Risk managers form network in Austria
Risk management specialists in Austria are now forming workgroups for the exchange of professional opinions, the joint development of methods and tools and positioning with regard to the law. Their aim is to professionalise their work and to assist the breakthrough of risk/compliance management as a strategic instrument in day-to-day company business. Under the aegis of the Risk Management Association (RMA) e.V., an initialisation meeting of the ‘RMA Austria’ took place on 12 March in Salzburg.
20 specialists took up the invitation of the Risk Management Association e.V. (RMA) to attend an initialisation meeting of the ‘RMA Austria’ on 12 March in Salzburg. “Our Austrian colleagues are now champing at the bit to establish something concrete together with the RMA,” said the satisfied RMA chairman Frank Romeike afterwards.
The meeting kicked off with a risk management practice report. After that the potentials and aims of the RMA in Austria were defined. The participants thereby agreed on five main points that should be pursued with the founding of an Austrian network: exchange of professional opinions; joint development of methods and tools; workgroup activity on the basis of clear goals, themes and schedules; lobby work for the Austrian market and in relation to the national legislator; use of the professional magazine published by the RMA - ‘Risk, Compliance & Audit’.
The priority themes discussed for the RMA workgroup in Austria were: information risk management; methods and implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM); (legal) compliance; standards & certification; human capital and awareness.
The next steps will be the formation of two Austrian theme-specific workgroups. An RMA workgroup, ‘Information Risk Management’, is planned to start on 21 April in Linz. Similarly planned for the second quarter of 2009 is the first workshop of a ‘Methods and Implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Workgroup’
The work of the workgroups should be based on a close exchange of information with companies from Germany and Switzerland. Both of the workgroups starting under the wings of the RMA will be supported in their organisation and administration by the branch office as well as an appointed member of the board of directors of the Risk Management Association. Activities and results from the new network will be summarised in the member magazine, 'Risk, Compliance & Audit' in a dedicated category.
Contact addresses for those interested in collaborating:
‘Information Risk Management Workgroup’: ak-irm@rma-ev.org
‘Enterprise Risk Management Workgroup’: ak-erm@rma-ev.org
