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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 reuired 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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BPC RiskManager is shipped with a pre-configured database, set up with the most common options so you can use it right "out of the box". However, this application can really "sing" and you will probably want to do a lot more than just the standard configuration.
Generally, (although not mandatory) we will conduct a short consultancy to ascertain the most suitable initial configuration, and build a pre-configured database for you to use.
BPC RiskManager is designed to cover a very wide range of risk models so the configuration settings are not always obvious from the start. Almost everything can be changed from the client and are a few settings that are set on the application server management interface - so the initial decisions can be changed later. The install set includes a partially configured database with default settings, so it can be used "out of the box" - but we would generally advise you to have a small amount of configuration and training support in ..→Read More..
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About The Author
Jonathan Bishop, Group Chairman, Bishop Phillips Consulting. [1]
Copyright 1995-2019 - Moral Rights Retained
This article may be copied and reprinted in whole or in part, provided that the original author and Bishop Phillips Consulting is credited and this copyright notice is included and visible, and that a reference to this web site (http://RiskWiki.bishopphillips.com/) is included.
This article is provided to the community as a service by Bishop Phillips Consulting www.bishopphillips.com.
About This Document
This paper compliments the Internal Audit and Management Consulting guides and discussions throughout the RiskWiki. It presents a brief guide to issues of style and presentation in writing up findings generally and with a very few exceptions applies universally to consultant and management reports (as well as to Internal Audit Reports).
Texts used as the basis for some of the views presented in this document and worthy of further exploration include:
- The Penguin Working Words (Penguin 1993)
- Fowler's Modern English Usage 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press 1965)
- Oxford Dictionary (Oxford University Press)
- Style Manual 4th Edition (Australian Government Press Service 1988)
- Practical English Usage - Michael Swan (Oxford University Press 1980)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language - David Crystal (Cambridge University Press 1987)
- Deloitte Internal Audit Method, Volume 6 - Report Writing - J Bishop & J Crawford (DTT 1992-3)
- Stanton Consulting Partners Style Manual (J Bishop 1995)
- NAB IA Reporting Style Guide ( J Bishop -1999- & an Unknown NAB Staff Member)
- Bishop Phillips Consulting Style Manual (J Bishop 2000)
Writing Style
Introduction
Bishop's Writing Rules:
- Rule: The Passive puts people to sleep.
- Rule: Ending a sentence with a preposition is a situation up with which I will not put.
- Rule: Objects like subjects
- Rule: One point to a paragraph
- Rule: Get to the bottom line first
- Rule: Just do it - say what you mean.
- Rule: Readers don’t read
- Rule: Three sentences are company, four is a crowd
- Rule: Conjunctions can't commence (a sentence)
- Rule: Conjunction collections confuse
- Rule: Personalise people not things
- Rule: Negativity negates.
- Rule: DON'T SHOUT
- Rule: Don't plan to make a plan.
- Rule: Consistency is king
- Rule: Death is in the details.
- Rule: Pronouns need a noun
- Don't split the infinitive
- Rule: Unintroduced acronyms are antisocial
- Rule: Generalities are generally imprecise
- Rule: Let the facts carry the case.
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In written expression, a few simple rules can make the difference between clarity and confusion. Applying the rules in this section will help us both record our ideas efficiently and convey our meaning clearly.
The rules are a mix of style and traditional grammar identified over many years of reviewing and writing audit reports. We will need a rudimentary understanding of grammar to apply a number of these rules effectively.
Syntax assists semantics. Grammar defines the syntax of the language. Good syntax describes the structures a sentence can follow and still be considered well formed.
Semantics is the meaning of a sentence. Syntax assists semantics by managing the flow of ideas, and distinguishing ambiguities.
Consider for a moment the classic poets' joke
"What is this thing called love?" - The plaintive cry of a tortured heart.
"What is this thing called, love?" -The question of a curious friend on sighting a never before seen object.
One stray comma makes all the difference to the meaning of the question. In speech we use tone, rhythm, intonation and body language to convey meaning. In ..→ 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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