An article by Jared Wade in Risk Management Magazine references the death of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and includes an email from VANOC head John Furlong relating to the safety concerns about the luge track raised before the Vancouver Games. Furlong wrote: “…someone could get badly hurt… An athlete gets badly injured or worse, and I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘RIMS’
Managing the risk of risk management
Posted in My Opinions, Politics, Risk management, Sports, tagged hindsight, Jared Wade, legal risk, Nodar Kumaritashvili, Olympics, RIMS, risk treatment, Vancouver, VANOC, Whistler on April 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
RIMS – ERM at the Vancouver Olympics
Posted in ERM Basics, My Opinions, Sports, tagged ERM, Janice Hackett, John Bugalla, Kristina Narvaez, Olympics, RIMS, risk management on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was just reading one of my blog posts about ERM at Hydro One where I wrote that there were very few great case studies about ERM. Until today. I think this case study about ERM during the organizing of the Vancouver Winter Olympics in the RIMS Risk Management magazine is a close second to [...]
Take this ERM and shove it
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ERM, Johnny Paycheck, Paychex, RIMS on May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
RIMS recently honoured Paychex, a company that offers payroll services, for “innovation in risk management“. Paychex, spelled with an “x” is not to be confused with the late country music star, Johnny Paycheck, who recorded the song “Take this Job and Shove it” in the 1970s.
Risk management certification: let’s discuss
Posted in Frameworks, My Opinions, tagged CRM, FRM, GARP, GRCSI, Norman Marks, RIMS, Tim Leech on January 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Tim Leech’s IIA blog discusses some of the many risk management designations and certification available and whether or not one of these may be the cost of entry in the future. I would like to know if anyone out there is interested in replying to this post with thoughts, pros, cons, benefits, etc., for the [...]
RIMS Core Competency Model
Posted in Frameworks, Thought Leadership, tagged competency, ERM, RIMS on September 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Earlier, I reviewed the RIMS report titled: 2008 Financial Crisis: A Wake-up Call for Enterprise Risk Management. Here are are few more highlights. The report includes a list of the suite of skills needed by individuals needed to drive a risk program, on page 8. I like this model because it supports my assertion that [...]
RIMS – A Wake-up Call for Enterprise Risk Management (Part 1)
Posted in ERM Basics, Frameworks, Thought Leadership, tagged banana skins, crisis, ERM, janitor, RIMS on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading the RIMS report titled: 2008 Financial Crisis: A Wake-up Call for Enterprise Risk Management. Very well written and highlights all the same ideas that Riskczar.com has been blogging about lately. Was the financial crisis a failure in risk management? RIMS writes: 1) The crisis resulted from a system-wide failure to embrace appropriate [...]
