Patient safety is an important focus for health care providers of all stripes. It has huge impacts both financial and personal, and affects patients, but also doctors, nurses, and even society as a whole. The best patient safety comes from a wholistic High...
What is the cost of a High Reliability Organization losing its way? One of the world’s most respected companies continues a troubling and potentially fatal downward spiral. Boeing, which turned it’s back on it’s multi-decade HRO culture (see here) in...
Happy Holidays. In this podcast we look at the pieces and parts of an awesome Risk Management philosophy called High Reliability Organizing and how you can use it to drive your business to a higher level of performance. This is the season finale for this year. Many...
PodCast Episode 007 Transcript (goto podcast >>) We often talk about business in the abstract, philosophies, strategies, what ifs. This episode looks at an ongoing crisis, with direct and fatal consequences for those involved. Rather than debate the technical...
HRO is an AWESOME risk management strategy! It uses the tools that many mid-sized organizations have or should have. It focuses on systems and process methodologies that are well tested. And it has been field tested by some of the most rigorous applications with...
Wildfires are burning throughout California (and the US). It’s a topic of conversation on radio, tv, internet, social media. “What should we do?”, “Who is responsible?”, “What’s the cause(s)?”,”Can the fires be...
