CERM members and professionals in virtually all management disciplines will surely recognize the positive impact a groundbreaking White Paper entitled ‘Your C-Suite & CQO,’ August 2024, will have throughout many business sectors and segments world-wide. Greg Hutchins knows the authors through his Advisor activities with them in the GQM Advisors Group. Continue reading
There are very few people around who don’t make mistakes, and, in hindsight, most mistakes are seen as being stupid ones. But why ‘stupid’?
“Stupid is as stupid does” goes the idiom popularized in the movie Forrest Gump. Stupidity is shown by a person’s actions rather than their appearance or mannerisms. If an action that obviously didn’t work previously is repeated despite the knowledge of the possibility of a faux pas, then a mistake, and a stupid one at that, is likely. Continue reading
The future of automobiles is electric, but many people worry about the safety of today’s electric vehicles.
Public opinion about EV crash safety often hinges on a few high-profile fire incidents. Those safety concerns are arguably misplaced, and the actual safety of EVs is more nuanced.
I’ve researched vehicle safety for more than two decades, focusing on the biomechanics of impact injuries in motor vehicle crashes. Here’s my take on how well the current crop of EVs protects people: Continue reading
A study published in the Annals of Oncology found that a deep learning algorithm achieved a 95% accuracy rate in detecting melanoma from skin lesion images, outperforming a panel of 58 dermatologists whose average accuracy was 86.6%. In another study published in Nature, a deep learning system was able to identify breast cancer from mammograms with greater accuracy than radiologists. Continue reading
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orporate officers and directors are generally responsible for ensuring that their companies comply with Occupational Health, Safety & Environmental laws is a truism. At the same time, they’re not automatically liable just because their companies commit an OHS or environmental offence. There are 3 basic theories for holding officers and directors personally liable for a company’s legal violations: Continue reading