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Greg Hutchins - Thought Leader

Author/Editor of CERM Risk Insights articles, multiple books, co-host on Speaking of Reliability, and speaker in the Accendo Reliability Webinar Series.


This author's archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.

About Greg Hutchins

Greg Hutchins PE CERM is the evangelist of Future of Quality: RiskĀ®. He has been involved in quality since 1985 when he set up the first quality program in North America based on Mil Q 9858 for the natural gas industry. Mil Q became ISO 9001 in 1987

He is the author of more than 30 books. ISO 31000: ERM is the best-selling and highest-rated ISO risk book on Amazon (4.8 stars). Value Added Auditing (4th edition) is the first ISO risk-based auditing book.

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Emergency Preparedness & Response

Emergency Preparedness & Response

Guest Post by Bill Pomfret (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

The start of fall might feel too soon to begin preparing for next winter. But with memories of snowstorms fresh in your mind, now is the perfect time to review your emergency response plans. Preparing emergency response plans of time also means you’ll be ready when snow, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, drought, or other types of severe weather hit.

Emergency preparedness is one of the most important things a company can invest in. When an emergency happens, being prepared can be the difference between the loss of money, time, and—most importantly—the safety of your staff. Thanks to advances in technology, companies can implement platforms and tools that can help them prepare for anything from inclement weather to a dangerous intruder or a pandemic.

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Which is Stronger: Outside Pressure to Change? or, Your Internal Drive to Transform

Which is Stronger: Outside Pressure to Change? or, Your Internal Drive to Transform

Guest Post by Daniel Burrus (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

There are two mindsets surrounding the concepts of transformation and change. First, there is fear that comes with transformation and change. The feeling of not having control over something in your personal or professional life can be daunting, because it leaves us feeling helpless. And the second mindset is an apathetic, hands-off one. This is where the concepts of transformation and change seem so insurmountable that we accept them passively.

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University Graduates Disruption

University Graduates Disruption

Eighty-five (85%) of the jobs today’s students will be doing in 2030 haven’t been invented yet.
Institute for the Future

Now, let’s look at university graduates’ marketability? Why are so many Gen-Zer’s and millennials unemployed or simply underemployed? One major reason is many recent college graduates are simply not prepared for work. They are not FOW-ready or work-ready. Gartner, the consulting organization, said:

“Only 20 percent of employees have the skills needed for both their current role and their future career”.

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Improving Your Operations Through the Use of Collaboration

Improving Your Operations Through the Use of Collaboration

Guest Post by Robert Pojasek (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

Many larger companies have three critically important operations: organizational sustainability, procurement, and supply chain management.   IN most companies, these operations are managed separate from each other, and their operations are not directly influenced by international standards.

Organizational sustainability works to improve all the operations of the company. However, these operations are managed internal to the organization. There may be a sustainability plan for the organization, but it is not used in all facilities or in the same manner for many of the facilities.  The corporate sustainability program creates its own program based on how the sustainability manager works with operations.  This will be coming to an end as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is preparing to release mandatory reporting to provide information to the capital markets.

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Higher Education Disruption

Higher Education Disruption

If colleges were businesses they would be right for hostile takeovers, complete with serious costcutting and painful reorganizations.
US News and World Report

COVID has forced universities to do online teaching. What’s the value add of spending $70K (USD) for online instruction, when you paid for sports, in-class instruction, and the college experience? In 2021 and 2022, we’ll find out as university students who have been taught online for a year or even longer.

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Cyber Security and Enterprise Risk Management

Cyber Security and Enterprise Risk Management

Guest Post by James Kline (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

In September 2022 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued NIST IR 8286C. (1) As the C indicates, this is the third such cybersecurity risk management standard issued by NIST. NISTIR 8286A and 8286B provide guidance to stakeholders on assessing and managing cybersecurity risk in conjunction with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) processes. This piece looks at the guidance provided under NIST IR 8286C.

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Lessons Learned in Oil/Gas

Lessons Learned in Oil/Gas

Guest Post by Bill Pomfret (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

My first job after college was with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) at which time in the 1960’s the chemical process industries far outstripped that of the rest of the manufacturing industries.

My second job was as a pioneer in the development of the North Sea, the expansion in search for oil and gas, leading in time to petroleum refining, the most hazardous of all offshore rolls at the time, was hookups, which is building the field, which was developed by a single central combined drilling and production platform.

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SOR 1094 Show Me the Money

SOR 1094 Show Me the Money

Show Me the Money

Abstract

Greg and Dianna discuss how quality and reliability engineers can become AI boomers NOT doomers.Ā  Engineers are being challenged with AI.Ā  What can and should we do to survive and even prosper in the age AI disruption.
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Can PM Communications Kill Communication

Can PM Communications Kill Communication

Guest Post by Malcolm Peart (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

Video Killed the Radio Star…went the 1979 music video byThe Buggles.  MTV used this as their first ever video in 1981, but despite the prophecy and MTV’s 40 ongoing years, radio stars aren’t dead.  Radio revolutionised popular music, vinyl discs gave us today’s disc jockeys but even though technology evolves it demonstrates that the fittest will survive and not everything will be killed.

Compact cassette started to challenge vinyl in 1963.  With the emergence of CDs in the mid ‘80’s, tapes eventually became old-hat.  CDs were ousted by flash drives and today ubiquitous access to downloads overshadow almost everything…but vinyl and tapes aren’t altogether dead and buried.  People can be branded dinosaurs but sometimes they are just nostalgic; the odd scratch can make music more of a memorable memory…as does listening to cricket or baseball or horse-racing on the radio!

But it’s not just music that’s been influenced by technology.  Meetings have also been affected and, with the advent of COVID more and more of us are being exposed to on-line meetings and, of course presentations.  But how effective are some presentations in blending audiovisual media, the spoken word and that most important ingredient, people.

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SOR 1093 Quality and Reliability Disrupted

SOR 1093 Quality and Reliability Disrupted

Quality and Reliability Disrupted

Abstract

Dianna and Greg discuss your employability in the AI age.Ā  So, let’s run a hypothetical.Ā  You’re a 22 year old mechanical engineer.Ā  You do robotic quality and reliability with a knowledge half-life of 4 years.Ā  Ā That means by the time you’re 26 knowledge in your domain has doubled.Ā  Let’s say, you’re now 30.Ā  Knowledge in your domain has quadruped.Ā  Problem:Ā  you have not updated your knowledge skills and abilities.Ā  Are you still employable.
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SOR 1092 Risk or Safety Triggers

SOR 1092 Risk or Safety Triggers

Risk or Safety Triggers

Abstract

Greg and Fred discuss how and when to escalate problems and risks.
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Smarter Machines = Smarter Humans

Smarter Machines = Smarter Humans

Guest Post by Daniel Burrus (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

The ability of machines to communicate—and their increasing intelligence—is an exponentially accelerating trend spanning many industries. This technology trend is not slowing down in any way, and the more it is adopted, the more it will continue to accelerate, transforming our personal, professional, and social lives.

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Medical Disruption

Medical Disruption

How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers
Title of New York Times Article

I bounced the above article among several of my doc buddies. The conversation went like: “You spent 10 years going to med school. Now, you push paper. And, BTW: you may be replaced by a robot. Huh. Yeah. Well. ….”

Not good for one of the most respected professions. But, an undisputable sign of concern among one of the most lucrative and respected professions during the COVID pandemic. It’s all about medical disruption.

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Oil/Gas Evacuation Management: Leave No One Behind

Oil/Gas Evacuation Management: Leave No One Behind

Guest Post by Bill Pomfret (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

Evacuation management is a necessary element of safety planning for oil and gas operations. It is critical to be prepared to evacuate personnel quickly and safely in the event of an emergency, as every second counts when lives are on the line. Evacuation drills and preparation exercises can be disruptive and time-consuming.

However, the overhead costs and lost productivity expended in preparation for emergency scenarios have become accepted as unavoidable costs of doing business. That’s because until now, there hasn’t been an efficient way to manage and improve evacuation drills while still adequately preparing team members for real emergencies. [Read more…]

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Half Life of Careers

Half Life of Careers

Because of the nature of Moore’s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack – Software Engineer

A number of years ago, several of us at Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) wondered what are the people  implications of what is commonly called Moore’s Law. The 2020 edition of this book (pre-COVID) focused on AI and technology disruption.

Story: Gordon Moore was one of the founders of Intel Corporation. Moore’s Law states the number of transistors that can fit into a computer chip doubles every 18 months to two years. Moore’s Law expanded to include any tech area where the rate of change doubles in two years or costs half as much.

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