Activity Based Management,
An ABM and ISO 9000:2000 Comparison

When facilitated with Roster Network's Systems and Procedures Documentation Plus, ABM and ISO 9000:2000 can be achieved at the same time!

Although Activity Based Management ("ABM") usually speaks in terms of cost reduction and ISO 9000:2000 usually refers to improving quality, the essential processes are the same when facilitated with Roster Network's Systems and Procedures Documentation Plus!  No longer are cost reduction and quality improvement mutually exclusive.  With our systems, ABM is the ISO 9000:2000 process with cost factors taken into consideration. 

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Our unique methods allow you to balance and optimize quality and cost reduction to specific and targeted customer needs.  This will make your company the most efficient, customer focused competitor in your industry. 

Common Elements of 
ABM and ISO 9000:2000

A focus on the customer's needs.

Management responsibility to establish and communicate measurable objectives to meet these needs.

Planning to meet these objectives.

Identifying, measuring and  documenting specific work activities and processes.

Resource evaluation and management.

Measurement of progress towards objectives.

Continuous improvement.

Continuing Management Review.

(Click here to see how these are also the elements of ISO 9000:2000 and how the Roster Network Integrated Solutions meet these needs!)

If you have not already done so, be sure to see our other ISO 9000 related pages:

ISO 9000 Plus provides additional information on our systems for facilitation.

ISO 9000 for Health Care provides insights in to the use of these standards in health care.

ISO 9000 White Paper,  "Increasing Quality, Productivity and Profitability with ISO 9000," which discusses ISO in the context of general business and industry and health care.