Why you should send your Risk and BC Managers on sales training

Risk and BC Managers are sales people. In fact they generally have stalls right next to one another in the “Antique Governance Bazaar”. They are attempting to sell themselves and their approaches every working day. Are you achieving your Risk/BC sales targets? Alex Fullick posted a great example of why we need sales skills on [...]

A good news story – corporate supports the community

Over recent weeks a large chunk of this country has been under water, the worst impacted areas are in Queensland. Here is a map showing the impacted area. One of the major economic impacts of this flooding has been on the coal mining industry. Estimates of the cost to the coal industry are up to [...]

… the unexpected knowns

I took this photo a couple of years back in Berlin. I guess it was really lucky that I was there on a day they had all this snow – and it must have been fairly lucky that these to guys had the gear required to go out running in the snow. Either that or [...]

… distractions, disruptions and disasters

To increase our resilience we need to be able to cope with a range of events that may impact us. These things tend to exist along a continuum. Too often we overdo the “Disaster” end of the range, with the potential that our programs are seen as the “Department of Unlikely Events“. It also demeans [...]

… swans of varied hues

Over the weekend I read a paper by Geary Sikich, “Are we seeing the emergence of more White Swan events? Exploting new challenges in Enterprise Risk Management.” You may have seen it published on Continuity Central, under the shorter title “Exploiting new challenges in Enterprise Risk Management” My review here is based on the version [...]