Omega Systems Group, Inc. is a leading firm specializing in the systematic management of risk. Founded in 1978, Omega has developed a suite of risk management tools that enables organizations to classify, define, rank, and mitigate the full range of economic, technical, social, political, and business risks in for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises.
Omega’s team of experts is unparalleled in the field of managing risk. Their achievements in their respective fields of expertise places them in a unique niche which enables OSGI to offer wisdom and knowledge far beyond the average risk practitioner today.
They not only understand how to manage risk – they have already accomplished it in many arenas where others are just beginning to develop awareness of risk. Survey their individual proficiencies and recognized accomplishments.
The Omega Product Suite
SMART™
Our flagship product, defined as "a corporate budget system for loss mitigation," SMART™ (Systems Methodology Applied to Risk Termination) is a 10-step process that is implemented as a permanent element of each client's management structure.
Profit & Risk
Risk is too often viewed as synonymous with Loss. But that is a false view. While losses do occur when there in unmanaged risk, there is also a direct link between managed risk and Profit. It doesn't cost to manage risk - you increase profits by doing so.Risk Counsel
One-on-one confidential sessions for key executives with renowned risk professionals to provide an objective perspective and analysis of specified corporate exposure to loss potential.Risk Profiling
Examination of corporate functions to systematically expose and identify legal, political, economic, social, technological, environmental, reputational, cultural, and market risks as a basis for evaluating their relative significance.Risk Mapping
Preparation of corporate functional models that provide a foundation for stimulating and assuring all-encompassing, global identification of risks with their associated loss potential as a means of balancing risk financing and risk control.Risk Strategy
Creation of a comprehensive management instrument that incorporates a client's current risk control activities for corporate objectives while integrating all other elements required for systematic management of corporate risk and cost-effective reduction of loss potential.Risk Litigation
Many issues involving risk are resolved only in courtrooms. Our history of providing rational, informed testimony drawn from many years of involvement in a wide range of risk milieus - including hundreds of international TV, radio, magazine, and newspaper interviews - offer truly professional, objective, and systematic expertise to parties seeking legal perspective.Riskbusters
A revolutionary approach to rapid and systematic restoration following catastrophe or disaster. Small, effective teams of renowned specialists provide that missing dimension of effective recovery from unforeseen and overwhelming loss.Jumpstart
Instituting systematic management of risk without disrupting ongoing business. Drawing on their extensive exposure in similar fields, facilitators "come alongside" the entire client workforce as it smoothly phases SMART™ into daily performance — free from disruption.
Omega Principal: The Founder and Chairman of Omega is Dr. Vernon L. Grose.
Described in Business Week as a founding father of the application of systems methodology to managing risk, Dr. Grose enjoys worldwide recognition as an authority in that field. His interdisciplinary perspective on the subject is based on over 50 years of personal involvement – having served as an executive in three major corporations, university professor in Europe as well as the United States, and consultant to such firms as AT&T, EXXON, and IBM.
Holder of a BS in Physics, MS in Systems Management, and honorary DSc, he was a member of the Applied Physics Staff at The Boeing Company from 1952-59, where he performed the first Boeing tests that combined three dynamic environments simultaneously and wrote the development test program for the Minuteman ICBM.
He originated the widely-adopted SMART (Systems Methodology Applied to Risk Termination) technique for managing every type of risk – legal, political, social, economic, and technological – which was successfully utilized to combat terrorism at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Dr. Grose was affiliated with Litton Industries in 1959-62 as Director of Reliability as well as Program Manager for Project SPARR, an Air Force program of basic and applied research on space system problems. In 1962, he joined Northrop Ventura as Director of Applied Technology – responsible for all engineering test activities and the disciplines of chemistry, metallurgy, reliability, configuration management, and value engineering on the Earth Landing Systems for NASA Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. As Chief of Reliability at Rocketdyne, a division of Rockwell Corporation, he continued his involvement in the Gemini and Apollo Programs.
Dr. Wernher von Braun appointed him to the NASA Safety Advisory Group for Space Flight in 1969. Three appointments by the National Academy of Sciences have involved his systems management background: Panel on Human Error in Merchant Marine Safety (1972), Committee on Research Needs to Reduce Maritime Collisions, Rammings, and Groundings (1978), and Panel on Causes and Prevention of Grain Elevator Explosions (1978).
From 1966 to 1982, he was Vice President of Tustin Institute of Technology in Santa Barbara, California – responsible for all management curricula and system technology studies.
The People's Republic of China invited him in 1981 to address their Academy of Sciences in Beijing on the systematic management of risk.
President Ronald W. Reagan appointed him to the National Transportation Safety Board in 1983 and the National Highway Safety Advisory Commission in 1986. His appointment to the NTSB was based on his extensive participation in all transportation modes – maritime, rail, pipeline, highway, aviation, and space. As a Board Member, he headed the NTSB "Go-Team" investigation of major accidents.
The White House assigned him for one year to the Associate Administrator for R&D at the Environmental Protection Agency to implement systematic management of risk. On another White House assignment as Expert Consultant to the NASA Chief Engineer, he pioneered a model for commercial enterprise in space. In 1997, Vice President Gore solicited his expertise for the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.
His 2006 book SCIENCE BUT NOT SCIENTISTS: How Everything Began – Chance or Creation? recounts his central role in winning the most significant victory for science since the Scopes Trial of 1925. Reviewers of his best-selling Prentice Hall book, MANAGING RISK: Systematic Loss Prevention for Executives, called it "the most influential book on the subject in this decade." Widely used in universities, it is now in its third printing. His professional papers have been published internationally in over 60 journals and periodicals.
A featured guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Prime Time Live, CBS Newswatch, ABC 20/20, BBC-London, O’Reilly Factor and many other television programs, he has given over 100 interviews on CNN as their Risk and Aviation Analyst. He provided over 170 news interviews related to the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800. Dr. Grose is a FOX News Contributor and was being interviewed just as UAL 175 impacted the World Trade Center Tower 2 on 11 September 2001. His viewpoints have been published in such periodicals as Time, USA Today, US News & World Report, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor.
His biography appears in Liftoff by James C. Hefley that describes the personal faith of astronauts and space scientists. He is listed in WHO’S WHO In the West, Dictionary of International Biography, Men of Achievement 1973, International WHO’S WHO of Intellectuals, and WHO’S WHO In The World.
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