ISO 9001:2015
Improvement – ISO 9001:2015

ISO 9001:2015 10.3: Continual improvement

The organization keeps improving how suitable, adequate and effective its QMS is. It uses what analysis and evaluation show, together with what management review decides, to find out whether there are needs or opportunities that continual improvement should take up.

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This control maps to 43 controls across 35 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

ISO 10002:2018 · 2 controls

  • 4.13 4.13 Improvement
  • 8.7 8.7 Continual improvement

ISO 22000:2018 · 2 controls

  • 10.2 Continual improvement
  • 10.3 Update of the food safety management system
  • ISO-37002-10.2 Continual improvement
  • ISO37002-10.1 Continual Improvement
  • ISO-39001-10.2 Continual improvement
  • ISO39001-10.2 Continual Improvement
  • ISO-41001-10.2 Continual improvement
  • ISO41001-10.2 Continual Improvement
  • ISO-50001-10.2 Continual improvement
  • 10.2 Continual improvement

ISO 56002 · 2 controls

  • ISO-56002-10.3 Continual improvement
  • ISO56002-10.2 Continual improvement

ISO/IEC 27003:2017 · 2 controls

  • 27003-10.2 Continual Improvement
  • ISO27003-10.1 Nonconformity and corrective action
  • AS9100D-10.3 Continual Improvement
  • SPC1-A.1 Continual Improvement
  • OS4.4 Standard 4.4 Systematic monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement
  • BS65000-10.1 Continual Improvement

COBIT 2019 · 1 control

  • APO11.05 APO11.05 Maintain continuous improvement

ISO 10006:2003 · 1 control

  • 8.3 Continual improvement

ISO 14001:2015 · 1 control

  • 10.3 Continual improvement

ISO 14004:2016 · 1 control

  • 10.3 Continual improvement

ISO 19011:2018 · 1 control

  • 6.4.10 Conducting closing meeting

ISO 21001:2018 · 1 control

  • 10.2 10.2 Continual improvement

ISO 21001:2025 · 1 control

  • 10.1 10.1 Continual improvement

ISO 22301:2019 · 1 control

  • 10.1 Nonconformity and corrective action
  • ISO-22313-10.2 Continual improvement

ISO 22320:2018 · 1 control

  • ISO-22320-4.8 Continual improvement

ISO 27005:2022 · 1 control

  • 10.8 Continual improvement

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 5.8.2 Continual improvement

ISO 30401 · 1 control

  • ISO30401-10.2 Continual improvement

ISO 31000:2018 · 1 control

  • 4.h Continual improvement

ISO 37001:2016 · 1 control

  • 10.2 10.2 Continual improvement

ISO 37301:2021 · 1 control

  • 10.1 Continual improvement

ISO 45001:2018 · 1 control

  • 10.3 Continual improvement

ISO 55001:2014 · 1 control

  • 10.3 Continual improvement

ISO/IEC 23894:2023 · 1 control

  • ISO23894-4.8 Continual Improvement

ISO/IEC 27031:2011 · 1 control

  • 27031-10.1 Continual Improvement
  • ISO27557-10.1 Continual Improvement

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 · 1 control

  • 10.1 Continual improvement

ITIL 4 · 1 control

  • GM-CI-1 Continual Improvement

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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