Every October since 2019, thousands of risk professionals log into an event that spends five days questioning the foundations of their own profession. Risk Awareness Week — RAW to its regulars — is the largest virtual conference on risk-based decision making: more than 21,600 attendees from over 140 countries across seven years, named Training and… Continue reading RISK AWARENESS WEEK 2026. Risk management is not about risks. It is about decisions.
Tag: risk quantification
Stop avoiding the risk quantification elephant in the room
In a profession dedicated to identifying and managing uncertainty, there exists a puzzling contradiction: many managers actively avoid quantifying the very risks they’re tasked with. You probably know risk managers like that, we all do. While quantitative risk analysis forms the foundation of effective decision-making under uncertainty (see any textbook on decision science), it remains… Continue reading Stop avoiding the risk quantification elephant in the room
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
Risk management used to be a science, then it became an art, now it’s just bullsh@t
Latest views from Alex Sidorenko on how “innovation”, lack of business acumen and consultants are killing modern risk management in non-financial organizations. First there was science… Some sources suggest probability theory started in gambling and maritime insurance. In both cases the science was primarily used to help people and companies make better decision and hence… Continue reading Risk management used to be a science, then it became an art, now it’s just bullsh@t
