Shaping Your Compliance Future
Pro-activity can be applied at any level within an organization. However, it is primarily the role of management programs achieved by...
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Knowledge and Insights for Compliance Success
The Problem with Assessments
Assessments are the fuel that power both step-wise and continuous improvement engines and this is no different when it comes to risk &...
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Outcome-based Specifications
The focus on value-based outcomes has become a dominant approach in the health care sector over the last few decades. It has also made...
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Agile Compliance
Organizations of all shapes and sizes utilize systems to ensure that the right work gets done at the right time in the right way. In fact...
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Antifragile - the solution to aleatory uncertainty
When it comes to contending with risk it is important to have an understanding of the nature of uncertainty – the root cause of risk....
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Seeking the Wrong Goal
When it comes to systems the goals we choose greatly affect the outcomes that are obtained. This is particularly true when it comes to...
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The Risk and Compliance Problem
The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...
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The Dilution of Compliance
Dilution can be defined as "the process or action of making something less strong or valuable." Over the years I have experienced this...
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Compliance Now Requires a Design
Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...
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A Better Way to Implement Purposeful Systems
Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...
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System Improvement Requires Non-linear Thinking and Actions
Many companies apply linear thinking and steps when attempting to improve their risk and compliance systems. As a result they never reach...
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Towards a Systems KAIZEN
LEAN uses the Japanese word KAIZEN (change for the better) to communicate its intent with respect to continuous improvement. KAIZEN is a...
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Operational Readiness
Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...
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Cybernetic Control
Are your risk and compliance controls capable to keep you between lines? The purpose of risk and compliance is to keep companies...
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Proactive Planning
Does your approach to planning adequately address performance and outcome-based obligations?
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The Uncertainty of Cause and Effect
The causality model chosen to describe a system often leads to specific methods and tools to address uncertainty and risk. This may...
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The Regulatory Tsunami
In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based...
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Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework
At a fundamental level compliance programs protect the value stream from threats that hinder the creation of value. Each program...
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System Dynamics
System dynamics (SD) according to the System Dynamics Society is a computer aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies ...
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Motivations
Decision makers today are often faced with making decisions that cross multiple dimensions and where uncertainty and risk are present....
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Mismatched Systems
The administration problem is primarily that of reducing uncertainty within the organizational system (Organizational Strategy,...
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Systems Thinking
Machines, organizations, and communities include and are themselves part of systems. Russell L. Ackoff a pioneer in systems thinking...
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To Address Systemic Risk You Need Systems Thinking
If your company uses an organizational chart it was most likely designed based on the factory model created by Fredrick Taylor who...
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Turning Best Effort Into Best Outcome
When it comes to playing games where the goal is to have fun “Best Effort” is often applauded and even celebrated. We often hear...
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