Shaping Your Compliance Future
Pro-activity can be applied at any level within an organization. However, it is primarily the role of management programs achieved by...
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LEAN COMPLIANCE
Blog Posts
- May 25, 2020
- 5 min
The Problem with Assessments
Assessments are the fuel that power both step-wise and continuous improvement engines and this is no different when it comes to risk &...
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- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Compliance Needs A New Mindset
After years under the tutelage of prescriptive rules and audits it is no wonder that the question of what and how to improve compliance...
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- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
Management Previews
When it comes to management-based standards and regulations they almost all include a requirement for Management Review. The purpose of a...
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- Apr 30, 2020
- 2 min
Agile Compliance
Organizations of all shapes and sizes utilize systems to ensure that the right work gets done at the right time in the right way. In fact...
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- Apr 22, 2020
- 4 min
Are You Auditing What Really Matters?
Audits have been used for many years to confirm the integrity of financial statements and that proper accounting procedures have been...
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- Feb 27, 2020
- 5 min
A Safety Management System for Everyone
Adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) has typically required significant resources, large teams, and expensive technologies and...
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- Feb 6, 2020
- 3 min
Total Safety Management
Many companies will be familiar with the terms Total Quality Management (TQM), or Total Production System (TPS). They began initially to...
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- Jan 30, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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- Jan 25, 2020
- 3 min
Compliance Now Requires a Design
Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...
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- Dec 12, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Mismatched Systems
The administration problem is primarily that of reducing uncertainty within the organizational system (Organizational Strategy,...
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- Nov 7, 2019
- 3 min
Systems Thinking
Machines, organizations, and communities include and are themselves part of systems. Russell L. Ackoff a pioneer in systems thinking...
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- May 23, 2019
- 8 min
What is Management of Change
Change can be a significant source of risk. That is why compliance programs include a risk-based process for managing planned changes....
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- May 16, 2019
- 4 min
Turning Best Effort Into Best Outcome
When it comes to playing games where the goal is to have fun “Best Effort” is often applauded and even celebrated. We often hear...
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- May 8, 2019
- 1 min
Four Corners of the Obligation Map
4 types of obligations 4 compliance functions 4 purposes 4 measures #effectivecompliance
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- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
You can't turn lagging into leading indicators no matter how hard you try
The Challenge Counting near misses, incidents, defects, violations, and other non-conformance is of value and necessary as part of...
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- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
4 R's of Continuous Performance
The purpose of a compliance management system is to maintain state which is achieved through consistency, reduction of variation, and...
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- Mar 5, 2019
- 4 min
A Systems Roadmap for API RP 1173
API RP 1173 provides a framework for companies to evaluate their safety systems and processes to more effectively buy down risk and...
555 views
- Feb 19, 2019
- 3 min
Two Steps Forward Three Steps Back
I have spent most of my career building information and management systems in support of engineering, compliance, and mission critical...
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- Feb 2, 2019
- 1 min
Integrated Risk Assessment
In response to increasing and often overlapping requirements from standards and regulatory bodies, many companies are looking to...
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- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Minimal Viable Performance (MVP)
Outcomes are the effects of capabilities which means that you if you want to advance your outcomes you need to advance your capabilities....
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- Dec 13, 2018
- 2 min
Capabilities Maturity Model for Compliance
Increasingly, we have observed that regulatory and standards bodies are expecting companies to use capability maturity models to improve...
3,643 views
- Nov 17, 2018
- 1 min
Improving Management Systems
Almost all compliance initiatives depend on management systems to ensure obligations are met. This applies to safety, quality,...
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