If you compare today’s stock exchange list with the same list from 10 years ago, you’ll see some big players missing. Some collapsed. Some lost relevance. Some lost value, and were gobbled up before their market value could be regained. The single thread in nearly all of these cases is simple — the conditions changed [...]

Todd Davies has been championing a better understanding on strategic risk for many years and taught the IIA’s first courses on this topic.

He contends that strategic risk is a class of risk in it’s own right and needs a dedicated identification process involving external viewpoints. TDA’s other articles on this topic can be found here.

Thanks again to Lexis Nexis for making my most recent article available from the latest issue of Risk Management Today. As the ASX Corporate Governance Council gears up for its next round of review, the IIA has got on the front foot with their list of demands.  This brief article gives Risk Management Today readers [...]

Thanks to Lexis Nexis for making my most recent article available from the current issue of Risk Management Today to my clients and readers. The article reviews the latest benchmarking study from IIA and Protiviti of 160 heads of internal audit from around Australia and draws out three key themes of interest to those charged with [...]

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.

A lot has been happening with the Resilient Futures Forum this year. Resilient Futures has been kind enough to record some of their work and make it available to the public free of charge.  Highlights from Todd’s work with resilientfutures.org are set out below.  Click on a heading to watch / listen. Risk and Responsibility [...]

Strategic risk capability is one of the key capabilities of our time. As part of their ongoing roles, Directors and CEOs need to have a deep understanding of the strategic risks and opportunties facing their organisations.  Increasingly they are looking to their internal audit team for a view on whether their company’s risk management systems [...]

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. [...]