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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Intelligent collaboration and risk management strategies require us, among other things, to perceive relationships, learn quickly and act upon relevant information. 845 Risk Intelligence and Measuring Excellence in Project Risk Management”, AACE International 2012. Intrapersonal curiosity (ourselves) .

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. The rise of Olympic risk management is certainly evident at the level of the IOC, the guardian of the Games.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Harvard Business Review

Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board. Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. Here’s why.

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The JP Morgan "Whale" Report and the Ghosts of the Financial Crisis

Harvard Business Review

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. million in 2012 — because of his "Whale-related" failures, and that JPM had posted a record 2012 net income of $21.3

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

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It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

One possible reason is that the financial crisis and the recessionary period that followed have driven corporations to skew their board appointments towards including more risk management and conventional corporate experience, at the expense of more tech-savvy and digital knowledge. Finding the right tempo is an art form.