History

Forty years of quality thinking, charted.

Each edition of ISO 9001 has marked a shift in how organizations think about quality — from procedural assurance, to process discipline, to risk anticipation, and now toward opportunity. Click any milestone to dive in.

2026
Anticipated
Upside risk

Opportunity-Based Thinking

Anticipated next edition introduces explicit treatment of positive risk — opportunity. Quality systems become engines of strategic advantage, not just defense.