By PricewaterhouseCoopers Government and the global CEO: A new contract between business and the state 72% of government and public sector CEOs are somewhat or extremely concerned that fiscal deficits have risen. Each year, PwC’s Annual Global CEO survey gives business leaders, governments and the world’s business community a unique insight into the vision and decisions [...]
Today The Dutch General Court of Audit (de Algemene Rekenkamer) published its report on climate change. It seems obvious that crucial connections between area’s of policy and countries are missing, long term insights remain unclear and that risks are increasing and emerging from there.This report is actually a call for creating connections. The conclusions (quote): [...]
The video above re-aired last night on 60 Minutes. It features an in-depth account of Steve Jobs from his authorized biographer Walter Isaacson, whose book Steve Jobs was the second-highest selling non-fiction work of 2011, despite not being published until just before Halloween. (The segment has a Part II you can watch here)). Read more [...]
Effective risk management is an integral part of value creation and preservation Source: Directorship In the “good old days” of the post-World War II era, buffers of space and time gave organizations more leeway to react and adapt. Events in remote places seemed to have little impact and were more insulated. Information was available to [...]
Innovation in country Risk Management In the end of 2009, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducted a research about Risk Management in multiple OECD countries. The Futures Project on Risk Management Policies aims to assist OECD countries in identifying the challenges of managing risks in the 21st century, and contributing to their [...]
Contents: 1. Risk Professionals 2. Compliance Professionals 3. Sarbanes Oxley Professionals 4. Basel ii Professionals 5. Solvency ii Professionals 6. Hedge Funds Professionals 7. Members of the Board of Directors To download the e-book: http://www.risk-compliance-association.com/100_Job_Descriptions_in_Risk_and_Compliance_Management.htm
“Fostering the international dialogue and exchange of information and best practices in risk, emergency and disaster management…” It sounds easy. Is it? How about different personalities, priorities, interests, semantics, terminology, jurisdictions, disciplines, cultures and language barriers? By Eelco Dykstra As a visiting professor of International Emergency Management first at the University of Kuopio in Finland [...]
Martin van Staveren finalized his dissertation about the “Design propositions for Implementing Risk Management in Organizations”. His study is an in depth search for the mysteries of human soul and the related behaviour. He concludes that “Managing risk is difficult, applying risk management is more difficult and implementing risk management in organizations is the most [...]
Global Risk Management Survey 2013
Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Survey report is part of this process, capturing the latest risk trends and priorities facing companies around the world. The report unveiled the top 10 risks now and three years in the future. Conducted in Q4 2012, the web-based survey gathered input from 1,415 respondents — a 47 percent increase [...]
By Daniel Cressey for Nature “Across the globe, hives of honeybees are dying off in a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. Among the proposed culprits are pesticides called neonicotinoids, which are supposed to be less harmful to beneficial insects and mammals than the previous generation of chemicals. Debate over neonicotinoids has become fierce. Conservation groups and [...]
The economic crisis in Spain has led to an increased awareness among senior executives of how risk must be managed globally. Read more > Leer más > (en espagñol) Source: Strategic Risk
A framework in development By Ed Mallens and Jack P. Kruf The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has worked on the ISO 31000 as referential framework for risk management in organizations. The setting has been outlined by ISO very clearly: “Risks affecting organizations can have consequences in terms of economic performance and professional reputation, as [...]
ISO 31000 and the Icelandic volcano crisis
By Kevin Knight The air traffic crisis provoked by the Icelandic volcano eruption, with its accompanying economic and societal effects, is analyzed through the lens of the ISO 31000 risk management standard by the leader of the group of ISO experts who developed it. The cloud of ash from the Icelandic volcano which has wreaked [...]
By PricewaterhouseCoopers Government and the global CEO: A new contract between business and the state 72% of government and public sector CEOs are somewhat or extremely concerned that fiscal deficits have risen. Each year, PwC’s Annual Global CEO survey gives business leaders, governments and the world’s business community a unique insight into the vision and decisions [...]
Reconsidering the Public-Private Risk Sector Management Divide
By Peter C. Young PhD. Five years ago I wrote a short article entitled, “Public and Private Sector Risk Management: Is There a Difference?” In that article I stated that while there is strength to the argument that ‘management is management’ and that leadership in any type of organization calls on common knowledge, skills and [...]
