risk management
We don't want to know what can go wrong When I'm looking at a risk management implementation from an audit point of view, I often worry about two fundamentally opposite problems. On the one hand, I note that quite often the risk identification exercise is not
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People make mistakes. I am a person, and I do tend to make a lot of mistakes. Especially concerning websites and blogs. I am not a technologist, I am not a designer. On occassion, I feel like a writer. But anything beyond that is beyond me. That recently came to
risk management
The risk management context often lacks clear boundaries One of the challenges of risk management is that its context is for all practical purposes unlimited. Risk management is about dealing with all the potential risks an organization can be exposed to, covers the entire scope of activities of that organization
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Behind this link you will find an article I recently wrote for the BTC/CTB blog on how relative risk management can be if different parties have different contexts. I know that context and the impact is has on content - and risk is content - is a recently recurring
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Revisiting Kourosh It has been a while since I visited "Workflow: beyond productivity" by Kourosh Dini. I am still working on a number of articles that bring the ideas in his book to a corporate context. This post is not among those articles. I want to talk about
Getting Things Done
Or, content cannot exist without a context. Mmm, I see you frown and wonder what I am going on about now. Let me explain. Why motivational gurus confuse me Motivational gurus often pose the question "What would you do if money or other limitations were not a factor?"
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In recent weeks I've realized that inspiration is a bizar animal. It will often approach under constrained conditions. Imagine having all the tools in the world at your disposal. You will focus, but most likely on the tools and not on the content you wanted to produce. Imagine
risk management
Introduction We 've established in the prior two parts of this series of posts that current EWRM practices may lead to situations in which the original and ultimately responsible parties, the process owners, become disenfranchised and no longer own the responsibility of managing risks to their objectives, although this
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Perform or else Each start of a school year I am surprised about the enormous pressure we dare put on our children. Such an amount of requirements we put on their shoulders. And if they fail to live up to our high expectations, we send them for assessment and evaluation,
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" - The Usual Suspects Hijacking and repurposing a concept The iconic 1995 thriller "The Usual Suspects" is in essence about the imaginary creation of a super villain the police go
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I wrote this article a couple of weeks ago for BTC's blog. It deals with the essential role project management, especially the PRINCE2 methodology, will play in the future development of BTC. I hope you enjoy!
risk management
EWRM, the all encompassing solution In the late 1990's, EWRM or Enterprise Wide Risk Management held a promise for a lot of organizations. No longer would issues be dealt with in isolation. The same or comparable problems would no longer be solved multiple times in different manners, leading