Depends which area your looking at. But for, say, ISO9001 qa and other auditing there is a distince lack of lean, usable tools. Esp for smaller businesses.
I think you have a good point about smaller businesses. When I worked for a medical device manufacturer I was amazed to find out how many of our suppliers were small businesses - in some cases very small.
Possibly. But it's becoming less and less possible to do that; we are a lean small business and we are now having to achieve ISO accreditation to get contracts.
Even a large corporation is looking at 10's of thousands of pounds to pay a consultant to do the ISO work.
This is not just idle observation BTW: we are currently beta testing some tools to do self accreditation of ISO standards within the firm. So far we are looking at reducing those astronomical fees to "something additional for your admin staff to do".
The software has only been testing in about 30 companies and we already have about 50 word of mouth sales. This is a huge market.
