What do science fiction and the concept of policies and procedures have in common? When we were young, we anticipated technology to provide us with a Jetsen-esque society complete with flying cars and robots to do most of our basic housework once we entered the early 2000s. While we may not have gotten quite there yet, we still must consider the leaps and bounds technology has made since one of our most loved cartoons aired in the 1960’s. Take Google for example, they have transformed our world through connecting people with information, created wearable
By way of illustration, we can take an excursion into an aspect of science-fiction which is very rapidly becoming science-fact. Applied science may be considered as the game of order-versus-chance (or, order-versus-randomness), especially in the domain of cybernetics, the science of automatic control. By means of scientific prediction and its
technical applications, we are trying to gain maximum control over our surroundings and ourselves. In medicine, communications, industrial production, transportation, finance, commerce, housing, education, psychiatry, criminology, and law we are trying to make foolproof systems, to get rid of the possibility of mistakes. The more powerful
technology becomes, the more urgent the need for such controls, as in the safety precautions for jet aircraft, and, most interesting of all, the consultations between technicians of the Atomic Powers to be sure that no one can press the Button by mistake. The use of powerful instruments, with their vast potentialities for changing man and his environment, requires more and more legislation, licensing, and policing, and thus more and more complex procedures for inspection and keeping records.
- So why do we have Policies and Procedures?
- 1. Plan For The Future
- 2. Drive Improvement
- 3. Create An Ethical Corporate Atmosphere –
- 4. Create Corporate Cohesion –
- 5. Manage Risk –
- 6. Ensure Regulatory Oversight –
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