Leaders around the world and their people face the critical challenge that is managing risk to deliver business success. Yet, the concept of risk management has been presented in a complicated "framework-driven" way by risk professionals.
Risk appetite setting is a powerful tool to encourage the taking of risks across all parts of the organisation. The alternative approach to risk appetite setting is to not focus on the process but on the business engagement.
The Bank for International Settlements, sometimes known as Basel Committee, have just released an Occasional Paper (source: https://www.bis.org/fsi/fsipapers11.htm) on "The 4 lines of defence model for financial institutions".
If you don't know BIS or Basel,...
The three lines of defence (defense) model has found its place in many organisations across the globe. The key question is do we understand what it means and does it deliver results?
Over the past...
Social media and risk management are not typically connected in discussion.
In actual fact, there are many risk professionals whom would see social media as a "waste of time" or "distracting people from their jobs"....
The immune system is risk.
Over the course of the last 3 years we have been exploring the innovation of risk from the perspective of moving risk management away from a traditional focus of frameworks...
Risk impacts must include consideration of the risk impact spectrum.
The current floods occurring in North Eastern Australia are a natural disaster, which is hard to predict and even harder to control. However these events...