Horst Simon

Horst Simon has been in commercial banking and the risk management consultancy industries for four decades. Since 2010 he is a risk management consultant and trainer and was associated with leading global players in the field of risk management consultancy and training as well as business process outsourcing.

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Building an Effective Risk Culture

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Risk practitioners are finally catching on about building risk culture, but a whole bunch of self-proclaimed experts are talking absolute garbage.

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Perspectives on Risk Culture Building

Horst Simon

If you are spending a fortune on controls and the digging of trenches for your lines of defense… fear no more!

Adios to '3 Lines of Defense' Risk Model

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The only way forward is building an effective risk culture and teaching everyone in the company radical risk management skills.

The Key to Building Effective Risk Culture

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You must factor in competing national cultures, sub-cultures, Maslow’s theory on self-actualization and the informal groups in the company.

Thinking Differently: Building a Risk Culture

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Business is no longer life in the fast lane; it is life in the on-coming traffic, yet organizations still drive while looking in the rear-view mirror.