Risk is an event or activity that can go wrong and cause an impact to the project. Risks can have a negative or positive impact to the project. Risks that have a positive impact are called opportunities. If they a negative impact to the project, they are called risks.
Continue readingWhat will the future hold for jobs and the work place? In the following paragraphs, we look back to after WWII ended to understand how work changed during that period of time and look forward to gain some insight into the future and the potential impact on jobs.
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In April 2018, I wrote a piece entitled “Whither ISO Certifications?” In that piece, I discussed the latest certification numbers as reported by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It was noted that overall certifications were down by 2% in 2017 compared to 2016. In addition, certifications for ISO 9001:2015 were down by 4%. ISO has released the numbers for 2018. This piece looks at these numbers and their implications for quality management.
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This regular column in The Auditor is intended to shine a light on the people, standards, and events that mean the most to auditors and registered organizations.
In this segment, we chat with Greg Hutchins, the founder of the Certified Enterprise Risk Manager (CERM) Academy and author of the books, Value Added Auditing, RiskBased Auditing, Supply Chain Risk Management, and ISO31000:2018. He is offering a presentation titled, “The Future of (Quality) Auditing” during Exemplar Global’s forthcoming Future of Auditing Expo.
Continue readingThis four-part article explores the nature of truth through the prism of quality, mass media, culture, and art. In part one, we posed the question of why truth matters, and considered how the quality professional’s toolkit can help mine mountains of data to uncover hidden nuggets of meaningful information. In part two, we delved into how media helps and hurts in the quest for truth.
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