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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.

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Virtual Decisions: Art and Reality of Indecision

Virtual Decisions: Art and Reality of Indecision

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

“Any decision is better than No Decision” goes the Law of Decision making.  However, sitting on the fence, humming and hawing, chewing the cud, weighing every option, exploring every avenue and leaving no stone unturned can, and often does, eventually amount to, at the end of the day, and in its cold light, without beating about the bush, or wasting any more time…indecision.

Indecision, at least for those affected, leads to a number of things including frustration, demotivation, and anger.  These feelings are not felt by those who dwell in indecision as they are blissfully unaware and are ignorantly oblivious as to the adverse effects of their procrastination.  They are also incognizant as to their responsibility for wasting everybody’s precious time as well as being bewilderingly ignorant that a definitive decision to do nothing may allow for some productive work elsewhere.  But they would rather keep people on tenterhooks and in a state of limbo and avoid any gainful and concurrent activity.  Productivity for them is of no consequence…people can always catch up later…or can they?!

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SOR 986 Pushing the Limits

SOR 986 Pushing the Limits

Pushing the Limits

Abstract

Greg and Fred discuss pushing the limits for personal and professional development.  Greg discusses wearing a pink tutu to Oregon Country Faire and Burning Man.  Fred discusses pushing the limits for product testing and product development.
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Why Agile Software Often Fails and What to Do About It

Why Agile Software Often Fails and What to Do About It

Guest Post by Howard M. Wiener (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

In the previous articles in this series, we discussed the role that agile digital delivery capabilities plays in your company’s competitiveness and why rapid delivery is so important.  In this article, we will look at the many reasons that Agile adoptions frequently fail to deliver what companies expect and suggest some things that you should do to address them.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety Tagged With: Agile product development

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SOR 985 Pursuing Ribbons

SOR 985 Pursuing Ribbons

Pursuing Ribbons

Abstract

Greg and Fred discuss the importance of the pursuit of ribbons.  What are ribbons?  They are the  badges, degrees, brands, and certificates that we all strive for.   They confer knowledge, skills, and abilities to others.  They are the things of life that we do for personal improvement and enrichment.  Greg believes the pursuit of ribbons or recognition is what we all do from the day we are born to the day we pass on.  Fred believes knowledge by itself is sufficient.  What do you think?
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Safety is Integral to Engineering Education

Safety is Integral to Engineering Education

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

All this knowledge, passed on for our Engineers, is of little use unless it reaches the right people. The individuals and institutions which educate the safety engineers and who will be responsible for the design and operation of plants handling hazardous materials have a duty to make their students aware of the hazards and at least to make a start in gaining competence in handling them.

As elsewhere in engineering, computers are in wide-spread use in the design of process plants, where computer aided design (CAD) covers physical properties, flow sheeting, piping and instrument diagrams, unit operations and plant layout. There is increasing use of computers for failure data retrieval and analysis, reliability and availability studies, fault tree analysis and consequence modelling, while more elusive safety expertise is being captured by computer-based expert systems.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety Tagged With: System safety management

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Great Leaders Focus on the Why, Not the How of Risk Management

Great Leaders Focus on the Why, Not the How of Risk Management

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

Effective leaders provide their employees with a heartfelt portrayal of the WHY, a deep-rooted purpose, before defining the WHAT, the product or service, and then finally, the freedom on the HOW, which is the process.

First, understand the WHY of your solution. This gives you the line of thinking needed to decide HOW you can provide this solution in a way that is better than your competitors and more efficient for your customer.

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Time: Friend or Foe, Risk or Opportunity?

Time: Friend or Foe, Risk or Opportunity?

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

“Time and tide wait for no man”.  King Canute demonstrated that the ebb and flow of the tide are inevitable and even a king has no control over them.  Time, perhaps our most precious resource, is also no exception.  Who hasn’t regretted not doing something because there wasn’t enough time, or time ran out as we wasted too much time deciding to do something and the opportunity slipped through our fingers? 

On the other hand, how often do we regret having made a hurried decision and have had to live with dire consequences which, in hindsight could well have been avoided if we’d had more time or rather, made better use of the time available.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety Tagged With: Decision making

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SOR 978 Supply Management and Context

SOR 978 Supply Management and Context

Supply Management and Context

Abstract

Greg and Fred discuss why today’s business model is often based on managing an organization’s brand and outsourcing design, reliability, and quality.
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The Link Between Agile and Agility

The Link Between Agile and Agility

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

In the previous article in this series, we discussed the difference between Agile and business agility and how Agile 2 addresses some of the omissions and failings of traditional Agile.  Both Agile and Agile 2 focus on accelerating digital development; however, the benefits of any Agile approach can be obviated if it is not implemented within an agile management structure.  Addressing execution issues, as Agile 2 does, will not be sufficient by itself to get you where you need to go. 

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety Tagged With: Agile product development

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SOR 977 Telling the Boss No

SOR 977 Telling the Boss No

Telling the Boss NO

Abstract

Greg and Fred discuss work communications and job politics.  Greg takes the management point of view.  Fred advocates the individual contributor point of view.
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Great Communications are Essential for Business Prosperity

Great Communications are Essential for Business Prosperity

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

The last few years have proven the risk landscape is dynamic and evolving. And while an organization focuses on responding to one crisis, another is almost always lurking in the shadows—from COVID variants and severe weather to supply chain, and civil unrest and cybercrime. In fact, you could even find yourself in the dark – literally.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety Tagged With: communication

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Five Technology Trends in Manufacturing: Are You On Board?

Five Technology Trends in Manufacturing: Are You On Board?

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

Corporations that create in this world facilitate so many integral pieces to contemporary life by way of manufacturing. Manufacturing is quite literally a backbone to so many other industries, generating components for medical devices, automobiles, electronics, and machinery that keeps everything progressing forward. All of these components frequently need to be replaced, or more often upgraded thanks to new innovations that create new capabilities and in turn create new needs. [Read more…]

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Agile Values Can Significantly Improve Risk Management

Agile Values Can Significantly Improve Risk Management

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

The Agile Manifesto, also called the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, is a formal proclamation of four key values and 12 principles to guide an iterative and people-centric approach to software development.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety Tagged With: Agile product development, Risk management process

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Too Much Risk Management Can Hurt the Organization

Too Much Risk Management Can Hurt the Organization

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

Organisations that promote formalised and standardised risk management practices can create a risk culture where their employees view risk management as a compliance and tick-the-box exercise.

In comparison, organisations that intentionally promote a more informal environment where risk discussions and information sharing naturally occur as part of the broader organisational culture when making decisions can experience a positive risk culture.

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Why and How to Merge Agile with Waterfall Methodologies

Why and How to Merge Agile with Waterfall Methodologies

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

This article focuses on the task level of a project which is the key to merging the different methodologies. There is a lot of articles on line that explain what the merger will look like and the pros and cons of it but I found nothing to explain HOW TO DO IT?  This article goes into quite a bit of detail but I felt I had no choice to convey to the reader how to merge the two methodologies with examples.

Agile was created for software development projects. Some of the key benefits of this methodology are flexibility, speed, high quality, and continuous improvement. These features are implemented at the Scrum level. One major problem with Agile is that it does not scale up to large projects due to lack of structure, changing requirements and scope, and lack of a baseline to measure project performance.  In my opinion, it works well for small software and IT projects that are less than a year in duration and less than $1M in value

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