PERSPECTIVES ON MANAGING RISKS & FINDING OPPORTUNITIES AT WORK & IN LIFE
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
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 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
One of the reasons we started Risks & Ventures is because we wanted to make the discipline of risk management and some of its concepts more accessible to wider audiences beyond just professional risk managers. We want to do this because we’ve learned from experience that there are lot of
For several years I have been teaching introductory risk management concepts to people who are not risk management professionals. These training delegates come from different sectors and industries, and they have varied levels of professional experience, but the two most common shared reasons they are attending these sessions are
The Risk of Inaction, Part 1 * “Who’s ever ready?” – Lando Calrissian, The Last Jedi I watched Star Wars’ The Last Jedi at the cinema over New Year. We might do a post at some point in the future about the movie itself or perhaps the Star Wars universe