One of the hardest parts in documenting your risks is figuring out the root cause of the risk being analyzed. If this is done poorly, we will spend time and money treating the wrong root causes and the risk may only get worse. Take the Great Plague of 1665 that killed 1/6 of London’s population. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘zombie’
The Great Plague of London and root causes of risk
Posted in ERM Basics, tagged causal chain, effect, H1N1, plague, risk, root cause, zombie on March 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The Walking Dead and risk management
Posted in Books, ERM Basics, Humour, Risk management, tagged ERM, impact, likelihood, television, walking dead, zombie on March 20, 2012 | 4 Comments »
If there are two things you have noticed about this blog, I often write about zombies and the Moment of Risk Enlightenment. Today’s post combines both. (Note: This post contains spoilers about season two of the Walking Dead.) I was catching up on season two of the “post-apocalyptic” television show The Walking Dead this week. [...]
Tips on writing a zombie evacuation memo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanda Ripley, BCM, BCP, CDC, disasters, evacuation, zombie on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One of the biggest risks about evacuating your office in the event of an emergency is getting people to actually evacuate safely. You can send all the emails you want about procedures but like the boy who cried were(wolf) sometimes we hear the warning alarms so frequently that when we really have to evacuate [...]
Evacuating the Building Because of a Zombie Infection
Posted in Humour, Risk management, tagged BCM, BCP, CDC, emergency, evacuation, fire drill, infection, zombie on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
To be read in association with the post: ”Tips on writing a zombie evacuation memo“. There are many reasons – including fire or bomb threats – that require us to evacuate the building but it is equally important that we prepare for other threats such as an evacuation because of a zombie infection. You may laugh [...]
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 [...]
Riskczar’s thoughts on next week’s G20
Posted in My Opinions, Risk management, tagged BCP, G20, risk treatment, Riskczar, Toronto, zombie on June 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In case you haven’t heard, the G20 Summit is coming to Toronto next week. In my current role, I’ve been involved in some of the business continuity planning but mostly from a communication perspective. All of the heavy lifting had already been done. The event is taking place in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. [...]
Traffic lights make people drive like zombies
Posted in Humour, Thought Leadership, tagged John Adams, traffic lights, zombie on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Want to reduce the risk of traffic accidents and pedestrians getting struck by vehicles? Then remove the traffic lights and let people cross anywhere they want. Professor John Adams of University College London explains in a February 2008 article that “traffic lights force drivers to watch and obey robots rather than other road users – [...]
Vampire and Werewolf risk management
Posted in ERM Basics, Humour, My Opinions, tagged elephant risk, Monkey risk, vampire risk, werewolf risk, zombie on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an earlier post, I wrote about some unusual risks not likely included on your risk registers: elephant risk, monkey risk and zombie risk. For those of you who may have been trying to treat your high residual risks of Vampire Bites or Werewolf Attacks on your risk registers, good news, you can treat these [...]
Elephant Risk
Posted in Humour, Risk management, tagged elephant risk, heat map, India, zombie on September 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 increasing danger of elephants in India and Sri Lanka entering cities and causing trouble. For [...]
Risk Management is not Internal Audit
Posted in ERM Basics, Risk management, tagged audit, control, ERM, zombie on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Risk management is looking forward Risk management is when you are driving your car on a foggy night and you cannot see more than 10 feet in front of you – there may be something out there: perhaps a deer, another vehicle or a zombie hitchhiking. But you don’t know when or if you will [...]
