I guess I’ve got your attention now.
Volkswagen is the world’s biggest automaker. The problem is that traditional diesel and gas powered automobiles are endangered and will be less profitable in a consumer world worried about climate change.
Volkswagen Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess last week warned VW senior management that they’ll have to “slaughter some sacred cows” within the organization. Tough words for tough times. Continue reading
You may be thinking this can’t be right. ISO 31000 is a guideline document. ISO 31000 – 2019 explicitly states that it is NOT for certification.
Well things change.
AENOR offers an ISO 31000 certification.
AENOR is the Spanish Association for Standardization. It is global Certification Body. It has 20 offices in Spain, almost 600 employees and almost 19,000 management system certificates.[1]
McKinsey estimates that between now and 2030, 75 to 375 million workers need to switch jobs that will require new skills and new education just due to automation and tech disruption:
“In terms of magnitude, it’s akin to coping with the large-scale shift from agricultural work to manufacturing that occurred in the early 20th century in North America and Europe, and more recently in China. But in terms of who must find new jobs, we are moving into uncharted territory. Continue reading
ISO 31000:2018 is the world’s foremost risk management standard. The Standard provides guidelines, principles, framework, and a process for managing risk.
The standard explicitly states that it should NOT be used for certification or registration. But, it is.
So, what’s going on? We can only speculate. But, here goes: Continue reading
For the last few months, I’ve been giving talks on the trade war between US and China. A few of these talks have been in the US. Others were skyped to China.
The bottom line is that trade between the US and China has been weaponized.
The Wall Street Journal on December 13, 2018 distilled the challenge:
“… it is questionable whether fragile globalized supply chains can thrive at all in an environment where the world’s two largest economies are disinclines to play by the rules, even their own.” Continue reading