JULIAN TALBOT

I’d been in the room for about five minutes and had already heard Brian (not his real name) tell me at least three times in a variety of...

"What gets measured gets managed." - Peter Drucker [1] Like many cliches, "what gets measured gets managed" is correct enough to be...

Bow-Tie is one of the simplest but most helpful risk management tools in the risk management arsenal. And it's highly visual.

ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) is a fundamental concept in risk management, as it should be in life in general. It expresses...

It often seems that as a species; at least in most societies; that we spend most of our efforts on managing risks after they occur,...

I love Swiss cheese. And I’m not talking about the dairy comestible. In my view, there are better cheeses out there – but few better risk...

"I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts — all built by...

“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” Bob Dylan It...

"What gets measured, gets managed." Peter Drucker is often attributed with this quote but he probably wasn't the first to say it and the...

*It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." – Roy Disney ISO31000 (Section 3, Part A) says that risk management...

Figure 1: Mockup of a KPI reporting dashboard Measuring performance seems complex (and it is) but let's not lose sight of the basics. The...

The traditional view of managing risk to be as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) is fine for negative risk. Unfortunately for ALARP,...

I've worked on five continents, in dozens of industries, in the government, private sector and not-for-profit arena and wherever I went,...

“In this world there is nothing certain but death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin Certainty, or at least the illusion of it, has become a...

My friend Stewart Hayes has been working in risk management for longer than I have (which is longer than either of us remember). As well...

It seems like we've been at war for a long time. World War II drifted into the Cold War and, more recently, War on Terror, War on Drugs,...

Every year, we spend billions of dollars on risk management initiatives, often without any subsequent assessment of the effectiveness of...

I’m a visual person, and like most of us in the 21st century, I never seem to have a lot of spare time. Perhaps you are also short of...

As Low As Reasonably Practicable, or ALARP, is one of the fundamental principles of risk management. We neither need nor want, to manage...

Following on from last weeks article about ISO31000 ... Is ISO31000 a good risk management approach for me? Chances are good that it is....