risk management
This article is a rewrite of an article I originally wrote about six years ago on a now discontinued blog aptly titled “complexity risk management”. I am reviewing a paper on risk management and felt it relevant to update this post as an additional comment to one of my review
burden reduction
If you have ever played a video game, you must have noticed the “minimal requirements” explicitly mentioned on either the package the game came in or the description on the game store site you purchased the game from. These minimal requirements are an indication of what your system needs to
Stream of Consciousness
You may have noticed that the blog has significantly changed. If you are reading this in a browser, you will notice there is a lot less clutter. I had been an absentee landlord on this blog, only occasionally publishing. The work was only an excuse for my neglect of what
Stream of Consciousness
Sometimes I need to make a point. And on occasion, I want to make that point quite clearly, because I see quite a few people making the same mistake I have made. This is one of those times. Now, there is nothing in this post that is likely to be
internal audit
When looking at the public sector, people not familiar with the structures and the relationship between administrations and the political level often ask how its governance structure compares to other environments, such as the private sector. Governance in the private sector is based on the management and control of a
compliance
Good governance, risk management and internal controls are essential to any organisation or group of organisations that deems itself mature. It's been a pleasure to speak about their relevance at the FGS Finance top 400 meeting on May 12th. 400 top managers of the FGS had come together
Getting Things Done
My failure to use electronic GTD tools I’ve been going back and forth on the tools I use to implement GTD. I’ve been all over the place: I’ve started with Omnifocus. It’s an interesting tool, but it tends to get very complex very fast, even with
Getting Things Done
A faithful Omnifocus user ... For years I was a faithful Omnifocus user. I read the collected works of many bloggers and productivity specialists who would not talk of any other tool but Omnifocus. I followed the video courses which the OmniGroup so kindly provided. I worked with contexts, and projects,
internal audit
Loss of added value Internal audit and external audit both present their findings during the same audit committee meeting. It turns out that both structures independently audited the same entity which is part of the wider organisation. A lot of their findings align. They actually turn out to be comparable
Stream of Consciousness
This stray but very powerful thought just hit me: Teaching is, to me, still the most compelling reason to learn something new, either by exploring new horizons or, more importantly, by critically reexamining those areas I thought I knew. Something that just came to me and that I wanted to
Stream of Consciousness
I'm a heavy TextExpander user and I love the application. Taking the time of setting up the text expansion "snippets" once and using them multiple times across different machines saves me time every single day. Losing my snippets But I had an issue. For some reason,
Stream of Consciousness
Maria Popova hits one out of the ballpark again with this "animated essay" on the importance of storytelling. Two essential quotes from a great article. In the first one, she describes in a very clear and concise manner the difference and the interrelation between information, knowledge and wisdom: