Risk impact management complements risk exposure management Managing risk impacts is a common practice among risk practitioners. It is a recognized approach which, if used well, complements actions aimed at reducing the likelihood of occurrence of a risk. What is more disconcerting is finding out that risk impact management is all that is being done … Continue reading Just managing your risk impacts is rarely a good idea
Conducting a multi-location risk analysis for audit planning purposes in a small audit shop
The baseline As CAE of a small audit shop in a complex environment, I have to comply with the IIA standards like any other CAE. The performance standard for planning purposes is of course "2010 - Planning", which states that "The chief audit executive must establish risk-based plans to determine the priorities of the internal … Continue reading Conducting a multi-location risk analysis for audit planning purposes in a small audit shop
About the iPad Mini’s lack of retina display
I really don't see what all the fuss is about. True, the screen is not mind boggling beautiful as the retina iPad or, for that matter, the retina MacBook Pro. That is not the point. The point is the following. It. Does not. Matter. Unless you are a visual professional doing most of your creative … Continue reading About the iPad Mini’s lack of retina display
On Apple versus Microsoft – A user perspective
An IT department's consistent preference for Microsoft Windows over Apple's OS X and, as a result, of any PC over a Mac is to me, the ultimate illustration of their lack of understanding of their users. I've recently played around with Windows 8, and was a Windows 7 user. This is the key difference, to … Continue reading On Apple versus Microsoft – A user perspective
Improving your ‘next action’ and ‘project’ descriptions
As GTD-ers, we are intimately aware of the challenge posed in consistently formulating well defined next actions and project descriptions. Making sure a next action is actually actionable or writing a project definition you still understand two days after, when you are processing your inbox, requires diligence and attention. Like most of us, I presume,I … Continue reading Improving your ‘next action’ and ‘project’ descriptions
Tools I use – Drafts for simultanuous input capture
My simultanuous capture use case As the head of a small internal audit shop, I deal with a lot of inputs. These can be operational, such as notes of interviews or testing remarks. They can also be administrative in nature, such as meeting notes or notes I take during training. All in all, quite a … Continue reading Tools I use – Drafts for simultanuous input capture
The responsibility of living on the edge of the abyss
Umair Haque got me thinking. Again. It's getting to be very disconcerting. I seriously need to either stop reading his stuff or start writing more in response to his articles. I'm not out of the woods on that one yet. The trigger article this time? His article on how to fix your soul. It dates … Continue reading The responsibility of living on the edge of the abyss
Outcomes and the problem you are trying to solve
A project is defined, in part, by its outcomes. They describe us what it looks like at our intended project destination, in terms of where we are but also in terms of what we have learned, gained, developed. By defining good outcomes, we actually develop a great way to regularly check whether we are still … Continue reading Outcomes and the problem you are trying to solve
Perfectly put
Once in a while, just once in a long while you come across a blog post so to the point, so well written, that it stops you in your tracks and you hear yourself thinking, almost aloud: "They're talking about me!" I had that experience with Stephen P. Anderson's "What is User Experience?". It says … Continue reading Perfectly put
Assessing real risk appetite
Attending an IIA training in Brussels today on Corporate Governance audits, an excellent training by the way, we (the participants) started discussing risk appetite. The discussion got me thinking about the way we establish or validate risk appetite and the issues that come with that. Let me take you through my thoughts ... A reflection … Continue reading Assessing real risk appetite
Exploring The Black Box 