Enjoy the RISK-ACADEMY Guide on Risk Culture – an essential resource for professionals seeking to understand and improve the risk culture within their organization. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the ability to make risk based decisions is paramount to an organization’s success. At the heart of this capability lies the organization’s risk culture –… Continue reading RISK-ACADEMY’s guide to risk culture
Tag: risk analysis
What is a risk register why you DO NOT need it
Let’s illustrate the type of problems typical risk registers create and why the use of qualitative or scoring risk registers use should be avoided by management and not accepted by the Boards. Imagine the company has 10 risks in its corporate or project risk register. Board wants to know how these 10 risks affect the… Continue reading What is a risk register why you DO NOT need it
5 concerns for risk managers in 2025 and beyond
It is that time of the year again, we will soon start seeing top 5, 10 and 100 risk lists from every broker and consultant on the planet. Let me guess, it will say something like geopolitics, interest rates, COVID, cyber and logistics? Boooooring. I wanted to take us in a different direction. Here are… Continue reading 5 concerns for risk managers in 2025 and beyond
3 steps to apply Monte-Carlo simulations to any investment project decision
Risk management 2 shouldn’t be difficult. So I started on a quest to come up with a simple methodology for quantitative risk analysis that will actually improve decision making. This is still work in progress, so any comments and suggestions please send them to me or write below the article. Also don’t forget, RAW2020 is… Continue reading 3 steps to apply Monte-Carlo simulations to any investment project decision
The better alternative to “inherent” and “residual” risk concepts
Few things are certain in life: death, taxes and someone in the risk community asking about inherent and residual risks. In fact the question is so frequent that I even did a short video response: To most organisations inherent vs residual comparison is a way to measure potential risk mitigation effectiveness and the reduction in… Continue reading The better alternative to “inherent” and “residual” risk concepts
Finally! An alternative to risk matrices
Ok, the title is obviously a joke, because the alternatives (multiple) have been available to anyone willing to learn for over 50 years. But since you clicked, this article will probably change your life for the better. Thank you Damir Ramazanov, Group Project Risk Manager, ERG for helping with the article and providing quality review. … Continue reading Finally! An alternative to risk matrices
Dan Brown “Origin” great book for risk managers
I am surprised there is not enough hype about Dan Browns new book “Origin”. It’s well written as thriller (typical) but more amazingly it’s a great read for risk managers and AI specialists and it’s probably the scariest book so far, because there is very high probability the book plot will become true one day.… Continue reading Dan Brown “Origin” great book for risk managers
3 fatal mistakes corporate risk managers still make (part 1)
A while back I wrote an article about 3 fatal mistakes risk consultants make https://riskacademy.blog/2017/01/14/3-fatal-mistakes-most-risk-consultants-make. It made quite an impact and was republished in Australia, Canada, Singapore and Europe with dozens of thousands of views. I feel it’s only fair to write a follow up article about the 3 more mistakes that risk managers themselves make.… Continue reading 3 fatal mistakes corporate risk managers still make (part 1)
Cognitive biases every risk manager must know (part 3)
Overconfidence bias The overconfidence effect is a well-established bias in which a person’s subjective confidence in his or her judgments is reliably greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments, especially when confidence is relatively high. Throughout the research literature, overconfidence has been defined in three distinct ways: (1) overestimation of one’s actual performance; (2) […]
Cognitive biases every risk manager must know (part 2)
Overconfidence bias The overconfidence effect is a well-established bias in which a person’s subjective confidence in his or her judgments is reliably greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments, especially when confidence is relatively high. Throughout the research literature, overconfidence has been defined in three distinct ways: (1) overestimation of one’s actual performance; (2) […]
