When it comes to contending with risk it is important to have an understanding of the nature of uncertainty – the root cause of risk. There are several types...

Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when it comes to adopting...

Many companies apply linear thinking and steps when attempting to improve their risk and compliance systems. As a result they never reach program effectivene...

LEAN uses the Japanese word KAIZEN (change for the better) to communicate its intent with respect to continuous improvement. KAIZEN is a form of intervention...

Does your improvement process properly contend with uncertainty and risk? Continuous improvement in the form of Deming's wheel (plan-do-check-act) has helped...

Traditional roadmaps implement capability maturity in steps where the last step often involves optimization and continuous improvement processes. The premise...

Culture is difficult to define and hard to measure, but without the right one a company cannot succeed. A common definition for culture as it applies to busi...

Compliance functions tend to be lightly resourced and often overwhelmed doing the best they can to help organizations meet all their obligations. So the idea...

API RP 1173 provides a framework for companies to evaluate their safety systems and processes to more effectively buy down risk and continuously improve safe...

I have spent most of my career building information and management systems in support of engineering, compliance, and mission critical processes for highly r...

Continuous Improvement (CI) is an essential part of operational excellence to increase the performance of operational processes used in the creation of produ...

Focusing on non-conformance is the first level of compliance. This involves meeting the prescriptive part of a regulation or industry standard. However, stan...

We expect that as systems improve that the certainty of meeting objectives increases. Instead, what often happens is that systems become more complex over ti...

Companies of all sizes need: Processes to repeatedly execute steps in the creation of value Systems to ensure the consistent following of these processes Pro...

Change can be (and often is) a significant source of new risk. As a result, many companies have implemented the basics when it comes to Management of Change ...

Management systems are efficient at what they do, that is, doing the same thing the same way over and over again. What they tend not to be good at is change....

Increasingly, companies are adopting continuous improvement driven by several methodologies that include LEAN and AGILE. However, the overarching driver is t...

Every company currently certified for ISO 9001 will need to re-certify against 9001:2015 by the end of 2018. This transition brings along with it more than j...

It seems more and more that standards and regulatory bodies are promoting a holistic approach to compliance. However, many companies still implement them usi...

One of the key misconceptions about LEAN is that its goal is to reduce the workforce. No wonder people might resist adopting it. However, as we shall see, LE...