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Risk management

Nursing Standard, 1996
This article describes the aims and the process of risk management, which the author argues should be seen as a positive concept, aimed at ensuring better quality of care. The article relates to UKCC professional development category: Educational development.
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Risk and Risk Management: Trustees as Risk Managers

2011
Appreciate that risk can be measured in a number of ways. Know the key measures of risk-adjusted return. Understand how diversification works. Understand the meaning and shortcomings of Value at Risk. Understand that not all risks are quantifiable. Appreciate the range of soft risks trustees face.
Andrew Clare, Chris Wagstaff
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The Risk of Risk Registers – Managing Risk is Managing Discourse Not Tools

Journal of Information Technology, 2011
D rummond (2011) eloquently illustrates the Janus-head of MIS using a vivisection of risk registers, noting how, although risk registers are commonly used, they often fail. Drummond finds two root causes for their failure (1) the fog of risk and (2) the surplus reality of risk registers.
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Risk Analysis and Risk Management

Information Systems Security, 2004
Abstract Risk management is the process that allows business managers to balance operational and economic costs of protective measures and achieve gains in mission capability by protecting business processes that support the business objectives or mission of the enterprise.
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The Mechanics of Managing it Risk

Journal of Information Technology, 1996
The application of formal risk management to IT projects is rapidly growing in popularity. Numerous books and articles on the subject of IT-oriented risk management have appeared, where a decade ago there were virtually none. In this paper, a short tutorial on the general processes and activities involved in performing IT risk management is presented ...
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Risk Management and Enterprise Risk Management

2015
All organizations, regardless of their size, industry, or customer base, have to face some degree of risks. Hence, risk management is seen as a management response to the volatile environment. Traditionally, risk management has been segmented and conducted in separate business units or departments (i.e., silos) within a company. However, the silo-based
Xianbo Zhao, Bon-Gang Hwang, Sui Pheng Low   +2 more
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The Risks of Risk Management

2014
This chapter compares and contrasts Risk Management (RM) with Crisis Management (CM). RM aims to calculate the expected damage that crises inflict. To do this, RM multiplies the likelihood of a crisis by its consequences measured in dollars, injuries, and so on. It then ranks crises in terms of their expected damage, and ignores crises that are below a
Ian I Mitroff, Can M. Alpaslan
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MANAGED CARE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1997
The era of managed care medicine has brought with it new and interesting legal risks. This article presents the physician with an introduction to managed care and risk management. Medical malpractice, as it involves managed care organizations, is introduced, and several risk management strategies are developed to help the practicing physician.
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Risk Management

International Journal of Knowledge Management, 2008
This article develops an argument for and provides case study evidence to demonstrate that knowledge management (KM) governance is a mechanism that strengthens the development and implementation of KM strategies. It achieves this through locating and formalizing risk management as a function of governance, establishing reporting structures and ...
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Risk management

Computer Law & Security Report, 1987
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