Thursday, January 13, 2011

Messes


by Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc.

info@rsdsolutions.com


“Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes”

            Russell Ackoff

Sounds like a decent working definition of risk management in most organizations.  Risk management should be about preventing messes and enabling action.  Unfortunately it is often a post-mortem job of why did this mess happen.

1 comment:

Nick Hawtin said...

Adding insult to injury, the aforementioned post-mortem all too often results in new rules and changes that make work more complicated - without reducing any of the risk.