Something I read at Global Risk Community got me thinking about Mark Zuckerberg. Boris Agranovich summarized the impact of social media on current events in this post “Social media triggers a revolution in the Arab World“: In the previous issue…
Please leave Toyota alone
It is hard for anyone who is trained in Lean Six Sigma to understand the latest Toyota recall. Toyota wrote the book on quality after all. Really. Look up The Toyota Way. Six sigma is a process improvement methodology that…
Don’t blame technology. Blame people and processes.
My old prof, Derrick Neufeld, from the Richard Ivey School of Business explains why trillions (with at t-r) dollars of IT projects fail every year. So why do they fail? Reason #1: Project managers fail to get understand the business requirements.…
Measuring the benefits of ERM
I was reading this article from Gary W Patterson called, “Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Applied to Benefit Operations and Strategic Planning”. In it, Gary, a.k.a the FiscalDoctor™, addresses these five questions about ERM: 1. Does ERM focus only on money?…