In recent years I have been amazed by the number of books written on the subject of risk management that completely fail to prescribe risk measurement techniques. If you are looking for a history of risk management or information on trends in risk management or case studies on best practices in risk management or insight on how to build the right (i.e., risk-sensitive) culture, then you ne…
The field of enterprise risk management (ERM) was born from corporate scandals early in this century. COSO published its Integrated Framework in 2004, outlining eight ERM components that, when present and functioning effectively, provide reasonable assurance an organization will meet its objectives. Since then, organizations have been increasingly urged to adopt risk oversight practices, wit…
By now it has been clear that urgent action is needed if we are to avoid a global water crisis. Despite the vital importance of water to all aspects of human life, the sector has been plagued by a chronic lack of political support, poor governance and underinvestment. As a result, hundreds of millions of people around the world remain trapped in poverty and ill health and exposed to the risks o…
PREFACE This guide is a catalogue of ideas, information, services and material available to those interested in energy conservation. It is intended to stimulate food and beverage processor's interest in energy conservation and give information on how to get an energy management program started. More specific information is available and advice should be sought from qualified engineering st…
The main objective of the paper is to discuss how indicators and metrics can be used in risk management. In introduction, there are presented some general ideas about enterprise risk management and its implementation using key risk indicators (KRIs). In Section, there are presented several definitions for KRI and the steps which must be followed for implementing a set of KRI. In Section 2, it i…
Although strategic management of R&D portfolios is common practice in private sector R&D, government R&D management tends to be more discrete and ad hoc, focusing on generating maximum output from individual projects. Often, there is no clear notion of the desired public sector output.Whereas private sector R&D evaluation is generally straightforward, with the function of R&D being measured…
The purpose of this research is to introduce structures of strategic management of technology as elements in a conceptual framework. Design/methodology/approach: The approach of this study is abductive. The original framework is expanded and validated through inference to findings of large and small to medium-sized enterprise practices through interviews, finally ending on theory matching. …