“How to increase client value in the planning and realization phase” Author: P.J. van der Wal BSc. This research focuses on opportunities and opportunity management in the planning and realization phase of infrastructure projects. Opportunities are uncertain situations that can be exploited by the project team in order to create added value for the client and opportunity [...]
Focus on the factors that could redefine intellectual-property competition in your industry. Source: McKinsey Quarterly Authors: Oliver Alexy and Markus Reitzig Several years ago, something interesting happened in the infrastructure software sector: IBM and a number of other companies pledged some of their own patents to the public to create IP-free zones in parts of the value [...]
Source: The New Yorker Author: James Surowiecki On February 1, 1953, a fierce, sustained storm created a huge surge in the North Sea off the coast of Holland. Floodwaters overtopped the dikes, swallowing half a million acres of land and killing nearly two thousand people. Within weeks of the storm, a government commission issued what [...]
Author: Ibsen Chivatá Cárdenas Clearly, tunnel construction risks are the consequences of interactions between site- and project- specific factors. In the ground many features can affect and compromise the stability of a tunnel, for instance, by undesirable interactions between the excavation process and remains, unexpected features in the ground, buried works, and infrastructure on the surface. Overlooking those risk [...]
Research to a methodology to assess the overall risk position of Enexis Author: B. Peppelman Risk management is of major importance for companies nowadays and the lack of it can have enormous consequences as it is currently illustrated by the world wide credit crunch. Enexis uses risk management on a corporate and operational level. On the operational level [...]
Source: University of Twente At the opening of the Centre for Risk Management, Safety and Security various speakers will stress the importance they attach to how their organizations deal with risk and safety. The speakers are: Prof. dr. Ed Brinksma, Rector Magnificus, University of Twente; Prof. mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven; Mr. drs. Jan Kees de [...]
David Blanchflower makes the case for an immediate increase in public investment in building. The drop in gross domestic product of 0.7 per cent in the second quarter of 2012 was greeted with incredulity by those who have been saying for months that the UK is not in a double dipper when we obviously are. [...]
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The video above re-aired last night on 60 Minutes. It features an in-depth account of Steve Jobs from his authorized biographer Walter Isaacson, whose book Steve Jobs was the second-highest selling non-fiction work of 2011, despite not being published until just before Halloween. (The segment has a Part II you can watch here)). Read more [...]
The German federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz is well advanced in its programme of actions required to comply with the provisions of the EU Flood Directive. So far, the preliminary flood risk assessments; the flood hazard maps; and, the flood risk maps have been completed for the entire state. In early 2011, the flood risk management [...]
Global Risk Management Survey 2013
Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Survey report is part of this process, capturing the latest risk trends and priorities facing companies around the world. The report unveiled the top 10 risks now and three years in the future. Conducted in Q4 2012, the web-based survey gathered input from 1,415 respondents — a 47 percent increase [...]
By Daniel Cressey for Nature “Across the globe, hives of honeybees are dying off in a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. Among the proposed culprits are pesticides called neonicotinoids, which are supposed to be less harmful to beneficial insects and mammals than the previous generation of chemicals. Debate over neonicotinoids has become fierce. Conservation groups and [...]
The economic crisis in Spain has led to an increased awareness among senior executives of how risk must be managed globally. Read more > Leer más > (en espagñol) Source: Strategic Risk
A framework in development By Ed Mallens and Jack P. Kruf The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has worked on the ISO 31000 as referential framework for risk management in organizations. The setting has been outlined by ISO very clearly: “Risks affecting organizations can have consequences in terms of economic performance and professional reputation, as [...]
ISO 31000 and the Icelandic volcano crisis
By Kevin Knight The air traffic crisis provoked by the Icelandic volcano eruption, with its accompanying economic and societal effects, is analyzed through the lens of the ISO 31000 risk management standard by the leader of the group of ISO experts who developed it. The cloud of ash from the Icelandic volcano which has wreaked [...]
By PricewaterhouseCoopers Government and the global CEO: A new contract between business and the state 72% of government and public sector CEOs are somewhat or extremely concerned that fiscal deficits have risen. Each year, PwC’s Annual Global CEO survey gives business leaders, governments and the world’s business community a unique insight into the vision and decisions [...]
Reconsidering the Public-Private Risk Sector Management Divide
By Peter C. Young PhD. Five years ago I wrote a short article entitled, “Public and Private Sector Risk Management: Is There a Difference?” In that article I stated that while there is strength to the argument that ‘management is management’ and that leadership in any type of organization calls on common knowledge, skills and [...]
