Todd Davies asks if a changing environment is a new norm – and explains how risk professionals can cope Change is happening at a greater scale than ever before. We see it every day. This creates great uncertainty for the organisations that we serve, and should be a boon for us as risk professionals. [...]

The good folks at Lexis-Nexis have been kind enough to invite me to be on the editorial panel of their new magazine Risk Management Today, and to have the lead article in the inaugural edition.  They’ve also been kind enough to make this article available free of charge to my clients and readers for a [...]

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.

In this video presentation as part of a three day strategy and leadership conference on the future of residential colleges in Australia, Todd provides insights into the nexus between governance, leadership and risk, and provides a whole systems perspective into regulatory reform, avoiding the next GFC and the future of leadership on these dimensions. Part [...]

This week I was fortunate enough to join with some of the leading minds on governance at a joint meeting of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), World Economic Forum (WEF) and the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) to discuss a range of issues on where governance needs change in order to avoid another [...]

Can your organisation continue to prosper as conditions change? Organisations are facing greater challenges than ever before.  As a leader if you feel that you are facing more change than ever before, you are not alone.  The nature, scale and frequency of change is increasing which is putting tests on the resilience of all organisations. [...]

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 [...]

The number of software offerings in the space has increased, and the marketing spin is increasing which means that unless you are a highly experienced and sophisticated buyer with a track record in software selection in this space, your chances of making a poor selection are high. TDA understands the GRC market.  We understand the [...]

Silos.  It’s a word that can fill you with dread if your responsible for the governance of an organisation, yet they keep on appearing.  Organisational theory is currently aguing for matrix structures, but if you’ve ever tried to run one you’ll know that shared accountability without the right tools is the same as no accountability [...]

  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 [...]