At one stage or another, all projects are subject to risks and being able to isolate problems can be tricky. Knowing how to conduct a root cause analysis can help your teams get to the source of each ...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a worker died every 96 minutes from a work-related injury in 2022, a 5.7 percent increase over the previous year. Worksite fatalities and incidents ...

Root-cause analysis is core to problem-solving across many fields. From hospitals searching for patient safety issues to engineers diagnosing faults in complex machinery, finding the source of a ...

Nothing is more frustrating for a fleet than bringing a truck back to a shop for a recurring problem. Given the cost of downtime, fleets expect repairs to be made correctly the first time. Yet, there ...

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When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident ...

At some point, your PPC performance will take a nose-dive. Once you’ve managed PPC campaigns long enough, you will likely navigate numerous crises. Pinpointing the source of a specific issue can be ...

A new PCAOB spotlight report provides staff observations regarding the potential positive impact of performing a root cause analysis on the quality of audits performed by PCAOB-registered public ...

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. The interrelated final standards on ...