What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

Offshoring: What Can Go Wrong?

tens of thousands of miles from the home base—a client in the US offshoring IT work to a vendor in India or China, for example. Can it be done well? Offshoring has recently sustained much criticism, mainly over the issue of whether shipping IT work abroad is good for the US as a whole. I have written in that context as well, but my focus here is at the company level. Does it benefit a US firm t...

Just What Could Possibly Go Wrong In B2B Integration?

One important trend in enterprise-scale IT has been the increasing use of business-to-business integration (B2Bi) technologies to automate business processes that cross organisational boundaries, such as the interactions between partner companies along the supply chain. It is relatively easy to describe a pattern of interaction, or choreography, in the case where everything proceeds smoothly. H...

Radiation sterilization failures what can go wrong?

What Can Go Wrong with Statistics: Typical Errors

The poster will summarize and illustrate the most typical errors that appear in the presentations of newcomers, but also in the newspapers and even in the research papers where the statistical results are discussed. Although every classification is inevitably a simplification of the real situation I have divided typical errors into six big groups for the sake of clarity: unsuitable method for a...

What can go wrong in confined space rescues.

Bad atmospheric conditions appear to be the culprit in each of these cases. The unfortunate part is that these incidents could have possibly been prevented. Had the atmosphere been monitored in these three cases alone, maybe we could have prevented the six injuries and one fatality. A person in need of help while in a tank, vessel, pit, manhole or other confined space is in a confined space res...