International Certification Expands in 2007

Draft of January 2007 . Just - in - Time Certification ∗

Traditional, standards-based approaches to certification are hugely expensive, of questionable credibility when development is outsourced, and a barrier to innovation. This paper is a call and a manifesto for new approaches to certification. We start by advocating a goal-based approach in which unconditional claims delivered by formal methods are combined with other evidence in multi-legged cas...

Editorial: International certification of medical physicists

International Quality Control Certification: Signal or Heuristic?

The objectives of this paper are to: 1) understand the characteristics of manufacturing firms associated with ISO 9000 quality control certification and to assess the support these relationships provide for different explanations of the phenomenon; and 2) use these empirical relationships to identify firms most likely to benefit from technical assistance regarding quality control: i.e., firms w...

International polar year 2007-08.

International Forum in Health Care, 2007.

T here is a remarkable story about an avid, amateur sailor who sailed the lakes of northern Michigan in the US from spring to autumn, for decades. Each winter he would spend the cold months in his workshop building a new boat. Every year, just as the sailing season wound down, he would invite his friends to an outdoor party on the shores of Lake Michigan. The featured event would be the destruc...