News International: what is there to learn?

There will no doubt be lots of articles written, case studies developed and analyses performed about the recent developments regarding the News of the World, News International and the phone hacking saga. And it’s still got a way to run, not just in the UK where it’ll get interesting at the Commons select committee next [...]

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assurance or reassurance; living with risk

I remember some time ago reading an article about my other life viz a local politician/county councillor. It was at the time of one of the all too frequent and tragic child protection misadventures. The point being made in the article was that it is not sufficient for councillors simply to ask if appropriate systems [...]

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What’s the point of a risk register?

Most of us have little experience of risk registers. If you’re not in the public sector or involved in project management with methodologies like Princ2 you rarely come across them.

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