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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...

Compliance is much more than checking boxes and addressing non-conformance when it is discovered. It is about experiencing the benefits...

When we think about compliance we should also think about the goals we want to achieve. An important distinction we can make is between...

Harvard Business School's Michael E. Porter introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, " Competitive Advantage: Creating and...

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

Companies often consider compliance as a "necessary evil" rather than a "necessary good." They sometimes feel they are forced to comply...