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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 and is a Professional member of the Institute of Operational Risk.

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    « Balanced Scorecard - Necessary but not sufficient | Main | Opportunities to learning more about Risk-based performance »
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    14Oct2009

    Aligning Risk Appetite and Exposure - some insight from LEGO Group

    DateWednesday, October 14, 2009 at 09:50AM

    Having read you white paper on "aligning risk appetite and exposure", I see a lot of value in this - possibly because a lot of it is rather closely linked to what we are currently implementing. A few more detailed comments:

    It is stated in the introduction, that the financial crisis was caused by a lack of processes , technology etc. Alas, I am getting increasingly ascertained that it was a mere matter of "neglect". As long as everything looked well - no-one listed to the boy who "cried wolf", and it is commonly known, that the biggest risk of any organization is the incident, where someone makes management aware of the second biggest risk, and gets ignored (multiple whistleblowers faced that, some got laid off on that exact note).

    To me/us, risk appetite comes in multiple parts...

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