Mulling over some input I've received in an other thread recently, I've reached the conclusion that some of the recent external audit nonconformances I experienced have root causes that would meet the description of " ineffective management process ".
This was in comparison to my original premise that they fell into " inadequate resources ".
Which leads me to the thought that I'll use to sustain my morale today - that there could in theory be some form of family tree, or some kind of Venn diagram, that contains an approximation of the relationship(s) all legitimate root causes.
They would have to be described in a generic manner, of course. At the bottom of the tree you would have the usual "operator error" and "did process incorrectly" old saws, and those would transition up into kind of a default Five Why sequence, becoming increasingly professionally described until at the top you would have the small group of "kiss of death" causes, such as "ineffective management process" and "inadequate resources".
I can't be the first one to think of this, and there are bound to be problems with the approach. Have any of you seen anything like this in your travels ?
That said, I'm leaning towards "ineffective management process" for some of my root causes I'll be documenting in the next week. That should be popular.
This was in comparison to my original premise that they fell into " inadequate resources ".
Which leads me to the thought that I'll use to sustain my morale today - that there could in theory be some form of family tree, or some kind of Venn diagram, that contains an approximation of the relationship(s) all legitimate root causes.
They would have to be described in a generic manner, of course. At the bottom of the tree you would have the usual "operator error" and "did process incorrectly" old saws, and those would transition up into kind of a default Five Why sequence, becoming increasingly professionally described until at the top you would have the small group of "kiss of death" causes, such as "ineffective management process" and "inadequate resources".
I can't be the first one to think of this, and there are bound to be problems with the approach. Have any of you seen anything like this in your travels ?
That said, I'm leaning towards "ineffective management process" for some of my root causes I'll be documenting in the next week. That should be popular.