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The following questions were asked in an interview with Raimund Laqua, Founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance. 1. What...

Recently, I spoke with a safety expert who has worked for several decades in the safety industry. During this time he provided training,...

MOC Maturity Index Change can be (and often is) a significant source of new risk. As a result, many companies have implemented the basics...

"We must make decisions, here and now, even though the best means and the best goals can never be discerned with certainty. An aim, an...

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...

When we consider compliance we often think of being compelled by regulation to follow an arbitrary set of rules that get in the way of...

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

A critical process used in safety, quality, environment, and regulatory programs is the process that manages change. The reason for this...

Recently I spoke with a retired CEO of a successful semiconductor manufacturer who said to me when I asked him about quality, "if there...

Compliance is fundamentally about reducing stakeholder risk: risk to quality, risk to safety, risk to the environment, and ultimately...

GRC is an acronym used to describe three functions: governance, risk, and compliance. The use of GRC originated from the management...

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

There might be some who read my posts who are also Doctor Who fans and get the reference to bow ties being cool. However, even if you...

The purpose given for companies is often stated as making profit. However, companies can exist for a greater purpose. They can exist to...

One of the challenges companies face when addressing compliance is its dynamic nature – compliance is never at rest. Even when you decide...

The purpose of a quality program is fundamentally to improve the quality of something. However, with today's focus on quality systems and...

When my children were younger we would regularly go on road trips to visit family. Five minutes after leaving the house they would start...

Cost reduction programs while sometimes necessary all too often end up removing value and expose companies to unnecessary risk. Deferring...

Taiichi Ohno, the father of LEAN, taught about the removal of waste, standard work, and continuous flow. However, that is only part of...

Compliance can either be a "necessary evil" or a "necessary good". The path you choose will determine: whether you are reactive or...

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

Like other sectors, health care also requires innovation. Current models are based on a reactive and transactional approach to how health...

The documented organization is at best a rough facsimile for the actual organization. There is always a gap between what is expressed in...

Compliance is often organized into isolated functions that are separate from the production management structure. However, we know that...