In a survey conducted during the Fall of 2007 by The Conference Board of Canada titled, “Who Reads What Most Often? A Survey of Enterprise Risk Management Literature Read by Risk Executives”, authors listed the top ten articles used by leading ERM practitioners (in order of year published). I’ve reprinted the list here with links [...]
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Top 10 Must Read ERM Articles
Posted in ERM Basics, Frameworks, Humour, My Opinions, Risk management, Thought Leadership, tagged Aabo Fraser Simkins, Beasley Cluen Hermanson, Beaumont Vance, Conference Board of Canada, enterprise risk, ERM, Ernst & Young, Felix Kloman, Harrington Niehaus Risko, Hydro One, James Lam, Kleffner Lee McGannon, Riskczar, Top 10, Trevor Levine on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
3000
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Trevor Levine on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I big thank you to everyone who was curious enough to click and read something from Riskczar.com. Today we passed the 3000 click mark, only two weeks after hitting 2000 views (since August). I am very humbled and delighted. I have a lot of fun writing for you and glad many of you are enjoying [...]
COSO ERM book is like an 8-Track player
Posted in ERM Basics, Frameworks, Humour, My Opinions, tagged 31000, 4360, Cendrowski, COSO ERM, Trevor Levine on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have to give my props to Harry Cendrowski and William C. Mair of Cendrowski Corporate Advisors for writing a book about enterprise risk management, but writing one titled “Enterprise Risk Management and COSO: A Guide for Directors, Executives, and Practitioners,” with the word “COSO” right there in the title is troubling to me. The [...]
Reputation risk to Easyjet
Posted in Risk management, tagged Easyjet, Holocaust, reputation risk, Trevor Levine on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an example of reputation risk. As I have written, reputation risk is a second order risk which only occurs when some other first order risk manifests its ugly head. This is a type of outsource risk. While Easyjet may not have been responsible for what happened, they are accountable. Easyjet has apologised after fashion [...]
2000
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Trevor Levine on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you to everyone who was curious enough to find out about Riskczar or clicked on a Twitter link that directed you here since I started this blog on August 19 of this year. Today Riskczar.com saw its 2000th unique page view. I have no idea if that’s a lot but I wanted to thank [...]
The key word is prioritize
Posted in ERM Basics, My Opinions, tagged ERM, prioritize, Trevor Levine on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The key word is prioritize. With ERM, we identify and assess risks, but only so we can use the data to prioritize on a portfolio basis where we should spend or not spend our limited resources. There is a cost of action and a cost of inaction and ERM helps us make intelligent and informed [...]
Using ERM to decide if you should get the H1N1 vaccine
Posted in ERM Basics, My Opinions, Office and culture, tagged dishwasher, ERM, H1N1, impact, likelihood, probability, Trevor Levine, vaccine on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Canadian government is practicing risk management this week. It has begun administering H1N1 vaccines as part of the largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history. But did it assess the impact and likelihood of H1N1 risk properly before implementing this plan? Are people making the right decisions about getting (or not getting) the shot? [...]
From AS/NZS 4360 to ISO 31000 – A history lesson
Posted in ERM Basics, Frameworks, Risk management, Thought Leadership, tagged 31000, 4360, AS/NZS 4360, Australia, ERM, ISO 31000, New Zealand, Trevor Levine on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A consultant from New Zealand named Chris Peace, traces the history of the AS/NZS 4360 standard and the new ISO 31000, due out just in time for Christmas, in this copy of Safety and Health Practitioner dated October 16, 2009. Although the original 1995 edition of the AS/NZS 4360 standard was developed from earlier risk-management [...]
Risk management: ya, there’s an app for that too
Posted in Risk management, tagged ERM, iPhone, Marsh, Trevor Levine on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CS STARS, a business unit of Marsh, has developed an application for iPhone allowing users to access risk-management dashboards right from the device. According to the announcement: “CS STARS LLC offers technical solutions for risk-management professionals, as well as for insurance carriers and third-party administrators. The company assists these parties by delivering integrated software and [...]
S&P ‘Refining and Adapting’ Insurers ERM ‘Adequate’ Assessments
Posted in Risk management, tagged ERM, S&P, Trevor Levine on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
October 21, 2009 Courtesy: Insurance Journal Standard & Poor’s Rating Services is refining and adapting its methodology for assessing insurance companies’ enterprise risk management (ERM), as set out in a recently published article, “Expanded Definition Of Adequate Classification In Enterprise Risk Management Scores.” S&P said it published the article to help market participants better understand [...]
