ABSTRACT
From an enlightened planning (EP) perspective, anyone using the term ‘risk management’ in their job or departmental label or professional affiliations needs to address several key issues, and everyone else needs an overview understanding of these issues. ‘Agile’ approaches using operational tools derived from ‘lean’ enterprise approaches were not discussed earlier, but if we adopt plain English interpretations of ‘agile’ and ‘lean’, arguably being agile and employing a lean perspective are central characteristics of much of EP. Politics, and the public pressure that drives political decision making, is an inescapable aspect of reality which all commercial organisations have to deal with. This includes, but is not limited to, the way governments approach regulation. All organisations adopting any plausible variant of an EP approach have to accommodate the implications of their political environment, and associated public pressure, as effectively and efficiently as possible.
