#400 – HOW TO CREATE A POSITIVE RISK CULTURE – PATRICK OW

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There are several risk management solutions that organisations can implement to strengthen their organisational culture to create a positive ‘risk culture’ outcome.

These organisational practices include:

  1. Create an accountable organisation.
  2. Implement the appropriate organisational design.
  3. Create awareness of the strategic benefits of risk management.
  4. Create an effective risk governance structure.
  5. Create an effective risk function.
  6. Hire the right personality to head the risk function.
  7. Create a just and psychologically safe culture.
  8. Formalise informal risk communications.
  9. Create clear escalation and reporting pathways and trigger points.
  10. Simplify risk management tools, activities, and processes.

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#400 – PROJECT: INTELLIGENT DISOBEDIENCE – UNCOMMON SENSE – MALCOLM PEART

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Seeing eye dogs, or guide dogs, are so well trained that they know right from wrong.  Even though their ‘master’ gives an order the trained canine won’t obey unless it’s safe; and that’s what we call intelligent disobedience.  The dog is praised for exhibiting such behaviour.  However, in corporate and project management circles, and despite the need for human intelligence enhanced through training, qualifications and experience, such behaviour is often branded as just plain disobedient. Continue reading

#400 – CYBER ATTACKS AND RISK – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Public Services and Procurement Canada, oversees how the government buys goods and services, and has different levels of security clearance depending on whether a contractor has access to classified information. You know what’s worse than fighting an active breach… being breached and not knowing it. Continue reading

#399 – INTRODUCTION TO ONGOING RELIABILITY TESTING – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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This type of reliability may have different names. A quick search of a few references in my library and I didn’t find ongoing reliability testing, ORT, in any of them.

It does exist and you may have heard of it before or even use some form of ORT. Or not. Continue reading