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Introduction to the RiskWiki
This wiki is sponsored by Bishop Phillips Consulting (http://www.bishopphillips.com/) for the education, use and enjoyment of our clients, educators, the public and professionals involved in management consulting and risk advisory, compliance, internal audit, insurance claims management, safety, governance and risk analysis industries. It provides reference articles on management, risk and risk related functions including: Risk Management, Internal Audit, Governance, Compliance, and Process Reengineering, etc.
The RiskWiki is based on the articles, methods, manuals and papers of primarily three firms: Bishop Phillips Consulting P/L, Stanton Consulting Partners and Bishop Finance P/L. These firms are contributing a large body of work amassed over many years experience with hundreds of clients. The project to convert and upload much of our BPC software help & manuals, extended body of consulting, risk and internal audit methods and models, and education and research materials is a large and time consuming project so the RiskWiki content changes frequently and will do so for the foreseeable future.
With the exception of all software documentation, and those additional documents marked otherwise, all written material on this site may be used freely by readers for any purpose including reproduction, subject only to the retention of moral rights by the authors. Some articles may include images for which additional permission may be required prior to reproduction. Software documentation may be duplicated in hard-copy for internal use by registered users of the systems with current maintenance agreements. Other uses of software systems documentation will be considered on written request.
Things to See in The RiskWiki
BPC RiskManager
- Are you looking for BPC RiskManager Documentation or to learn more about the software?
Bishop Phillips supplies the BPC RiskManagement suite of governance software that provides a complete governance solution across risk management, controls management, compliance management, insurance management, claims management, incident & hazard management, audit risk management, governance document management and survey generation and management. The system can be installed in configurations ranging from single-user to very large scale enterprise configurations.
The system is particularly suited to managing and reporting on the risk and compliance management tasks of government agencies, whole of government, special project, not-for-profits, insurance providers, service industries, utilities, and tertiary education sectors. You will find an extensive body of information covering technical, administration and user level tasks here.
If you have questions they may be answered in our frequently asked questions.
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In What Language Is BPC RiskManager Programmed
BPC RiskManager consists of more than 100,000 lines of code written in Delphi 7 (Object Pascal) from CodeGear (formerly Borland, now Embarcadero) compiled into W32 binary executables and TSQL/SQLPlus. Some smaller components are written or supported by libraries in JavaScript, PaxScript, and ReportBuilder script.
The Delphi environment was originally developed by Borland, starting with Turbo Pascal in the 1980's. It has been one of the leading development environments and languages for almost 20 years and has one of the largest and most skilled development communities in the world. Delphi 7 was released in 2001 and has proven to be perhaps the most resilient, and bullet proof development environment of the last decade.
Why Object Pascal?
From our perspective the most apparent reason is that by default Pascal imposes rigid data typing, and size checking. In Pascal you have to turn these off if you want to misbehave, while ..→Read More..
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Introduction - Business Process Charting
Charting the Business Process - A Unified and Holistic Approach
Why Chart?
There are many reasons we may wish to chart a business and its businesses processes including mapping of data flows, documenting process steps, designing automated and hybrid systems, defining intra and inter-organisational relationships, defining or analysing service agreements, etc.
What is a (Business) Process Chart?
A process chart is a diagramatic representation of a set of processes, that models the enveloping organisations as if it were a machine with a functional domain that encompassed the diagrammed processes.
From a computational perspective, a business process chart is a diagramatic program describing human, machine, natural, organisational, functional and non-functional systems using digraphs.
What are the Characterisitics of a Good Process Charting Method?
Objectives
This author proposes that the objectives of a good process charting system should be to:
- improve the understanding and clarity of the data represented in the chart,
- enable domain specific analysis (such as efficiency, economy, effectiveness, reliability, etc),
- enable viewing of the processes at multiple levels of detail simultaneously,
- chart the target analysis domain completely,
- seemlessly represent both automated and non automated processes in the same chart,
- enable the automated modelling of the system directly from the chart (which implies the charting "meta-language" should have a consistent "syntax" and semantics - similar to an "ideal" computer language),
- represent processes across diverse operations, industries, products and services without context specific modification of the syntax or semantics,
- produce charts from unfamiliar industries (etc) that are understandable to a moderately experienced chart reader, with no prior background in the subject charted, and
- enable the construction of "proofs" of the processes.
In this author's view these objectives are assisted when the charting system assumes the properties and conventions of well designed computer programming language - albeit a visual one. These properties include the grammatic (semantic and syntactic) consistency, structured functional encapsulation, object reuse and polymorphism, conceptual inheritance, simplicity and functional expansion.
Consistent Identifiable Grammar
The grammar of a process charting method defines the symbols, their meaning, and the rules for "legal" combinations of these symbols and meaning of such combinations.
In computational languages the atomic element in a programming language's grammar is called a token. In a text based computational language these tokens are strings of one or more characters, some of which are defined in the language with a special meaning. The tokens comprise the syntactic elements of the grammar. The grammar itself defines a consistent semantic interpretation of the syntactic elements when combined in pre-defined combinations.
In a process chart the atomic element is a symbol that maps to a real world object such as an organisation, a person, a data element, a process (or function), a data store, etc. These symbols comprise the syntactic elements of the charting method's grammar, and the charting rules ..→ Read More..
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BPC SurveyManager
- Are you looking for BPC SurveyManager Documentation or to learn more about the software?
Bundled with the BPC RiskManager suite and also supplied in both hosted and installed forms, the BPC SurveyManager software solution is an outstandingly versatile interactive web page generation engine using a survey model as the design and data storage paradigm. While being outstanding at survey creation and management the software is powerful enough to build build conventional data-input web pages. The full technical and SM language programming documentation is available from here.
Research into Virtual Worlds in Business & Education
- Are you looking for our virtual Learning research papers?
Through our Virtual Worlds research group - "Waisman Learning Systems", we do extensive work in the development of virtual learning and business spaces in SecondLife, and undertake considerable formal research into the application of Virtual Worlds to learning. You will find technical and text book material in our Virtual World Learning Systems pages. There is an extensive overview of the literature, and history of virtual worlds, a very large bibliography, details of our in-world networked lecture theatre control systems and lecture delivery systems, and a complete documentation of an extensive academic study undertaken by our WLS team into the effectiveness at achieving learning outcomes of different approaches in delivering course material in 3D virtual worlds.
You will find an extensive reading list and bibliography of works covering virtual worlds and virtual reality concepts, history, ideas, related technologies, and application in learning as well as relevant papers on learning taxonomies and teaching concepts relevant to virtual world learning systems here.
Internal Audit and Management Science
- Are you heading up an Internal Audit Team or learning internal audit methods?
If yes, you will find complete enterprise level internal audit methods and manuals on this site cross linked to our other management papers. The internal audit manuals cover everything from managing the audit team through planning the audit program to the detail of designing the audit, conducting interviews and undertaking the controls analysis; to reporting the results. Everything you are likely to need to manage and train an internal audit team is here.
- Are you a manager, management consultant or student of Management Science?
You will find articles covering topics of general management and process management methods in the RiskWiki including the detailed theory and practice of plannning, process re-engineering, control theory and our proven theories in stakeholder network organisation modelling. The work here is generally unique to this site. All methods have been used extensively and effectively in practice. Start here with process engineering.
- Are you managing a merger or an acquisition?
Take a look here first and learn about the risks in mergers and acquisitions and successful strategies for managing them from our team who have been through it successfully from both sides or the equation multiple times.
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