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  • Are You Neglecting Your Compliance Boundary?

    Lean Compliance helps companies adopt and improve compliance programs to better meet performance and

  • Safety Design Principles for AI Adoption in Organizations

    This means establishing guardrails—safeguards that protect the organization, its workers, customers, programmed Dataset dependencies that may not generalize Adversarial vulnerabilities unique to machine learning This means organizations cannot simply rely on foundation model providers to solve all safety problems Raimund Laqua, P.Eng is Founder of Lean Compliance, and Co-Founder of Professional Engineers.AI.

  • Should Risk Management Be Connected With Internal Audit?

    When businesses lean to much on audit’s advise, managerial accountability is diminished along with audit

  • Antifragile - the solution to aleatory uncertainty

    Antifragile companies learn from errors they create and the errors from others. failure, worker injury, and failed objective the industry as a whole becomes safer, but only if the we learn Continuous improvement as a means to introduce volatility Over the last several decades the adoption It would be the ones that were practicing continuous change in any of its forms be it LEAN, Agile, CI

  • Lord of the Risks – The Two Towers: Productivity and Compliance

    Their mission will require that they leave the world of the Shire, a place where they know everyone, Keep both in your gaze at all times and don't by any means look at only one and avoid the other." The strategy most often used by the Tower of Productivity is something that is known as LEAN. planning their next part of their journey keeping in mind what the Wizard had just told them about LEAN #managedsafety #riskmanagement #leanmanagement

  • Everything an Organization Does is Compliance

    However, this perspective is only part of what compliance now means and why we need to think about compliance In essence, promises define the means rather than the ends. The primary means by which compliance meets organizational obligations is by regulation. Pressing the point further, some use the Lean practice of Hoshin Kanri (policy deployment) / Catchball What we have learned since then is that inspection and audits seldom improve quality.

  • Where to Start Being Proactive

    reactive and proactive occurs most often at the director level of the organization; those that direct or lead Lean Compliance has a program to help directors become more proactive with their compliance.

  • What Organizations Desperately Need: Compliance Streams, Not Compliance Documentation

    Ray Laqua, P.Eng, PMP | Lean Compliance Consulting | Transforming regulatory obligations into operational

  • Intelligent Design for Intelligent Systems: Restoring Engineering Discipline in AI Development

    The principle of defence in depth ensures that no single failure leads to catastrophic outcomes. They've learned through experience that shortcuts in design often lead to much higher costs later. How do they validate performance when the system itself is learning and adapting? It means documentation that evolves with systems rather than becoming obsolete artifacts. About the author: Raimund Laqua is a Professional Engineer, founder of Lean Compliance, co-founder of

  • Doing less maybe simpler, but rarely is it effective

    So the idea of replacing what they currently do with "simpler" processes particularly when it means doing Companies may also adopt LEAN behaviors and practices to simplify their processes by identifying and LEAN considers compliance as necessary but fundamentally as a waste and something to reduce or eliminate As a result, inexperienced LEAN practitioners can end up removing compliance activities often without Keeping it simple does not need to mean the elimination of these capabilities.

  • Problems Are Our Friends

    This is what LEAN has helped us best to understand. LEAN teaches that if we cannot visualize problems we cannot see our way to improvement.

  • A Systems Roadmap for API RP 1173

    To stay on course it is essential to have a compass and this is what the Hoshin Kanri LEAN X-Matrix Compass Many companies that adopt LEAN practices have benefited from this approach which can also be used for As means of an example, the following describes how this might look like for those adopting API RP 1173 thoroughly, fostering non-punitive reporting systems, and communicating lessons learned. As we understand from LEAN, if you can't see it you can't improve it.

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