(Part of the 31010 Series of posts on Risks & Ventures. For more information on this series please follow this link). ” Consult the wise ” (1) In mid-2016 in the run up to the referendum vote on whether the United Kingdom should leave the European Union in 2016, Michael
Month: February 2020
Thinking about Plan B with the Structured What-If Technique
(Part of the 31010 Series of posts on Risks & Ventures. For more information on this series please follow this link). Practical risk management often involves doing things that we kind of do already, but just doing them with a bit more structure and conscious thought. A good example of
Risk Assessment Techniques – Brainstorming
Risk Assessment Techniques – Brainstorming (Part of the 31010 Series of posts on Risks & Ventures. For more information on this series please follow this link). When I’m teaching non-risk professionals about practical risk management and I tell them that brainstorming is a genuine, recognised risk management technique that is
What Does “STEEPLED” mean in Risk Management
One of our posting themes on the Risks & Ventures blog is STEEPLED. It’s not a very commonly used expression even within formal risk management practice, although the idea that it expresses – that we should look at the hazards and opportunities of situations in a holistic and comprehensive
What is a Risk?
For a blog that is supposed to be about risks and risk management we thought that it was important to make a post about the concept of risk itself. In the English language when people use the word risk in general conversation, it is almost always in a negative
An Introduction to IEC 31010
An Introduction to IEC 31010 and Risk Assessment Techniques If you are not a professional risk manager or you haven’t ever had to study risk in a formal, technical capacity you probably won’t have heard of IEC 31010:2019. In fact even if you do have some professional risk management responsibilities