General Electric (GE) for many years was the go-to company for competitiveness, efficiency, and innovation. General Electric’s tagline was ‘Imagination at work.’
GE more recently has had a number of troubles. GE’s profitability tanked. GE is selling many of its assets and divisions. GE was also taken off the Dow after 110 years. Continue reading
In June 2018, the International Organization for Standards (ISO) is expected to release a revision of ISO 19011, its Guide to Auditing Management Systems. The final draft is out. Based on it, a sea change is coming for all ISO certifications. However, the impact is not fully understood. This piece discusses some of the implications. Continue reading
This risk story includes risk at the enterprise level, the program/project level, and the product level. From the enterprise level risk, it was a little naïve on my company’s part to think they could go from zero not having manufactured any sonobuoys previously) to full up production the first time around without investing the time and finances to go up the learning curve prior to making the bid. From the program/product level risk viewpoint, the baseline plan did not include sufficient component and subassembly trial builds and testing before finalizing the concept, preliminary design and final design. Continue reading
Although in ISO 31000 monitoring risk is another of its key tenets, I again see little monitoring in most risk management systems. Periodic review, dashboards, heat maps, and KRI reports are all Review (a different ISO 31000 tenet) not monitoring. IoT technology can deliver real-time monitoring of risk for more than just physical environmental metrics. Continue reading
The failed Risk Management practice of the ubiquitous risk matrix will finally be laid to rest in the 2020s. Vague subjective estimation of likelihoods and consequences will be replaced with Predictive Analytics objective predictions, based historical patterns and current trends, leading to informed risk based decision making. Continue reading