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

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

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

The causality model chosen to describe a system often leads to specific methods and tools to address uncertainty and risk. This may...

In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based designs. What we are seeing is only the beginning of a trickle down effect emerging from regulatory reform over the last few decades across regulatory jurisdictions and across the world. During this time an increasing number of regulatory bodies have started to modernized the function of regulation, its processes and practices, and how regulat

At a fundamental level compliance programs protect the value stream from threats that hinder the creation of value. Each program contributes to keeping the value chain safe from various risk including: quality risk, occupational safety risk, security risk, and so on. These programs are socio-technical in nature in that they recognize the interaction between people and technology often across multiple levels of organization. Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework (also known as

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

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

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

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

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...

The concept of resilience is gaining traction particularly among those in highly-regulated, high-risk industries. In an ever changing...

If your company uses an organizational chart it was most likely designed based on the factory model created by Fredrick Taylor who...

What I have observed after reviewing risk management programs across diverse industries that include oil & gas, pipeline, medical device,...

With the increases in the number and severity of security breaches, digital factories could benefit from risk-based process safety...

Over the years I have observed that there is one reason that stands above all others as to why compliance programs fail and why they are...