Avoiding statutory electrical shocks

Statutory compliance can be a strange beast sometimes. For example, the testing and inspection of an electrical installation is not a statutory requirement, yet The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 IS a UK statutory Instrument with which all employers and employees must comply.

Home workers – managing the risk

Bucking the growing trend over recent years towards allowing home working, Yahoo! has just told all remote workers to relocate to their nearest office – or leave the business.

Managing risk in outcome-based contracts

I am increasingly seeing outcome-based contracts become the norm for clients and service providers in areas such as facilities management, critical engineering and ITC.

Risk registers in project management

Most, if not all, projects carry risk. Whilst there will be many different aspects of risk throughout the project, it is when it interacts and integrates with the live business environment that most care is needed.

DCIM – hype or hero?

At Datacenter Dynamics last November the phrase on everyone’s lips was DCIM, or to give it its full title, Data Center Infrastructure Management.

Contract mobilisation: the five golden rules

In my role as director and consultant with BSCM Operational Risk, clients and service providers talk to me about issues they have faced which might have been avoided if the contract mobilisation had been more robust. Based on their and my experience, I consider these to be the five golden rules to getting it right.

Cisco IT Global Impact Survey 2013

Cisco has released the findings of its 2013 survey which was designed to understand the role of IT as a business enabler.

Announcing Release 5 of Riskenomics

Release 5 is really all about enhancing the performance and scalability of Riskenomics and ensuring we stay up-to-date with the latest browser technology and allowing greater intersystem connectivity between Riskenomics and other software applications to enhance your user experience.

Compliance dependency modelling

Statutory and regulatory compliance isn’t optional – there may be a clue in the name! So I do find it surprising how passive many of the compliance management systems often are, in many cases managed using just spreadsheets – and while spreadsheets can do some pretty clever things, they’re not really designed for dependency modelling.

Horse meat scandal and supply chain risk

Journalists must be having a field day as the horse meat scandal continues to evolve as new failings continue to be revealed as the problem becomes increasingly widespread. With increasingly complex and globalised supply chains, what can the brand owner do to protect their reputation?