Bryan’s Blog

Getting under the skin of Mr Assume

Back in 2015, McKinsey published a paper on the future of risk management in the banking sector. At the time I sent it to many of my clients in other sectors because of its very important messages, including this one in their summary: “Bank risk management will likely look dramatically different by 2025, when it has

Early indications are …

Where should your lead indicators (KRIs or Key Risk Indicators in the field of risk) come from? A few years ago my colleague Andrew Prately and I toured the country to speak at Chartered Accountants Business Forums. We spoke on KPIs – Key Performance Indicators. We talked about lead and lag indicators and we talked

Escaping the Matrix!

A key takeaway for attendees at the free interactive webinars I am running with my colleague Dr Andrew Pratley on quantifornication was that when it comes to the field of risk assessment, scrapping the risk matrix is not the first step you should take. There are many, many risk practitioners who are calling for the scrapping of the risk

Data problems are not the real problem

My colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on a mission to defeat quantifornication. Last week we ran the first of two free interactive webinars we are running to explore the topic. We had attendees from a range of industries including banking, emergency services, energy, insurance, health, policy agencies and regulators from federal and state governments, local government,

Finding directionality

My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Last week was supposed to be our final blog we are co-writing but we couldn’t resist sneaking in another one after the great response from our last one. Last week we wrote about the