JULIAN TALBOT

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...

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter Drucker Leadership, although largely talked about, has...

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,...

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” - Hunter S. Thompson A lot of people spend a lot of time in life preparing corporate...

Marie Curie knew something about success. The first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, the first woman to win a...

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

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach Like many people, I grew up with parents who regularly gave...

"What a business needs most for its decisions — especially its strategic ones — are data about what goes on outside it. Only outside a...

“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...

"The only purpose of a job application letter is to be invited to interview." After you've read this and downloaded a template for the...

Would you like to know the one tip that could guarantee success? The ‘secret sauce’ or ‘silver bullet’? Of course, you would. And so...

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

For good reason, risk matrices appear in risk management guides and reference books. Despite much criticism, they are used by many...

Did you know that 69.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot? If you are publishing online or crafting business cases, you might be...