JULIAN TALBOT

I have put all my intelligence and effort into some beautifully crafted risk assessments over my years as a practitioner and I've been...

On the 17th of June 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and the...

“There is no dearth of evidence in everyday life that people apprehend reality in two fundamentally different ways, one variously...

TL;DR: It's about culture. If you have to 'operationalize' risk management, whatever you're doing isn't risk management. Risk management...

I've just finished giving a presentation at the ISC2 2021 Security Congress and several people asked for a copy of the slides. I hope...

The search for the elusive subject matter expert - how to find a risk management consultant when you need one.

Usually, when I come across a flawed piece of research, I note it and move on. Occasionally, however, I find a piece of research with...

If you missed the webinar, you can watch a recording of it below or on Youtube. In his 2008 book 'Fooled by Randomness' Nassim Nicholas...

We all want better risk management but how do you convince people to pay for it? That question turned into a book and series of articles.

"Without clear objectives ... there is no business case to justify resources for risk management." It should be no surprise that a clear,...

I've seen policy documents that were 50 pages long, which is crazy because nobody reads them. They often end up including procedures,...

Risk assessment is a complex activity but it gets easier if you have the right tools and concepts.

When I joined the Department of Health and Ageing (yes, that's the correct spelling), my mandate was to "build a risk management...

The right question for any business - and 10 answers for that question.

I've written about my version of what a fully featured enterprise risk management (ERM) system should, or at least could, look like....

I often find people have varying ideas about 'enterprise risk management' and many managers think it means identifying and treating every...

In 30 years of crisis management I can distill the success factors down to three things. Scenarios, lead indicators, and Plan Bs.

If you want to (or have to) use a risk matrix, here are some pitfalls to minimize the problems and maximize the benefits.

I used to believe in climate change. Growing up in the 1960s, our backyard abutted the grounds of one of the largest sugar mills in...

Imagine a system that monitors inputs, processes and outputs, tracking culture, and organizational behaviors.

Job interviews are just a skill. Like any other, but more important than many because they can influence your whole life.

Bow-Tie is one of the simplest but most helpful risk management tools in the risk management arsenal. And it's highly visual.

ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) is a fundamental concept in risk management, as it should be in life in general. It expresses...

An example of a risk management procedure and some templates that you can download to customize.