ISO tackles ISO 9001 (2015) risk with a new tag line:
‘Risk based thinking.’
Not bad! The new ISO 9001 tag line is similar to ours. Q+E CERM tagline is Risk Based Problem Solving and Risk Based Decision Making.
ISO is coming to terms with risk and quality. ISO recognizes that all ISO 9001 stakeholders are NOT ready for risk. Many countries voted down the Committee Draft, while two-thirds or so approved it. Hence, ‘risk based thinking.’ Continue reading
Let’s face it developing a clear, satisfactory organization chart is no easy job, especially when the organization is family owned and small to medium sized.
Compared to a large sized tier 1 automotive supplier, the small to medium sized organization would have the same basic processes, that is top management, sales / order handling, APQP, personnel management, logistics, production, quality control, metrology, audit and quality system management, documentation and information control. Continue reading
While reading tea leaves (tasseography) won’t give us all the answers about the future of risk management, it is interesting to ponder what continuing and new risk trends 2014 may bring.
RISK TRENDS
Risk in its many forms has been and continues to be a hot topic for all types of businesses and organizations. It has been and will continue to be a cause celebre, a topic du jour, though perhaps in some new and different ways. Reading the tea leaves, I see some interesting things on the horizon. Continue reading
Anyone who has conducted a search on ‘risk analysis’, ‘managing risk’, ‘risk management’ or any other permutation would have discovered that the subject of risk analysis has been around for a very long time and has been covered by numerous authors. Still, the daunting challenge remains; how can one conduct process risk analysis without the help of a PhD in statistics? Continue reading
It is hard to find an industry or profession that has not used the technological advancements of the last 10 years to improve its systems and services. The risk of failure and falling behind competitors has driven many companies towards the rapid adoption of new tools in order to bring an innovative approach to their operations. The products are innovative and so, in turn, are the processes of the organisations that use them to improve their performance. Continue reading