Foreseeable Risk: Minimizing Cost and Maximizing Outcomes in Products Liability Litigation - Hardcover

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Tom Taormina, CMC, CMQ/OE, Forensic Business Pathologist, with a unique perspective from having worked with nearly 600 companies in his 40-year career, brings a rare talent for precision problem diagnosis, strategic thinking and outstanding written and verbal communications skills to any organization or litigation team. His forte is assessing if, and how effectively, organizations are following their own manufacturing and quality practices and if they comply with required statutory, regulatory and industry standards. Tom was a member of the Apollo 13 disaster recovery team at Mission Control in Houston. His experiences during his 14 years at NASA formed the foundation for him to be able to rapidly analyze problems, diagnose solutions and work with teams to implement successful outcomes. This skill set makes him a highly sought-after consultant and is vital to his success as a member of a defense or plaintiff's winning team of experts. Tom is a frequent speaker to professional organizations on topics ranging from quality management to organizational excellence. He has been so successful at synthesizing quality control and quality assurance techniques into mainstream business that the American Society for Quality recruited him to be managing editor for a series of publications entitled Defining Quality Management. Recent noteworthy professional accomplishments include: Past Chair of the Northern Nevada Development Authority's Business and Professional Services Committee.Co-founder of The Center for Business Excellence (CBE) a non-profit start-up that is chartered to bring world-class facilitation and training services to Nevada's business.Co-founder of APEX, The Nevada State Quality Award Subject Matter Expert to University of Nevada Reno, Morrison University, Truckee Meadows Community College, Western Nevada Community College and the Nevada Industry Excellence in the areas of quality management, business process improvement and leadership development.Former Subject Matter Expert on these topics to The American Productivity and Quality Center, The University of Houston Center for Advanced Management Practices and Productivity, Inc.Co-developer of Dell Computer's Business Process Improvement (BPI) Model.Co-founder of FSIX, the Financial Services International Exchange, a non-profit organization founded to bring world-class quality management programs to banks, securities firms and insurance companies.Past Chair, Quality Management Systems Committee, Quality Management Division, ASQ. Tom attended the State University of New York at Farmingdale and The University of Houston, majoring in Electrical Engineering. Ford Aerospace and NASA granted him the degree equivalency of Quality Control Engineer in 1969, before it was a recognized university curriculum. He received additional training from Texas A&M, The American Productivity and Quality Center and Productivity, Inc. in the fields of quality and business management. He is currently a Senior Member of The American Society for Quality and internationally acclaimed as a subject matter expert in quality management and ISO 9000. After leaving NASA, he spent ten years working for a number of oil field service companies as quality manager and manufacturing manager where he turned the lessons learned as an auditor into practice as a business leader. His last industry assignment was as Director of Training for Schlumberger Anadrill. In 1991, Tom founded Productivity Resources LLC and was the Managing Partner. He is a consultant in leadership development, business processes and strategic quality improvement. He has been a facilitator for companies such as Dell Computer, Ford Motor Credit and Burlington Northern Railroad. In 2004, Tom re-branded his business as The Taormina Group, Inc., which contains a growing cadre of exceptional subject matter experts in the fields of quality, leadership and business processes. Tom has been a licensed Amateur Radio Operator since 1959 and has been inducted into the Ham Radio Hall of Fame.Professional Certifications Certified Management Consultant by the Institute of Management Consultants, 1999 Certified Professional Consultant to Management by The National Bureau of Certified Consultants, 2000 (Merged with IMC) Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, American Society for Quality, 1996 Subject Matter Expert: Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management Quality Standards, Quality Processes and methods ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 9001:2008, AS9100, TS16949 Quality Management System Auditing Manufacturing, Manufacturing Management Manufacturing Standards and methods Business Processes, Business Process Improvement Standard of Care, Foreseeable Risk, Organizational Liability Amateur (Ham) Radio The Taormina Group's proprietary investigative methodology is branded Forensic Business Pathology. It is so unique, the Bar Association of San Francisco created a new category for it in its Expert's Directory: Organizational Liability Assessment.