In 2018 while on assignment in Iran, I was looking into conducting an audit of the largest dam in the country, the Karun dam, one of my comments regarding how and what I would audit, and then while explaining the measurement criteria for emergency response, I said I would have the company undergo one or two practical exercises, and that I would draft out some realistic scenarios. Continue reading
Dr. Hardy is an expert risk management professional with extensive experience in the public sector. Dr. Hardy is the co-founder of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management and served on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO 31000. She has worked at Citibank and the White House Office of Management and Budget. Continue reading
Since March 2020, I have been intimately involved in the COVID-19 response. I have also read and researched many articles related to this pandemic.
For me, there are 66 lessons that we can learn through our response and living through a pandemic. Some of these lessons may overlap with each other.
These 66 lessons have been categories into five categories. Continue reading
This is the second part of the dialogue with Ian Dalling. In this part Ian discusses Quality 4.0, the skills needed by quality professional in the future and Integrated Management Systems.
Ian Dalling is the Director of the “Unified Management Solutions”. It specializes in integrated approaches to quality and risk management. He is a Chartered Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, a fellow of the Charter Quality Institute, and a fellow of the International Institute of Safety and Risk Management. He holds degrees in engineering and physics. From 2007 to 2020 he chaired the Chartered Quality Institute Integrated Management Special Interest Group. He led the development of the world’s first universal system standard (MSS1000). Continue reading
If you are building a home addition, you would not have a contractor begin demolition where you think you want the addition to go, construct what seems to make sense and hope the project will meet your expectations. You would hire an architect to obtain or recreate plans for the existing structure and draw up plans for the new configuration. Then, she would create a work plan for how the project would be executed, based upon the materials, techniques, equipment, and personnel to be used. Continue reading