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Quick Links -- Insight for:
Operational Risk Management Leaders
Board Members
Finance
Leaders
Information Technology Leaders
IT-Related Business Risk Management
Leaders
Operational Risk Management Leaders
Book
Articles
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Three Steps to More Insightful Key
Risk Indicators, RMA Operational Risk Newsletter, December
2011
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Board Room View on Operational Risk:
Interview with Mark Olson, former Governor, Federal Reserve
System, RMA Operational Risk Newsletter, December 2011
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Real Scenarios for Real Performance in
Risk Oversight, Corporate Board Member, November 2011
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Good Risk Management Means No
Buck-Passing, Harvard Business Review HBR.org, October 2011
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Four Ways Financial CIOs Can Drive
Sharper Enterprise Risk Management, InformationWeek, October
2011
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Operational Risk Management – Key
Shifts Required to Rise to the Challenge, OCEG, July 2011
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Real Risk Reduction, G. David, B.
Barnier GARP, June 2011
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Evaluating Operations and
Information Technology Risk in Banks: Opportunities for
Auditors to Bring More Value to Institutions, G. David,
B. Barnier, EDPACS, Taylor & Francis, April/May 2011
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Boardroom View of Operational Risk
– Interview with Humphrey Polanen, Chair, Audit
Committee, Board of Directors, Heritage Commerce Corp.,
RMA Operational Risk Newsletter, April 2011
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Avoiding Traps in RCSAs, Five
Questions to Ask, RMA Operational Risk Newsletter, April
2011
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Boardroom View of Operational Risk
-- Interview with W. Ronald Dietz, Chair, Audit and Risk
Committee, Board of Directors, Capital One Financial
Corporation, Operational Risk Roundup, Risk Management
Association, September 2010.
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Global Insight for Banks of All
Sizes - A Discussion with Gabriel David, Operational
Risk Roundup, Risk Management Association, September
2010
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Five Tips to Get More Business Benefit From Operational Risk. Ops Risk Roundup, Risk Management
Association, July 2010.
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“Taking a More Direct Road to
Reducing Operational Risk,” G David, B Barnier, RMA
Journal, March 2010
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“Ten Questions in Operational Risk
Today and Insight from Other Industries,” RMA Journal,
December 2009/January 2010
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“Four Challenges to Effective Ops
Risk Reporting – And Tips to Overcome Them,” RiskTech,
December 2009
Audio and
Video
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What Works in Monitoring Risk?, This
Week in The Board Room, Corporate Board Member, November
2011
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Enterprise Risk Management: Your Role
in Reducing Risk to the Business, ISACA and
SearchCompliance.com, August, 2011
-- limited time availability
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Assessing and Treating the Real
Risks to Compliance, OCEG, June 2011
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Five Ways to Evaluate the
Performance-Focus of Your Operational Risk Management
Program, Compliance Week, March 2011.
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Tying Operational Risk Management
to Business Performance, Mash Risk TV March 2010
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Five Steps to Building the Next
Level in Operational Risk Management, Mash Risk TV,
August 2010
- Seven hurdles to IT
infrastructure and risk management for banks:
implementing Basel II, Business Resilience Webcast
Series, IBM, 2007.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/governance/businesscontinuity/webcast-series.html
From RiskTech.FinanceTech.com,
a TechWeb/InformationWeek website (2008-2011)
Risk-reward
management -- one day at a time
Seeking
Better Outcomes from Risk Management? New Research Gives
Tips
News from
GCOR: Five ops risk trends you need to know
Basel II
Pillar 2 Proposed Enhancements – Four Key Steps to You
Can Take Now
Stress
Testing – Becoming One With the Business
Operational
Risk Survival Guide: Tips for Mergers, Becoming a BHC
and other Changes
Ops Risk
Survival Guide: Three Lessons Bankers Need to Learn from
Oil & Gas Risk Management
Ops Risk
Survival Guide: Three Lessons Bankers Need to Learn from
Hospital Risk Management
Ops Risk
Survival Guide: 3 Lessons Financial Institutions Need to
Learn from Lifeguards
Ops Risk
Survival Guide: 3 Lessons Financial Institutions Can
Learn from Crisis Managers
Ops Risk
Survival Guide: 3 Lessons Ops Risk Managers Can Learn
from Electric Utilities
Ops Risk
Survival Guide: 3 Lessons to Learn from Crime
Investigators
Best
Practice & New Basel II Enhancements: 3 Insights into
Ops Risk Maturity
Three Ops
Risk Lessons to Learn from Hotel Risk Management
3 Ops Risk
Lessons to Learn from Aviation Safety
Three Ops
Risk Lessons to Learn from Manufacturing Risk Management
3 ways to
improve business-IT risk management
Four Challenges to Effective
Ops Risk Reporting – and Tips to Overcome Them
Four Challenges to Effective
Ops Risk Reporting – and Tips to Overcome Them --
Part II
Video:
Q9:
What are some newer best practices
for technology risk governance?
Q10:
How can organizations reduce IT
infrastructure risk?
Q11:
How does/can an institution's IT
architecture support an effective risk management
strategy?
Q12:
What can a CIO do to better
support an organization's risk management strategy?
Board Members
Articles
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"Risk-Return
Awareness in the Board Room: Solid Steps for Success," N
Stasevich, N May, B Barnier, Whitepaper Series, May, 2010
Board Room View on Operational Risk:
Interview with Mark Olson, former Governor, Federal Reserve
System, RMA Operational Risk Newsletter, December 2011
Real Scenarios for Real Performance in
Risk Oversight, Corporate Board Member, November 2011
Good Risk Management Means No
Buck-Passing, Harvard Business Review HBR.org, October 2011
Boardroom View of Operational
Risk – Interview with Humphrey Polanen, Chair, Audit
Committee, Board of Directors, Heritage Commerce
Corp., RMA Operational Risk Newsletter, April 2011
Boardroom View of Operational
Risk -- Interview with W. Ronald Dietz, Chair, Audit
and Risk Committee, Board of Directors, Capital One
Financial Corporation, Operational Risk Roundup,
Risk Management Association, September 2010.
Global Insight for Banks of
All Sizes - A Discussion with Gabriel David,
Operational Risk Roundup, Risk Management
Association, September 2010
Audio and
Video
Finance Leaders
Articles
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Good Risk Management Means No
Buck-Passing, Harvard Business Review HBR.org, October 2011
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Operational Risk Management – Key
Shifts Required to Rise to the Challenge, OCEG, July 2011
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Managing IT Business Risk, The Journal
of Corporate Accounting and Finance, John Wiley & Sons,
August 2011
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Taking
Business-IT Finance and Planning to the Next Level -- More
Insight for Action, Financial Executive, Financial
Executives Institute, July 2011
Unlimited Engagement: How CFOs Can
Educate Their Boards About Risk Management, AFP Exchange,
May, 2011
5 Steps to Better Board Risk
Management (online abbreviated version), Association
for Financial Professionals, April 2011
Please see full story in print edition.
Dodd-Frank Considerations for
Reporting Companies, J Klimko, R Green, B Barnier,
Risk Newsletter, AFP, February 2011
Tripping Over the (Almost) Obvious, Common CFO
Pitfalls with IT Value, Financial Executives
Research Foundation IT Newsletter, February 2011
A Key Question for the CFO,
When Is it Time To Restructure IT? Financial
Executive Research Foundation IT Newsletter,
November 2010.
Regulatory Risk: 5 Steps for
Coping, Association for Financial Professionals,
September, 2010
“Strategic Treasury” – Three
Powerful, Yet Practical Ways for You to Grow Your
Impact, Exchange, Association of Finance
Professionals, August 2010.
“The Downturn: How CIOs and
CFOs Must Work Together,” Journal of Corporate
Accounting and Finance, Wiley & Sons, Volume 21,
Issue 5, pages 49–55, July/August 2010
“Taking Business-IT Finance and Planning to the Next
Level – More Insight for Action,” Financial
Executives Research Foundation Newsletter, July
2010.
“Survey on
the CFO-CIO Relationship,” Finance and IT News,
Financial Executives Research Foundation, January 2010.
“Risk Management: Making it Easier, Making it More
Effective,” Finance and Information Technology
News, Financial Executives Research Foundation,
October 2009.
“The New CFO-CIO Conversation – What Do I Do Next?”
Finance and Information Technology News,
Financial Executives Research Foundation, Issue 71,
May 2009.
Audio
and Video
Information
Technology Leaders
Articles
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Four Ways Financial CIOs Can Drive
Sharper Enterprise Risk Management, InformationWeek, October
2011
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Managing IT Business Risk, The Journal
of Corporate Accounting and Finance, John Wiley & Sons,
August 2011
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Improving Key Hiring Decisions -
Selecting Your IT Risk Leader, Center for CIO Leadership,
August 2011
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All about the business: Critical
insights on operational risk, SearchCIO, August 2011
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Improving Key Hiring Decisions --
Selecting the IT Governance Leader, Center for CIO
Leadership, July 2011
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How to Improve IT Value
Measurement, CIO Insight, February 2011
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Six Tips to Take IT
Governance, Risk and Compliance to the Next Level, @ISACA,
December 2010.
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“Show Me the Money! Three
Ways to Better Partner with Finance,” ISACA Journal,
November, 2010
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“The Downturn: How CIOs and
CFOs Must Work Together,” Journal of Corporate
Accounting and Finance, Wiley & Sons, Volume 21,
Issue 5, pages 49–55, July/August 2010
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Five Tips for Better
Communication with “the Business.” @ISACA, July 2010
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“CIO Quick Start Guide: 5 Steps To
Hiring Your IT Risk Leader,” Center for CIO Leadership,
April 2010
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“2010 – The Year of Making IT More
Personal to the C-Suite – Six Tips to Help YOU Bring
More Benefit to Your Organization,” The Innovator,
Financial Services Roundtable, March 2010
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“Manufacturers Can Get More
Return, Less Risk from IT” B Barnier, U Fischer,
Industry Week, February 2010
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“Risk Management Implications for
CIOs in a Challenging Year,” Insurance and Technology
Magazine, February 2010.
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“New CIO-CFO Partnership,”
Baseline Magazine, Jan/Feb 2010
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“Five Tips to Take IT Governance
to the Next Level,” @ISACA, 20 January 2010
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“Driving New
Value from IT Risk Management,” B Barnier, G Westerman,
ISACA Journal, January 2010.
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“Key Questions in COBIT
Success— What You Need to Know,” COBIT Focus, Vol. 1,
January 2010
- Tips for Talking with Boards of Directors, SCAN,
Sydney, Australia, October 2009
- Turning Insight into Action: Practical Tips for
Getting Traction, SCAN, Sydney, Australia, October
2009.
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“Six steps to optimize IT
governance” NetworkWorld.com, Microsoft Subnet,
August 5 2009
- “Driving More Business Value: The CIO to Business
Strategy Leader Discussion” SCAN Sydney,
Australia ISACA, July 2009.
- “COBIT for Troubled Times—Unlocking COBIT to
Strengthen the CIO-CFO Partnership” COBIT Focus
July 2009.
- “The New CFO-CIO Conversation – What Do I Do Next?”
Finance and Information Technology News,
Financial Executives Research Foundation, Issue 71,
May 2009.
- “Tough Decisions for Tough Times: YOUR Role in
Reshaping IT Cost Structures” SCAN Sydney,
Australia ISACA, March 2009.
- “ITGI Roundtable: Value Delivery” B. Barnier,
moderator, ITGI Roundtable Series, February 2009
- “IT Risk Management: Balanced Maturity Can Yield Big
Results.” B. Barnier, G. Westerman IBM Whitepaper,
February 2009
- “How Mature is Your IT Risk Management?” G.
Westerman, B. Barnier, MIT Sloan CISR Research
Briefing, Volume VIII, No. 3C, December 2008.
- “A CIO’s guide to IT risk management: tapping the
extraordinary potential for business value and
financial growth.” IBM Whitepaper, September 2008
And, regular contributions to
Center for CIO Leadership
Audio
and Video
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Insights from ISACA's Risk-Reward
Barometer, ISACA, October 2011
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ISACA Risk IT Framework, Mash Risk
TV, April 2010
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Business Service Management and
Tools for IT Service Delivery, podcast, SearchCIO.com, 9
November 2009
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Importance of IT Governance in a
Recession, podcast, SearchCIO.com, 17 September 2009.
- From Risktech.financetech.com Q&A series:
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What are some newer best practices
for technology risk governance?
How can organizations reduce IT
infrastructure risk?
What can a CIO do to better
support an organization's risk management strategy?
IT-Related Business Risk Management
Leaders
Articles
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Managing IT Business Risk, The Journal
of Corporate Accounting and Finance, John Wiley & Sons,
August 2011
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Help your information weather the
storm, ISACA NOW, August 2011
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Getting business done: Key next steps
in IT-related business risk management, ISACA.org, June 2011
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Ask Five Questions Before Assessing
Your Controls, @ISACA, Vol 12, June 2011
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Evaluating Operations and
Information Technology Risk in Banks: Opportunities
for Auditors to Bring More Value to Institutions, G.
David, B. Barnier, EDPACS, Taylor & Francis,
April/May 2011
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Key Questions to help You Save
Time and Money with Risk Management, @ISACA, March
2011
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Ready for 2011? 5 Questions
for CISOs to Ask, SC Magazine, January 2011.
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Six Tips to Take IT
Governance, Risk and Compliance to the Next Level, @ISACA,
December 2010.
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“CRISC: A New Step in
Professionalism,” COBIT Focus, Volume 4, ISACA,
October 2010.
- Contributor,
Evaluating Cloud Risk for the
Enterprise: A Shared Assessments Guide, Ed. Browne,
Niall and Space, Susanna, The Shared Assessments
Program, October, 2010
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From IT Risk Management to IT Business
Risk Management in Five Steps, SearchCompliance.com,
September 2010
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Five Tips for Understanding
Risk in Cloud Computing, @ISACA, September 2010
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“Inside Look at the ISACA IT
GRC Conference,” @ISACA, June, 2010
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Integrating GRC frameworks and
practices—How to get the most benefit for your
enterprise and YOU, ISACA and SearchCompliance.com, June
2010
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“Five Tips for Growing Your Career
from IT/Info Security to IT Risk,” @ISACA, April 2010
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“Risk Management Implications for
CIOs in a Challenging Year,” Insurance and Technology
Magazine, February 2010.
“Driving New
Value from IT Risk Management,” B Barnier, G Westerman,
ISACA Journal, January 2010.
“The New ISACA Risk IT Framework and Best Practice:
Filling a Gap, Making Risk Management Easier and
More Effective,” EDPACS, Taylor & Francis, (2009)
40:1,1 — 7.
Barnier, Brian and Marti, Richard. "Reducing Risk to
Financial Operations through IT and Infrastructure
Risk Management." Risk Management in Finance.
Ed. Tarantino, Anthony and Cernauskas, Deborah.
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.
“Driving Value From Nonrevenue-generating
Activities: Myths and Misunderstandings of
Governance and Risk Management.” ISACA Journal
ISACA, Volume 2, March/April, 2009.
“IT Risk Management: Balanced Maturity Can Yield Big
Results.” B. Barnier, G. Westerman IBM Whitepaper,
February 2009
“IT Risk Taxonomy, Fries and a Drink”
SCAN
Sydney, Australia ISACA, December 2008.
“How Mature is Your IT Risk Management?” G.
Westerman, B. Barnier, MIT Sloan CISR Research
Briefing, Volume VIII, No. 3C, December 2008.
“Growing Business Value the Old Fashioned Way ---
Risk Management.” ebizq.net 17 November 2008.
“Growing Business Value the Old Fashioned Way ---
Risk Management.” SCAN Sydney, Australia
ISACA, September 2008
“A CIO’s guide to IT risk management: tapping the
extraordinary potential for business value and
financial growth.” IBM Whitepaper, September 2008
“Driving Business Value with Improved IT &
Infrastructure Risk Management.” Innovator
Financial Services Technology Consortium, April 2008
“Reduce risk in business acquisitions and
consolidation by better managing IT and
infrastructure dependencies.” Business Resilience
Solutions, IBM Whitepaper, March 2008
Audio
and Video
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Insights from ISACA's Risk-Reward
Barometer, ISACA, October 2011
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Enterprise Risk
Management: Your Role in Reducing Risk to the Business,
ISACA and SearchCompliance.com, August, 2011
-- limited time only
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Integrating IT-related risk: the
next chapter in business benefit, Brighttalk, June 2011
- Integrating
Governance, Risk and Compliance Frameworks and Practices
– How to them Work for YOU, Building a Better
GRC Program, ISACA and Searchcompliance.com, June
2010.
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Risk Management Survey 2010 (US
results), April 2010
ISACA Risk IT Framework, Mash Risk TV 2010
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Improving Licensing and Compliance
Processes Through Outsourcing, webinar, Insurance &
Technology Magazine, 17 November 2009
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GRC and IT: Frameworks, Controls
and Implementations Virtual Tradeshow ITGRC, ISACA and
SearchComplinace.com, 3 November 2009.
From Risktech.financetech.com Q&A series:
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What are some newer best practices
for technology risk governance?
-
How can organizations reduce IT
infrastructure risk?
- How does/can an institution's IT
architecture support an effective risk management
strategy?
- What can a CIO do to better
support an organization's risk management strategy?
Aerospace and defense IT infrastructure, risk and
resilience, Thought Leadership Podcast Series for
Aerospace & Defense, IBM, September 2008.
http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/aerodefense/doc/content/landing/4190860118.html
Seven hurdles to IT infrastructure and risk
management for banks: implementing Basel II,
Business Resilience Webcast Series, IBM, 2007.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/governance/businesscontinuity/webcast-series.html
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