Please note this post talks about an aspect closely related to the work I do on a daily basis. The ideas below are my personal opinion on a specific opportunity in the context of development aid in general, and do not specifically relate to any organisation I am associated with or working for. These ideas … Continue reading Using programme and project management systems in development aid
Month: March 2013
Adequate risk management requires responsibility and response-ability
The other side of the coin A couple of days ago, I wrote an article on risk acceptance and how it actually requires a lot of work in terms of contingency planning. Of course, there is another side to that coin. The curse of middle management What is the scope of your responsibility? How able … Continue reading Adequate risk management requires responsibility and response-ability
Risk acceptance requires hard work
Rereading the title of this post, my first reaction is that this is stating the blindingly obvious. The problem is, in reality this is far from that obvious. More than once I've been confronted with situations in which risk acceptance by a manager turned out to become risk ignorance. And risk ignorance is just another … Continue reading Risk acceptance requires hard work
Compliance with rules and regulations depends on the perceived fairness of those rules and regulations
The challenge of compliance Compliance is a traditional challenge that has associated costs. Quite a few rules and regulations, whether internal to an organization or nation-wide as imposed by a government, are notoriously difficult or costly to ensure compliance with. Having a rule translated into a procedure somewhere in an ISO manual or a law … Continue reading Compliance with rules and regulations depends on the perceived fairness of those rules and regulations
Exploring The Black Box 