A couple of weeks ago, I brought to your attention question #1 (of 4) from Rick Nason, a risk management teacher of ERM at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Dr. Nason has posted question #2 from his recent ERM exam, on…
Skewed stats
When I got up this morning, I had over 100 hits to my homepage. This doesn’t seem right. I’ve only had over 100 hits about 4 times for an entire day since I began this in August. Being trained in…
Earth will not be wiped out by supernova
A story appeared in the Telegraph yesterday with dubious headline “Earth ‘to be wiped out’ by supernova explosion”. But where was the panic and hysteria? (I suppose the English are too busy to worry about such improbable risks when they…
What Israel can teach us about managing risk
This article appeared in the Toronto Star on December 31, 2009. While we are holding people up at airports and making them throw out bottles of mouthwash and shampoo, the Israelis seem to have figured out how to manage their…
Riskviews reflects on Risk Management in 2009
Riskviews reflects on 2009 and writes: Perhaps we will look back at 2009 and recall that it is the turning point year for Risk Management. The year that boards ans management and regulators all at once embraced ERM and really…
Nason wants to know why there are few successful ERM examples
I would like everyone who follows the Riskczar blog to have a look at the latest post from Rick Nason, Partner at RSD Solutions. Dr. Nason also teaches a course on ERM at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Dr. Nason has…
Hofmann writes about Tiger Woods and ERM
Mark A Hoffman writes in Business Insurance about a few topics near and dear to me: Tiger Woods and enterprise risk management. Have a read at this article and then search for some of the Tiger Woods-related posts published at…
Kanter’s risk management lessons from Northwest flight 253
Kanter blogs about the recent events on Northwest flight 253 by asking all leaders (not just airline industry leaders) to look at what lessons were learned by this near miss and how could a disaster be prevented. To leaders she…
Can ERM be used to fight fraud?
The author of this article in Business World, Roderick M. Vega, describes fraud risk management as a sub-branch of enterprise risk management and lists the three major categories of fraud as fraudulent statements, asset misappropriation, and corruption. Like an ERM…