Summer is heating up and so is the job search for many in the U.S. Yesterday a report ran that we are now at the same unemployment level as it was in 2008. People are ready to make a change.
Clients constantly ask me if what is hot in the job search. Here are 6 hiring trends in 2013. Continue reading
Hack a pacemaker? Is this a real problem?
Some recent experiments have been able to hack a pacemaker and other medical devices including an insulin pump. The weakness of these systems was the analog sensors attached to the body to gather information. These analog inputs bypass the internal security and are converted directly to digital signals. Continue reading
The words “risk” or “risks” have been sprinkled throughout the 2015 revision of the ISO 9000 standard. Although some “requirements” will be easy to satisfy using well-established process monitoring or capability techniques other references to risk are so vaguely stated as to be open to a myriad of interpretations and thus become meaningless. Having read and re-read the current references to risk spread over several paragraphs I wonder if it would not have been better to address risk in one paragraph at the beginning of the standard. I have “cut and paste” most of the current references to risk and included brief comments. Continue reading
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f you’ve read any of my other pieces, you know I’m an advocate for defining and managing risk (and opportunity) on projects and in organizations. And you know by “managing” I mean the active, vigilant monitoring of what is going on vs. what you may have anticipated. It makes sound business sense and it ends up saving you, your teams, and your management a whole lot of headaches later. Continue reading
Please do not be afraid, I am not going to divulge any military secrets.
Stealth – or stealthy – in layperson terms means very low detectability, or quasi undetectability. Continue reading