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

The Home Depot Experience Walking into a building construction store like Home Depot can be overwhelming. There are so many items to choose from and if you a...

Balanced scorecards help companies track performance. In today's marketplace characterized by digital disruption you need to make sure that you track more th...

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...

Over the last several decades companies have invested in paper-on-glass solutions as part of their digital progression. However, what only a few companies ha...

Process automation tends to only focus on managing responsibilities that are involved in the completion of activity. As a result many business process modell...

When it comes to selecting commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) compliance software there was a time when this involved a structured process based on a requiremen...

For compliance to be effective you need the ability to: (1) demonstrate that you have met your obligations in the past, (2) meet your obligations today, and ...

It is common nowadays to come across articles that claim that robots will take over people's jobs. Some might even argue that this is already happening and w...

It is easy to be sympathetic for those developing digital technologies that are frustrated with the relatively slow adoption of digital transformation. By an...

Collecting evidence is an important aspect in providing assurance of compliance. This evidence often comes in the form of data and plenty of it. Companies me...

The answer is yes and you have been for some time. Nudging is broadly used today in many domains including: government to addresses policy effectiveness and ...

"It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good." – T.S. Eliot Technology is advancing faster and further than our ability to ke...

Process modeling is necessary to design, implement, and improve compliance. Many of the techniques and approaches used today are based on flow charting proce...

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...

Many organizations are required to have a Management of Change (MOC) procedure to manage risks introduced by planned changes to assets, processes, facilities...

Compliance programs depend on up to date technical information to support each process. This information includes such things as: process safety information,...

Recently, I spoke with a client who answered this question by saying that technology can, when introduced too soon, short circuit the learning process. Peopl...

Many organizations are considering moving some or all of their applications and systems to the "Cloud." This applies to both productivity and mission critica...

In the early days of computing, companies would take "Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS)" products and create solutions to address specific problems found in op...