The Noggin Blog

 

The risk of the novel coronavirus to global supply chains is significant, experts say. And it’s easy to see why. For one, there is no historical precedent for the potential impact of the coronavirus on increasingly complex, global supply chains.

Topics: Risk Management, Emergency Management, Crisis Management, Crisis Planning, Safety Management, Epidemic Response Module

 

Let me begin by observing that risk management appears to be at a similar state of maturity as was literacy in the 15th century Europe and in both cases technology and globalisation are the main driving forces for change.

Topics: Risk Management

IRAP enables Australian government agencies and bodies to store and run highly sensitive data at the Protected security level.

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Topics: Risk Management, Emergency Management, Government, Public Safety, Incident Management, Compliance, Security Management, Safety Management

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

 

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