Here’s proof supporting my 2010 post about how people do not wear watches anymore because we have clocks on our smartphones. The Huffington Post features a list of 9 Gadgets that Smartphones Made Obsolete. Voice recorders Alarm clocks MP3 players…
TV ad: With opportunity comes risk
I just heard a tv commercial for CME Group which was clearly written by someone on Madison Avenue who never read a risk management framework. Creative must of thought: “Let’s say the words ‘risk’ and ‘opportunity’ because it will sound businessy.” This idea…
Managing the risk of risk management
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…
RIMS – ERM at the Vancouver Olympics
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…
Physical Security and Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door
Physical security (graffiti?) is something that many risk professionals and auditors take seriously. Most organizations issue access cards to their employees, often configured differently to various floors or parts of the office. It’s well known that thieves will sometimes piggy…
The risk of driving, juice boxes and Howard Stern
I never would have predicted that a parent magazine would have been fodder for a risk management post but there it was on the coffee table begging to be read it like an infant crying for attention. It’s not surprising…
Religion and strategic risk management
A story in the National Post today describes the stats behind a decline of religious affiliation in many countries. A researcher explains: “There’ll be a continuing loss of membership among people who identify themselves as belonging to a religion. Over time,…
You don’t deserve to work for an asshole
The book by Robert Sutton called The No Asshole Rule was brought to my attention by the blog Managed by Walking Around. I’ve read and enjoyed some of Sutton’s other books including those co-authored by Jeffrey Pfeffer and hope to…
Dora the Explorer and too much risk
I used to watch Dora the Explorer with my daughter, a cartoon about a “7-year-old girl who embarks on a trip in every episode in order to find something or help somebody”. In every show she consults the map in…
My appetite for risk and cheesecake
On a trip to Portugal and Spain last month, my brother elected to take a minor detour and visited Morocco in the midst of “a revolution sweeping the Arab world” as he wrote on his blog. He was monitoring the…