Use / Environmental profilesDid you know that hot air doesn’t rise when there is no or very little gravity?
The electronics used to steer an oil exploration drill head 5 miles deep in the earth experiences 200°C sulfuric acid immersion along with continuous 50,000G shocks.
I used to think the environment under the hood a car was difficult. Continue reading
Let me first start by saying integrating risk management into strategic planning is NOT doing a startegic risk assessment or even having a risk conversation at the strategy setting meeting, it is so much more. You will also find it difficult to relate if the objectives have not been defined or documented in your company or if the objectives are not measurable. Continue reading
Will Risk Based Thinking (RBT) as a cultural change for organizations be successful in reducing quality or business upsets for organizations of all sizes and complexity? In the past 50 years, there have been several quality improvement initiatives that attempted to bring about a change in a company’s culture that have not had a sustainable impact on the company’s quality or business results. Continue reading
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The title may sound strange given the Baldrige’s origin as the U.S. National Quality Award. Yet, its migration to a Performance Excellence Criteria and the addition of Cyber Security, Innovation, and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) does pose challenges to the quality profession. This is particularly true since the many of the Baldrige examiners are quality professionals. Continue reading
We are seeing more global certification bodies create their own assurance and branded certification schemes.
Like ISO 31000 letter of conformance for airports.
Dubai Airports this week received a letter of conformance for ISO 31000 – 2009 Enterprise Risk Management from Lloyds’ Register Quality Assurance (LRQA). Continue reading