Risk as a management discipline gets a poor press. Like a hapless government agency it often appears that it has been set up to fail, due to unrealistic expectations of…
Category: Risk Management
Existential risk – should we take notice?
The current pandemic has raised the question about existential risk and our response to it. What exactly is an existential threat anyway? The literal answer is anything that impacts our…
Covid-19: could we see it coming?
I have been searching for predictions of coronavirus to see if this was foreseen by anyone. I haven’t come up with anything yet but a few people have pointed to…
Covid-19: the Economic Consequences of the infection, and what it tells us about the frailty of the global economy
Many column inches have been filled with the unfolding story of Covid-19 since its emergence in the city of Wuhan last month. There is much speculation about what it means…
Do we really understand risk?
A recent report from the National Audit Office revealed the government failed to understand the risk to the Treasury for the HS2 rail project from the outset in 2010. Shortly…
Planning for climate change: lessons from the US Army War College
There are problems with getting to grips with climate change. The remoteness of the data, and of those people who generate it, makes quick and easy understanding quite difficult. There…