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#300 – HANK LINDBORG PH.D.: FUTURE OF WORK QUALITY – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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This piece is with Henry J. Lindborg, Ph. D.

Dr. Lindborg has degrees from Fordham University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has extensive experience in all areas of higher education. Positions include senior vice president, academic vice president, dean of faculty and Executive Director of the Internal Values Institute. He has consulted for Fortune Five Hundred corporations, an Indian Nation, utilities, publishers, manufacturers, and health care providers. He is a founder of ASQ’s Education Division and past member of its Education and Training Board.    Continue reading →

#300 – CHINA HAS BEATEN COVID-19. CAN AMERICA DO THE SAME? – ALLEN TAYLOR

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The world is on fire with Covid-19 infections. We have never faced an enemy like the SARS-Cov-2 virus. The closest analog was the 1918 flu virus, but the world is much more tightly interconnected now and there is no place on Earth where you can go to hide from the virus. It has reached into the remotest corners of the planet. Most of the nations of the world are ill-equipped to combat the plague. Continue reading →

#299 – COST RISK IS A MAJOR REASON FOR PROJECT FAILURES – JOHN AYERS

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Studies show most projects fail due to poor management of known risks. The known risks on a project are:

  1. Scope.
  2. Schedule.
  3. Cost.
  4. Quality.

Generally speaking, cost problems are due to insufficient budget, poor budget control, and poor planning. How to minimize the cost (budget) risk on a project is addressed in this paper. The approach to do this is based on my 30 years of project and project risk management experience and knowledge. Continue reading →

#299 – NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS: WHO’S RISK? – MALCOLM PEART

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It is said that ‘no news’ is ‘good news’.  However, in todays media driven environment the news we are exposed to is inevitably about doom and gloom and is not ‘good’ for those affected.  The ‘headlines’ that reflect crises, uncertainty and disaster are certainly ‘bad news’.  But it’s good news for those journalists and reporters who thrive on pestilence.  Even positive news can be turned into a negative vibe through the casting of doubt and anecdotes of failure elsewhere; optimism can quickly become pessimism and pessimism sells. Continue reading →

#299 – AGILE ERM #3 – HOWARD WIENER

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In the previous article (Enabling Agile Enterprise Risk Management Part II: Disciplines) I identified the disciplines necessary to enable you to transform your enterprise at speed.  At the conclusion of that article, I promised to present a design for a repository and system to support AERM.  This article will fulfill that promise. Continue reading →