JDQ introduces JUMP!Higher™ Appreciative Audit

News Release: June 16, 2005

JDQ has successfully applied its new JUMP!Higher™ Appreciative Audit in a recent quality consulting project for a client with a mature ISO 9001:2000 registered Quality Management System.

Traditional internal audits fulfill an important need for companies with fresh ISO 9001:2000 implementations but for companies with mature systems, those registered for more than five years, JDQ’s new JUMP!Higher™ system takes them beyond compliance to excellence. In effect JDQ’s Appreciative Audit approach both raises the bar and adds value.

Traditional audits are often an exposé of everything that’s wrong with a company. As such, they can be viewed by those responsible for business processes as a “necessary evil” and a disruption to work.

JDQ’s innovative Appreciative Audit approaches process-based, internal audits in a completely different way. JDQ combines the best of Appreciative Inquiry and Internal Quality Audit expertise to create a value-added experience that encourages the workforce by building solutions based on the fundamental truth that in every company, department or project, something works. Our process helps reveal and enhance what’s right and correct or discard what’s not.

JDQ President Jon Morris says, “To get real value from their internal quality audit process, our clients needed to go beyond ISO 9001:2000 compliance. Many of our clients have mature quality management systems have been registered to ISO 9001 for over 10 years.  To help them continually improve, we needed to reveal and share best practices, both internally and with their supply chain.  Working with JDQ’s JUMP!Higher™ Appreciative Audit has added real value to their annual internal quality audit process by emphasizing QMS effectiveness without sacrificing ISO 9001 compliance."

In order to best serve the needs of our clients, JDQ always strives to discover and incorporate the most effective tools and systems to inspire positive change measured in real business process improvement. Our development of the JDQ JUMP!Higher™ suite of products is an example of our commitment to the leading-edge of business improvement innovation.”