Our final webinar of 2018, and my final webinar as MD of Spend Matters UK/Europe, is on December 13th at 2pm (UK time). It’s titled “Understand the Risk Big Picture”.
You never know, I may be back in a different capacity for future webinars, but on the other hand, I might not! Anyway, this one is with riskmethods, who have been just great to work with over the past 2 or 3 years – just very capable but also nice people. It’s also been good to see how strongly the firm has grown in that time.
riskmethods provides a cloud-based supply chain risk management platform / solution, and perhaps appropriately for an end-of-year feel, Heiko Schwarz (one of the founders) and I will be taking a bit of an overview of risk. We’ll refer to the five short briefing papers we published last year on different types of risk – and throw in the sixth, which will be out soon, and looks at cyber-risk; a very hot topic! The previous five covered issues such as reputational risk, natural disasters and supplier financial risks.
Our feeling is that while risk has undoubtedly gone up the procurement agenda in the eight years I’ve been here, many organisations still take a…
