Last month my colleagues and I attended the Compliance in Facilities Management Benchmarking Network event organised by BSRIA to go through the new sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences. The new guidelines will come into force on 1st February 2016. You can read the full document here, but some key points to consider include:…
I was interested to read this week of a new battery technology that could deliver real benefits for data centres. Power is one of the largest costs for data centres, with many putting in place systems to optimise PUE (power usage effectiveness), as well as installing renewable energy systems, such as solar panels and wind…
CIO Review, a leading US publication covering key trends in information technology, has just published its annual review of risk management solution providers worldwide, identifying Riskenomics as one of the 20 most promising solution providers in the field of risk management. Needless to say, we are delighted! I feel it is a great endorsement of…
We have just launched our new risk capture module, our new suite of dashboard and you may have noticed that our website has changed somewhat. We have rebuilt the site from scratch to make it fully responsive for mobiles and tablets, which will make reading articles and information on our site much easier. The general…
CIO Review, a leading US publication covering key trends in information technology, has just published its annual review of risk management solution providers worldwide, identifying Riskenomics as one of the 20 most promising solution providers in the field of risk management. Other companies in the top 20 include Capgemini and LexisNexis. Riskenomics is a premises…
Organisations spend a great deal of time and effort ensuring that potential points of failure are identified and steps are put in place to minimise risk. But does this always take adequate account of the people factor? The people factor Despite rigorous systems and processes, many major incidents have been caused by human error, or…
I’ve written about black swan events before: situations that are so unexpected that you would never have thought they could happen. Until they did! Unexpected combinations of factors, such as natural disasters compounded by multiple other factors can cause havoc, as can events such as the central London fire that raged underground for 3 days,…
After the attack in October last year and the events this year in Paris, Sydney, Kenya and Copenhagen, Parliament Hill in Ottawa is undertaking a scenario planning exercise to consider their response to a whole range of possibilities, going from the “lone wolf” attack to a well-planned assault such as the one against Charlie Hebdo.…
I recently came across an interesting infographic, developed as a result of research into the gap between CEOs and information managers. The study led by Iron Mountain was carried out in January/February 2015 and covered 900 UK organisations. Here are some headline statistics: 89% of UK business leaders don’t fully understand what their information managers…
The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) is based in London and is ranked as the UK’s foremost academic research centre, leading the world at isolating cancer-related genes and discovering new targeted cancer drugs. The ICR has a unique partnership with The Royal Marsden (a specialist cancer hospital) and, together, the two organisations are rated in…