Technology and Software can Revolutionize the Audit/Inspection Process
(Abstract; full editorial available at www.cmo-compliance.com)

This is the story of the ISO 9001 Auditor who's been on the road for two weeks travelling around auditing his clients. He's got a mountain of paperwork and files in his laptop case, checklists waiting to be entered and at home three courier boxes of Non Conformances waiting to be cleared from last month's audits.

Then there is the Global Compliance Director at the Fortune 500 that needs to report on the top 10 company exposures but she's still waiting for all the individual divisions to conduct and input their risk assessment data. Meanwhile their kids are texting their friends, emailing photos they took with their phone and checking their social networking webpage from any computer in the world.

Is there a connection? Can these worlds co-exist or even come together? The answer is a resounding YES! Such a connection has been developed and the results have revolutionized the audit, inspection and project management worlds with the help of text messaging, PDA's, tablets, laptops/PC's, global access to personal social networking websites, GPS, and camera phones.

How do these relate to the world of auditing and inspections? Technology has been developed that utilizes these hand held devices, tablets, or laptops/PC's with software to audit 'live' so to speak. This cutting edge software combined with field devices has revolutionized the audit and inspection process for companies ranging from construction, registrars, to government. The possibilities and applications are limitless.

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