Are you a (Systems Controlled & People Driven) or a (People Controlled and People Driven) organisation?
Every day we hear of organisations failure to prevent accidents, environmental incidents, non-conformities, product recalls and at worst a child, adult or an animal was killed. Continue reading
To look to the future, the quality profession is revisiting its roots. The question is, “Where is the next generation to help the profession look ahead?” Or, as I like to think of it, “What’s the emoticon for quality?”
I recently attended ASQ’s World Conference on Quality and Improvement where we discussed powerful questions such as, “What will quality look like in 20 years? What will it be called? Will it still be relevant?”
In the US, there are a number of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) developments:
Modeling Complex Systems and Their VariabilityThe Monte Carlo approach relies on data that describe the variation of elements within the system. It also connects the elements such that the result is an estimate of performance. For reliability modeling this is easiest to imagine for a series system. Continue reading
Introduction
In the risk-neutral world, all business and government continuity planning would be risk-balanced. However, in reality, risks, threats, hazards and their consequences change depending on an organizations exposure, sensitivities to impact and other factors. For instance, a natural disaster, can occur without much warning and can have direct and indirect impact on an organization. Complicating the Business Continuity Planners life is a simple fact, events have unforeseen consequences that can rarely be planned for. Continue reading