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Subject:Re: ISO9000 credibility From:Joe Miller <joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:45:39 -0500
Arlen Walker wrote:
>Personally, I think you *can* apply ISO9000 to the creative process. An
>underlying structure is essential for creativity to blossom.
Precisely. Without structure, creative energies are spent reinventing the
wheel instead of doing the job. I think any manager would rather see
that energy applied to improving the process, not on developing a personal
variant of the existing process.
