#348 – WHAT IS AGILE ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT? – HOWARD WIENER

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I am pretty close to completing my first book – Agile Enterprise Risk Management, Risk-Based Thinking, Multi-Disciplinary Management and Digital Transformation. It is now at the publishers, awaiting finalization. I have established a site for the book and this is the home page text that describes what AERM is all about.

The State of Things

The world is changing faster and faster.  Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) is and will be the new normal for the foreseeable future. Continue reading

#347 – RESILIENCE, RESOLVE AND RELIABLE PRODUCTS – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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The essence of creating a reliable product involves making informed decisions. Informed related to the implications of the various options on reliability performance. Yet, these decisions, made nearly every day during the early stages of a product’s lifecycle are fraught with uncertainty. Continue reading

#347 – TEAMWORK: TRUST, TOLERANCE, AND LEADERSHIP – MALCOLM PEART

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Teams, they are everywhere; sports teams, project teams, political parties, rock bands, military units, the list goes on.  The team isn’t just about the people in the limelight it’s also about the backroom boys and girls who provide logistical, technical, administrative, and sometime moral support to the front men and women.  Even the lone competitor or the one-man-band needs some support; everybody needs somebody sometime. Continue reading

#347 – FUTURE OF TODAY’S RISK PROFESSIONAL – PATRICK OW

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Patrick Ow is a Risk Specialist and Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of international risk management and corporate governance experience in the private, not-for-profit, and public sectors, and across different industries. He helps individuals and organisations make better decisions to achieve better results and outcomes as a corporate and personal trainer and coach at Practicalrisktraining.com. Continue reading

#347 – IMPROVING YOUR ODDS OF AVOIDING COVID 19 – ALLEN TAYLOR

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If you want to avoid contracting and dying from Covid-19, it makes sense for you to move your body from wherever you are to a place where deaths per 100,000 population is low. There are a lot of countries to choose from, since you are probably okay if you do not reside in one of the twenty countries with the highest deaths per 100,000 population. Unfortunately for me, I live in one of those twenty countries, the United States of America. As the chart included with this article shows, Continue reading