BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T041017Z UID:28DFF32B-EAE6-4AD2-9F35-D9AFFBD6CC20 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T190000 DESCRIPTION:Various models and standards have been developed and are used t hroughout the world to assess the capability of organizations in various d omains\, including development\, services\, security and safety. While suc h models and standards have mostly been used to assess compliance and obta in a certification\, they can also be used to improve and to deploy proces ses that exploit the opportunities an organization has of meeting its busi ness objectives and to prevent the potential problems to which it is expos ed from occurring and degenerating into crises.\n\nData from a set of 40 c omprehensive assessments conducted over 10 years\, and spanning Europe\, N orth America and South America\, was compiled and subsequently used to bet ter understand the factors at stake in organizations developing products a nd services relying on Information Technology. Each appraisal was performe d in a separate organization. In particular\, some anomalies were detected that warranted more in-depth analysis. Even though correlation was observ ed between mature processes and the quality of resulting products and serv ices\, it was not true for all cases. Good quality products and services s ometimes originated from organizations having relatively low maturity proc esses whereas in other cases\, organizations characterized by more mature processes generated disappointing results. Other models were subsequently used in the emergency management\, resources management and information se curity fields to verify the validity of obtained results.\n\nThe critical threshold associated with the likelihood of experiencing problems was foun d to be approximately 40%. A project or an organization cannot sustain suc h a likelihood of experiencing problems for any significant duration relat ive to the planned or current activities. A likelihood of problems equal t o 50% would correspond to a project or an organization operating at random \, and if such were the case\, it would be wishful thinking to expect any successful outcome over a significant period of time.\n\nSpeaker(s): Mr. L ouis A. Poulin\, \n\nRoom: EV003-309\, Bldg: Electrical & Computer Enginee ring Department\, Concordia University\, 1515 Ste. Catherine West\, MONTRE AL\, Quebec\, Canada\, H3G 1M8 LOCATION:Room: EV003-309\, Bldg: Electrical & Computer Engineering Departme nt\, Concordia University\, 1515 Ste. Catherine West\, MONTREAL\, Quebec\, Canada\, H3G 1M8 ORGANIZER:anader.benyamin@ieee.org SEQUENCE:22 SUMMARY:Preventing Crises in an Organization by Reducing Risk URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/481973 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Various models and standards have been dev eloped and are used throughout the world to assess the capability of organ izations in various domains\, including development\, services\, security and safety. While such models and standards have mostly been used to asses s compliance and obtain a certification\, they can also be used to improve and to deploy processes that exploit the opportunities an organization ha s of meeting its business objectives and to prevent the potential problems to which it is exposed from occurring and degenerating into crises.<br>&n bsp\;<br>Data from a set of 40 comprehensive assessments conducted over 10 years\, and spanning Europe\, North America and South America\, was compi led and subsequently used to better understand the factors at stake in org anizations developing products and services relying on Information Technol ogy. Each appraisal was performed in a separate organization. In particula r\, some anomalies were detected that warranted more in-depth analysis. Ev en though correlation was observed between mature processes and the qualit y of resulting products and services\, it was not true for all cases. Good quality products and services sometimes originated from organizations hav ing relatively low maturity processes whereas in other cases\, organizatio ns characterized by more mature processes generated disappointing results. Other models were subsequently used in the emergency management\, resourc es management and information security fields to verify the validity of ob tained results.<br>&nbsp\;<br>The critical threshold associated with the l ikelihood of experiencing problems was found to be approximately 40%. A pr oject or an organization cannot sustain such a likelihood of experiencing problems for any significant duration relative to the planned or current a ctivities. A likelihood of problems equal to 50% would correspond to a pro ject or an organization operating at random\, and if such were the case\, it would be wishful thinking to expect any successful outcome over a signi ficant period of time.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR