ISO 9004:2000 provides guidance for organizations to consider to improve performance in helping on how to
meet the requirements of ISO 9001:2000. Some thoughts for organizations to consider when pursuing performance improvements:
- Identification and setting objectives for the implementation of actions toward improvement
- Customer-centric
- Assisting in focusing on management to provide resources
- Issues relevant to assessment and management of risks
- Improving product realization through processes and measurement analysis
- Guides for possible benchmarking
- Identifying project management to achieve progressive and continual improvement
ISO 9004:2000 helps to improve performance on the basis of the eight
(8) principles on which the series ISO 9000:2000 is based:
- Customer-focused organization
- Leadership
- Involvement of people
- Process approach
- System approach to management
- Continual improvement
- Factual approach to decision-making
- Mutually beneficial supplier relationships (supply-chain)
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