Imagine

Imagine a large, complex, regulated organisation.

Now imagine placing a multi-dimensional model of that organisation on your work-bench.

It becomes fully transparent.

Now examine the organisation from multiple angles, and through different lenses.

And fully extend the model up and down the value chain.

RISGRA® is the Enterprise Risk lens.

The RISGRA® lens allows you to view in context: each inter-connected risk in the Risk Universe of the organisation;

and each risk management Concept and Construct that is used to identify, evaluate and manage risk, in all its forms,

both within the Corporate perimeter, and along the value chain.

The sociologist Charles Perrow* identified two aspects of systems that make them vulnerable to unexpected failures: complexity and tight coupling.

  • A complex system is an elaborate web with many intricately connected parts, and much of what goes on in it is invisible to the naked eye.

  • A tightly coupled system is unforgiving: there is little slack in it, and the margin for error is slim.

* Charles Perrow: Normal Accidents - Living with High-Risk Technologies