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A Look Ahead: Top Risks for 2010 and beyond

Todd Davies — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:45:08 +0000

As the developed world pulls itself away from the abyss of the global financial crisis, many around the globe are breathing a sigh of relief. Having dodged a major bullet, organizations are now returning to business as usual. But if the crisis was a wake-up-call for the world, did business leaders and internal auditors pay attention or just hit the snooze alarm? What’s the next “black swan,” or significant unforeseen risk, and what should internal auditors be doing about it?

In this free feature from IIA’s global magazine, Todd summarises several key areas should be on all company watch lists for 2010 and beyond.

http://www.theiia.org/intAuditor/free-feature/2010/february/a-look-ahead-top-risks-for-2010/

GRC – the great risk contraversy

Todd Davies — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:13:48 +0000

It seems that my piece in the June edition of Risk Management Magazine caused some contraversy, and even drew a letter to the editor from the President of the Risk Management Institution of Australia. This is all healthy debate as it forces us to assess whether learned approaches are still relevant, or whether we’re just keeping a wary eye on the deckchairs (while forgetting to look out for icebergs).

To see the rebuttal, have a look at page 3 of the July edition of Risk Management Magazine here. And to see the original article which caused the contraversy, click here for page 3 fo the June edition. (Now locked down, here’s the web version).

For more information on how strategy, risk, governance and assurance come together, please click here.

Resilient thinking as a model for emerging risk analysis

Todd Davies — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:47:11 +0000

I’m really pleased to announce that the Resilient Futures website went live today.

Resilient Futures was formed in April 2008 as a result of a number of practitioners in various fields believing that the current thinking in their respective professions was inadequate in dealing with the problems of tomorrow, and that resilience thinking and the concepts underpinning it provide much needed clarity in a rapidly changing interconnected world.

The Resilient Futures partnership consists of a divergent practitioners in strategy, risk, urban planning, leadership development and networked systems. There is a range of innovative but practial thinking coming out of this one and I encourage you to have a look around, read a few articles, download a whitepaper or two, and subscribe to the RSS feed.

I particularly encourage you to have a look at my recent article Are you being a reckless leader without realising it? which gives a feel for where some of the thinking is heading, or our offering on emerging risk analysis here.

Resilient Futures can be found at www.resilientfutures.org.