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Risk-based SIPOC

Everything happens in the presence of uncertainty so make sure your process plan is a risk-adjusted plan. #riskmanagement

A Safety Management System for Everyone

Adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) has typically required significant resources, large teams, and expensive technologies and...

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...

The Risk and Compliance Problem

The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...

Total Safety Management

Many companies will be familiar with the terms Total Quality Management (TQM), or Total Production System (TPS). They began initially to...

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...

A Measure of Integrity

Organizations and individuals make promises to meet obligations of all kinds. These might be in the form of duties, commitments,...

Compliance Now Requires a Design

Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...

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...

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...

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...

Is Risk Real?

For those who have been to Toronto, Canada you will know that one of the places you are likely to visit is the CN Tower. It remains as...

Operational Readiness

Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...

Cybernetic Control

Are your risk and compliance controls capable to keep you between lines? The purpose of risk and compliance is to keep companies...

Proactive Planning

Does your approach to planning adequately address performance and outcome-based obligations?

Risk-based Continuous Improvement

Does your improvement process properly contend with uncertainty and risk? Continuous improvement in the form of Deming's wheel...

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...

The Regulatory Tsunami

In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based...

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...

System Dynamics

System dynamics (SD) according to the System Dynamics Society is a computer aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies ...

Motivations

Decision makers today are often faced with making decisions that cross multiple dimensions and where uncertainty and risk are present....

Mismatched Systems

The administration problem is primarily that of reducing uncertainty within the organizational system (Organizational Strategy,...

Systems Thinking

Machines, organizations, and communities include and are themselves part of systems. Russell L. Ackoff a pioneer in systems thinking...

Project Success in the Presence of Change

Some say change is the only real constant in the universe – the one thing you can count on is that everything changes. However, there is...