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ISO 9001 · Lecture 08 of 30

Knowledge from Failure — The Most Undervalued Asset

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  • Knowledge from failure is among the most valuable yet most neglected categories of organizational knowledge.
  • Nonconformities, complaints, near-misses, audit findings, and recalls all generate unique insight.
  • Blame culture, fear, legal concerns, and the urge to move on prevent capturing failure knowledge.
  • High-reliability industries use root cause analysis, after-action reviews, and blameless post-mortems.
  • Clauses 8.7, 9.1.2, and 10.2 make failure-knowledge capture a compliance requirement, not just best practice.

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