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Illusory Risk Management

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Marinus de Pooter* | 2019

Risicomanagement wordt doorgaans vormgegeven als een separaat systeem. In dit artikel ga ik na in hoeverre deze conventionele benadering ontaardt in een illusoir geheel. Als alternatief bespreek ik de waardemanagementbenadering, die managementteams helpt om samen te werken bij het blijven creëren én beschermen van wat hun kernstakeholders waardevol vinden.

Marinus de Pooter

Op de jaarlijkse conferentie van IIA Singapore in oktober 2018 heb ik een presentatie gegeven over illusory risk management. Centraal in mijn verhaal stond het grote verschil tussen enerzijds risicomanagement a1s een apart systeem en anderzijds waardemanagement. Dat laatste richt zich op het ondersteunen van beslissers bij het afwegen van relevante kansen en bedreigingen.

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Flying start PRIMO Vlaanderen

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PRIMO Vlaanderen (2009) is preparing for a promotional campaign right after the summer period. We recently had a first presentation of PRIMO Vlaanderen during an AXA-hosted seminar on adequate prevention policy in our local administrations, compared to what already exists in several companies.

From left to right: Tom Wustenberghs, Ronny Frederickx, Luc Verhulst en Karl Vanderplaetse.

Although it doesn’t seem obvious to imply that political decision makers should think about preventive risk management (often referred to as a waste of time), this aspect might be valuable for developing the association in Flanders as a key information network on risk management.

The new association wants to highlight the importance of preventive risk management over existing crisis planning. Such a policy can only help improve the organisation’s quality (quality management) and reduce costs by diminishing risks.

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International Standards for Drinking Water

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World Health Organization | 1958

The World Health Organization has long recognized the need for an international agreement and cooperation to meet the requirements for safe and potable water supplies.

The status of water treatment and quality in the Member States of the World Health Organization was the subject of a questionnaire circulated in 1953. The replies clearly indicated the magnitude of the problem and the need for attention by the World Health Organization.

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Managing the Unexpected (2015)

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Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity.

Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe | August 2015 (original 2001)

Improve your company’s ability to avoid or manage crises! ‘Managing the Unexpected’, Third Edition, is a thoroughly revised text that offers an updated look at the groundbreaking ideas explored in the first and second editions.

Revised to reflect events emblematic of the unique challenges that organisations have faced in recent years, including bank failures, intelligence failures, quality failures, and other organisational misfortunes, often sparked by organisational actions, this critical book focuses on why some organisations are better able to sustain high performance in the face of unanticipated change.

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Leiderschap als tragische vergissing

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Op zoek naar andere woorden voor heersen en hiërarchie

Mark van Twist en Paul Frissen | 2024

Als we over leiderschap spreken – wat wij bijna nooit doen en eigenlijk ook liever niet willen – dan is dat niet in een taal met uitroeptekens, maar met vraagtekens.

Ook termen als vooruitgang, rationalisering en modernisering, stippen op de horizon en neuzen dezelfde kant op, koers en richting, opgave en opdracht, en transities en ‘paradigma- shifts’ willen we bij voorkeur vermijden.

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Public values and risks in Strasbourg

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The birth of Public Risk Management Organisation (PRIMO)

Jack Kruf* | May 2005

Last month, on April 1, 2005, the Executive Committee of UDITE, the network of local government Chief Executives across Europe, met in Strasbourg to discuss ‘public risk management’ as a new idea. City managers from across Europe looked forward to a newly proposed approach, which Alan Vendelbo, president of UDITE, put at the top of the agenda.

It was clear from the start that they believed it could strengthen their role and function in supporting politics, society, and their organisations. Current events, social attacks, and out-of-control budgets or projects have raised the importance of proactive thinking about public values, targets, and their risks. Here is a short personal impression. I was there on this day.

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Resilience of what to what?

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Jack Kruf | April 2024 (update from August 2016)

What is resilience? Well, there is no simple answer to this. Especially not regarding a city’s ecosystem. The concept, you might say, is in development across different sciences and has recently entered the public governance domain related to society’s social-ecological system.

Can resilience be measured as an indicator of an ecosystem’s state? How are the living and non-living factors of the measured system calculated? Can it create true insight into the tone of the city, society, and nature?

Resilience is the new buzzword among public leaders and managers, but it has played an essential role in natural ecosystems for millions of years. It was launched in 2013 with 100 Resilient Cities as a relatively new concept of thinking and acting from the government’s perspective. But what is it about? The ability to endure stress and still perform, or the capacity to recover after a catastrophe? Maybe both.

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