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Apr 16, 20243 min read
Applying my first lesson from Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge failure
The FBI has recently opened a criminal investigation on the container ship that brought down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in...
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Jan 14, 20243 min read
Ideas are not rare.
Imagine you are in a small house in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston. Starring out the window, you see rows of red-brick houses,...
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Sep 10, 20233 min read
Remove the obstacles preventing creativity.
Have you ever been stuck in a good rut? Have you caught yourself in the middle of an incident investigation, and the root cause continues...
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Aug 26, 20233 min read
Fremdschämen
Two weeks into a new job a decade ago, I was given the results of a third-party audit. Handed to me by the lead auditor in a nicely...
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Feb 5, 20235 min read
What the water does is what counts.
Read any report, and the collateral damage of COVID can be seen and felt everywhere. Read research on COVID’s impact on workplace morale,...
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Dec 26, 20225 min read
Where is it? I don't see it.
I have been rethinking what an asset is in a variety of contexts. Historically, I have rigidly treated the definition of an asset as...
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Oct 16, 20224 min read
We are problem solvers during investigations, not storytellers
Recently I have been researching for examples of problem-solving that have gone wrong. I wanted to understand specific examples, some of...
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Sep 18, 20224 min read
One lonely cinnamon roll doesn't mean it is old
When conducting investigations, we often allow our assumptions to get in the way of our investigation. We see something that we perceive...
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Jul 10, 20224 min read
Smile. Let's see those estimates.
Finding things in everyday life that empower you to evaluate statistics or theorize estimates on a scenario has always been fun for my...
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Mar 14, 20225 min read
Dr. Lloyd S. Nelson didn't yell, he insisted.
There are plenty of tools to conduct investigations within manufacturing. Some can be solved with a 5-why or an Ishikawa diagram. Others...
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Mar 7, 20224 min read
Who is your department's helpline for projects?
My zipper broke on my winter jacket the other day and I was able to contact the manufacturer, work through a claim, and have it repaired....
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Feb 6, 20224 min read
When Does Your Analysis Reach a Point of Diminishing Return?
We all fall on both sides of the fence when solving problems. We are either on the receiving end of problems to solve or we are the...
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