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http://www.accaglobal.com/lk/en/student/exam-support-resources/professional-exams-study-resources/p1/technical-articles/coso-enterprise-risk-management-framework-part-1.html This article examines the guidance published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) COSO The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) was established in the mid-1980s, initially to sponsor research into the causes of fraudulent financial reporting. Its current mission is to: ‘provide thought leadership through the development of comprehensive frameworks and guidance on enterprise risk management, internal control and fraud deterrence designed to improve organisational performance and governance and to reduce the extent of fraud in organisations.’     Although COSO’s guidance is non-mandatory, it has been influential because it provides frameworks against which risk management and internal control systems can be assessed and improved.  Corporate scandals, arising in ...

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Kotter's 8-step model src - http://www.change-management-consultant.com/john-kotter.html John Kotter's Eight Steps to Transforming Your Organization 1. Establishing a Sense of Urgency During this first step it is essential to acquire the cooperation of many individuals and to ensure they are motivated to participate. Kotter writes in the article that well over 50% of the companies he watched failed in this first phase.  Begin by examining the firm's competitive realities, market trends, and the effects on financial performance. Communicate this information dramatically in respect of the potential crises. Convince at least 75% of a company's management that the current situation is totally unacceptable, and pursuing change is less risky than maintaining the status quo. Build motivation, involvement and support. John Kotter Risk 1 . Kotter refers to this risk of this first phase as:  Not Establishing a Great Enough Sense of Urgency When the urgency ...

To date, improvements to PM tools have been evolutionary and not revolutionary.  All the PM tools are still based on the PERT/CPM approach.  The improvements that occur with each round of new PM tools are merely “bells and whistles” (e.g., better tracking of resources, uploading from spreadsheets) or perhaps enabling the tool to be used over the internet.  Unfortunately, a 50-year old methodology delivered over the internet is still a 50-year old methodology. Fundamentally, the PERT/CPM approach suffers from three (3) major flaws: Task duration is an input.   However, many factors (e.g., availability and productivity of resources, dependencies among tasks, hours worked by employees) affect the duration of a task.  Thus, in the real world, task duration is actually an  output . Productivity impacts are not considered.   In current PM tools, labor can be added to or removed from a task with no impact on the productivity of labor applied to the task....