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 ...

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 ...

How can finance functions add more value? It’s a challenge accountants and finance professionals in business and industry increasingly face. One way to boost efficiency and productivity is by speeding ...

When it comes to quality and safety improvement, healthcare leaders spend plenty of time analyzing adverse events and what led up to an unfavorable outcome. At NYC Health + Hospitals, leaders are ...

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 ...

What if manufacturing companies could pinpoint the exact cause of a defect the moment it occurs, preventing costly production delays and ensuring top-notch quality? Generative artificial intelligence ...

You’ve heard of probable cause. You’ve found the root causes of problems. But what is plausible cause, and why should we care? After all, plausible cause isn’t even an entry in my favorite dictionary ...

Three weeks after a massive IT outage brought the world to its knees, CrowdStrike has just unveiled a detailed Root Cause Analysis report. The July 19 systems crash left an indelible mark, causing ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board wants accounting firms to get to the root of their problems. In a new report, "Root Cause Analysis – An Effective Practice To Drive Audit Quality," board ...

Nutritional Healing, a clinical nutrition practice in Appleton, Wisconsin, continues to distinguish its approach to ...

The Joint Commission has determined the 10 most common causes of sentinel events reported in the first six months of 2013. An organization reporting a sentinel event submits a root cause analysis to ...