Process Safety Management for the Digital Factory
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With the increases in the number and severity of security breaches, digital factories could benefit from risk-based process safety...


- Sep 17, 2018
- 6 min
The Digital Depot of Transformation
Digital Transformation – The Home Depot of Computing Walking into a building construction store like Home Depot can be overwhelming....
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- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min
Balanced Scorecard for Growth
Balanced scorecards help companies track performance. In today's marketplace characterized by digital disruption you need to make sure...
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- Aug 11, 2018
- 1 min
Emergent Uncertainty
We expect that as systems improve that the certainty of meeting objectives increases. Instead, what often happens is that systems become...
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- Jul 6, 2018
- 2 min
Digital Transformation - Exploiting the Power of Digital Technology
Over the last several decades companies have invested in paper-on-glass solutions as part of their digital progression. However, what...
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- Jul 3, 2018
- 1 min
Automating Responsibilities
Process automation tends to only focus on managing responsibilities that are involved in the completion of activity. As a result many...
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- Apr 9, 2018
- 7 min
Demo-first Approach to Selecting Compliance Software
When it comes to selecting commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) compliance software there was a time when this involved a structured process...
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- Feb 16, 2018
- 1 min
Compliance in the Cloud
For compliance to be effective you need the ability to: (1) demonstrate that you have met your obligations in the past, (2) meet your...
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- Feb 5, 2018
- 4 min
What Will People Be Doing 20 Years from Now?
It is common nowadays to come across articles that claim that robots and AI will take over people's jobs. Some might even argue that this...
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- Jan 22, 2018
- 6 min
The State of Digital Transformation
It is easy to be sympathetic with those developing digital technologies that are frustrated with the relatively slow adoption of digital...
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- Jan 17, 2018
- 5 min
Crossing The Ethical Chasm of Data Mining
Collecting evidence is an important aspect in providing assurance of compliance. This evidence often comes in the form of data and plenty...
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- Jan 8, 2018
- 5 min
Are You Being Nudged Into Compliance?
The answer is yes and you have been for some time. Nudging is broadly used today in many domains including governments to addresses...
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- Dec 6, 2017
- 7 min
Ethical Compliance
Technology is advancing faster and further than our ability to keep up with the ethical implications. This applies also to the systems using
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- Aug 31, 2017
- 3 min
Compliance Process Modeling
Process modeling is necessary to design, implement, and improve compliance. Many of the techniques and approaches used today are based on...
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- Aug 28, 2017
- 2 min
Keep Your Workers and Improve
One of the key misconceptions about LEAN is that its goal is to reduce the workforce. No wonder people might resist adopting it. However,...
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- Aug 3, 2017
- 2 min
What Benefit Does MOC Technology Provide?
Many organizations are required to have a Management of Change (MOC) procedure to manage risks introduced by planned changes to assets,...
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- Jun 8, 2017
- 3 min
Improving the Management of Technical Information
Compliance programs depend on up to date technical information to support each process. This information includes such things as: process...
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- Jun 6, 2017
- 2 min
When Is the Right Time to Introduce Technology?
Recently, I spoke with a client who answered this question by saying that technology can, when introduced too soon, short circuit the...
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- May 12, 2017
- 3 min
Should Compliance (EHSS) Processes move to the Cloud?
Many organizations are considering moving some or all of their applications and systems to the "Cloud." This applies to both productivity...
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- May 7, 2017
- 2 min
Should You Choose a Product or a Solution?
In the early days of computing, companies would take "Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS)" products and create solutions to address specific...
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- Apr 23, 2017
- 2 min
Hidden Data
One of the first steps to improvement is creating the ability to "see" or "visualize" what it is you want to change. This is one of the...
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