by French Caldwell | February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
Arguably if you are an authoritarian leader who is threatened to be deposed, you view social media that your opponents use to organize protests as a threat. On the other hand, if your supporters can use it to organize counter-protests, then you might see it as an opportunity — perhaps this explains why Egyptians saw [...]
Category: Risk Management Tags: governance, Public Policy, reputational risk, Risk Management, strategy, Systemic Risk
by French Caldwell | January 25, 2011 | Comments Off
Aunt Elsie never went to the grocery store. She’d call in her grocery list over the phone, and the grocer would deliver. One day in the 1950s, Aunt Elsie called my grandmother and said, “Emily, do you ever shop at a supermarket?” My grandmother said of course she did, and Aunt Elsie asked to accompany [...]
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Category: Risk Management Tags: governance, GRC, opportunity, performance, Risk, Risk Management
by French Caldwell | January 12, 2010 | 6 Comments
I’ve been involved in some discussions recently around GRC that remind me about the arguments around KM — as to whether it is a valid term or not. The antagonists argue that GRC does more harm than good. They argue that the term creates market confusion, that the vendors that claim to offer GRC solutions [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: compliance, governance, GRC, knowledge management, Risk Management, strategy
by French Caldwell | August 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
A NYT piece about how the Army is using wikis to write doctrine made the rounds on a Gartner analyst e-mail DL today. Doctrine is supposedly doctrine because the principles it teaches age slowly. So, is a wiki the right vehicle for maintaining doctrine? I imagine the colonels who really write the Army’s doctrine must [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: governance
