Communication in Risk Management
In this session what I want to talk about is communication. But not communication and consultation in respect to the risk management process that is in the standard. Obviously we do need to communicate and consult with our stakeholder community around risk and risk management as we go through the process. But what I want […]
The Risk Management Standard Strikes again – This time with the help of the Risk Management Handbook
I have previously discussed issues around the risk management definition within ISO 31000 and the fact that the definition itself has created uncertainty (for Blog click here). Well – now I have another axe to grind – well two actually. The first is the use of the term Likelihood in the Standard and the recently […]
Types of Risk
Welcome to this next session. What I want to talk about in this session is the fundamental parts of risk and risk management and the different types of risk. And you hear it all the time, we’ve got strategic risk, operational risk, security risk, safety risk, project risk, to think that those things are different […]
Business Continuity and Critical Business Activities
Hello again, in this session I’m going to talk about business continuity management and in particular how do we actually identify whether something that we do in our organisation is a critical business activity. Now business continuity management is all about making sure that in a time of disaster or after a time of disaster […]
What is a risk?
Hello again and welcome to this session. Today I’m going to discuss one of the most fundamental parts of risk management; “what is a risk?” As you can imagine, over time in the risk management game, I have reviewed so many risk registers. What I tend to find is that there is confusion out there […]
Funding Risk Management
Transcript: Hello and welcome once again. One of the challenges that many organisations have in relation to risk management is the funding and the budgeting of risk management. We have a whole range of elements of the risk management framework within the organisation that require funding. Things like: – Allocating finances for treatment strategies; – […]
Risk Management is not a one person sport
Transcript: Well hello again, in this session I just want to talk about something really short. That is that risk is not a one person sport, or risk management is not a one person sport. In some organisations we have this expectation that the risk manager is going to identify the risks, analyse the risks, […]
“Fluffy” Risk Treatments
Transcript: Hello again, in this session what I want to talk about is risk treatments. In particular, what I want to talk about how we frame our treatments so that they are not, as I term it, “fluffy treatments.” So we might have in our risk register as an example, that a cause of a […]
Naming a Risk
Transcript: In this session what I want to talk about, is how we actually name a risk. And, it’s really interesting because many of the organisations I go into, when I look at their risk registers, what I find is a whole lot of causes in particular but some consequences as well that are being […]
Risk Management – Post event analysis
In this session I want to talk about something that I am passionate about- post event analysis after an event has occurred. How often in your organisations has the same thing happened over and over again? You might sit around and ask why it happened- without implementing any of the reasons or controls identified to […]
