Success Factor Certification

The Control Union Academy introduces the following new release:

Certification as a Success Factor
Sustainable business with trust and transparency

Rainer Friedel, Edmund A. Spindler (ed.)

• From the practice for the practice.
• Teaches the fundamentals for the certification of products, services and management systems.
• Shows how certificates can contribute to achieving entrepreneurial, social and environmental objectives.
• With best practices and recommendations for action.

     Here instant and costless look inside the book  (In German.)

     Content in English here: content.pdf

     Authors index here: beginning at page XXI

This collected edition presents successful certification systems and their practical application. It teaches the basics for the certification of products, services and management systems in the fields of sustainability, ecology, climate change and food safety. It sets out how certifications for the implementation of economic and social objectives, preservation of the environment and the increase in consumer confidence can be used and what conditions have to be observed.

The industry is increasingly focusing on certificates and even consumers use logos and certificates for orientation and to hedge purchasing decisions. But the more than 1.1 million of certificates represent different transparency and represent differentiated confidence. In this book, experience and new ideas are introduced to such certification systems maintain their role in the economy and society.

The contributions of this book from many different stakeholder groups as well as the observations of the editors lead to the following findings and theses on the possible development of certification in a time horizon of the next 6-10 years:

1. Certification can support social developments
2. Professional use of certification systems ensures the orientation value of the certificates
3. NGOs are important carriers of global certification programs
4. Certification programs should be simple and cost effective
5. Certification needs justice and supports justice.
6. Trust is a remaining key category of certification
7. Teaching and training secures the efficiency of the use of certification programs and standards.
8. Further research is needed.

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