Yes, indeed: we give birth to Risk, nourish Risk, make it grow.
Some facts:
We all know that the Germans are quite maniac at safety – when they want: in a factory making body steel parts for some BMW models. You have to wear a safety helmet when walking around a multi-tons steel-coils-handling crane. Now, what a poly-propylene crash helmet would do to protect your head, I leave it to your imagination. Continue reading
For most of the 20th Century, Business Schools, management training and Quality have promoted a method of management that seeks to exert control by believing you can predict future events and what people will do. Based on this assumption you can, in theory, control this by putting in place objectives, targets, work methods, controls, regulations and standards, etc. and check it is happening as you predict it should, through the deployment of KPIs, conformance/compliance auditing and other traditional ‘top-down’ approaches. Continue reading
Will the to-be-released ISO 9001 (2015) standard be once more a scheme for quality management systems? Or will it – hopefully – have grown up to become quality-leading systems? Huge question. Let me explain: Continue reading
Many companies whether they be manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers or service providers are continually failing to grasp an important aspect of their supply chain – transportation and the liabilities / risks involved. It no longer matters if you are shipping domestically or internationally one should not ignore the risk of not managing the transportation aspect of your organization. To paraphrase an old football adage; “the defensive opponent may know what’s coming, but with correct offensive execution they can’t stop the play”.
The structural methods used by the Rhode Island General Assembly for proposing and passing laws are chaotic and unprofessional.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union (US), but the legislature proposes more bills than any other state including New York and California. The legislature is the most expensive in the United States. It is also one of the largest on a per-capita basis except for sparsely populated states such as Alaska. Perhaps 2,200 bills per year are proposed, but only a few hundred are passed. As a result, many bills are never even read before voting. Hundreds more bills are lost somewhere in committees for further study. Continue reading