J.D. Solomon
Why Embrace Monte Carlo Analysis for New Project Development
Monte Carlo analysis or Monte Carlo simulation is a technique used for forecasting which considers uncertainty and variability. As an...
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J.D. Solomon
- Mar 7
Great Facilitation Agendas: What Little League Baseball Taught Me
Baseball coaches and facilitators often share the common problem of developing an agenda. And if one meaning of facilitation is to make...
J.D. Solomon
- Dec 16, 2022
Three Things To Avoid When Performing An Environmental Root Cause Analysis
Root cause analysis (RCA) is a collective term that describes a wide range of approaches, tools, and techniques used to uncover the...
J.D. Solomon
- Nov 29, 2022
How to Improve Facilitation of Public Workshop and Comment Sessions
Facilitating public workshops and comment sessions are typically conducted by public-sector organizations. These sessions are intended to...
J.D. Solomon
- Nov 21, 2022
How to Improve Your Communication of Probability to Senior Management
The Chance of Rain Most people do not understand what the chance of rain means. Some believe it means it will rain "30% of the day,"...
J.D. Solomon
- Nov 18, 2022
Master Plans Are More Important with Persistent Inflation and Looming Recession
Two years ago, updating your master plan was a good idea because the world was getting back to normal and to position your organization...
J.D. Solomon
- Oct 25, 2022
Can Understanding Risk Appetite Help a Project Manager's Career?
New project managers and young professionals often struggle with the concept of risk appetite and how it impacts decision making. The...
J.D. Solomon
- Oct 11, 2022
How to Overcome the Fear of Using the Wrong Probability Distribution
Probability Distributions The probability density function (PDF) is applied to continuous random variables, whereas the probability...
J.D. Solomon
- Oct 4, 2022
Trust Proven Approaches to Produce the Best Facilitated Sessions
The stakes are high. The problem is difficult. We search for the facilitation approach that rises to the level of the problem. Not so...
J.D. Solomon
- Jun 20, 2022
Why Does Your Asset Management Program Lack Asset Values? (and why it matters!)
Asset management for facilities and infrastructure has fallen into the leadership realm of gearheads and data managers. The result is...
J.D. Solomon
- Jun 13, 2022
Three Things You Need to Know About Capital Project Prioritization
Three of the essential things to know about capital project prioritization are: The selected approach should consistent with the maturity...
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- May 14, 2022
Communicating Complex Changes While Dodging Sacred Cows
JD Solomon serves as a co-author with Dr. Diane Lauritsen for this paper at the 2022 Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM) in Grand...
J.D. Solomon
- Apr 11, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Business Cases
The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to business cases because the analysis requires a group to establish the...
J.D. Solomon
- Apr 4, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Capital Program Prioritization
The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to capital programs because the analysis requires a group to establish the...
J.D. Solomon
- Mar 28, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Block Diagrams
This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate block diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...
J.D. Solomon
- Feb 21, 2022
Using SOAP Will Save Your Criticality Analysis Time and Money
The Solomon-Oldach Asset Prioritization (SOAP) method is an alternate method for conducting criticality analysis for use on industrial...
J.D. Solomon
- Jan 27, 2022
Observed in Practice: 5 Reasons for Not Doing Written Business Cases
Organizations are constantly frustrated in the capital projects planning process and developing appropriate Operations and Maintenance...
J.D. Solomon
- Jan 20, 2022
Operationalize Risk by Making It More Understandable To Front-Line Staff
Think about the greatest risk you have encountered in the past five years. Maybe it was related to physical injury or serious sickness....
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- Jan 9, 2022
Getting Your Boss's Boss to Understand at 68th International Reliability & Maintainability Symposium
RAMS is still on-go for the end of January. Organizers report strong registration numbers, despite COVID cases and usual high...
J.D. Solomon
- Jan 3, 2022
Facilitation, Soft and Hard
There is a lot to unpack in the standard definition of facilitation. "A facilitated session is a highly structured meeting in which the...
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