Cheating is the act to subvert rules in order to obtain an unfair advantage. Having ‘honest cheaters’ in a team is one way to improve your systems, find holes in rules, and deliver a better product to clients. Having cheaters in your work force who cheat in order to improve their own personal goals is not a positive most..

Geraint had the recent pleasure of delivering advanced both risk management and business continuity management courses to staff at Vietnam Airlines and a number of subsidiaries. The courses were delivered virtually from Queenstown NZ with local staff from HungViet Consulting expertly facilitating in Hanoi while the attendees were joining from various locations across Vietnam and Cambodia. Each two-day course..

With 93% of the population double-vaccinated, New Zealand is a vaccination success story. So what can we as risk managers learn about risk communication from this example? Most risk managers lean towards facts and figures from credible official sources as the way of assimilating and evaluating information. The problems come when we try to explain ourselves to a general..

Navigatus director, Kevin Oldham, reflects on risk management lessons learned from a brief stint as Gisborne harbourmaster. An unintended consequence of the Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) system was that Gisborne District Council faced a gap between harbourmasters in late 2021. The harbourmaster was leaving and the new harbourmaster, Peter Buell, couldn’t get an MIQ spot to arrive and..

A few days ago the last of the hexagonal primary mirrors snapped into place, moving from its launch position. https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/19/webb-mirror-segment-deployments-complete/. The Webb telescope has now completed the main phases of its operational deployment. What a relief to all those involved in risk management of this venture. While there is a way to go before the telescope mirrors are fully..

A week after the volcano eruption and tsunami in Tonga, emergency relief is starting to arrive. Media reported that only three people died in Tonga. Perhaps the initial shockwave from the explosion served as a warning for many. However countries around the Pacific rim have experienced wider effects from the tsunami accompanying the blast. Oil spill in Peru following..