The Rise of Risk Engineering – Greg Hutchins

Greg Hutchins pixQuality + Engineering (Q+E), our firm, is a risk engineering firm.  OK.  Let’s use our formal description of services.  We provide Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics(R) engineering services.

When we started the company, there were only a few folks who knew, understood, or even cared about what we do.  But, what a difference a ten years make.  Now, risk management and more specifically risk engineering is all the rage. Continue reading

Proactive – Preventive – Predictive – Preemptive™ – Greg Hutchins

Greg Hutchins pixMy PDCA – 4P’s™ or Proactive – Preventive – Predictive – Preemptive™.

Dr. Edwards Deming, the renouned quality expert, distilled the essence of his management   philosophy into his PDCA cycle acronym, which stands for Plan – Do – Check – Act.  Just brilliant.  Simple.  Memorable.  Usable. Continue reading