Cority Prioritizes Diversity in Leadership Alongside Growth
“When women join the C-suite, they don’t just bring new perspectives — they actually shift how the C-suite thinks about innovation, ultimately enabling these firms to consider a wider variety of strategies for creating value.” — Harvard Business Review, Research: Adding Women to the C-Suite Changes How Companies Think, April 2021 It’s undeniable that the […]
Preparing for Your Next ISO 9001 Management Review
As the backbone of many other industry-specific quality management standards, the ISO 9001 series of standards is critical to helping you manage quality processes from a company-wide point of view. In one manner of speaking, too many manufacturers today view ISO 9001 certification as an afterthought – until these companies fail an audit, which only […]
What Does the Net-Zero Standard Mean for Science-Based Targets?
The SBTi recently launched the Net-Zero Standard. It is the world’s first framework for corporate net-zero target formulation based on climate research. It has also introduced two new ways of articulating science-based targets: near-term and long-term. This blog highlights what these new phrases represent and how they connect to more traditional science-based aims. The following article was […]
CDP Reporting 2021 Scores Released
Last week, CDP released the 2021 scores for its Climate Change disclosures. Over 14,000 organisations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2021, including more than 13,000 companies worth over 64% of global market capitalisation, and over 1,100 cities, states and regions. In the year of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report and COP26, the need […]
Creating a Business Case for a Quality Management System
There’s never been a more critical time to invest in a quality management system (QMS) to help elevate the quality of your business. But creating a successful business case to justify a quality management system means you have to approach it holistically. Every stakeholder in the value chain must buy into the business case you […]
What is the Cost of Poor Quality?
Placing the cost of poor quality (COPQ) in context to all stakeholders (particularly, stakeholders in IT) requires that you’re able to turn to the right data at the right time to make your business case. The cost of poor quality (i.e., scrap, rework, returns, external failures, and so on) can give upper-level decision makers a […]
Balancing the Cost of Quality, Technology Investments, and Integrated QMS
In today’s global manufacturing industry, balancing the cost of quality, investments in technology, and integrated quality management systems presents a never-ending series of challenges for your company. Cost of quality is arguably one of your organization’s most important holistic metrics, but too many organizations have neglected the complex interplay between investments in good quality and […]
Sustainability and ESG: Challenges and Solutions
Who knew that committing to doing good could wind up being so much work? As more organizations embrace sustainability and practices that reflect strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies, many are finding that success in this world is by no means guaranteed. You can say you’re going to change your business model to make […]
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and EU Taxonomy: Top Questions Answered
With the Green Deal, the European Union not only wants to send a signal, but is also putting an ambitious plan for sustainable transformation into concrete terms. The EU Taxonomy and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) are key instruments to direct capital into sustainable economic activities and increasing transparency about sustainability performance. Below we […]
IFRS Announces International Sustainability Standards Board at COP26
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation officially launched the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The announcement took place today at the COP26 climate conference. As a SASB Materiality Map® and full standards licensee, Cority shares this landmark announcement. Evidently, this is an important development in the future of universally uniform sustainability-related corporate disclosure. The […]