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Organising around Risks with Prof. Malcolm Sparrow
Organising around Risks is an in-depth seminar with Prof. Malcolm Sparrow
Organisations that pursue risk-control or harm-reduction objectives traditionally organise their core programs around functional specialties and core high-volume processes. Effective risk-control requires vigilance (to understand new threats), nimbleness (the flexibility to organise around risks that don’t fit well with existing structures) and skill (to fashion and implement surgical and tailored responses).
The field of organisational theory—with its early focus on functional specialisation and more recent focus on process-management—has not said much about how to organise a risk-control or harm-reduction enterprise in a fluid and flexible way around the important risks of the day.
Emphasising functional expertise and high-quality process-management (critical though these remain) often seems to pull in the opposite direction and can appear to restrict an organisation’s capacity for fluid, creative, and effective interventions.
This two-part seminar examines the motivation for developing a capacity for risk-based work, and considers a broad range of implications for organisations that want to devote more of their resources and attention to problem-centric operations. The hope is not to displace or de-emphasise functional and process-based competence, but to add a capacity for risk-based work, learn how to organise and support that capacity, and understand how to integrate different forms of work within a single organisation.
Professor Malcolm K Sparrow
Professor of the Practice of Public Management, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Malcolm K Sparrow is a leading international expert in regulatory and enforcement strategy, security and risk control. Malcolm is the Professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government and he is Faculty Chair of the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies”.
Professor Sparrow served 10 years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector.
Who will attend
This seminar will be relevant for any organisation whose mission includes the control or reduction of risks, harms, or threats to public health, safety, security and the environment; also for any professional—in the public, private, or not-for-profit sector—whose role includes risk-control responsibilities.
- Participants will therefore include, most obviously, federal, state and local government regulatory and enforcement practitioners.
- Also, members of Professional Boards (e.g., medical boards) who carry regulatory, disciplinary and oversight responsibilities with respect to quality control, professional conduct, and public protection.
- The seminar will also interest managers and executives from the not-for-profit sector, whose organisations similarly contribute to the alleviation or reduction of public harms. Risk-control practitioners in this sector, like their counterparts in public agencies, have a legacy of organising around core programs, and need new organising principles as they seek to define their own distinctive contributions to important societal outcomes.
- Risk-control professionals from the private (corporate) sector are also welco