Sounds more like therapy than risk management?

The theme for this year’s Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) annual meeting is ‘Advancing Analysis’. David Hancock (Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership) used the term ‘talking therapy’ to describe one of the processes at the heart of risk managing messy problems, which suggests there is a correlation between healthy people and healthy organizations. In any event, I find it encouraging to see the range of over 800 professional practitioners, academics and policy makers that the SRA meeting is bringing together in San Francisco (December 10–12). The program looks wonderful, with sessions on the risks associated with terrorism, pandemics, climate change, food, chemicals … all of which suggest that the world of risk management is indeed in good health. I am delighted that Gower is sponsoring the SRA’s annual career fair at the meeting, where we also have our latest titles of interest on display.
        

Understanding just where risk management is going

Matthew Leitch (author of Intelligent Internal Control and Risk Management) is running the workshop ‘Essentials of Embedding Enterprise Risk Management’ at the IBC 2013 Risk Management Congress. The programme for the Congress provides a really good sense of the current emerging themes within risk management with papers on risk appetite, risk and strategy, measuring risk, tail risk, fraud and cyber risk. I find it paticularly encouraging to see that Gower have the ground covered with our titles: A Short Guide to Risk Appetite (Hillson and Murray-Webster), Risk Strategies (Coleman), Estimating Risk (Garlick), Countering Catastrophic Loss (Ivantsov), A Short Guide to Fraud Risk (Iyer and Samociuk) and Demystifying Communications Risk (Johnson).

     

It’s Not Just Children Who Need Help When Comes to Social Media Risk

Mark Johnson has just released the second of his free A-Z Guides to Risk in the Modern World. This first was The A-Z of Safe Children Online. This new title is The A-Z of Safe Social Media and is aimed very much at adult users. You can download both guides free of charge from The Risk Management Group website and are free to share them with employees, clients or other contacts. Mark Johnson is author of the forthcoming Demystifying Communications Risk and Cyber Security, Crime and Digital Intelligence.

Delivering Successfully Despite Uncertainty: Gantthead Virtual Conference

Last month, Gower Author Penny Pullen spoke at the Gantthead virtual conference, PMXPO. For those of you who would like the opportunity to see this – it is an audio-visual presentation (around half an hour) followed by questions and answers. The topic is around making projects work through facilitating risk management. You can register here for the replay.

Penny Pullan is co-author of A Short Guide To Facilitating Risk Management published by Gower.

Managing Risk in Projects: What’s new?

A few days ago we guided you to a free webinar by Internationally acclaimed risk expert and Gower author David Hillson.  On his website you have the opportunity to experience other free full-length training sessions that combine presentation slides with audio. Managing Risk in Projects is one of his latest, each lasts about an hour, and tackles a specific risk topic in detail. We think the webinars offer a great way to learn about a particular subject at your own pace and in your own time.  Full details of David’s events, briefings and books can be found at his website .

Free Webinar: Delivering strategic advantage through integrated risk management

David Hillson shows how two simple extensions to the standard risk process can bridge the gap between tactics and strategy, ensuring that risk management delivers benefits to the wider organisation. This free Webinar was recorded for the PMI International Development Community of Practice (PMI ID CoP) in March 2012.

View the Webinar here.

David has published an array of books with Gower Publishing, focussing on risk, a full of list of titles can be found here www.gowerpublishing.com/risk-attitude.

Gower author and editor appears on BBC Breakfast News

Distinguished professor at Lancaster University Management School, Professor Cary Cooper is a regular guest on  BBC Breakfast News. This morning he was there to discuss how to create motivation at work and keep sickness absence low. In April he was there to underline the importance of taking holidays. Despite the current climate,  Professor Cooper says “research shows it’s good for you, both physically and mentally.”

Cary Cooper, who specialises in Organizational Psychology and Health, has authored over 150 books pertaining to psychology and was heralded the ’5th Most Influential Thinker in HR in 2011.’

Risk management is an ongoing concern for modern organizations in terms of their finance, their people, their assets, their projects and their reputation. That’s why the research and exploration detailed in the series edited by Professor Cary (Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk) is so important.

Risk Management Beyond Budgeting

I sometimes find it hard not to allow personal prejudice to bias my response to management ideas which is why I’ll limit myself to a simple ‘very interesting’, rather than anything more effusive, in response to Matthew Leitch’s detailed piece ‘Risk Management and Beyond Budgeting’. If you’re beginning to question the traditional control associated with annual budgeting then do read this piece! Matthew Leitch is author of Intelligent Internal Control and Risk Management.

Facilitating Risk Management Event

Having a robust risk management strategy in place is essential for ensuring your organisation runs as smoothly as possible. Penny Pullan and Ruth Murray-Webster’s book focuses on facilitating risk management so that you are able to identify, own and manage risks.

You can read Chapter 1 for free, to give you a taste of the book and its authoritative content.

Penny and Ruth are running a 2 day workshop on 21 & 22 February 2012 at the Radisson Blu East Hotel at East Midlands Airport. The two days focus on and delve deeper into the topics covered in their book A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management.

You can find out more information about this event here.

Risk appetite: How hungry are you?

Only set up this week, David Hillson’s Risk Doctor video channel is a new venture that currently provides video overviews around risk appetite, risk attitude, risk management maturity, and risk basics.

Dr David Hillson is a seasoned  risk management professional, a popular conference speaker, and award-winning author on risk. He is recognised internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the risk field.  He recently received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his work in developing risk management over many years. He is an Honorary Fellow of the UK Association for Project Management (APM). 

David Hillson’s  Gower books including those co-authored with Ruth Murray-Webster are; Exploiting Future Uncertaintly, Managing Risk in Projects, Managing Group Risk Attitude, Understanding and Managing Group Risk Attitude and the forthcoming;  A Short Guide to Risk Appetite.

Further details of all these books can be found at: www.gowerpublishing.com/risk-attitude