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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

Striving-for-Excellence-The-Art-and-Science-of-Instructional-Design

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Striving-for-Excellence-The-Art-and-Science-of-Instructional-DesignDownload PDF [15 pages] By: Ivor K. Davies, Professor of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana {{cta(‘67251890-b3ff-4fac-9924-cc6ec02295a1’)}} “Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results. By themselves, they only set limits to what can be attained.” -Peter Drucker Article Summary: 15 pages: PDF Growth, Productivity, Improvement on Quality – The Reliability Approach – There are

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by Bob Latino

Updated: May 2, 2024

Root Cause Analysis: The Justification Game

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Root Cause Analysis: The Justification Game Part 2 of 2 Maintenance Solutions In last month’s introductory article, we discussed some of the barriers to selling not only the concept of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) but also the recommendations generated as a result of these analyses. We also laid the framework for making better predictions by generating and accessing better data—namely

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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

Is System’s Thinking Critical to Root Cause Analysis’s (RCA) Success?

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Is System’s Thinking Critical to Root Cause Analysis’s (RCA) Success? Put another way, can RCA be successful without the incorporation of system’s thinking? What prompted this question was that according to Drs. Leveson and Dekker in their 2014 paper Get To The Root of Accidents, systems thinking is not currently utilized in the application of RCA. In this paper they cite:

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