risk management

Venn diagram showing three overlapping types of risk — financial risk (ACA/ACCA), project risk (PMI/APM) and operational risk (ISO 22301) — with their small area of overlap labelled 'Risk: one word, several meanings

Risk means different things to Different People. That’s the whole problem.

I spent a chunk of last weekend scrolling through risk management job vacancies, out of nothing more than professional nosiness (and a need to avoid 24/7 football). It’s not as if the confusion over what “risk” actually means was news to me — I’ve spent the best part of two decades watching it play out […]

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what makes a supplier risk assessment

What Makes a Supplier (And When a Tool Is Not Simply a Tool)

What Makes a Supplier (And When a Tool Is Not Simply a Tool) Every organisation I’ve worked with over the years has a supplier list. It sits somewhere in a spreadsheet, gets reviewed once a year around audit time, and contains the names you’d expect: the IT support company, the payroll provider, maybe a facilities

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