Risk Fundamentals
Risk management: best practice and future developments
Risk management has been recognized for some time as a formal discipline in its own right, and there is growing consensus on the elements which
Helping you manage risk Better
IRIS Blog
The latest thought leadership from IRIS Intelligence and the rest of the risk management community.
Advanced Risk Techniques
Managing Reputation Risk
How can reputation be integrated within an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework? Unfortunately this is not possible, because reputation is both a behavioural and consequential
Advanced Risk Techniques
Defining and Using Risk Appetite
There is a growing recognition that a proper understanding of risk appetite is a vital influence on organisational performance. This is supported by regulators who
Risk Fundamentals
Effective Risk Facilitation – Using Different Styles
When a facilitator is leading a group in a facilitated workshop or meeting, he or she can adopt a range of facilitation styles. These vary
Advanced Risk Techniques
A Grand Unified Theory for Risk
Albert Einstein tried for decades to develop a single “Theory Of Everything”, but he failed. Since then physicists have looked for a Grand Unified Theory
Risk Reports
Why don’t people get it? Seven ways that communicating risk can fail
Many public conversations we have about science-related issues involve communicating risks: describing them, comparing them and trying to inspire action to avoid or mitigate them.
Risk Fundamentals
Defining Different Types of Risk
People sometimes ask how we should define “strategic risk”. Fortunately this simple question has a simple answer. But answering this question can also help us
Opportunity Management
Opportunities and Threats
International risk standards and guidelines such as ISO31000:2009 define risk as a double-sided concept. This includes the possibility of both upside and downside risks, with
Risk Fundamentals
Risk Management 20 Years on
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’ according to L. P. Hartley, ‘ (The Go-Between, 1953). As Project Manager Today celebrates
Risk Fundamentals
Be mindful when managing risk
Mindfulness has its roots in Eastern religion, although it is also used therapeutically to treat a variety of psychological conditions (including anxiety, depression and stress),
Risk Fundamentals
Who Dares Wins
“Who Dares Wins” is the motto of the British SAS (Special Air Service), and it has also been adopted by another eleven elite special forces
Risk Fundamentals
Managing Risk in your SME
Many people think that risk management is only relevant to major organisations with big budgets who run mega-projects or who work in a regulated or
