Will the soon to-be-released Standard be once more a scheme for quality management systems, or will it – hopefully – have grown up to quality-led and quality-leading systems?
Because managers are no leaders, and vice-versa: any Ship’s Captain it’s not her First Officer. Any Ship’s Captain has authority to marry you on-board, the First Officer hasn’t. Continue reading
Qur firm – Quality + Engineering – provides professional engineering, forensics, and risk management. In the last two months, we’ve been contacted to:
1. Manage outsourced quality operations.
2. Reframe a much smaller quality group into a risk management group.
3. Do a combination of the above.
I’m reading the June 25, 2012 cover of Newsweek Magazine.
The cover’s headlines are:
7 Places To See Before You’re Broke.
The European Suicide Epidemic.
Woody Allen’s Black Magic.
Has Chris Christie Blow It?
We just ended our first Certified Enterprise Risk Manager(R) Bootcamp in Seattle. Five days of risk bonding, sharing of risk information, and risk learnings. it was a great success. Continue reading
For the past year, I’ve been wondering why has the US media been focusing so much coverage on Greece. Small country. Small GNP. European. Little industry. No much economic similarity to US.
It’s not that I don’t care. I’m just wondering why I should care. And, why all media are telling all of us why we should care. Now, I got it!
We are Greece. The media is preparing the US for what has happened and will happen to the US. Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and US are the dominoes in the economic debt cycle. All are impossibly in debt. We are going to one of the dominoes to fall. The media is giving us an early warning of what to expect in terms of unpaid public pensions, social unrest, and diminished expectations. Not good?
What do you think? Am I off base? What are the alternatives?
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:
