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It’s in your business…

There are two aspects to technology risk management. One lies within the technology itself, the other is lurking in your organisation.

The technology part is easy. You have vendors to honour warranties, service agreements to ensure service and technicians to fix problems.

It’s the non-technical elements that expose you to the highest risk because lurking within your organisation are…

Users!

Users and their expectations are the single biggest issue you need to address in your technology risk management plan. They don’t know what they want, then change their mind when you’ve built something. They complain, they are uncooperative. They are human.

So your risk management plan needs to take all this into account. There is no way you can implement a quality assurance process if the system generated risks are not taken into account. The system in case is your organisation. And the people are more than just participants, they are your system…

 

Is there an easy to understand definiton of risk management? Much has been written trying to answer the question, “what is risk management?”. But how much of that is useful? Most literature on risk management takes an insurance perspective but that perspective doesn’t really help a manager trying to mitigate business risks. Once identified, risks [read more...]

 

Insurmountable? Or business as usual… Sometimes organisational consulting feels like swimming in treacle. With good reason! Eleven reasons why one consultant left organizational development consulting after much success. Leadership is inept in that key people are not serving as avatars of the behavior they are seeking in others. Team building is sought when, in actuality, [read more...]

 

Can You Mix Epistemology with Business Process and Change Management? No question. You must! So, what is epistemology? It is the science of cognition and cognition is the process of knowing. It’s important because it helps to give us our framework. If you want a slightly more “official” set of definitions… epistemology is: The branch of [read more...]

 

Do service organisations need a CIO? Not if you’re serious about ending the Business-IT schism… No-one has yet explained why, in all the Business and IT discussions that take place, the two parties fail to recognise that they have the same CEO! Somehow, IT has managed to become so disengaged from the organisation of which [read more...]

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