Peter Drucker was wrong
"What gets measured gets managed." - Peter Drucker [1] Like many cliches, "what gets measured gets managed" is correct enough to be...
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What's wrong with quantitative risk assessment?
Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) is a practical approach for evaluating and analyzing risk. Some proponents of QRA argue that it is the...
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Existential Risk as a Process
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, a passage in which a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he...
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Some risk(y) thoughts
Let's start with the three most common errors when doing a risk assessment: Inadequate risk identification. Will the real risk please...
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Risk Management for Executives and Company Directors
I have put all my intelligence and effort into some beautifully crafted risk assessments over my years as a practitioner and I've been...
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The Psychology of Risk
“There is no dearth of evidence in everyday life that people apprehend reality in two fundamentally different ways, one variously...
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How to operationalize risk management
TL;DR: It's about culture. If you have to 'operationalize' risk management, whatever you're doing isn't risk management. Risk management...
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(ISC)2 Black Swan Extinction Presentation
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...
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How to find a risk management consultant
The search for the elusive subject matter expert - how to find a risk management consultant when you need one.
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How to find money for risk treatments
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.
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What is the problem with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)?
I've written about my version of what a fully featured enterprise risk management (ERM) system should, or at least could, look like....
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Three Steps To Deal With Uncertainty Without Killing Yourself In The Process
In 30 years of crisis management I can distill the success factors down to three things. Scenarios, lead indicators, and Plan Bs.
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How To Use A Risk Matrix
If you want to (or have to) use a risk matrix, here are some pitfalls to minimize the problems and maximize the benefits.
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The future of enterprise and risk management?
Imagine a system that monitors inputs, processes and outputs, tracking culture, and organizational behaviors.
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Risk BowTie Method
Bow-Tie is one of the simplest but most helpful risk management tools in the risk management arsenal. And it's highly visual.
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How to measure ALARP
ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) is a fundamental concept in risk management, as it should be in life in general. It expresses...
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An example of a Risk Management Procedure
An example of a risk management procedure and some templates that you can download to customize.
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Likelihood versus consequence management...
It often seems that as a species; at least in most societies; that we spend most of our efforts on managing risks after they occur,...
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Swiss Cheese Theory
I love Swiss cheese. And I’m not talking about the dairy comestible. In my view, there are better cheeses out there – but few better risk...
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Why are dangerous places safe? Lessons from HROs
"I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts — all built by...