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There are several risk management solutions that organisations can implement to strengthen their organisational culture to create a positive ‘risk culture’ outcome.

These organisational practices include:

1. Create an accountable organisation.
2. Implement the appropriate organisational design.
3. Create awareness of the strategic benefits of risk management.
4. Create an effective risk governance structure.
5. Create an effective risk function.
6. Hire the right personality to head the risk function.
7. Create a just and psychologically safe culture.
8. Formalise informal risk communications.
9. Create clear escalation and reporting pathways and trigger points.
10. Simplify risk management tools, activities, and processes.

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Guest Post by Malcolm Peart (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

Seeing eye dogs, or guide dogs, are so well trained that they know right from wrong.  Even though their ‘master’ gives an order the trained canine won’t obey unless it’s safe; and that’s what we call intelligent disobedience.  The dog is praised for exhibiting such behaviour.  However, in corporate and project management circles, and despite the need for human intelligence enhanced through training, qualifications and experience, such behaviour is often branded as just plain disobedient.

Many organisations have some set of rules and regulations which govern expected norms of behaviour.  They form part of an organisation’s culture and such ‘expectations’ become some form of ethical standard.  Great…when there is ‘business as usual’.  But in a crisis standard operating procedures tend not to apply.  These situations, as well as people, can become heated and with heat can come fire and the tell-tale smoke that things aren’t quite right.

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