There is no end to helpful advice about making decisions. Most of this advice assumes that decision-making is fact-based, procedural, and decision-makers can follow a process. You need to have proper “framing”, know desired outcomes, be objective, evaluate alternatives, etc. In theory this is very good advice. Continue reading
With the new year ahead of us, many are looking for new jobs. Introverts are pressured into growing their network. Many of us turn to online avenues because it feels safer and less time consuming than in person networking. Introverts in particular, prefer this type of connection. For them online networking feels less intrusive. Continue reading
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r an incident occurs in an organisation ask yourself ‘Was this avoidable?’ 9 times out of 10 the answer will be yes.
When an incident occurs in your organisation ask what happened, why did it occur, could you have done anything to prevent it from happening and lastly, is there anything you can do to stop it happening in the future? This is your post event analysis. Continue reading
Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) is a tool that works to prevent process and product problems before they occur.
I like to define FMEA’s as an organized brainstorm. The process examines a product or process and asks what could go wrong. Then the team systematically determines and rank orders for each failure mode: – the severity of the problem when it occurs – the probability of the problem occurring – the ability to detect the problem before it occurs. Continue reading
NSAI (National Standards Authority of Ireland) hosted a meeting of ISO TC 176 in Galway Ireland on November 19th, 2014 on the rewrite of ISO 9001:2015. NSAI developed a series of videos on ‘What Happens Next?’ Continue reading