The Moorhill Monitor
* Volume
9 / Issue 4 / Date 4th Quarter 2000 *
In this
Issue:
[QIS and
Moorhill Form Strategic Alliance]
[A Christmas Story]
[ISO 9001:2000 - Approved]
[Two
Cows]
[New Links]
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1. QIS
and Moorhill Form Strategic Alliance!
QIS
and Moorhill International partner to offer
ISO consulting and training
solutions for companies with
ISO
9001:2000 challenges in 2001 and beyond.
Tempe,
AZ – December 8, 2000
- Quality Integration Services, LLC (QIS), an ISO 9001 Registered leading
integration and assembly provider, today announced a partnership with Moorhill
International, a well-known quality and environmental management systems
consultancy specializing in ISO 9000 and 14000 implementation.
This
partnership will offer companies thinking about the ISO 2000 series - years of
experience from QIS who is living by ISO its own procedures and winning
several awards promoting best practices in the way of quality and improvements
over time. Moorhill International
brings to the table almost 10 years of guiding and training companies through
the ISO process. Their
professional affiliations include the IRCA – International Registrar of
Certificated Auditors and IEMA – Institute of Environmental Management and
Assessment among others.
Under
the new partnership training and informational sessions will be held at the
QIS facility. The event schedule
for the year includes three core sessions alternating on a monthly basis.
The Quarterly Informational Breakfast, a first come first serve
complimentary 2-hour management session detailing up to date information on
the ISO 2000 series will be delivered by seasoned experts.
The second event is an ISO Core Four Implementation Workshop focusing
on the Core Four team theory originated by Moorhill International.
The third event is an accredited Five Day Auditor/ Lead Auditor Course
for those companies interested in training personnel in order to have resident
experts at their facility.
Source:
QIS/Moorhill, 12/00.
2. A Christmas Story!
It's
just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree.
No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches
of our tree for the past 10 years or so.
It
all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas---oh, not the true meaning
of Christmas, but the commercial aspects of it- overspending...the frantic
running around at the last minute to get a tie for Uncle Harry and the dusting
powder for Grandma---the gifts given in desperation because you couldn't think
of anything else.
Knowing
he felt this way, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters,
ties and so forth. I reached for
something special just for Mike. The inspiration came in an unusual way.
Our
son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was wrestling at the junior level at the
school he attended; and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match
against a team sponsored by an inner-city church, mostly black. These
youngsters, dressed in sneakers so ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the
only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in
their spiffy blue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes. As the
match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without
headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler's ears.
It
was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford.
Well, we ended up walloping them.
We took every weight class. And
as each of their boys got up from the mat, he swaggered around in his tatters
with false bravado, a kind of street pride that couldn't acknowledge defeat.
Mike,
seated beside me, shook his head sadly, 'I wish just one of them could have
won,' he said. 'They have
a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out
of them.'
Mike
loved kids-all kids-and he knew them, having coached little league football,
baseball and lacrosse. That's
when the idea for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting
goods store and bought an assortment of wrestling headgear and shoes and sent
them anonymously to the inner-city church.
On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside
telling Mike what I had done and that this was his gift from me.
His
smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in succeeding
years. For each Christmas, I
followed the tradition one year sending a group of mentally handicapped
youngsters to a hockey game, another year a check to a pair of elderly
brothers whose home had burned to the ground the week before Christmas, and on
and on.
The
envelope became the highlight of our Christmas.
It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning and our
children, ignoring their new toys, would stand with wide-eyed anticipation as
their dad lifted the envelope from the tree to reveal its contents.
As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but
the envelope never lost its allure. The
story doesn't end there.
You
see, we lost Mike last year due to dreaded cancer.
When Christmas rolled
around, I was still so wrapped in grief that I barely got the tree up. But Christmas Eve found me placing an envelope on the tree,
and in the morning, it was joined by three more.
Each of our children, unbeknownst to the others, had placed an envelope
on the tree for their dad. The
tradition has grown and someday will expand even further with our
grandchildren standing around the tree with wide-eyed anticipation watching as
their fathers take down the envelope.
Mike's spirit, like the Christmas spirit will always be
with us. May we all remember
Christ, who is the reason for the season, and the true Christmas spirit this
year and always.
Source: Anonymous, 12/00.
3. ISO 9001:2000 -
Approved!
First
announced on December 15, 2000 the revised 2000 series of ISO 9000 standards
is approved and available for purchase on December 28, 2000. There will be a
three year settling in period as Registrars, companies and auditors learn the
new requirements under the re-structured process flow (see below) model.
ISO9001:2000 is scheduled to be
released in December!
Source: US TAG - TC 176, 12/00.
4. Two
Cows!
Various organizational philosophies explained in
"two cow" terms.
Socialism: you have two cows. You keep one and give one to your
neighbor.
Communism: you have two cows. The government takes them both and
provides you with milk.
Fascism: you have two cows. The government takes them and sells you the
milk.
Bureaucracy: you have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots
one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours it down the
drain.
Capitalism: you have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Corporate: you have two cows. You sell one, force the other to produce
the milk of four cows and then acts surprised when it drops dead.
Democracy: you have two cows. The government taxes you to the point
that you must sell them both in order to support a man in a foreign
country who has only one cow which was a gift from your government.
Source: J. McKersie, 12/00.
5. New Links!
We
have added new links to; Adobe Acrobat Reader, WinZip, Netscape, and
Internet Explorer.
Plus a few "personal" favorites!
Please visit the "Resources" page and see the vast array of new and
existing links. If you need information and cannot find it on our site please
let us know and we will go and find it!
Do not forget our downloadable pages as well!
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