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Quick Index Contents Articles about BPC Software Systems BPC RiskManager BPC SurveyManager BPC RiskManager Frequently Asked Questions Bishop Phillips - Software Library Reference for Developers Articles about Governance Function Business Methods Internal Audit Risk Management Managing Risk in Mergers & Acquisitions Articles about General Management Methods Business Process Reengineering Report Writing Articles about Virtual Worlds Virtual Learning Systems About The RiskWiki About The RiskWiki Contributors 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. Frequently asked Questions About BPC RiskManger Extension:DynamicPageList4 (DPL4), version 4.0.0: Error: No selection criteria found! You must use at least one of the following parameters: category, namespace, titlematch, linksto, uses, createdby, modifiedby, lastmodifiedby, or their 'not' variants Featured Article... Managing Risk in Mergers & Acquisitions - Causes of Success & Failure Introduction - Why Merge or Acquire? For the purposes of this article we will use the terms merger, acquisition and M&A interchangeably for the general activity of conducting a merger or acquisition of one legal business entity by another. The discussion will focus on the M&A activities between distinct legal entities rather than business units within a legel entity, as the issues in the latter case are fundamentally different from those in the former case. Strictly speaking, a merger differs from an acquisition in that in an acquisition one entity assumes control and absorbs another entity, usually expunging the acquired entities operational distinctiveness. In a merger two or more entities join their business and control structures in a manner that delivers some level of shared control and business profile. In reality, the actual outcomes are rarely purely those of an acquisition or a merger - regardless of the original intentions. The act of acquiring or merging almost always results in irrevocable cultural and operational change for all entities involved - not just the entity acquired. For this reason, and for reasons that will become apparent later on, we shall treat both activities as essentially the same. Irrespective of the retoric for the merger, in order to succeed, it is critical for the parties to the merger (and particularly the dominant party) to understand clearly why they are really merging. Typical reasons for merging include (in no particular order): Economies of scale through larger productive capacity or ability to share services Vertical integration of productive capacity or the supply chain Market share / elimination of direct or indirect competition Securing supply Asset acquisition or stripping Strategic hedging through addition of counter cyclical products to the group mix Acquisition of access to Intellectual Proiperty Geographic expansion or access to markets with entry barriers Accumulation of complimentary product/service sets Suppression of emerging product line / Intellectual Property threats Acquisition of customers Not all of these motivations will pass traditional measures of success such as "improved productivity" or "staff retention" - as clearly in a number of these cases the underlying purpose of the merger has nothing to do with establishing a bigger, better, more efficient business - just a safer business environment. If your purpose is merely to eliminate a competitor, or acquire their IP, or strip their assets, etc. much of the discussion in the paper will be of limited applicability to your situation. Your objectives are met if the price you pay for acquisition and business wind-up delivers these outcomes for less than you gain in return. If your purpose is to gain productivity improvement, or economies of scale, complimentary product mix outcomes and retain as much of the ..→ Read More.. 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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BPCPageControl BPCPageControl - Modified MS Windows page/tab control to support customised colouring of tabs and borders Language: Delphi 7 - 2007 The standard MS Page/Tab controller does not allow non OS controlled tab and border colouring. This colouring defaults to grey or theme controlled settings. This version does uses the page colours to paint the control tabs and borders. Otherwise it looks and behaves exactly like the standard MS Tab/Page Control. uses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, CommCtrl, ComCtrls; type TBPCPageControl = class(TPageControl) private FThickFrame: Boolean; FBPCFrame : Boolean; FFontInactive : TColor; procedure SetThickFrame(const Value: Boolean); procedure SetBPCFrame(const Value: Boolean); protected procedure WndProc(var Msg: TMessage); override; procedure CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); override; procedure WMPaint(var Message: TWMPaint); message ..→Read More..