Digital disruption: are you on top of the key trends impacting the risk landscape?
As we all know by now, the digital revolution is driving transformational changes in every industry, as organisations adopt these technologies to reshape how they create and capture value. Identifying, understanding, and addressing new risks associated with digital transformation will help businesses derive more value from their efforts in the future. What’s more, understanding how digital transformation can be applied to risk management will enable organisations to take a [...]
The quality of your CV can be the only thing standing between you and that dream job: take the time to get it right
A few statistics about CVs and applying for jobs… On average, recruiters will spend no more than 5-10 seconds looking at your CV, which is why it is imperative that you have all the keywords that they are looking for i.e. include the words that are in their job description. 43% of CV’s are discarded because they are written in the third person and if there are any spelling [...]
Top tips for a successful interview
Making an impact: top tips for a successful interview Regardless of how many interviews you have attended and how comfortable you are with the process, most people (whether they think so or not!) can improve with the right preparation. This article looks at how to increase your chances of success in interviews, and highlights factors you can influence to your advantage. When you attend an interview, you are in [...]
Don’t forget the outer layers of the ‘agile onion’ if you want to create lasting change in Risk
We are heading into uncharted territory for many industries. In the grips of a seismic shift driven by technology – creating challenges and opportunities in equal measure – we need to adapt to a more complex, dynamic, nuanced world. As practitioners in the world of risk management, compliance, assurance and a range of other governance disciplines we need to take stock and ask whether what we are doing, the [...]
Take charge of your development; if you don’t, no one else will!
In our recently completed research, ‘What Makes A Successful Risk Leader’, we highlighted that many of the capabilities essential to success as a risk leader tend to be trait driven – integrity, courage, people savvy, influence among others – and therefore traditional training and development activity, particularly in the earlier years of your career, don’t optimise the development you need. The research is clear about how we grow most [...]
Quality conversations; the key to successful risk management in a complex world
Almost every industry is in the grips of a seismic shift driven by technology. A critical capability required in helping organisations deal with this fast changing and increasingly complex world, is effective risk management. Central to Risk Management’s ability to help the business understand the risks they are running, where risks are not being managed sufficiently and to make consistently better decisions, are the day to day interactions they [...]