I'm Ovidiu Slimac and I am from Timișoara in the western part of Romania, a beautiful town which was just declared the European Cultural Capital for 2021.

I have worked in procurement for 15 years now. And yes, I'm human. I'm a human being. And if we believe what the researchers and scientists say, all of my purchasing activities and buying decisions are made with an emotional input – even the ones I made for my company.

The question is : does being human disqualify me as a good procurement profes

Five Ways to Nail your Pitch and Win Over Investors

Source: Josh Hannah, for Entrepreneurs

There are many opinions on creating a pitch deck and presenting to potential investors, but there is still a big gap between what entrepreneurs perceive to be important and what investors really value during a pitch presentation.

This post is the first in a series, where we will provide real examples–the good, the OK, and the bad–of early stage pitch decks we’ve seen over the years here at Matrix Partners. We

Peace is not absence of war.

If you want to be rich, be generous.

If you want to be smart, be simple.

If you want to be strong, be kind.

Whatever you are looking for is inside of you.

You are missing nothing. You have everything. The only problem is, you don’t know that.

All the things that we think are important will one day turn around and become unimportant.

Don’t let another day go by without being touched by the magic inside you.

What are the questions that will lead to clarity about what

Register here:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6074046758031583490?source=GRC

The webinar will discuss what quality level do we need for ‘Information Security in projects and what is the common or standardized ISO 27001/ISO 21500 level? In addition, the current situation will be presented with the steps to undertake for minimalizing the project and business risks.

This webinar will be presented by John Roos is project –en program manager on consultancy bases. He has an extended experience

Economists say that financial stability comes with low inflation rates. Where is the evidence? The lowest inflation rate nations are among the most unstable.

The Macro-economic Design and Management group is the only group looking at other causes. They are setting up a course in macro-economic design and management to show where the problems are coming from.

As one of the peer reviews says, "“When people realize what you have done all hell will break loose.” The innovations will be disruptive to e

This white paper is intended for readers who are familiar with Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) and the processes to develop and manage related policies, standards and procedures.  The purpose is to provide guidance to the effective implementation and maintenance of resilience and disaster recovery capability of IT systems, and is applicable, by scaling, to all sizes of business organisation. A full copy of the paper is at http://www.austinriskconsultants.com/downl

A Comparison Among the Three Most Important Strategic Frameworks: Porter, the Resource-Based View of the Firm, and the Delta Model

Enrique Suarez

http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta

suarezenrique@yahoo.com

According to former MIT professor Arnoldo Hax, creator of the Delta Model, in spite of the enormous proliferation of competing schemes in the business strategy literature, there are two fundamental paradigms that have emerged as the most influential in the last two decades. First, Competitive

The German authorities in cooperation with the United States and Europol dismantled the Avalanche botnet.

Five people arrested, 37 searches, 39 seized servers and 221 servers taken offline, more than 800,000 domains blocked with the help of numerous cyber security experts. It is the biggest International operation in the history.

After four years of investigation, the final phase occurred on Wednesday 30 November 2016, under the leadership of the German authorities, in cooperation with their Ameri

It is crazy to think that insurers are now the ones that need to manage their risk in the face of disruption. They must reinvent their business processes and strategies from the inside out to keep up with the rate of change. So, what are insurers doing to take action?

Insurance Nexus conducted exclusive interviews with the largest life insurer – Manulife and a mid-tier insurer IAT and created an exclusive white paper on analytics, business transformation and customer-centricity.

Take a look at th

IMPACT 2016 has come and gone, and risk practitioners from across the United States and Europe were thrilled with the results. IMPACT 2016 was differentiated by the passion behind real customer stories, all shared with actionable takeaways. Topics included third-party risk management, performance integration, cybersecurity, and reporting to the board.

LogicManager’s annual ERM community conference was a breeding ground for new ideas and best practices, drawn from a broad range of industries. We’r

In my last blog I spoke of your organisation as a market place where you and your team compete for resources. Those resources include money, people and the most valuable resource, people’s time. What you need is another team competing on your behalf. A team of advocates located in the key business units you want to engage with to ensure the valuable resources you need, you get.

In Seth Godin’s book Tribe he describes how he did just that in 1984 at the age of 24 after he joined software company S

Several hours ago, infosec expert Derek Knight found a brand new Locky virus variant spreading out email messages that simulate an Internet service provider (ISP) alert declaring that SPAM has been identified originating from the PC.

After the initial examination of this Locky build, other researches from the Malware Hunter Team spotted that Locky had additionally altered the file extension for locked data to .aesir. This latest extension remains to be connected with the Norse mythology, with ear

Cyber risks like data breaches and ransomware are too often shrugged aside. The possibility of a cyberattack is rarely ignored, but it also rarely receives the attention it deserves. There are a few reasons for this:

• Risk-based governance vs technology. Cybersecurity incidents result from internal governance deficiencies as often as from vulnerable technology. 63% of data breaches are caused by weak or infrequently changed internal passwords, according to Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations

The list of recent FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center announcements focuses on the point that today, more than ever, business and private travelers should carefully protect their sensitive and personally identifiable information everywhere travel.

The FBI warns of numerous cases in which travelers’ laptops are corrupted with hostile applications and tools when using airport and hotel Internet connections.

Even though public Wi-Fi spots appear to be exceptionally unsafe, from a computer security

I think it all went wrong from the beginning; calling the risk practitioners "risk managers" creating the perception that they manage the risk, including the perception that the CRO is responsible for risk "management", Then the independent risk functions were mostly "born" out of the internal audit function and called the 2nd Line of Defense; creating the perception that it's another level of policemen and that there is something to "defend" against.

After all of that we created Red/Amber/ Green

I have had a few discussions lately about the importance of being crystal clear on why we do what we do. Our purpose. The reason this is so important is beautifully described by Simon Sinek in his book Start with Why: “…people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it”.

The same applies within your organisation. An organisation is in effect a market place. People are trading resources such as budget, people, assets and their time based on their perceptions of the value it will bring them in p

The New Mind Control. “Subliminal Stimulation”, Controlling People without Their Knowledge

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

By Robert Epstein

Global Research, March 03, 2016

Aeon 18 February 2016

Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel(1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a handful of wealthy corporate titans

Author: Richard Pike, Non Executive Director, Permanent TSB

“Without data you’re just another person with an opinion” W Edwards Deming, Data Scientist

This is a very true statement, however it can equally said that too much data with too few opinions is equally ineffectual. Therefore the balance between

SEEKING TRAINEE PROFESSORS, TUTORS, AND EXAMINATION PAPER MARKERS.

GlobalRisk Community is seeking professors and others at the top of their financial professions to assist with checking out this course and subsequently being paid for tutoring and marking examination papers.

This is based upon well understood principles from Adam Smith and  M Keynes and the complex systems theorem which explains why everything simplifies and dozens of problems vanish, and systems control theorems, like having en