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The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...

Many companies will be familiar with the terms Total Quality Management (TQM), or Total Production System (TPS). They began initially to...

Dilution can be defined as "the process or action of making something less strong or valuable." Over the years I have experienced this...

Organizations and individuals make promises to meet obligations of all kinds. These might be in the form of duties, commitments,...

Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...

Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...

Many companies apply linear thinking and steps when attempting to improve their risk and compliance systems. As a result they never reach...

LEAN uses the Japanese word KAIZEN (change for the better) to communicate its intent with respect to continuous improvement. KAIZEN is a...

For those who have been to Toronto, Canada you will know that one of the places you are likely to visit is the CN Tower. It remains as...

Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...

Are your risk and compliance controls capable to keep you between lines? The purpose of risk and compliance is to keep companies operating between the lines so that they do not fall in a ditch on their way to mission success. To ensure that this does not happen risk and management controls are put in place to act as guardrails (protect against loss) as well as to drive processes and practices towards targeted outcomes in response to stakeholder obligations. Stakeholders inclu

Does your approach to planning adequately address performance and outcome-based obligations?

Does your improvement process properly contend with uncertainty and risk? Continuous improvement in the form of Deming's wheel...

The causality model chosen to describe a system often leads to specific methods and tools to address uncertainty and risk. This may...

In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based designs. What we are seeing is only the beginning of a trickle down effect emerging from regulatory reform over the last few decades across regulatory jurisdictions and across the world. During this time an increasing number of regulatory bodies have started to modernized the function of regulation, its processes and practices, and how regulat

At a fundamental level compliance programs protect the value stream from threats that hinder the creation of value. Each program contributes to keeping the value chain safe from various risk including: quality risk, occupational safety risk, security risk, and so on. These programs are socio-technical in nature in that they recognize the interaction between people and technology often across multiple levels of organization. Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework (also known as