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Insight
A MATTER OF TERMS
To the person in the street, the notion of managing risks at the enterprise level would seem like common sense -- ensuring that the enterprise doesn't take too many risks and that the ones it does take are sufficiently uncorrelated with one another that a single unfavorable event will not create a domino effect. Shareholders expect it. Employees want it for their own job security.
Organizations often spend huge amounts of money and time setting up risk processes and methods, along with supporting tools and training, which often fail to deliver the expected value. Why is this so? We believe the problem isn't in the risk processes themselves, which are usually logically correct. Rather, these investments alone do not enable great risk management practice because risk management is difficult -- it relies on getting groups of people to agree on how to manage things in the future that may or may not happen.
IN DESPERATE NEED OF INFALLIBLE RISK MANAGEMENT
Recent years have seen heightened concern about and focus on risk management, and it has become increasingly clear that a need exists for a robust framework to effectively identify, assess, and manage risk.
Advisor
Stop Giving Advice
The corporate world is littered with the carcasses of enterprises, large and small, wounded -- some mortally -- by failures of the "conjoined twins" of leadership and risk management. Why are these two concepts referred to as "conjoined twins"? Because neither can function without the other.
Executive Update
An Agile PMO Transformation: Top 8 Dos and Don'ts
For many organizations, using the words "PMO" and "agile" in the same sentence could be considered an oxymoron. Bringing "agility" into your project management office may be a challenge -- depending on how much your organization has already invested in your current processes and how open you are to consider making "transformative" changes to support the organization's move to agile.
