#9 – NEW TECHNOLOGIES: THE HYPE, THE CHASM, AND THE CLIFF – DR. CAROLYN TURBYFILL

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turbyfillSilicon Valley investors have been characterized as lemmings charging towards the latest buzzword (defined as cliffs) with tribal abandon.  Trends I recall from the top of my head include RISC (reduced instruction set computers), client-server, PDA’s, browsers, search engines, java, security, appliances, managed services, Linux, virtualization, mobile applications, cloud, big data and the latest craze – Software Defined Networking (SDN).

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#9 – DO WE REALLY CARE FOR AND ABOUT RISK? – UMBERTO TUNESI

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Umberto Tunesi pixYes, indeed: we give birth to Risk, nourish Risk, make it grow.

Some facts:

We all know that the Germans are quite maniac at safety – when they want: in a Factory making body steel parts for some BMW models, you have to wear a safety helmet when walking around a multi-tons steel-coils-handling crane. Now, what a poly-propylene crash helmet would do to protect your head, I leave it to your imagination. Continue reading →

#9 – ISO 9001:2015 REVIEW – UMBERTO TUNESI

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Umberto Tunesi pixWill the soon to-be-released Standard be once more a scheme for quality management systems, or will it – hopefully – have grown up to quality-led and quality-leading systems?

Because managers are no leaders, and vice-versa: any Ship’s Captain it’s not her First Officer. Any Ship’s Captain has authority to marry you on-board, the First Officer hasn’t. Continue reading →

Morphing Professions – Greg Hutchins

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Greg Hutchins pixQur firm – Quality + Engineering – provides professional engineering, forensics, and risk management.  In the last two months, we’ve been contacted to:

1.  Manage outsourced quality operations.
2.  Reframe a much smaller quality group into a risk management group.
3.  Do a combination of the above.

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Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act – FBI Ask Vendors not to Oppose Law Requiring them to Build in Surveillance Back Doors

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turbyfillFrom http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57428067-83/fbi-we-need-wiretap-ready-web-sites-now/:

FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites – now

CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

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