Just think of all the changes occurring in your organization. New regulations. Changing customers with product preferences. New competitive product offerings. New technologies. New branding. New business platforms. New business models. Compressed lifecycles. Change is no longer gradual. Change is rapid and abrupt. Continue reading
The economy is at the beginning of the next major industrial revolution, and technology is the driver, this time as the heart of both the production of many different products and as a core intelligent component of the things we use every day.
Digitization has long since moved into factories, and is now enabling operations in which humans work side by side with intelligent machines. Continue reading
In June 2018, the International Organization for Standards (ISO) is expected to release a revision of ISO 19011, its Guide to Auditing Management Systems. The final draft is out. Based on it, a sea change is coming for all ISO certifications. However, the impact is not fully understood. This piece discusses some of the implications. Continue reading
Let’s say you have shipped 1,000 products to your customer on January 1st. All are immediately placed into service. And each month since you have received a few product returns, what we are going to call failures. We also have fitted the data to a Weibull distribution. Then in May, your boss asks you to estimate how many failures to expect in June. Continue reading
Something on the Project goes wrong and is fixed – “Let’s put this down for lessons learned” goes the management mantra. But was this experience just a failing that should not have happened in the first place and relearning a previously taught, but now forgotten, ‘lesson’? Continue reading