Any business has to have intrinsic mechanisms and approaches in its processes and culture to sustain an ever increasing amount of changes caused by internal or external factors. Of course, ideally would be to have a standard process to reach the decision for changes, segmented for the various organizational levels and functions and depending of how much of the business is affected. Continue reading
Over the past decade or so, the topic of risk analysis has become an increasingly important subject. Recently and belatedly, the ISO 9001 committee decided to sprinkle throughout the standard requirements for risk analysis that will be part of the 2015 revision.
Risk analysis need not be a difficult subject to address and yet, a Google™ search of “risk analysis” will yield over 344 millions results! Even if only a tenth of a percent of these results is of interest, anyone interested in the subject may well need several lifetimes to read them all. Worse yet, should you be able to complete this Herculean task, you may still not know what to do or how much to do. Continue reading
Risk is increasingly an important concern for businesses. This can be seen in the May 2013 issue of Quality Progress, the premier magazine of the American Society of Quality (ASQ). This issue contains four articles related to risk. None of these articles has a consistent definition of risk. Nor do any clearly indicate the linkage between risk and quality improvement. Part of the problem is the current dynamics of the quality movement. Continue reading
Organizational Sustainability implies the capability of addressing with agility internal and external organizational challenges and maximizing the advantages. This starts with assessing and continuously monitoring and addressing the overall operational context from both external and internal perspectives. Continue reading
Any business / any organization has its key business processes that create the products or services that make that business / organization “be”. Without these products / services the organization would not exist. The more these products / services address “must have” requirements of its customers with the agility to continuously evolve them to address customer needs and wants, the more successful that organization is.