Just think of all the changes occurring in your organization. New regulations. Changing customers with new product preferences. New competitive product offerings. New technologies. New branding. New business platforms. New business models. Compressed lifecycles. Change is no longer gradual. Change is rapid and abrupt. Continue reading
This is my story and in many ways may become the story of your work, career, and job. So, pay heed. Understand the conventional rules and challenge/hack the rules of work. Your story arc will be different.
I started out of high school doing manual work. My first job was as an ordinary seaman in the merchant marine. I worked on rust buckets on and off for 5 years. This manual work was very hard and frankly not suited to my style, abilities, temperament, and life direction. Continue reading
All organizations regardless if they are public or private, for profit or not for profit, large or small face uncertainty. Uncertainty results in risks. More organizations will face uncertainty in the design, implementation, and assurance of their Quality Management System (QMS), Environmental Management System (EMS), Information Security Management System (ISMS), and most ISO management systems. The critical organizational challenge over the next decade is how organizations will address and treat the risks that result from the uncertainty. ISO 31000:2018 was developed to address this growing uncertainty. Continue reading
We are entering a time of global trade wars: US vs. China, US vs. EU, EU vs. China and frankly:China vs. The World.
And, it’s not going away. China is on it’s way to becoming ‘evil empire.’ The new Soviet Union of unfair trade.
THE MOST CRITICAL QUESTION
This means that companies must now revisit and answer their most critical question: ‘Make or Buy’ products that used to be made by suppliers Continue reading
We have focused over the last 5 years on transforming business models using tailored risk-control frameworks. This is also part of our digitization effort.
In this week’s post, we continue our discussion of the ISO/Quality disruption. Hopefully, we are going to offer a few suggestions of what one association and one Certification body are doing. Continue reading