In 2000, I wrote Risk Management: Is It the Future of Quality Management? for ASQ’s Quality Progress. We’ve been evangelizing this concept a long time.
Why do I bring this up?
We’ve been evangelizing the mantra for 15 years. We felt so strongly that we have a have a registered trademark on the Future of Quality: Risk®
RM and ERM Data Points
Well, now the above seems to be conventional wisdom. Let’s look at some data points.
Well, let’s look at these data points:
- 1.2 million ISO 9001 certified companies have to adopt Risk Based Thinking and some form of risk assessment starting this month.
- 400,000 ISO 14001 certified companies will adopt risk.
- ISO has adopted Risk Based Thinking and has elevated it to the level of importance as PDCA.
- More than 20 sectors have adopted risk management.
- Many sectors are making ERM statutory.
So, Is risk management the Future of Quality?
We think so.
Bio:
Greg Hutchins PE and CERM (503.233.101 & GregH@QualityPlusEngineering.com) is the founder of:
CERMAcademy.com
800Compete.com
QualityPlusEngineering.com
WorkingIt.com
He is the evangelist behind Future of Quality: Risk®. He is currently working on the Future of Work and machine learning projects.
He is a frequent speaker and expert on Supply Chain Risk Management and cyber security. His current books available on all platform are shown below:
