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- Articles about Governance Function Business Methods
- Articles about General Management Methods
- Articles about Virtual Worlds
- About The RiskWiki
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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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Licensing Philosophy
There is an element of 'fair use' in the licensing models, and a little variation across countries to satisfy the particular market expectations of each country. Fee structures are based on your location.
Essentially we have to take into account the purpose of the installation - as this relates to maintenance and support. You local office will discuss and agree the terms of the license arrangement for these more unusual configurations. We do not generally count training or testing installs in the license. We rely on your honesty and integrity and sense of fair play - recognising that we all have to be able to stay in business. In the Enterprise and Group licenses, we also allow additional desktop (single user) copies to be installed as long as the use is for the purposes of the licensing client's business.
Licensing models
Subject to local variations, the basic models are:
- Single User. License by user - but we usually allow a few people to ..→Read More..
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Definition, Purposes & Outcomes
Definition
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the method by which the infrastructure, policies, procedures and practices of an organisation are reviewed and redesigned to achieve some predefined purpose and objective. Purpose and Objective differ in that the purpose describes the reason for the process while the objective is the reason for the reengineering of the process. The objective is generally the optimisation of the quality - cost relationship, but may be any other objective(s) defined by the stakeholders of the processes revised.
Hammer, a popular author of reengineering texts defines reengineering as : The fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to bring about dramatic improvements in performance. Essentially, he argues that BPR is about major change in an organisation, yet perhaps this reflects a rather naive preoccupation with “big-is-better”. BPR can be about constrained well focussed small scale redesign as much as about monolithic reconstruction.
BPR is not new, although many consultants in the field try to claim otherwise. It is simply one more evolutionary step in a long stream of management change processes that includes Statistical Quality Control, TQM, Internal Audit, Work & Job Redesign, Goal Focussed Management, Workflow Management, Systems Analysis, etc. The theoretical foundation in BPR is quite old and can be seen particularly in the work in Systems Analysis undertaken at the University of Lancaster since 1969. What is new about BPR is its holistic view of the organisation and its attempt to capture the management philosophies that preceded it into a single integrated method.
Perhaps due in part to its conglomerate nature there is little standardisation among BPR approaches nor agreement on what is, or is not, BPR. With a few notable exceptions, the literature tends to be long on promises and case studies claiming stratospheric success but short on detail. This manual attempts to provide both a definition of BPR and an integrated strategy of analytic methods for performing it.
Although significantly different in approach from the work in systems analysis of the University of Lancaster, the development of our method owes a fundamental debt to the ..→ 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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