This interview examines the principles of continuous improvement and how they can be applied to enhance QMS. Continuous improvement is an industry expectation. If you are using quality management systems on a daily basis, it is important to keep up with what changes and trends you are seeing in the industry and within your own organization and ask whether there are things that you could be doing better.
ICH guidelines advise continuous improvement. Our organization is slightly different. We do not need to continuously improve every piece of our quality management system because we work with many other companies' quality management systems.
However, because we work with many other organizations, my team will bring back best practices and trends that we have seen so that we can improve whatever we have as well. Each of us is a seasoned quality professional. We have all worked in the industry for a long time.
Because we make continuous improvements within our organization and update each other, we can then apply those improvements to our clients as well. Consultants use gap assessments to determine where support is needed and provide a strategic plan for improving their systems with known best practices, remediating the identified gaps. One of the things that we all maintain in the organization is that we should have phase-appropriate quality systems.
If somebody's in Phase 1, the requirements differ from Phase 3. We help our clients understand what is expected at each phase and.
