My client looked at for me a long time across the table in Starbucks and said, “I can negotiate for others, but not for myself, she said. For whatever reason, talking about money really stresses me out.”
This surprised me a great deal. Competent woman, educated and an admirable career path. Certainly well accomplished and in a sales role to boot! Continue reading
In today’s business arena there are many risks involved in creating high quality products on time and within budget. With ever-increasing product complexity, increasing demands for better products with more functionality and decreasing time to market windows, doing business is risky.
This is huge. More than 1,100,000 companies world wide will be impacted. But, a lot of questions exist.
The working draft of the ISO 9001 (2015) has been circulating. It is a paradigm shift and will be a challenge for many registered companies.
As result of several CERM Risk Insights articles, we’ve been asked to address the risk challenges and opportunities in the transition with articles and videos (Vlogs) on Youtube. We’ll be addressing our hard lessons learned as we moved from a 100% quality consultancy to a 100% risk consultancy.
Many companies outsource (subcontract) a majority of their work to stay competitive in today’s global environment. As a result, a serious risk arises associated with obtaining accurate and audible proposals from subcontractors for inclusion into the proposal to their customer. Continue reading
Risk Management is a process by which uncertain events (risks) that may affect a project are identified, analysed, planned for, monitored (controlled) and, in the event that they are realised, dealt with.
However despite the conventional wisdom that Risk Management will prevent project failure from a cost, time, quality perspective or whatever other criteria has been established for successful delivery, projects continue to fail.