In a previous posting (#51, posted on June 13, 2014), I discussed product reliability, reliability engineering, and reliability management. But this Holy Trinity of reliability does not operate in a vacuum. To create a sustainable reliability program within an organization requires an understanding of its culture as well as its structure. Continue reading
We live in a world of fast continual change. Are you able to accept these changes and use them to improve your life? How about your family’s life? How about your organization at work?
What is a PARADIGM? It is a pattern. Examples include driving to work the same way each day. Making toast, taking a shower, brushing your teeth and other processes the same over and over again. There is an excellent video on Paradigms titled, “THE BUSINESS OF PARADIGMS” by Joel Arthur Barker. I suggest that you obtain a copy and view it several times. Show it to your family and employees as it will make them challenge all that they do and look for ways to improve on the tasks that they do every day. Be sure to tell them to discuss their change ideas with you before they actually go forward as this could cause major problems and Risks. Let’s look at a few new paradigms. Continue reading
ISO 31000 (Risk Management) and its supporting publications encompass an impressive and useful “to-do” list of risk management guidelines to create and protect the value of an organization. However, if an organization selectively pursues some of the ISO guidelines and ignore others, highly undesirable events and tragedies can occur. This is what happened with the Titanic. Continue reading
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (A Sound Mind in a Sound Body).
It could also be translated that quality of life is more important than the span of life, the number of years you live.
Or that medicine’s task is not to add years to your life but the life to your years.