The risk of risk registers - managing risk is managing discourse not tools

摘要

Drummond (2011) eloquently illustrates the Janus-head of MIS using a vivisection of risk registers, noting how, although risk registers are commonly used, they often fail. Drummond finds two root causes for their failure (1) the fog of risk and (2) the surplus reality of risk registers.rnDrummond first notes that risk registers compile information about the future of the world and the possible impacts the future may have on the company. As such, risk registers are predisposed to fail, because of managerial myopia and the indeterminism of the future.