Root Cause Analysis And Failure

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a popular and often-used technique that helps people answer the question of why a problem occurred in the first place. Healthcare, in my opinion, is an area where this approach is very important and crucial to implement since it helps determine what and why something happened as well as figuring out what to do to reduce the likelihood of it reoccurring. I personally never knew anything about RCA but now that I do it is a very crucial practice to implement since it can show results. RCA assumes all systems are interrelated so by tracking back actions you can discover where the problem started and how it grew into the symptoms you are now facing. None the less this is a very important tool since it is able to find the hidden flaws in the system and

It is easy to understand Solomon’s argument that unethical practices destroy the business and its key people. This has been proven by so many companies, such as Enron case, whose scandals have been unveiled to the public and the people who used to amass great wealth out of unethical practices are now behind bars. Even if they get out of prison, it will be difficult to imagine how they can recover from the negative image that the public already has on them.

Root cause analysis process will utilize a systematic step-by-step approach to help identify all causative factors leading to this sentinel event. The main purpose of the Root Cause Analysis is to understand how the event happened, why did it happen, and what can be done to prevent an event from happening again. The first step, collect all necessary data associated with this event such as: current policy and procedures, incident report, Mr. B’s health history, environmental flowcharts, dispensed medications, equipment and staffing factors relevant to the event. The process of identifying causative factors can begin once all the data is collected. The goal, of a Root Cause Analysis, is to identify interventions to prevent an event from reoccurring.

According to the probable cause summary created on September 28, 2015, by Officer K. P. Groome, of the Chesapeake Police Department, the following events occurred:

Reputation is very important when it comes to a company, a certain group, or even an individual. It is important because it is what people will judge one off of which leads to whether or not people want to associate themselves in anyway with one’s reputation because it can look bad to others on their part. This can be avoided for the most part by using ethics, social responsibility and sustainability to better his, hers, or its actions in everyday situations. When these basic obligations are ignored, tragedy can ensue on a small or large scale. In this case, the Buffalo Creek Disaster was large scale, impacted many people, and was an example of the greed companies have. Pittston, the sole shareholder of the Buffalo Mining Company allowed the corporate veil to be pierced that in turn brought Pittston to the same level as the people who were impacted by the breaking of the dams. Corporations such as Pittston try to intimidate and use excuses at to why certain problems occur, not wanting to take responsibility for their actions; it

Brigham and Lesson (2010) stated, “over the last three decades, the percentage of a company’s value attributable to tangible assets has dropped from 90% to just 25%.” However, intangible assets, reputation included, make up 40-60% of a business’s capitalization. An industry like Big Pharma relies heavily on its reputation. An organizations actions, choices, behaviors, and consequences will influence a stakeholder’s perception. This is a roundabout way for an organization to help determine its own reputation. Word of mouth, past experiences and media coverage will always influence reputation of corporations. In his article in Nature Biotechnology, Mark Kessel (2014) explains, “For companies in the pharmaceutical sector, how stakeholders view companies is influenced primarily by the lay professional media (through print, TV, radio and online) and the internet (blogs and social

That last item, reputation, is really important. It takes many years of consistently good conduct to create a good reputation. It takes one mistake, one poor judgment, to wreck that reputation. Warren Buffet, one of our nation’s most astute business leaders, says that “the top priority—trumping everything else, including profits—is that all of us continue to zealously guard the Company’s reputation.” It sounds like something Jeff Biskup would say. I know it’s something he believes.

The Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) are both used to prevent adverse events from happening. However, they are used at different time periods. Understanding how they are used helps one to understand when to use them.

In doing things better the next time and in accordance to campaign assessments, organizations are safeguarding their reputations. Reputation is a core asset of an organization and creates barriers to competitive threats (Schreiber, 2011). Established reputations hinder competitive mobility and deliver returns to organizations because they are difficult to emulate (Schreiber, 2011). A solid reputation evokes that the products and/or services offered by the organization are of higher quality (Carmeli & Tisler, 2005) and that the firm is

Google’s greatest vulnerability in the ordeal with China was damage done to its reputation because we should, as stated in the Bible, “Earn a reputation for living well in God’s eyes and the eyes of the people.”(Proverbs 3:4) When running a company it is highly important to preserve good standing because

I am proposing that the issues affecting Toyota’s ability to rebuild cannot alone be fixed by remedying the safety and manufacturing issues, but it must also work to rebuild the company’s reputation and rebuild stakeholder trust. As outlined by Stewart (2010), Toyota ended up with a full blown crisis on its hands largely because of the delay and mediocre response from Toyota. These management practices call in to question Toyota’s ethical practices and their commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles.

Business Industry has witnessed the outcomes of bad moral decisions taken by business leaders. Enron’s story is only one example of corporate scandals and cases of bad moral decisions, which has not only shaken the public trust in corporations, but also affected the bank accounts of investors and employees. Before the bankruptcy of Enron; it was included in one of the fortune 500 companies after its fraudulent accounting case the share went down to $1 (Enron scandal, 2010; PBS, 2002; Godwin, 2006; Godwin, 2008).

I am uncomfortable putting work conflicts on the internet, and even more uncomfortable exposing personal relationship conflicts that should inherently be private. I also do not watch the news, because I do not trust it as a source of information. Thus, for the purposes of this essay, I shall describe the most recent inner conflict of note that I have experienced instead, and analyse it using the “Root Cause Analysis” and “5 Whys” strategies that were discussed in this week’s reading.

I. INTRODUCTION WITH the rapid development of sensor technique and its growing lower cost, a great number of sensors are installed in modern industrial processes for measuring, monitoring and controlling purpose. This inevitably increases the probability of sensor faults. Therefore, early detection of sensor faults is essential to avoid performance degradation and damage to equipment. Over the past decades, research on process monitoring and fault detection (PM-FD) has attracted considerable attention. Model-based and data-driven methods are two widely-used types of FD techniques [1]–[4].

A multitude of choices made by executives at WorldCom led to the ultimate demise of the company as it was previously known, the employees and their livelihoods’, and the trust of the American people. In a time when corporations fail to set ethical standards and provide transparency to investors, how do we change corporate culture on a national level? By analyzing choices made to improve stock prices and company image that ultimately result in failure-- we can guide