Following is a collection of 20 goals or targets for software engineering progress developed by Namcook Analytics LLC for the five years between 2014 and 2018. All of these goals are achievable in 2014 and in fact have already been achieved by a small selection of leading companies.
Unfortunately less than 5% of U.S. and global companies have achieved any of these goals, and less than 1% have achieved most of them. None of the author’s clients have achieved every goal. Continue reading
We have all heard about the well known disasters such as Baby P, Deepwater Horizon, Staffordshire Hospital and the Fukushima Nuclear power plant explosion, examples of organisational systemic failure to deliver the intended results. Continue reading
Over the last few decades there have been drastic upheavals in the manufacturing industry as a whole. But now the alarming increase of counterfeiting has surfaced to threaten the global supply chain. Is the criminal underground solely to blame? Or has the manufacturing industry unknowingly but directly contributed to this growing gray business?
This growth of counterfeiting can be attributed to the following forces: Continue reading
Risk management is not compliance; however, compliance can serve as a basis for the management of risks. A risk management program that overlooks compliance or underplays the significance of being in compliance puts the enterprise at risk. That said, risks and the managing of risk is not directly related to compliance; rather risk management is related to ensuring that the organization’s strategy, goals and objectives are achieved by buffering risk from being realized. Continue reading
The old story tells of a newlywed couple hosting their first family dinner. As the couple works in the kitchen, he asks her, “Why did you cut the end off the ham before you put it in the roasting pan?” She answers that her mother always did it that way, so she does the same. It happens that her mother walks in the kitchen and they both ask her the same question. The answer is the same. An hour later, the young bride’s grandmother arrives and all of them pose the question to her. Her answer, predictably, is the very same. Three generations have been performing this action without any idea why other than, “That’s how my Mom did it.” Continue reading