The good folks at Riskviews got me thinking about my least read posts. I’ve been doing this for a few years and understand that no one wants to scroll through over 300 blog entries to find some gems from 2006. So here are a few items you may have missed that might be worth your [...]
Posts Tagged ‘enterprise risk’
Risk management oldies but goodies
Posted in Books, ERM Basics, Frameworks, Humour, My Opinions, Office and culture, Risk management, tagged assess, Buffet, CEO, CRO, derivatives, enterprise risk, ERM, Grover, HR, Riskczar, technology, The Monster at the End of This Book, wireless on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
G20 update – Day 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BCP, enterprise risk, G20 on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 3. Yawn. All is still quiet. Perhaps this is the equivalent of the opening act: people only show up for the headliner and the opening acts often play to a partially filled venue. Headliner goes on the main stage on Friday. I took a walk in the PATH yesterday afternoon - this is the underground [...]
G20 update – Day 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BCP, enterprise risk, G20, operational risk, zombie on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 2 starts with rain in Toronto. There was a minor protest yesterday afternoon for people protesting that they had nothing important to protest. Or maybe they were protesting poverty. One guy was busted by a cop on a bike for having some pot. I counted at least 100 cops on my walk down to [...]
Jihad risk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged enterprise risk, jihad risk, risk treatment on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I read recently that Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has called for Muslims to declare a jihad against Switzerland. Apparently this is the result of a Swiss ban on minarets (tall spires) in the construction of mosques and nothing to do with one of Gaddafi’s son’s being arrested in 2008. Nothing. The Colonel also noted [...]
ERM in manufacturing
Posted in ERM Basics, tagged enterprise risk, Joseph Allred, manufacturing on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an article we do not see very often (read: never). Joseph Allred, a CPA from Texas, writes about the value of ERM in a manufacturing organization. Although the content is consistent with what many of us often write about, I found it refreshing to focus on a non-financial for a change. The author does [...]
CFOs and risk management are just friends
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CFO, enterprise risk, IFRS, month-end on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to a study based on conversations with almost 2000 global CFOs (that includes 17 of the DJIA companies), they love risk management. (Well maybe “love” is a strong word; maybe saying CFOs and risk management are “friends” is better.) According to Bill Fuessler, who co-authored the study, CFOs “are moving away from their transaction [...]
Hofmann writes about Tiger Woods and ERM
Posted in ERM Basics, Sports, tagged enterprise risk, reputation risk, Tiger Woods on January 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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 Riskczar.com recently. Cautionary tales of Tiger and ERM Posted On: Jan. 03, 2010 6:00 AM [...]
Catlin’s enterprise risk management efforts raised to ‘Strong’
Posted in ERM Basics, tagged enterprise risk, ERM, risk culture, S&P on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another upgrade courtesy of good ERM. What are you people waiting for? Call me already. Or forward this to your CFO. Here’s the article from news-insurances.com: Catlin Group Limited, the international speciality property/casualty insurer and reinsurer, has been rated to to ‘A’ from ‘A-’ from Standard & Poor’s Rating Services. “The rating and assessment upgrades [...]
Is there a best practice ERM framework?
Posted in ERM Basics, Thought Leadership, tagged COSO ERM, enterprise risk, Raef Lawson, risk management on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Raef Lawson, Vice President of Research and Professor-in-Residence for the Institute of Management Accountants was interviewed in The Hindu Business Line and asked about the COSO ERM framework. Q: Do you foresee that eventually COSO framework will be considered as the best practice on enterprise risk management? A: We are not sure there really is [...]
