Root Cause Analysis Articles

Yahoo Whacks CEO Carol Bartz: Root Cause Analysis

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz got fired last night via a phone call, and notified the company via email (from her iPad).
To all,
I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of [...]

Root Cause Analysis through Fishbone Analysis

What is Root Cause Analysis
The process of finding out the fundamental flaw or “root cause” as to why a problem or defect has occurred is called Root Cause Analysis. Once such an event is pinned down, it can be planned for probabilistically in the future, and hopefully prevented from reoccurring, or at least have its [...]