Einstein, Root Cause Guru
I’ve been seeing quotations from Albert Einstein in various places lately. Here are a dozen of my favourites that I feel apply to the practice...
Category: Root Cause Analysis
Business Process Management – Solution or Cause?
I’ve been trying to find out more about Business Process Management lately. What I’ve seen over a few years of doing root cause analysis is...
Root Cause Checklists
I confess to being a list-maker. I’ve published a few root cause analysis related lists in this weblog since it’s inception 18 months ago in...
Cross-Pollination #1
The idea behind this blog post came from the first article linked below. In short, it’s time I started expanding my reading horizons a bit....
Root Cause Analysis Resource List
If you haven’t visited my main root cause analysis page lately, you might want to stop by and check it out. I’ve added a pretty...
Root Cause Analysis for Complex Systems?
Is root cause analysis possible for complex systems? Some would say no, claiming that such systems are intractable — that in complex systems, there is...
Five-by-Five Whys
Search around on the web for Root Cause Analysis, and you’re likely going to find article after article discussing the Five Whys (or 5 Whys,...
Use of Cause Categories in Root Cause Analysis
I’ve been reading the TapRooT Blog lately, as it covers topics related to root cause analysis quite frequently. It’s well-written, and while I don’t agree...
Human Error
How many times have you read a news article about a major problem or incident, and seen Human Error in the headline? A quick search...
Why-Trees
One of the most widely-used root cause analysis tools is the why-tree, otherwise referred to as a cause tree, root cause tree, causal factor tree,...