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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.

Frequently asked Questions About BPC RiskManger
  1. How do I get a copy of BPC RiskManager V6.2.5?
  2. Would it be possible to get a copy of the BPC RiskManager V6 installation guide?
  3. Is there a feature listing for the BPC RiskManager windows client and the browser client? We are looking at the possibility of using a mixed client environment based on user specific needs and where they are.
  4. When are multiple BPC RIskManager server licenses required? We are looking to have RM implemented across a group of companies. They will all be using the same instance with same fields and definitions as the subject matter is the same. Can we use a single server license or will we require multiple server licenses?
  5. Can you please provide information on the cost of licensing and the type of licensing for BPC RiskManager V6.x ?
  6. Does your license include the cost of MS SQL Server ?
  7. I just purchased BPC RiskManager. Will you be sending the install disks, and when?
  8. What will need to be arranged prior to the installing BPC RiskManager?
  9. Does the RiskManager client application work with FireFox browsers?
  10. In what programming language is BPC RiskManager written?
  11. Does the RiskManager plug-in itself have a certificate like a java applet does?
  12. For support, what type of support is available (i.e.: email, phone, onsite, etc...)?
  13. What is the best way to get support?
  14. How do I arrange installation support and what is the timeline?
  15. What support packages are available and at what cost?
  16. Is there a cost associated with telephone support (i.e.: cost per call or issue)?
  17. How do I get custom features added, or request new features for BPC RiskManager?
  18. Is there a User Group Forum?
  19. What type of documentation, technical and user is available for BPC RiskManager?
  20. How does one decide the optimum BPC RiskManager configuration?
  21. Is BPC RiskManager a Client-Server application?
  22. What is the difference between the browser plugin and the windows executable RiskManager client?
  23. Database stability: Is the RiskManager essentially a SQL Server application ported to Oracle?
  24. Database support: Which database choice will give us the best level of support?
  25. Security: What is the most secure architecture for BPC RiskManager?
  26. What is the best client version - the browser or non browser Risk Manager client?
  27. What admin account rights are required to setup a browser plug-in?
  28. How do I configure IE for the RiskManager browser plugin?
  29. We just ported our enterprise system to a new server and I can't login. What do I do now?
  30. How do I port BPC RiskManager from test (or dev) to production?
  31. How do I install BPC RiskManager onto a computer running a 64bit Windows OS?


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Introduction - What is the Stakeholder Community Network Model?

What and Why

What is the Community Network Theory of Organisations?

Organisational Community Network Theory

Organisational Community Network Theory premises that an organisation is a network of one or more communities existing in a network of other communities. The network links communities along lines of exchange such as communication, dependence, and obligation. Communities are collections autonomous agents and/or other communities that interact and share a sense of group identity, or share at least one purpose in common.


Agents are essentially people, but the category could easily accommodate AI devices as these develop appropriate capabilities.


Characteristics of a Community in Organisational Design

Communities provide a natural, spontaneously-forming, self-organising, and evolving human organisational structure that forms because something is shared by the participants. Through the things the participants share in common, the community unit provides a framework for standardisation, streamlining, ..→ 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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From the Vault of the BPC RiskWiki...

PHASE 1 to 3: ANALYTIC REVIEW PROCEDURES

Definition

Analytic Review Procedures (ARP) are used to analyse significant ratios and trends including the resulting investigations of unusual fluctuations and items. It is the study and evaluation of relationships among measurable financial and performance information. ARP are used on the assumption that relationships exist and that variances in these relationships can both provide audit evidence and point to the need to collect further evidence. It is a form of testing which and audit evidence which is generally rapid to assemble, but relies on the integrity of the underlying data.


Non-financial application of ARP revolves arround the analysis of management performance indicators such as demand, output, efficiency, effectiveness and environmental indicators.


Examples of non-financial applications of ARP include; a change in demand with no change in staffing level, increase in percentage of complaints, and client surveys ..→Read More..