Predictive
Failure Analysis
Why would you want to predict failure? We normally try to prevent it,
don’t we? We use an endless stream of checklists to compare our
business against a collection of known standards and try to make everything
fit into neatly categorized groupings. The inherent flaw in this logic
is that the process is only as good as the checklist. The checklist
asks a series of WHAT IF questions based upon expected results, historical
incidents, and the knowledge of people from that industry. But what
happens if our checklists have not anticipated the type of devastation
and destruction as we’ve seen during the past two years of hurricane
seasons? By focusing only on the common “break-fix” mentality
of most checklists are we leaving ourselves vulnerable to other types
of unforeseen risks?
Elliot Consulting
Services has teamed with Jack Hipple, a chemical engineer with 30 years
of industrial experience, to offer predictive failure analysis to its
business continuity planning services. Jack is a nationally recognized
expert in innovation and problem solving, and he has developed a system
which utilizes professionally-recognized thinking tools in a "reverse"
or saboteurial fashion. This predictive failure analysis is specifically
directed at identifying critical failure points and vulnerabilities
in systems, processes, emergency plans, and organizational systems.
These tools include cause and effect modeling software that identifies
concerns beyond what is possible to achieve with standard industry hazard
analysis techniques.
Instead of asking
the common WHAT IF types of questions, Jack directs the organization
to think like an industrial spy or a saboteur and find ways to force
failures. The question then becomes HOW can we force this process to
fail – not just once, but always. How can we make sure that our
employees are not notified in the event of a disaster? How could we
make sure that our company cannot restore data backups and vital records?
How could we be sure that we would always cause a catastrophic chemical
spill within our manufacturing area? These questions have been developed
through a proprietary analysis of thousands of disasters and failure
incidents.
Predictive Failure
Analysis exposes the flaws in an organization’s disaster recovery
model and suggests alternative strategies to ensure the survivability
and resiliency of the business. So if you’ve got a continual problem
restoring an operational process within your organization, or you think
you’ve addressed every possible type of threat with your business
continuity plan…
Be SURE –
use Predictive Failure Analysis™ from Jack Hipple and Elliot Consulting
Services!
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