The good folks at Riskviews got me thinking about my least read posts. I’ve been doing this for a few years and understand that no one wants to scroll through over 300 blog entries to find some gems from 2006.…
Risk Containment on the risk of servers and poor back up plans
Another great post from RiskContainment called Back Up? What Back Up? about the risk of putting servers in a basement, reminded me of this tale from my past: I once worked for an international securities dealer in Toronto; we had…
Fantasy football pool risk management
Risk Management Monitor addresses the concern about employees spending hours of company time researching and updating their fantasy football picks. Some argue that it’s disruptive – having fired employees or blocked access to certain websites from the company network –…
Don’t blame technology. Blame people and processes.
My old prof, Derrick Neufeld, from the Richard Ivey School of Business explains why trillions (with at t-r) dollars of IT projects fail every year. So why do they fail? Reason #1: Project managers fail to get understand the business requirements.…
Risk management technology is not risk managment
A colleague of mine, also in the risk management field, and I were having lunch last week and we got on the topic of risk management systems. I was aware that her organization (an international FS company) had installed an…