A typical day in risk management – not likely

If you think there is a typical day in risk management, then think again. Risk managers come in all shapes and sizes as IRM’s two recent case studies show.

Abhishek Paul, associate vice president in risk and conduct assurance at Risk Hub Read more

Risk managers – know your place!

If you want a seat at the top table you need to demonstrate that your efforts are not just about protecting your business, but about building your business.

It’s a refrain often heard in risk management circles, Read more

Reflections on a career in risk management

The IRM’s retiring technical director Paul Hopkin reflects on over four decades of work and thought in the risk management profession

After a career in risk management of more than 40 years, retirement started to raise its increasingly grey Read more

Stakeholder management in projects

Proper stakeholder management in projects is crucial. A common definition of a project stakeholder is someone who is interested in the project and its outcomes or will be affected by the project.  Beauty is in the eye of the Read more

A third of companies still to mitigate supply chain risk

A third of companies are still to mitigate supply chain risk, according to ICSA: The Governance Institute.

ICSA’s Bellwether Summer 2017 survey of FTSE 350 companies asked, “has your board actively sought to review its supply chain risks, including Read more

FinTech: Is disruption a good thing?

Remember your feelings the first time you heard about FinTech, InsureTech and RegTech? Perhaps there was a mixture of confusion, fear of an unknown future, impossible to implement or ignore? It is happening right now, and we should all Read more

Heatcubes

Could heatcubes be a new way of visualising risk? And what are they anyway?

Diego López Yse, who is responsible for ERM at Bayer for the Southern Cone region, explains his concept in a paper we can share with IRM members Read more

The talking cure

Fiona Davidge is part of a two-woman risk team at the £20bn science funding charity Wellcome Trust.

In this feature from the Spring 2017 issue of Enterprise Risk, she explains how her dialogic approach to risk management is helping Read more