ABSTRACT
As mentioned in Chapter 1 of this book, prior to the re-issue of the ISO 9000 series in 2008, the majority of organisations wrote their Quality Management Systems (QMS) to show how they met the 20 individual requirements of the 1994 standard. Although this made it easier for the companies authors to show the auditors that all of the requirements of the standard had been covered, quite often (especially in a very small business), the documents were of little use to the organisation itself in actually running its own business.
