Risk management consultancy and training services
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 we are able to continue
Read MoreTranscript: 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 framed as risks and that
Read MoreHello 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 between what are causes and
Read MoreIn 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 deal with this. One of
Read MoreNew in 2014 The Diploma of Risk Management and Business Continuity via distance education Gain a qualification and an industry certification undertaking a course fully accredited by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) and endorsed by the Risk Management Institution of Australasia. As a Risk Management Professional do you need to become certified? Are you limited in taking time away
Read MoreTranscript: Hello again. In this session, what I want to do about is something that people often ask me, risk ownership or more correctly, the different elements of ownership across the organisation as it relates to risk. There are three distinctive types of ownership within the risk management program or within the risk management process itself. Obviously, we have the
Read MoreWhen George Bernard Shaw stated: “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history” he was pretty accurate. What I had hoped, however, is that the lessons of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) would prevent the risk taking approach to financial due diligence that led to the meltdown of the global economy. It was with interest, therefore, that I
Read MoreTranscription: In this session I'm going to talk about consequence. In particular, how do we analyse consequence so that we can incorporate it into our risk register so that it's meaningful. I've come across many organisations who believe that what we need to put into our risk register is the worst case scenario in terms of consequences. There are some
Read MoreIn this session I want to talk about the risk breakdown structure and how we use it to assist us to identify risk within our organisation. If you are a large organisation, it would be a great challenge for you to walk into a risk workshop and say “right, what are our risks?” We need something to break that down
Read MoreIn this session I want to talk about linking your risk management program to your compliance program. I know it’s an area that a lot of organisations struggle with. First of all, let’s talk about your compliance program and what it involves and how you can actually make it more effective. The first thing we need to understand as an
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