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Insight

This is the third Advisor in a series on the importance of practicing risk management for effective business-IT alignment. Last week ( 30 August 2000), I discussed developing a qualitative appreciation of each identified risk, which involves classifying the risk, identifying the risk owner, and assessing the magnitude of the risk's impact.

"I'm just a Little Black Rain Cloud hovering over a honey tree."

Those of you with children or who remember being a child will recognize this classic Disney tune. Winnie-the-Pooh, in his never-ending quest for honey, has dunked himself in a mud puddle and is floating upward clinging to a helium balloon toward a large beehive high in a tree.


PRETENDING TO BE A BLACK RAIN CLOUD 6 September 2000 by Lou Russell

"I'm just a Little Black Rain Cloud hovering over a honey tree."