Standards
Growth has a way of outpacing the quality systems built to support it: more products, more sites, more users, more regulatory requirements, and the quality team is expected to absorb all of it.
Document reviews stall waiting for approvals. Training assignments require constant…
The FY 2027 White House budget proposal is not only a fiscal plan but a change in national quality architecture. It lifts total defense funding to about $1.5 trillion while proposing a 10% cut to base nondefense discretionary spending. In quality terms, it shifts the system away from upstream…
Nobody would get into a self-driving car simply because the door locks worked and the alarm system was functioning properly. Those security features protect the car from being stolen or tampered with, but they say nothing about whether the car’s AI will stop in time when a child runs into the…
It can be surprisingly difficult for businesses to get accurate answers to questions about their own data. Often, the data live in different systems or aren’t easily accessible to employees without specific technical skills. Some data may be in Salesforce but not in the company’s content…
Markets run on trust. Trust runs on standards. And standards only work when the people shaping them reflect the people they are meant to protect.
That’s why International Women’s Day and World Consumer Rights Day aren’t just two dates on the calendar—they are part of the same…
The modern metric system—known as the International System of Units, or SI—is a model of consistency and logic. But in some cases, the logic seems to break down.
In this article, we’ll explore some of these quirks and why they (mostly) make sense at the end of the day (or…