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The principles of risk management become a new international standard

ISO 31000 became an international standard on 14th November 2009. Its title is “Risk management – Principles and guidelines”. It is a fairly concise document, the main content is just 24 pages.
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=43170

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Lights, Camera, Action!

That’s right; we have brushed the dust off of the old webcam and microphone to make a short Youtube video about Risk Management. Exciting times, I know. Now don’t get me wrong, we are not expecting an Oscar anytime soon, but hopefully the “Short Guide to Risk Management” will help you understand just a few [...]

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What’s our motivation for this?

Springwater Software has started to develop a new software tool for Risk Management. There are many “Enterprise Risk Management” software packages available, but our product is going to be slightly different. We are aiming our software at smaller organisations and people whose involvement in risk management is a small part of their busy worklife, not their [...]

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A friendly guide…

Welcome to our brand new Risk Management website developed by Springwater Software.
So what is this ‘Risk Management’ that we hear of? How will it benefit my organisation? These are just a few of the topics covered in our Introduction providing you with an overview of the subject.
This website gives free and friendly advice on implementing [...]

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Risk Management for the rest of us

There are many definitions of the phrase “risk management”. Over the coming months we will using this website to set out some of our thoughts on the subject.
The aims of risk management are:

to reduce the likelihood of undesirable things happening
to minimise the negative impact of undesirable things if they do happen
to increase the likelihood of [...]

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