by Rob Malcolm | Jul 22, 2026 | Glossary
Adaptive Governance refers to a flexible approach that reevaluates and adjusts its principles, structures, controls, and decision-making processes based on new realities, outcomes, and organisational learning. It acknowledges that governance cannot stay effective...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 22, 2026 | Glossary
Risk Governance involves linking uncertainty and potential impacts with ownership, vigilance, judgement, escalation, and prompt action. It elevates risk management beyond mere registers, ratings, and reports, making risk meaningful by helping the organisation...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 22, 2026 | Glossary
Governance Ownership involves being accountable for maintaining governance that is visible, coherent, relevant, effective, and aligned with purpose, ethics, the actual situation, and expected outcomes. It prevents governance from turning into a fragmented collection...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 22, 2026 | Glossary
Informed Judgement is the practical use of evidence, experience, context, diverse perspectives, and ethical reasoning to decide and act under uncertainty. It recognises that decisions cannot always wait for complete information or perfect certainty. People must...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 22, 2026 | Glossary
Ethics is the discipline of deciding what ought to be done by considering purpose, affected stakeholders, foreseeable consequences, and the boundaries that should not be crossed. Ethics is more than complying with laws, policies, or professional standards. An action...