IRCA - Past, Present and Future.
Max Linnemann
IRCA Certification Manager
www.irca.org
The Past
IRCA has been at the forefront of auditor
certification for three decades.
IRCA is the only truly international auditor
certification body.
IRCA and CQI are one organisation.
In recent years, our resources have been
focused on improving the CQI.
But now focus has shifted back towards IRCA.
IRCA Japan is a key area of focus – IRCA wants
to provide Japan with ‘the premium’ auditor
certification process and support Japanese
auditors more than other organisations can
IRCA has always worked closely with
Certification Bodies.
Many Certification Bodies still require and
value IRCA auditor certification – however,
with ISO 17021:2011, the mandate for auditor
certification has reduced.
The Present
IRCA is changing dramatically!
In the last 1 ½ years IRCA has invested a great deal
to allow it to develop and improve.
A new CRM system and a strengthened
management team.
•Executive Director IRCA
•IRCA Japan MD
•Certification Manager
•Technical Manager
•Marketing and Business Development Manager
•Membership Manager
All of us share common goals
•To improve and enhance IRCA
•To make IRCA more relevant to the needs of
business
•To support auditors and the auditing profession
through offering both a certification process as
well as the benefits of a professional body.
What are we doing?
Enhancing our customer services.
•IRCA customer survey
•Internal review of services
•Ensuring we interact with you as you would
expect.
Enhancing and developing our criteria to ensure
IRCA auditors are highly competent audit
professionals
Revising our auditor certification criteria to make
them clearer and more pragmatic and
considered.
(Please see IRCA 1000 Rev 1.)
Revising our training course criteria – to further
enhance the training that auditors attend.
We are planning for the future.
Mapping out where IRCA will be in 5 years
time – and what it will look like.
We have asked the question:
“What does industry at large and the auditing
profession need/want from IRCA?”
Effectively marketing IRCA
IRCA has grown through partnerships and word of mouth.
We are:
•Working with Training Organisations to enable us to market to
the 60,000 people that attend training courses annually.
•Increasing brand profile and refreshing the brand.
•International advertising campaigns.
•Linking with other organisations such as Certification Bodies, ISO,
Accreditation Bodies and Companies that employ auditors, to
promote IRCA and incoorporate IRCA into their plans for the
future.
The Future
IRCA is the central hub for management system
auditing professionals internationally.
More than just a certification body – IRCA will
be a professional body too, offering its members
more than just certification.
How?
Increased support and value for Auditors.
•Improved auditor certification criteria.
•Certified CPD training courses.
•More resource for auditors – journals, trade
publications, magazines, on-line IRCA CPD materials.
•More recognition for auditors business being
professionals.
•Plans for a Chartered Business Management Systems
Auditor grade.
Thank you for listening…