Too few risks are identified, too many are managed

We don't want to know what can go wrong When I'm looking at a risk management implementation from an audit point of view, I often worry about two fundamentally opposite problems. On the one hand, I note that quite often the risk identification exercise is not conducted to ensure completeness. Often heard excuses are: "we … Continue reading Too few risks are identified, too many are managed

On the excellence of care of SquareSpace customer care

People make mistakes. I am a person, and I do tend to make a lot of mistakes. Especially concerning websites and blogs. I am not a technologist, I am not a designer. On occassion, I feel like a writer. But anything beyond that is beyond me. That recently came to bear when, mistakenly, I attached … Continue reading On the excellence of care of SquareSpace customer care

Risk and contextual limitations

The risk management context often lacks clear boundaries One of the challenges of risk management is that its context is for all practical purposes unlimited. Risk management is about dealing with all the potential risks an organization can be exposed to, covers the entire scope of activities of that organization and all activities deemed relevant … Continue reading Risk and contextual limitations

The relativity of risk – development aid’s risk management challenge

Behind this link you will find an article I recently wrote for the BTC/CTB blog on how relative risk management can be if different parties have different contexts. I know that context and the impact is has on content - and risk is content - is a recently recurring theme for me, but I believe … Continue reading The relativity of risk – development aid’s risk management challenge

The start-up challenge – realizing your vision depends on the right context

Revisiting Kourosh It has been a while since I visited "Workflow: beyond productivity" by Kourosh Dini. I am still working on a number of articles that bring the ideas in his book to a corporate context. This post is not among those articles. I want to talk about start-ups and one of the challenges they … Continue reading The start-up challenge – realizing your vision depends on the right context

The problem with no limitations, or, the need for serial dreamers

Or, content cannot exist without a context. Mmm, I see you frown and wonder what I am going on about now. Let me explain. Why motivational gurus confuse me Motivational gurus often pose the question "What would you do if money or other limitations were not a factor?" Similar questions suggest you imagine yourself to … Continue reading The problem with no limitations, or, the need for serial dreamers

The state of EWRM part III – Essential EWRM practices

Introduction We 've established in the prior two parts of this series of posts that current EWRM practices may lead to situations in which the original and ultimately responsible parties, the process owners, become disenfranchised and no longer own the responsibility of managing risks to their objectives, although this is a key responsibility. Process owners … Continue reading The state of EWRM part III – Essential EWRM practices

The pressure to perform – stealing from our children

Perform or else Each start of a school year I am surprised about the enormous pressure we dare put on our children. Such an amount of requirements we put on their shoulders. And if they fail to live up to our high expectations, we send them for assessment and evaluation, because something must be wrong. … Continue reading The pressure to perform – stealing from our children

The state of EWRM part II – The hijacking of EWRM

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" - The Usual Suspects Hijacking and repurposing a concept The iconic 1995 thriller "The Usual Suspects" is in essence about the imaginary creation of a super villain the police go chasing after, ignoring the real scheming criminal that literally walks away … Continue reading The state of EWRM part II – The hijacking of EWRM