First published Oct. 1, 2013, on the CERM Risk Insights blog. © Umberto Tunesi and CERM Risk Insights.

It isn’t Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. I wish it were. It’s the committee draft (CD) of ISO 9001:2015, or model No. 5, if you prefer. No connection whatsoever to that lady-loved scent, Chanel No. 5, either. ISO lost out on that opportunity, too.

The ISO 9001:2015 CD costs 38 Swiss francs in PDF format, but that will shoot up to 118 Swiss francs or so, like ISO 9001:2008 did, once it achieves International Standard recognition.

So much for the economics.

I bought myself the PDF format of the CD, and as a matter of fact, it doesn’t take much longer to go through it than it does to listen to a music CD, which is what I expected.

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