Why Companies Need to Have Professional Risk Management Services Risk Management software is an effective, well structured, persistent and continuous system that can be applied to any business organization. The implementation of this system makes it possible for the company to better allocate capital resources, improve operational efficiency and foresee current and future risks. We …
How to Select the Right Risk Management Application? A risk management application is used to control risk in an organization. It helps an organization to identify and evaluate different types of risks and reduce or mitigate them so they do not have significant detrimental effects in both the short and long-term goals and objectives. The …
How You Can Use Risk Registry to Its Full Potential The smart design and application of a risk registry are as important as water is to a fish. If the risk registry is well designed, it would efficiently record all complexities and provide visibility into the operational risks. The register ensures your projects’ risks will …
A guide to industry standards for risk management Risk Management Guidelines In previous posts, we discussed different industry standards for risk management, including: ISO 31000, ISO 9001-2015 clause 6, COSO and PMBOK. In this post, we’ll provide a summary of these industry standards, as well as some insight into what risk management guidelines you should …
ISO 9001:2015 clause 6: a primer ISO Experts In a previous post, we examined ISO 31000 – a group of standards relating to risk management codified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to provide principles and general guidelines on risk management. In this article, we’ll discuss another important ISO standard for risk management – ISO 9001:2015. …
Like peanut butter and jelly: the importance of risk and opportunity awareness in a quality management system Risk and Opportunity Management In our recent post, “A primer on ISO 9001:2015 clause 6,” we touched on risk and opportunities within the context of the planning process (if you haven’t read it yet, check it out here). …
Risk vs. Reward: Key Considerations Risk vs. Reward the Risk Management Process In many ways, weighing risk and reward is instinctual and engrained in us from an early age. A child who chooses to climb up onto the edge of the counter and balance himself precariously as he reaches for the cookie jar behind the …
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The 411 on PMBOK In risk management, there is an alphabet soup of acronyms when it comes to processes, best practices and guiding principles. ERM, ISO, COSO – it can sometimes seem as though risk managers communicate in code. The good news: we’re here to serve as your decoder ring. Decoding PMBOK PMBOK is an …
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The Times They Are A-Changin’ Is an Excel risk register obsolete? When it comes to technology and the work processes we employ daily, Bob Dylan said it best in 1964 – “the times they are a-changin’.” Technology has revolutionized and reinvented virtually every system and tool the average business utilizes – from databases and filing …
The benefits of communication in proactive risk management In a previous post, we provided an overview of proactive risk management – what it is and how this approach functions in forward-thinking organizations. Here we’ll take a deeper dive and examine the benefits of proactive risk communications. Communication is key Communication is the cornerstone of virtually …
