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#384 – QUALITY VS. SAFETY COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Compliance management is getting more challenging. Not only are legislators and governments around the world imposing more regulations, but the expectations placed on compliance leadership to management expanding scope of compliance oversight is growing every day. The periphery of compliance–including ethics, diversity, ESG, and risk management–ask to sever more of compliance leaders who are seeking to best manage, scale, and address compliance demand efficiently and effectively. Continue reading →

#384 – FUTURE OF CYBER SECURITY – JEFF BROWN

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Jeffrey W. Brown is a recognized information security and IT risk expert with a strong track record of more than two decades implementing cost-effective controls for global Fortune 500 financial institutions including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, GE Capital, BNY Mellon and AIG.  He currently serves as the first CISO for the State of Connecticut.  His latest publication, The Security Leader’s Communication Playbook, is scheduled to be published in the Fall, 2021 by CRC Press.  Continue reading →

#383 – TECHNICAL WRITING SKILLS FOR ENGINEERS – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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Your peers, team mates, and management want to understand your writing. They want to quickly get your point, find supporting information, and take action.

As a reliability engineer, you write proposals, plans, and reports. You write problem statements, failure analysis findings, recommended process improvements, and much more.

You write to document a process or plan. More often you write to encourage others to take action. Continue reading →

#383 – RISK MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM THE UKRAINE WAR – PATRICK OW

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Risk management lessons from the Ukraine war

Risk professionals can learn from Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine.

The ripple effect of the war on every individual can be felt across the globe. One such effect is the increase in fuel and food prices. This war is a stark reminder that we are living in an interconnected world. And the inter-connectedness of our risks within and external to our organisation must be considered as we identify and manage our risks. The complexity of our risk management practices should not be under-estimated. Continue reading →

#383 – CULTURE AND FOUR LENSES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH – MARK MOORE

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Many organizations get so caught up in what they currently do and how they do it, that they cannot find ways to effectively improve how they operate and experience the growth that stems from that kind of change. Plotting a path to organizational growth, especially based on the projects it chooses to execute, can be a challenge. The fundamental elements are not overly complicated, but the work to make the change is hard. Continue reading →