C – Level Risk Management

Greg Hutchins pixVolatility is going to be with us for a long while.

This means more risk.  The good news for us in operational and technology risk management is lots of work and consulting opportunities.  This is from a survey conducted recently by the Society of Actuaries.  So, here are a few more data points: Continue reading

Where Have All the Chief Quality Officer’s Gone? – Greg Hutchins

Greg Hutchins pixAbout a dozen years ago, I wrote an article titled: “Where Have the Chief Quality Officer’s Gone?”  As I’m researching this post, i’d write about where have the Quality VP’s and Quality Director’s gone?  I’m can’t find them.

I belong to a dozen quality, six sigma, and operations communities on LinkedIn.  There are a lot of jobs available for quality professionals.  Only one problem.  Most are low level.  I seldom see Quality Director positions.  I never see VP of Quality positions.  Most professional positions advertised in LinkedIn are at the technical level: supply quality engineer, quality engineer, auditor, etc. Continue reading

#9 – ISO 9001 RISK CHALLENGES – SANDFORD LIEBESMAN

The global economy has provided organizations with many opportunities that didn’t exist even ten years ago. But it also presents organizations with many risks because of the flattening of the Earth via the Internet and extensive outsourcing to countries such as China, Mexico and other nations.The designers of COSO, the guidance commonly used for compliance support of Sarbanes-Oxley Law (SOX), recognized as early as1992 the importance of risk management by including it as one element of the system of internal control. And now ISO 9001 developers are including risk in the 2015 revision. Continue reading