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#90 – WHAT IS RISK BASED THINKING? – GREG HUTCHINS

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RBT is a good to great concept for ISO.  However, there are problems.

RISK BASED THINKINGRBT as defined and described by ISO is difficult to operationalize or audit.  How do you operationalize or audit Risk Based Thinking?  What evidence, artifacts, or data is the auditor going to find based on someone’s thinking?  So, how do you read someone’s thoughts?  Not unless you have taken and passed Mind Reading 101 course, you can not audit Risk Based Thinking.

However, you can audit Risk Based Thinking artifacts.  For this reason, we define RBT as:

  • Risk based, problem solving.
  • Risk based, decision making™

Why?  Both of the above bullets are demonstrable, auditable, and offer verifiable evidence to a Certification Body of conformance.

Lesson Learned:  RBT is a good concept that needs to be operationalized and be auditable based on 1. Risk based, problem solving and 2. Risk based, decision making.

Bio:

Greg Hutchins PE and CERM (503.233.101 & GregH@QualityPlusEngineering.com)  is the founder of:

CERMAcademy.com
800Compete.com
QualityPlusEngineering.com
WorkingIt.com

He is the evangelist behind Future of Quality: Risk®.  He is currently working on the Future of Work and machine learning projects.

He is a frequent speaker and expert on Supply Chain Risk Management and cyber security.  His current books available on all platform are shown below:

#90 – RELIABILITY TESTING CONSIDERATIONS – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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ABC FredReliability testing to determine what will fail or when the failures will occur can be expensive. Organizations invest in the development of a product and attempt through the design process to create a product that is reliable. The design process has many unknowns though. This includes uncertainties about materials, design margins, use environments, loads, and aging effects. Using the best practices of design for reliability will minimize this list of risks to product reliability, yet it will not resolve all the uncertainty. Continue reading →

#90 – SOME THOUGHTS ON EXPOSURE REDUCTION AND MITIGATION – GEARY SIKICH

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UntitledExposure to threats, hazards and risks leads to vulnerabilities that an organization must deal with. Commonly these are addressed via a mitigation process. Once mitigation is accomplished, often times the organization feels that the risk, threat, hazard does not need to be revisited. However, as a result of the mitigation efforts on the part of the organization, the risks, threats, hazards reconfigure and re-emerge in a different form. In order for mitigation to be successful it has to be a constant and ongoing process that produces a resilience to the negative effects of risks, threats and hazards that are realized. Continue reading →

#90 – DON’T LET DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR AGE SABOTAGE YOUR CAREER – ELIZABETH LIONS

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new one“Am I not being considered for that job because I’m too old?”

Clients have whispered that question to me many times, afraid they’re washed up and unappreciated in the workplace, that no employer will want them as they move from mid- to senior-level positions. It’s a natural question, and when the economy is ailing and the job market is as tight as it has been, too many out-of-work older professionals begin to doubt their own value and even blame themselves for circumstances beyond their control. Continue reading →