A
t times, even leadership can be a tremendously lonely experience.
The emotional fallout of making difficult decisions that negatively affect the lives of some team members, the feeling of rejection when team members leave for other opportunities, and the discomfort of disappointing passionate team members who offer ideas that can’t be executed in the moment, among many other leadership acts, all take their toll. Continue reading
The trite answer is just as many samples as you need and not one more.
A better answer is enough samples to make the right decision. The realistic answer is you will not enough samples.
“How many samples?” is an oft-asked question when planning for quality or reliability testing. Continue reading
In a series of four articles, I have discussed the Australian Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Plan, the New South Wales (NSW) Climate Risk NSW Guide, and how the Byron Shire Council and the Hawkesbury City Council used the NSW Climate Risk Guide to develop their climate risk management policies and approach. This piece looks at how the Shire of Hornsby NSW is attempting to manage climate risks. What makes their approach different is not in its use of the NSW Climate guide, but in its focus on another aspect of climate risk – sustainability. Continue reading
Some years ago the chairman of the ITT Corporation was troubled by several major software failures of projects that were terminated without being completed. He was also troubled by the dissatisfaction expressed by customers in the quality of the software the corporation produced. He was further dissatisfied by the inability of software executives to explain why the problems occurred, and what might be done to eliminate them. Continue reading
For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI, and doomsday scenarios of superintelligent machines, AI is a useful tool in many fields. In fact, it has enormous potential to benefit humanity.
In agriculture, farmers are increasingly using AI-powered tools to tackle challenges that threaten human health, the environment and food security. Researchers forecast the market for these tools to reach US$12 billion by 2032. Continue reading