Deepen Your Scope
Deepen Your Scope
To add value, the scope and depth of audits must be expanded to the system level
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- September 2023
- Issue:
- Volume 56 Issue 9
- Pages:
- pp. 14-19
- Author(s):
- Sedlock, Ron
Abstract
Traditional audits are narrow in scope and shallow in depth. To truly add value to organizations, audits must go beyond regulatory and standard requirements and be widened to the system level. A system-based approach audits or assesses an organization’s overall performance to achieve the intended results. Systems thinking is a way of making sense of a complex world by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts.