Kachina Shaw

Narrowing, narrowing, narrowing down into the details is usually the problem-solving tactic that technical people working on technical problems gravitate toward. They are good at it, and it often works, so why not? In IT, especially, this skill is honed on a daily basis, in work on both existing tools and systems, and planning and […]

Are you an introvert? Are you a reactive introvert? Congratulations: You are well-suited to a career in risk management. But, wait: Maturity in enterprise risk management itself as well as in the risk maturity of organizations means future generations of risk managers may be of the proactive introvert persuasion. This prediction comes in part from […]

Each year, since 2008, January 28 marks Data Privacy Day in the United States. Coordinated by the National Cyber Security Alliance, the event is sponsored by vendors including Facebook, Microsoft, Google and MasterCard. Though it focuses largely on educating the public about how best to secure their online privacy and promoting safe practices, businesses, especially […]

Part of a set of successful risk management practices means shuffling resources from the places where they will contribute least to progress into the places where they will enhance progress most. Within IT, and other departments, one of the most common ways of organizing and shuffling resources is, of course, with projects. The project manager […]

CES has brought the spotlight onto the Internet of Things, and all the shiny new Internet-enabled devices may have IT excited, jealous, calling the boss to say “we’ve got to do a version of this,” and/or pulling out the credit card. Among other activity, the Internet of Things Consortium is meeting at CES and CIOs […]

When Deloitte surveyed 192 executives in U.S. companies in a variety of industries on their enterprise risk management plans in early 2012, the vast majority agreed that they would not continue doing what they have been doing. Ninety-one percent stated that they plan to reorganize and reprioritize their risk management approach during the next three […]

As a follow-on to its comprehensive surveys on risk management practices in 2002 and 2006, the Cutter Consortium is conducting the same survey for “Risk Management 2013: A Comprehensive Study.” The resulting report will be similarly detailed to the reports for the first two surveys, which each include Cutter’s benchmarking approach to risk management principles, […]

After financial services, perhaps nowhere is the risk greater to both provider and client than in health care when a data breach or loss occurs. And it seems that good data protection practices are falling by the wayside in the scramble to digitize, organize and share that data. The Ponemon Institute just released a report […]

One billion dollars. Zero results. Those are the basics of a cancelled software modernization project at the Air Force. And since it was your taxpayer money, and you deserve to know, I’ll just go ahead and tell you that nobody was fired or demoted as a result of this fiasco. Air Force leadership did not […]

If you’ve grown tired of reading and hearing about BYOD this year, take a deep breath. 2013 is not going to slow the frenzied pace of bring-your-own-fill-in-the-blank. In fact, this last month of the year will be brutal all by itself, as employees and their families snap up all the hot, new tablets on offer. […]

We’ve looked at risk management challenges from the point of view of executives, project managers and team members, and line-of-business staff in this blog. While a cross-functional approach is necessary, even that can become unnecessarily complicated, or worse, ineffective, if one functional group’s informational needs aren’t fully addressed, or if new info silos emerge. At […]

How many times have you seen this posted on Facebook in the last couple of days? “In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use […]