ISO 9001 affects the growth of your company in a variety of ways, which we will cover in a second. Before digging into that, though, you must first understand what it is. ISO 9001 is a set of guidelines put out by the International Organization for Standardization that guides your company in setting up, and implementing, a QMS (Quality Management System.) 

What this means is that it is a set of definitions and international standards of the requirements that your company needs to implement. The standards will be used to create the procedures, policies, and practices that meet the needs of the consumers. Basically, it is a way for your company to put management and production systems into effect that will boost public satisfaction through quality products and services.

When trying to grow your company, working with the ISO 9001 guidelines will help in a few positive ways. Let’s look at a few.

• High Customer Satisfaction: Customers can make, or break, your business. It does not matter if you are dealing with them directly, or indirectly, the end of the line for your service, or products, is when it is used or bought by the customer. If you implement ISO 9001 into your operations it will raise the bar for your company to obtain, which in turn offers higher quality to the customer. This makes the consumer happy and will make them a loyal customer.
  
  
• Integration Improvements: With ISO 9001 implementation your company will become more integrated. This means that problems will not arise as often because your systems work together in a smooth, functional process. When issues do arise, it is easy to track and solve the problem because your entire operation is integrated into one smooth process.
  
  
• Staff Productivity Improvements: One area of every company that can use some help is the productivity of your employees. When ISO 9001 is put into place you will see an improvement in how they work. A good employee will always be more productive if the tasks that they have been assigned to do are smooth and efficient. The guidelines help with this by teaching the employee how to get the most out of their workdays, while teaching managers how to effectively delegate all the resources throughout the day, including the employees and the supplies that they need to get their jobs done properly.
  
  
• Increase in Profits: The entire point of being in business is to make money. The more money that the company makes, the bigger the profits should end up being. When you combine more productive employees with a higher rate of customer satisfaction your company will see a positive spike in profits, and a drop in wasted costs.
  
  
• Improve and Maintain Standards: The standards that ISO 9001 sets for your company will show your consumers that you are willing to go the extra miles to make sure that your company runs in the most effective and efficient manner possible. The guidelines give you a road map for you to follow to reach the levels of operation that you should be at to match the international standards, and they will give you a set level that you need to maintain to keep the certificate given to you through an independent ISO 9001 inspector.

The biggest thing that ISO 9001 does for your company is to give guidance and set the levels that you should be achieving. Make sure to remember that getting this type of certificate is not just a piece of paper that you can follow when you want. It is a management system that must be implemented and followed by all the management teams.

It is, in effect, the new way of business life that can boost every aspect of your company, allowing you to grow and expand.