Or “riskuirements”?
In this nice Country of mine, there are increasing areas – not only geographical, unfortunately – in which even the simplest, most innocent question is looked at with suspicion.
The most common answer to any question has become “why do you ask me that?”. Continue reading
I must apologize for having borrowed this line from one of Deep Purple’s most touching songs.
Auditors of fortune? Yes, that is what we are, indeed: like mercenary soldiers under the command of some well-paying general or king or emperor. We mainly audit for money, while the codes of conduct imposed upon us by the personnel certification bodies never mention money. Continue reading
A wonderland where there would be no risk, where the mere concept of risk would be unknown, where events would be just events, and accidents just accidents.
I once read that Bhakti (or Bhakhti) believers totally submit themselves to their god, which may sound quite crazy to us, but it is their belief: which also means that, once more, truth is in the eyes of the beholder. Continue reading
It seems quite a rude way to motivate people, considering Man’s heavenly nature.
Either people are intimidated or they are lured into doing something. This of course accounts for many of any enterprise’s failures. If I remember correctly, the Spanish conqueror Cortéz set his ships to fire to prevent his crews from sailing back to their home-land.
And the saying “a mariner’s promises” still leaves deep scars in many a girls’ soul. Continue reading
I’ll rather reverse the word’s meaning, from the english to the greek logos – word.
Logistics is in the first place a question of communication: those auditing logistics processes should first of all assess the effectiveness of the communication sub-processes within the logistics processes. Continue reading