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The Immune System is Risk

Posted on by Scott North

The immune system is risk. Over the course of the last 3 years we have been exploring the innovation of risk from the perspective of moving risk management away from a traditional focus of frameworks and tools, and towards an embedded practice within businesses across the globe. With organisations continually striving for that 1% more and driving themselves to different…

Top resources for digital research

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Performing digital research is critical for the innovative risk professional. When we consider the innovation of risk, we are continually looking at every possible avenue to advance risk management in its practices through scanning the globe for the newest digital resources. Risk management must be at the forefront of the usage of digital technology, just like every other professional area…

Remembering Top 10 Risks

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Four years on we thought it was time to remember the analysis we did on an article on the Top 10 Risks and Trends for 2009. In 2009 the article, Top Ten Risk Management Lessons and Trends from 2009, identified 10 risks and trends that were considered critical for organisations across the globe. We thought it was time to revisit…

Risk Impact Spectrum

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Risk impacts must include consideration of the risk impact spectrum. The current floods occurring in North Eastern Australia are a natural disaster, which is hard to predict and even harder to control. However these events make us realise that the initial consideration of the impact at hand, may actually not be the only impact your are dealing with at the…

Find those black swans, because they may find you first

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We all need to find our black swans because they may find you first. The theory of the black swan dates back to 16th century London as a statement of impossibility. Back in the 16th century there was an assumption that all swans must be white because all swans identified by the known world at that time were white. Then…

Top 5 risk management trends

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Our top 5 risk management trends for 2012. 2012 has been a year filled with conspiracy theories about the end of the world, of a number of significant and public cyber crime events and a rocky economic year that continues to have a dark cloud hanging over the planet. We also started to learn more about the causes of global warming…

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

by Guy Kawasaki

Great book from an innovative and creative thinker in Guy Kawasaki. Have leveraged this book in thinking differently about engaging customers, particularly from an internal perspective.

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

Great read and a great book for anyone that just feels that the way organisations operate today is just not right. It as applicable to running an entire business as it is to working in areas such as finance, accounting, human resources,...