Organisational Issues, Darkwave Recreation

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The most important issue in the the past week at work has been has been our internal QA audit ("the good cop" auditor) for our compliance with ISO9001 standards. Many of course still look at the competitive business case for having compliance with such a standard (e.g., we'll be better able to establish contracts with those organisations that requres ISO), or, having achieved certification, want to minimise the quantity of documents that are included in the repository or avoid having non-compliance requests found by their auditor. This is not the right approach. The primary reason for ISO9001 certification is to ensure that an organisation's procedures are documented, controlled, transparent, appropriate, reviewed and improved. Every organisation, whether or not they seek certification, should seek to comply to the standard. Every organisation should seek to include the widest possible range of its documents within quality assurance. Finally, every organisation should actively seek and record non-compliance issues.

Appropriately, when taking the service for Kenneth Davidson's address on the corrupt process involved in PPPs at the Unitarians on Sunday I took the opportunity to refer to Herbert Simon, who unfortunately remains a relatively unknown figure. After the service led the Philosophy Forum discussion on The Philosophy of History: Metanarratives and Hermeneutics. The well-attended Forum seemed to come to the conclusion that; (a) claims of inexorable historical laws are downright dangerous, (b) technical and organisational progress means history is increasingly chaotic, and (c) historical investigation is not unlike criminal investigation.

The week also had several instances of darkwave recreation. The first was playing Other Worlds, which encourages player-created settings. We ended up with a combination of Mad Max meets the Walking Dead in Australia. On Saturday hathhalla and ser_pounce came to visit we took the opportunity to play Arkham Horror, which was as good as I remember it. It was delightful appropriate playing this in the library of a former asylum on a grey day. Afterwards has dinner with Anthony L. at the Dainty Sichuan. Absolutely great for chilli fiends. Sunday played another session of Dark Heresy. Finally, and most importantly, was seeing The Sisters of Mercy on Thursday night at The Corner. Said venue is, of course, terrible and the mixing was up to its very ordinary standard. About forty minutes in there was a dramatic improvement in the sound quality, making the evening much more enjoyable. Reviews for all four items of recreation planned in the coming week.

Comments

[lederhosen]

We were at the same Sisters gig, surprised we didn't bump into you!

I've just started playing Deathwatch. My Raven Guard infiltrator is suffering from culture shock after meeting his Space Wolf teammates...

[serehfa]

Sisters of Mercy would have been awesome!
Best you can hope for at the Corner is for it to be loud enough to get a full body experience. Then again Royal Crown Revue at the Corner was a far better experience than the much bigger tcket Stranglers at the Palace (?) where I was down the back under the mez floor and the acoustics were so dreadful that it was barely worth going - apart from the company who bought me the ticket, thanks D!!

[harmfulguy.livejournal.com]

I find myself both amazed and delighted that some incarnation of the Sisters of Mercy is still performing.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

"We have a great complaints procedure. We use it all the time."

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I agree that the main reason for adopting ISO9001 is to achieve transparency. And again, this leads back to building trust in customers and thus establishing a name of reliability. And that brings more customers of course :)

[decrypt-era.livejournal.com]

Quality is assured by workers who care about their work, not by ever more paperwork. "Management" is a societal psychotic delusion. Death to the KPI's.