Entries by Nathan Ives

Corrective Action Program Best Practice 17 – Corrective Action Review Board

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Significant event mitigation and recurrence prevention represent two important corrective action program functions. As such, senior management involvement with, commitment to, and accountability for significant event corrective actions is critical to program success.

Corrective Action Review Boards (CARBs) engage senior organization leaders in the response to significant events. As board participants, they review all root cause reports, challenging the thoroughness of investigation, ensuring the completeness, adequacy, and timeliness of corrective actions; verifying appropriateness of follow-up action assignments; and confirming the availability of needed resources. Additionally, the CARB establishes monitoring activities and performance measures to verify the effectiveness of the immediate response and corrective actions to prevent event recurrence.

Evaluation and Control Program Warning Flag 4 – Purple Words

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All organizations and individuals have a history and within these experiences reside events which those persons involved would just as soon forget. These experiences typically involved significant loss or other discomfort that negatively impacted the psyche of the organization as a whole or the associated individual(s). Often, some key words and/or phrases become forever related to these painful experiences. Whenever these words are spoken or read, they elicit a strongly negative emotional response as individuals are jolted back into the memory of the disastrous event. Acting on this emotion, these individuals may strike out at or withdraw from the individual(s) using these words. Thus, these words or phrases have come to be collectively known as Purple Words.

StrategyDriven Welcomes Ruth Todd, PhD

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StrategyDriven is proud to welcome Dr. Ruth Todd as a StrategyDriven Advisory Services Senior Advisor. A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven’s information technology and cyber security services. “We are thrilled to have Ruth join our StrategyDriven team,” says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven President and CEO. “Her extensive knowledge and experience in information technology […]