanie Demakis, IVT’s senior conference producer, recently worked with Connie Hetzler…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Our world is changing faster than our ability to adapt. Ambushed by speed and complexity, we face uncertainty with fear and mistrust. Organizations are not adapting well either. Seventy percent of change efforts fail; obsession with short-term results undermine long-term…
(AuditComply: Belfast, Ireland) -- AuditComply has announced the ongoing use of its AuditComply platform by KDD, a Kuwait-based company. Specializing in the production and distribution of 125 dairy products, KDD is committed to quality and excellence in all that it does. KDD’s strong focus on…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Productivity Press presents the latest book from international quality expert, H. James Harrington, titled Innovative Change Management (ICM): Preparing Your Organization for the New Innovative Culture, published in March 2018.
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(ICEE: Galveston, TX) -- The new ISO 9001:2015 standards include one of the most significant additions since the creation of ISO 9000—a recognition that the engagement of all stakeholders is critical to a successful quality management process. The webinar will cover the new ISO 9001:2015 standards…
(Visual Workplace: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc. offers an extensive line of both standard and customizable personal protection equipment (PPE) signage to communicate safety requirements to visitors and new employees, and to reinforce safety standards to existing personnel.
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(Sparta Systems: Hamilton, NJ) -- A recent survey sponsored by Sparta Systems and conducted by Pharmaceutical Technology, found that while compliance remains the top objective in 2018 among 73 percent of pharmaceutical executives, performance-oriented objectives were nearly as critical for the…
(IVT Network: Burlington, MA) -- The Institute of Validation Technology (IVT) Network, a part of UBM plc, announces the launch of its hands-on, interactive “Quality Risk Management and Change Control” training, taking place Feb. 27—March 1, 2018, in San Diego.
The event is focused on providing…
(marcus evans: London) --The Information Management and Data Quality for Pharma Sector Conference, organized by the marcus evans Group, will focus on gathering corporate professionals from regulatory operations, regulatory affairs, master data management, regulatory information systems, and other…
(ETQ: Farmingdale, NY & Palo Alto, CA) -- EtQ, LLC, a global leader in quality management system (QMS) and environmental, health, and safety (EHS) software has announced that it has been acquired by TCV, one of the largest technology focused growth-capital firms. TCV brings significant…
(MIT Sloan Executive Education: Cambridge, MA) -- The use of internet of things (IoT) technologies in manufacturing—known as the industrial internet of things (IIoT)—has been heralded as a way to improve operational efficiency by correcting inefficiencies and identifying problems sooner.…
(D. L. Newslow & Associates: Orlando, FL) -- Food-safety training experts D. L. Newslow & Associates and Australia-based certification body HACCP International have employed the services of Ronald D. Mathis, CMS, as executive vice president. His role will provide strategic planning and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Small-business owners may think that they are too small to be victims of cyber-hackers, but Pat Toth knows otherwise. Toth leads outreach efforts to small businesses on cybersecurity at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and understands the…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Procurement makes up a substantial budget of any organization, so wouldn’t the world be a better place if it was done in a sustainable way? A new standard in development aims to help organizations do just that, and it has now reached one of the final stages in its development.
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(marcus evans: London) -- Pharmaceutical quality systems have shifted in recent years from a traditional model to a more global, dynamic, and risk-based approach, enhanced especially by regulatory authorities and economic environment. marcus evans is organizing the conference, “Quality Risk…
(FAA: Washington, D.C.) -- Today, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or “drones”), opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Exposure to ionizing radiation is a potential risk in many situations, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has a score of standards that help ensure exposure levels are kept within safe limits. Now, two new standards have been published that focus on the…
(U.S. Dept of Labor: Washington, D.C.) -- The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced the availability of a total of $4.6 million in funds in the Susan Harwood Training Grant Program.
The grants will fund the creation of in-person, hands-on training…
(ISO: Geneva) -- When is a good deal really a lemon? Sometimes the biggest bargains come with the heaviest hidden costs, thanks to unclear warranties that cover little when things go wrong. Faulty goods and ambiguous warranties are one of the greatest bugbears for consumers and retailers. A new…
(Humantech: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Humantech has announced the 2016 schedule of its popular series of ergonomics seminars with three different course offerings located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Applied Industrial Ergonomics, a two-day seminar, focuses on practical approaches to improving problem jobs,…