I recently attended an online webinar about Risk Management (what other topic ….).
Trying to summarise it as neutrally as I a can:
- speakers introduced themselves by spending quite some time sharing what kind of (non-)alcoholic drink they are enjoying whilst sharing their knowledge with us. Quite strange IMHO, but then … different place, different culture …
- On to the content: endless, circumlocutory verbosity about the importance of controls in risk management. So much so, that “control assessment effectiveness grading scales” and similar ideas were deliberated on at great length and detail.
Could not have blamed any listener thinking that risk management is pure cost in the emperors cloth labelled as compliance theatre.
The positive: sometimes one does indeed learn how to be a more efficient risk manager by uncovering how NOT to do risk management.