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Andrew Smart is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Manigent, a specialist business and technology consultancy.

He is also the originator of the Risk-based performance methodology and has spent the last 10 years delivering performance and risk management solutions in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. He holds an MBA from Henley Business School. Click to contact

About Manigent

Manigent is a specialist business and technology consultancy. Our business is about helping our clients to improve their strategic execution by building sustainable, management intelligence capabilities.  Click here for more...

  

  • Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy
    Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy
    by David H. Maister
  • Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
    Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
    by John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
  • A Sense of Urgency
    A Sense of Urgency
    by John P Kotter

 

Risk-based performance is a methodology developed by Manigent, designed to integrate performance and risk management processes. 

This site is a platform to promote discussion around the methodology. We will also cover related topics such as the Balanced Scorecard, Enterprise-wide Risk, Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Market Risk, SOX, Basel 2, Solvency 2, ARROW 2, BS31100 and COSO.

Risk-based performance - managing with one eye on performance and one eye on risk!

 

Sunday
04Jan

Why Strategy Maps are important to your operational risk project

Why is the Strategy map such a key part of the Risk-based performance methodology? Why is the Strategy map so important for the success of operational risk projects? These are two questions that we are often asked and the answer to both questions is fundamentally the same.

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Friday
02Jan

Daniel Kahneman on decision making.

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Laureate says organizations should think of decisions like any other product, and apply quality controls.


Friday
02Jan

Leading insights from 2008

As we welcome in 2009 it is a great time to reflect on the latest performance and risk thinking from some leading management thinkers from the pages of Harward Business Review and the Mckinsey quarterly.

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Friday
02Jan

Peter L. Bernstein on risk

Risk doesn’t mean danger—it just means not knowing what the future holds. That insight resides at the core of risk management for companies, whether in managing the potential downside of an investment or putting a value on the option of waiting when making irreversible decisions. In this video Peter L. Bernstein also explains why in the real world the most sophisticated mathematical models can sometimes fail.


Tuesday
23Dec

Risk-based performance automated via Microsoft PerformancePoint

One of the challenges around performance and risk management and management information in general is enabling the business approach with easy to use software. It is no different for the Risk Risk-based performance methodology.

For Risk-based performance to be sustainable for our clients it must be supported by software. Over the last 18 months, we considered a number of options for supporting the methodology with software and finally decided that PerformancePoint, Microsoft’s flagship Business Intelligence application was the best platform on which to develop for a Risk-based performance solution.

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