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Why is it important for a company to become ISO certified? Briefly describe your understanding of ISO (do not copy/paste a Google answer – use your own words!). What does ISO certification entail? What does it do for the company? What does it do for companies doing business with an ISO certified organization? If you decide to start your own business, would you strive for ISO certification or something else? Be specific!
ISO stands for international organisation for standardisation. Having and claiming an ISO certificate is considered important for the companies because it would help them providing with the opportunities of profitability, growth and cost effectivity. It also helps the firm to gain the benefits of waste reduction and make your workforce to be more efficient by establishing the Quality management standards for sustainable customer success and improvement.
ISO is an international body for setting the standards for all around the firms for the correct working of the organisation and their standards. It promotes and communicates the global industrial, propreitary and commercial standards for the organisations to follow to achieve a higher level of sustainability.
The certifications by the ISO entails the facts that the management system, service system, manufacturing profess and the documentation procedures is fulfilling all the essential requirements of quality assurance and the standardisations for a company to achieve.
These certificates helps the business to run their operational activities with other businesses as they ensure that the organisations having the same certificate are using the international standarss for all the services, products and the processes given. This include all the resources and the ethical considerations which gives both the parties an assurance and safety to regulate and continue their operations.
At last, yes I would make my business be ISO certified because of the reasons that it will make my firm look ethical, standardised and qualitative. It would give a trustworthy assurance to other parties that the production is quality assured and thus it would help the customer to trust the company because of high level of standardisation.