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 2, 2020
- 6 min
Outcome-based Specifications
The focus on value-based outcomes has become a dominant approach in the health care sector over the last few decades. It has also made...
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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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- Mar 5, 2020
- 5 min
Antifragile - the solution to aleatory uncertainty
When it comes to contending with risk it is important to have an understanding of the nature of uncertainty – the root cause of risk....
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- Feb 20, 2020
- 3 min
Seeking the Wrong Goal
When it comes to systems the goals we choose greatly affect the outcomes that are obtained. This is particularly true when it comes to...
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- Feb 12, 2020
- 1 min
The Risk and Compliance Problem
The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...
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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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- Jan 18, 2020
- 1 min
A Better Way to Implement Purposeful Systems
Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...
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- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
System Improvement Requires Non-linear Thinking and Actions
Many companies apply linear thinking and steps when attempting to improve their risk and compliance systems. As a result they never reach...
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- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min
Towards a Systems KAIZEN
LEAN uses the Japanese word KAIZEN (change for the better) to communicate its intent with respect to continuous improvement. KAIZEN is a...
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- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
Operational Readiness
Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...
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- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min
Cybernetic Control
Are your risk and compliance controls capable to keep you between lines? The purpose of risk and compliance is to keep companies...
1,497 views
- Jan 4, 2020
- 1 min
Proactive Planning
Does your approach to planning adequately address performance and outcome-based obligations?
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- Dec 30, 2019
- 1 min
The Uncertainty of Cause and Effect
The causality model chosen to describe a system often leads to specific methods and tools to address uncertainty and risk. This may...
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- Dec 18, 2019
- 7 min
The Regulatory Tsunami
In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based...
1,041 views
- 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...
1,655 views
- Nov 27, 2019
- 2 min
System Dynamics
System dynamics (SD) according to the System Dynamics Society is a computer aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies ...
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- Nov 19, 2019
- 3 min
Motivations
Decision makers today are often faced with making decisions that cross multiple dimensions and where uncertainty and risk are present....
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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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- Aug 27, 2019
- 4 min
To Address Systemic Risk You Need Systems Thinking
If your company uses an organizational chart it was most likely designed based on the factory model created by Fredrick Taylor who...
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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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