Compliance expert joins Mango's Advisory Board

Mango Limited proudly announces today that John Barr has joined Mango's Advisory Board.

John specialises in board, governance, business and operational advice at Chief Executive and Owner/ Managing Director level. He's also holds formal directorships and advisory board roles and is a National Councillor for the Institute of Directors.

The owners of Mango have known John for many years.  He has been involved in the compliance industry for a number of years (too many to mention).  He will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to Mango Limited as it goes through its growth stages.

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0 comments - Posted by Craig Thornton at 12:19 PM - Categories: Compliance

Improving Quality Improves Productivity

One of the most frustrating parts of being involved with Quality Management, as a Quality Professional and Senior Auditor for over 20 years, is that fact that Senior Management doesn't have an understanding that by improving quality they will increase the productivity of their organisation.

Quality Management seems to be “tarred with a brush” that improving quality increases costs and therefore reduces productivity.  Output at any cost seems to win over output with good quality every time.

A Quality management system is in place to reduce WASTE.  Managers don’t seem to understand waste in their organisations.  Waste needs to be the enemy NOT quality.  Target waste … reduce waste … minimise waste … do anything to remove waste ….

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0 comments - Posted by Craig Thornton at 10:44 AM - Categories: Quality | ISO 9001 : 2008 | Manufacturing | Compliance

New partner announcement - Japan

Mango Ltd, the leading provider of Internet-based, on-demand systems for the management and automation of quality, environmental, and health & safety compliance, and Bplats, Inc. a Japanese Software as a Service (SaaS) marketplace have entered into a formal partnership to provide Bplats and many of its clients with a real time, online management tool for quality, environmental and health & safety compliance.

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1 comments - Posted by Donovan Johnson at 9:15 AM - Categories: Health and Safety | Quality | ISO 9001 : 2008 | ISO 14001 | SaaS

On-line Quality Management Systems – The New Black?

Time and again during my 20 years as a Quality Manager and Senior Auditor I’ve seen the same scenario – businesses struggling with the sheer weight and volume of information that make up a paper-based quality management system (QMS).  Employees feel put upon and bewildered by the endless form-filling and double handling.  Managers are frustrated with the unwieldy bureaucracy that fails to give them the data they need, when they need it.  For some New Zealand companies the QMS experience has been reduced to filling in a few forms, having a couple of half-hearted annual management meetings and anxiously waiting for external audits to roll around.

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1 comments - Posted by Craig Thornton at 8:44 AM - Categories: Health and Safety | ISO 9001 : 2008 | ISO 14001 | SaaS | Compliance | Mango

What's so great about SaaS?

Most people are apprehensive about Software as a Service (SaaS) when first introduced.

Jason Maynard, an analyst at Credit Suisse, compares software to electricity. Most firms don’t own generators, he points out. They buy electricity from the grid.

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0 comments - Posted by Donovan Johnson at 10:03 AM - Categories: SaaS

Welcome to the Mango Blog!

 

Mango's new blog has been setup to provide up to date information on compliance, regulations and new Mango developments. Come back for the latest news, views, and a bunch of informative information about us.

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0 comments - Posted by Donovan Johnson at 9:29 AM - Categories: SaaS | Mango