THE International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was founded in Europe in 1947 and is based in Geneva. Its purpose being to facilitate the world-wide trade through the development of ...

During a visit to his native Cyprus, Chris Nicolaou says he finally realized how pervasive international quality standards have become when he glanced at the back of a bag of peanuts he bought. "It ...

The Capability Maturity Model for software (CMM) developed by the software engineering institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the ISO 9000 series of standards, developed by the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...