Principles for Responding to Black Swan Events

Foundational to effectively responding to an unexpected catastrophic Black Swan event is a collection of broadly applicable principles. These principles should be applied during both the preparation for and response to a Black Swan event

Yellow Sticky Analysis

Not all organizations possess the financial, technological, and personal resources required to effectively employ complex analytical tools but all should have access to the wonderful product known as the yellow sticky. Using a yellow sticky analysis technique, assessment team members can aggregate data in high level categorical groupings that foster more the detailed analysis necessary to draw meaningful, actionable conclusions.

Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Risk Assurance Maps

Risk assurance mapping enables visualization of the relationships between enterprise risks and their associated processes. Concurrently, it reveals the degree of oversight and performance metric monitoring applied to these processes. Such maps foster greater collaboration between an organization’s multiple oversight and line organization groups; enabling closure of oversight gaps and helping to alleviate low-value, redundant assessment activities and their associated costs.

Implementing an Organizational Performance Measures System

Learn how to develop and implement a performance measures system that drives superior performance by aligning managerial decisions and employee actions with your corporate strategy.

Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Inventory Optimization

Economic demands place increasing pressure on executive and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety, reliability, and efficiency.