Ep 20: Team diversity helps boost competence in risk management

Risk management involves making decisions based on incomplete information at any given time. One area where risk practitioners struggle a lot is in managing risk associated with reasonably foreseeable misuse. We struggle to figure out what type of misuse might be reasonable, and what might be foreseeable, because human behavior often is neither reasonable nor predictable!

That is why Rene Drost advises risk practitioners to focus on building team diversity. When we include diverse viewpoints and life experiences in our analysis, we benefit from our collective insights. A diverse team helps us consider a much broader range of foreseeable circumstances than a team of individuals with very similar background.

About Rene Drost

Rene Drost is currently the senior executive at NAMCO Healthcare Technology, a globally operating knowledge company specialized in maintenance and operations in the healthcare sector. He started his career as a technical officer in the Netherlands AirForce, and later moved to KLM as the head of their maintenance unit. He also manages FSCA.com for vigilance and post market surveillance activities and serves as the PRRC and ISO 13485/27001 lead auditor.

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