Generalizations are always risky. But, realizing that we are seeing more Cove participants from regions of the World other than North America and Europe, I detect that many participants from the Middle East and Australasia seem to have strong affinity with "old fashioned", document and form intensive QMS's. In my experience, these regions have been and continue to be influenced by British quality consulting organizations, which tend to be extremely traditional and "out of the box solution" bashers.
Some of the recent post exchanges here at the Cove about internal audits, CA/PA (DIE HARD 376), etc... show a significant difference in cultural approaches to implementing QMS's.
Don't get me wrong. I am not inferring that all British quality consultants are too prescriptive. We have a number of UK based Covers that show a lot of creativity and forward thinking. And we also have a number of North American Covers that don't like out of the box thinking, but I hope that the quality system "culture" in emerging economies is not overly influenced by archaic, ineffective, document and form intensive quality consultants.
Some of the recent post exchanges here at the Cove about internal audits, CA/PA (DIE HARD 376), etc... show a significant difference in cultural approaches to implementing QMS's.
Don't get me wrong. I am not inferring that all British quality consultants are too prescriptive. We have a number of UK based Covers that show a lot of creativity and forward thinking. And we also have a number of North American Covers that don't like out of the box thinking, but I hope that the quality system "culture" in emerging economies is not overly influenced by archaic, ineffective, document and form intensive quality consultants.
