Earlier today I wrote about the threat of elephants in some parts of India or Sri Lanka; risks we would never consider including in a heat map in major North American cities but are threats in other parts of the…
Elephant Risk
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the threat of zombies and whether it was too soon to ad zombie risk to your risk register or heat map. Well what about Elephant Risk? The Scientific Leader Blog writes about the…
R-S-T-L-N-E
It’s always been my experience that when you put a bunch of people in a room and ask them to identify the risks their organization faces, they come up with the easy ones – the generic ones – and not…
Return on hot dog stand risk
Would you run a hot dog stand near the Met in NYC if it cost $362,000 for a license? The Riskczar would. Read about the hot dog math here.
Is it too soon to add Zombie Risk to our heat maps?
According to researchers at two Ottawa universities who modeled a zombie attack using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies, “classic” slow-moving zombies could take over our cities in under a week. (The “nimble, intelligent creatures” would take a few…
What can Grover teach us about risk management?
In a book called Project Manager’s Spotlight on Risk Management by Kim Heldman, the author references The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin to demonstrate the importance of having a risk response plan…