Category Archives: Future of Professions

#324 – 12 COMPETENCIES FOR FUTURE SUCCESS AND ADVANTAGE – DANIEL BURRUS

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Even as I write this article, jobs in industries ranging from entertainment and media to manufacturing and medicine are being transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and its many iterations. Many people don’t even know they are already in a competition with AI and that several facets of their job are already being accomplished by a digital application or intelligent machine. Workers will not be able to outpace these machines simply by working longer hours or moving faster on the assembly line. Continue reading →

#322 – FUTURE OF PROFESSION – RELIABILITY ENGINEERING – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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Fred Schenkelberg is a reliability engineer who has worked in the field for over twenty years. He is a West Point graduate. He majored in Physics. He holds a Masters in Statistics from Stanford University. He began his career in reliability engineering at Raychem Corporation. He moved to Hewlett Packard (HP). At HP he helped create the Corporate Reliability Program. In 2004 he founded FMS Reliability. FMS Reliability is a management and reliability engineering consulting firm. He is the founder of the reliability engineering professional development site Accendo Reliability. Continue reading →

#319 – PAUL GLADIEUX – FUTURE OF WORK: QUALITY – INTERVIEWED BY JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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Paul Gladieux has over 45 years of experience working in the quality profession. In 1991, he founded Global Quality Management Advisors (GQM Advisors). The group provides services focused on management system design, development, compliance, assessments, and certification in a wide range of sectors.  Energy sector companies include: NuScale Power LLC, BWX Technologies, Westinghouse Nuclear AP1000 Program, Terra Power LLC, U.S. Department of Energy, and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Continue reading →

#318 – PAUL GLADIEUX – FUTURE OF WORK – QUALITY – INTERVIEWED BY JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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Paul Gladieux has over 45 years of experience working in the quality profession. In 1991, he founded Global Quality Management Advisors (GQM Advisors). The group provides quality-related services focused on management system design, development, compliance, and certification in a wide range of sectors.  His clients in the energy sector include companies such as: NuScale Power LLC, BWX Technologies, Westinghouse Nuclear AP1000 Program, Terra Power LLC, Worley Energy | Chemicals, U.S. Department of Energy, Westinghouse Nuclear, Vigor Industrials LLC, and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Continue reading →

#317 – SARA I. JAMES – FUTURE OF WORK – INTERNAL AUDIT – INTERVIEWED BY HOWARD WIENER

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What’s your reaction to change and even disruption in Internal Auditing? 

I think it’s comprehensive – and terrifying! However, is there any more change now than at comparable crisis points in human history? We could argue that there isn’t – the major difference is that information is now instant, and often overwhelming. So it’s not surprising if people feel they’re living in unprecedented times. Continue reading →