Every year I ask the best quant risk and decision making professionals I can find to share their models, simulations, methodologies and case studies with the public. We call it RISK AWARENESS WEEK and it runs for a week in October. Every year more than 3000 participants from 100+ countries take part and 2020 was… Continue reading 45 risk management and decision making workshops available on demand
RAW2020 starts tomorrow for 3500+ participants
Join the Risk Management Awareness week from 12 to 16 October 2020. Amazing lineup of speakers running online workshops dedicated to integrating risk management into decision making, planning, project management, performance management and core business processes. It is a 100% online conference that enables you to tune into just the workshops that interest you. If you can’t… Continue reading RAW2020 starts tomorrow for 3500+ participants
Learn how crowd-sourcing risks works at RAW2020
Near or far: we are together in this COVID-19 crisis. We see increasing levels of sharing and caring across the globe. We are all uplifted by a more robust understanding of our interconnectedness. We saw countries re-opening while COVID-19 was still circulating widely. Now some of them face strong waves of virus resurgence and have… Continue reading Learn how crowd-sourcing risks works at RAW2020
Loyd Consulting Group shows how crowdsourcing risk means business breakthroughs
Once in a while, new players emerge in the market that are truly onto something. The Loyd Consulting Group (LCG) being one of them. Risk management and crowdsourcing are known disciplines – the powerful combination never seen as such before. Their solution Risk Focus TM enables everyone to declare both threats and opportunities, as each… Continue reading Loyd Consulting Group shows how crowdsourcing risk means business breakthroughs
Recommended pre-reading for the RAW2020 conference
RAW2020 is less than a month away and I wanted to share something valuable with you. During the conference you will hear many of the speakers talk about Risk Management 2 (RM2), decision science, decision quality, probability theory and other terms unfamiliar to many risk practitioners or business decision makers. These 3 things will help… Continue reading Recommended pre-reading for the RAW2020 conference
RAW2020: Probability for Pragmatists
https://2020.riskawarenessweek.com/talks/managing-irreducible-risks-through-portfolio-analysis-hedging-and-diversification/ The success of quantitative risk management rests on our ability to assess probabilities, but what is a probability anyway? How do you know if your assessments are any good and what does it even mean to say there’s a 50% chance of rain tomorrow? A pragmatic approach to these questions quickly takes us in… Continue reading RAW2020: Probability for Pragmatists
Addressing the Failure of Risk Quantification: Moving from Speculating on Project Complexity to Actually Quantifying It
https://2020.riskawarenessweek.com/talks/addressing-the-failure-of-risk-quantification-moving-from-speculating-on-project-complexity-to-actually-quantifying-it/ This report is based on the author’s recent book ‘Modern Risk Quantification in Complex Projects: Non-linear Monte Carlo and System Dynamics Methodologies’ published by Oxford University Press this year. Project practitioners and decision makers complain that both Monte Carlo and especially parametric methods fail to produce accurate project duration and cost contingencies in the… Continue reading Addressing the Failure of Risk Quantification: Moving from Speculating on Project Complexity to Actually Quantifying It
Free access to RAW2020 to anyone who lost a job due to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a heavy toll on people’s health, lives, and societies. Lots of us have felt worried about the coronavirus pandemic, and everyone will feel differently about the changes to lockdown restrictions. If you have lost a job as a result of COVID-19 we would like to offer you free full access… Continue reading Free access to RAW2020 to anyone who lost a job due to COVID-19
RAW2020: COVID-19: How did we get here? Where and how do we go from here?
https://2020.riskawarenessweek.com/talks/covid-19-how-did-we-get-here-where-and-how-do-we-go-from-here/ The spread of viral disease (COVID-19) was the last snowflake that caused the avalanche of global proportion. The inter-relationship of nonfinancial risks resulted in the new reality that we are now living through. This session will examine the inter-relationships of global risks and trends that existed at the end of 2019, and will demonstrate… Continue reading RAW2020: COVID-19: How did we get here? Where and how do we go from here?
RAW2020: Complexity: Moving Beyond Talk
https://2020.riskawarenessweek.com/talks/complexity-moving-beyond-talk/ Most of us have read about or heard talks on “complexity”; its nature, its impact on projects and ways to deal with it. Many have also worked on complex projects that are all too often failures, if not disasters. What has been missing are practical ways to measure complexity and quantify its impacts; we… Continue reading RAW2020: Complexity: Moving Beyond Talk
