by John | Nov 16, 2015 | Risk Management
I have been hearing recently about issues facing a number of manufacturing firms and have been struck by the similarity between that sector and the Church. Many manufacturing companies have an ageing workforce. This is because they have been good at retaining...
by John | Nov 13, 2015 | Risk Management
There has been a lot in the news lately about cyber crime and the cyber risk generally. Talk Talk and Vodaphone among others have suffered serious data breaches. Some people are saying that, if such businesses are not safe, how can the rest of us hope to be? The...
by John | Nov 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
On the 11th of November we rightly remember those who died in two world wars and in other conflicts since. But what do we remember? The loss. The sacrifice. The Horror The waste. Yes. All these. So we should. All too often we fail to remember: the folly. the...
by John | Nov 5, 2015 | Risk Management
There are times when politicians make me so angry I can almost sympathise with Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators. Blow them all up! Almost but not quite. I cannot condone violence especially when it would replace whatever we have with something worse. Some kind...
by John | Nov 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
When looking at the Financial Risk, it is important to remember that Fraud is not the only risk in this category. Errors of all kinds can have serious financial consequences. In this article I will tell the story of an unfortunate sequence of events leading to a...
