Category Archives: Risk & Assurance

ISO 31000 Risk Management (Part 2)

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Shaun

Within the risk management process itself, we will revert to the adoption of risk assessment, a term used throughout industry to a large scale and sometimes the results, formats and information can be of quantity and not quality. The risk assessment is the process and means by which you are going to identify your risks and this will influence decision making, therefore it is important to get this right. Continue reading →

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ISO 31000 Risk Management (Part 1)

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Shaun

This short article is an introduction towards a two part blog entry on the subject of the standard on risk management, ISO 31000 Continue reading →

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Upside risk?

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Shaun

Yesterday I saw a news report about BBC commissioning strategy that made me think again about it. The piece suggested the BBC should “take more risks”. The context was that playing safe in the commissioning of programs might not be the best thing to do, and some of the more groundbreaking programs of recent times have initially been programs the BBC was not 100% sure about for one reason or another. Is THIS “upside risk” I asked myself, and if it is, what are the practical implications when it comes to managing “upside risks”? Continue reading →

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Fail Fast Fail Cheap

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Shaun

It’s the 21st century people, and we need to get with the program. There are some new rules to learn. I heard an interesting debate on the radio the other day. Two academics were arguing about the impact that the information age has had on us and the way we do business. One said it has been bad and (you guessed it) the other argued the opposite Continue reading →

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Definition of Risk

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Shaun

Why does ISO 9001:2015 define risk as the effect of uncertainty? Here are my reasons for saying it is just plain wrong Continue reading →

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