Reading Seth Godin’s post about magician, Steve Cohen, made me think about the public’s risk management apathy which is at times frustrating and (please insert some other adjective because all I can come up with is frustrating.) To the many…
KPMG: 10 Common ERM Challenges
Risk Management magazine just published an article by Jim Negus (of KPMG LLP’s risk and compliance services group) listing their top ten ERM challenges. They write: Very few organizations find enterprise risk management implementation easy–it requires a rare combination of…
H1N1 fears and IT disaster recovery lesson learned
It’s nice to see that the pandemic fear generated some positive change with respect to IT disaster recovery. Now if on the ERM community could get some traction from the global threat or some other infectious disease… one can only…
ERM of crucial importance to financial service providers
The Faculty & Institute of Actuaries his published a paper called ERM for Insurance Companies – Adding the Investor’s Point of View, on January 22, 2010. The abstract reads: A major outcome of ERM activities in insurance companies has been…
Where are all the risk management jobs?
I’ve been writing this blog almost every day since August and I’ve been rewarded by your positive feedback and over 6000 hits. In this period, I’ve reported about many ERM-related events: the S&P calls ERM “highly important”; while others suggested…
ERM ranks forth on list of management ideas for ’00s
The editors of Harvard Business Review recently published their own top ten list of the last decade calling it “the most influential management ideas of the millennium (so far)” and look what came in at #4. 4. Enterprise Risk Management.…
Aon Global ERM Survey 2010 now available
There is a link on the Aon.com homepage for their latest ERM survey conducted in 2009 Q3. Aon writes: The study was designed to show the extent to which ERM has been successfully implemented across organizations globally; the effect ERM…
Nason posts ERM exam question number two
A couple of weeks ago, I brought to your attention question #1 (of 4) from Rick Nason, a risk management teacher of ERM at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Dr. Nason has posted question #2 from his recent ERM exam, on…
Nason wants to know why there are few successful ERM examples
I would like everyone who follows the Riskczar blog to have a look at the latest post from Rick Nason, Partner at RSD Solutions. Dr. Nason also teaches a course on ERM at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Dr. Nason has…
Kanter’s risk management lessons from Northwest flight 253
Kanter blogs about the recent events on Northwest flight 253 by asking all leaders (not just airline industry leaders) to look at what lessons were learned by this near miss and how could a disaster be prevented. To leaders she…