#78 – PARADIGMS, DRONES, CYBER, RISK AND MORE – BILL WALKER

BILL WALKERWe live in a world of fast continual change.  Are you able to accept these changes and use them to improve your life?  How about your family’s life?  How about your organization at work?

What is a PARADIGM?  It is a pattern.  Examples include driving to work the same way each day.  Making toast, taking a shower, brushing your teeth and other processes the same over and over again.  There is an excellent video on Paradigms titled, “THE BUSINESS OF PARADIGMS” by Joel Arthur Barker.  I suggest that you obtain a copy and view it several times.  Show it to your family and employees as it will make them challenge all that they do and look for ways to improve on the tasks that they do every day.  Be sure to tell them to discuss their change ideas with you before they actually go forward as this could cause major problems and Risks. Let’s look at a few new paradigms. Continue reading

#74 – THREE POTENT SECRETS TO INNOVATION – DANIEL BURRUS

BurrusDan_040I have always maintained that seeing the future is less a matter of imagination, and more one of observation. Being able to gain powerful insights into the game-changing developments that will disrupt your business is an essential skill to success. And today I want to discuss three powerful principles that drive my work, which I’ve seen implemented to great effect in a vast array of domains, both public and private. Continue reading

#74 – LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS – ROD FARRAR

AfteRod Farrarr an incident occurs in an organisation ask yourself ‘Was this avoidable?’ 9 times out of 10 the answer will be yes.

When an incident occurs in your organisation ask what happened, why did it occur, could you have done anything to prevent it from happening and lastly, is there anything you can do to stop it happening in the future? This is your post event analysis. Continue reading

#73 – FMEA: HOW TO FIND VALUE – FRED SCHENKELBERG

ABC FredFailure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) is a tool that works to prevent process and product problems before they occur.

I like to define FMEA’s as an organized brainstorm. The process examines a product or process and asks what could go wrong. Then the team systematically determines and rank orders for each failure mode:
– the severity of the problem when it occurs
– the probability of the problem occurring
– the ability to detect the problem before it occurs. Continue reading