The wildland and urban interface as key to the utility wildfire risk
Home to the 2018 Camp Fire, Butte County, California, located as it is in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), is increasingly representative of the type of transitional area between unoccupied land and human development that’s increasingly become the site of heightened utility wildfire risk.
Topics: Risk Management, Utilities
Today’s education sector is confronting a sharp uptick in risk and uncertainty. In turn, the practice of risk management is becoming foundational to the way schools, districts, and campuses operate, as effective risk management comes to be seen as a better way not only to identify and manage risks, but also to promote quality, continuity, and accountability.
Topics: Risk Management, Crisis Management, Education, Education and Schools, Integrated Safety and Security
When it comes to spending on compliance, companies aren’t shy. Every year, the average multinational will easily shell out millions on compliance, according to reporting in Harvard Business Review. In heavily-regulated sectors, that number is even higher.
Topics: Risk Management, Compliance
How much risk is too much risk? That’s a central question for risk managers and their bosses in the C-suite. It’s also the question that underpins the practice of risk management, which is all about identifying, evaluating, and determining the risks your company is exposed to and coming up with the policies, processes, and procedures to manage those identified threats.
Topics: Risk Management
These aren’t the old days. Business leaders have finally gotten serious about managing topline risk at their companies. Just in time, too. Risk storm clouds have been gathering for a while now.
Topics: Risk Management
A run-through of what happened
How prepared are organizations to tackle critical issues and major crises? That’s the question we at Noggin alongside our partner Deloitte posed to invited customers in an inaugural series of breakfast seminars exploring the theme of overconfidence and crisis preparedness.
Topics: Risk Management, Crisis Management, Enterprise Resilience, Work Health Safety, Conferences & Events, Critical Issues Management, Crisis Plans, Crisis Planning
Government bureaucracies get a bit of a bum rap; too often, people perceive them as stodgy and resistant to change. But just like the majority of big private actors, federal governments around the world have undertaken pretty substantial digital transformation projects, adopting the latest in digital technology to make their processes and agencies more accessible to the people.
Topics: Risk Management, Incident Management, Intelligence, Security Management
