All life is
problem solving.
Karl Popper
I watch institutions, companies, regulators and communities wrestle with problems—past, present and emerging. When one fascinates me, I seek a paying customer to put an answer to the test. I bear the cost of trial and error until the solution works in practice and earns its keep. Then I follow the next question.
Winston PengKuala Lumpur
How the work moves
01 · ObserveProblemsWhat I observe: problems and opportunities, and the first ideas they suggest.Latest44 Barbwires of Enterprise Risk Management02 · TheoriseSolvingSerious attempts to solve them, still on paper.LatestQuantitative ERM 10103 · EngineerProjectsEngineering the solutions, for real.LatestMulti-horizon Climate-adjusted Enterprise Valuation
The three domains
Risk. Innovation. Culture.
Between them, they cover most of what institutions, and people, have to get right.
Worldview
“I want to be a fellow traveller in these transitions, not a consultant watching from a safe distance.”
1992TodayThe horizon
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds to understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”Immanuel KantWorldview ›