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Hi to everyone
I became one of the company internal auditors by accident.
Partly because I have an IQ greater than my height in inches, (and I'm average height), but mainly because, as the newest member of staff, I didn't have the ability to say "*&£+ ^@#<>!!" to the company that had just taken me off the unemployment register.
I was happy with my metre long nested Excel formula, my mountains of numbers and my lovely graphs. I liked my vba macros and my beautiful flow diagrams. I'm at ease with my unnatural interest in statistics (something about the bimodal normal distribution, but that's another story
).
Now on a regular basis, I am forced to do audits, with two day's worth of training.
When I do my audits, I just ask one question.
"What is going wrong here?"
I try to talk to the people who do the job and ask them what problems they have and how they would solve those problems.
I suggest ways that I would solve the problems.
If I know of other problems with a particular area that end up affecting me and the job that I do, I include those problems too.
I take photos where necessary.
I do a paper chase to the depths of hell. I do my best to find every inconsistency, every omission, every error, every spelling mistake in all of the relevant S.O.P.s.
Then I try to write the longest, most comprehensive, most critical audit report that I am able to write, complete with references to TS16949. If it only takes them a week to work through my audit, I haven't done it properly.
If anyone complains, then -
"I'm just doing my audits thoroughly. Here are the things that are wrong with what the company is doing. I'm showing you areas where you can change things for the better, to streamline the work, to improve the way we do things. And isn't it better for these problems to be spotted by an internal auditor? Then we can fix the problems before the external auditor finds them."
In short, I try to be the biggest pain in the a*** that I can!!!
What can the company do? Complain that I am doing my job too well?
And if they take me off the register of internal auditors, I will obviously be emotionally devastated
that they have chosen to treat me in such a manner. But I know that I will eventually recover from the loss
and console myself by doing the job I was originally employed to do.
Now here is my question.
Having read the above, would you say this is this a system approach or a process approach?
NC
I became one of the company internal auditors by accident.
I was happy with my metre long nested Excel formula, my mountains of numbers and my lovely graphs. I liked my vba macros and my beautiful flow diagrams. I'm at ease with my unnatural interest in statistics (something about the bimodal normal distribution, but that's another story
Now on a regular basis, I am forced to do audits, with two day's worth of training.

When I do my audits, I just ask one question.
"What is going wrong here?"
I try to talk to the people who do the job and ask them what problems they have and how they would solve those problems.
I suggest ways that I would solve the problems.
If I know of other problems with a particular area that end up affecting me and the job that I do, I include those problems too.
I take photos where necessary.
I do a paper chase to the depths of hell. I do my best to find every inconsistency, every omission, every error, every spelling mistake in all of the relevant S.O.P.s.
Then I try to write the longest, most comprehensive, most critical audit report that I am able to write, complete with references to TS16949. If it only takes them a week to work through my audit, I haven't done it properly.
If anyone complains, then -
"I'm just doing my audits thoroughly. Here are the things that are wrong with what the company is doing. I'm showing you areas where you can change things for the better, to streamline the work, to improve the way we do things. And isn't it better for these problems to be spotted by an internal auditor? Then we can fix the problems before the external auditor finds them."

In short, I try to be the biggest pain in the a*** that I can!!!
What can the company do? Complain that I am doing my job too well?
And if they take me off the register of internal auditors, I will obviously be emotionally devastated
that they have chosen to treat me in such a manner. But I know that I will eventually recover from the loss
and console myself by doing the job I was originally employed to do.
Now here is my question.
Having read the above, would you say this is this a system approach or a process approach?
NC
