7 From managing disasters to managing risks, reducing existing risks

Managing Creative Risks

Business process management (BPM) has emerged as an important enabler for managing risks. Organizations use BPM techniques such as process modeling to create transparency and to identify process-related risks. Existent risk management frameworks distinguish between different types of risk, such as people, technical, and management risk. Our study suggests that creativity in business processes l...

Managing long-term risks

Incidentalomas: managing risks

Radiol Bras. 2015 Jul/Ago;48(4):IX–X Incidentaloma is the medical term for incidentally found asymptomatic tumors. Such imaging findings have been increasingly frequent as the use of sectional imaging methods is disseminated. Its incidence can hardly be established, but it is known that pulmonary nodules may be identified at up to 50% of chest computed tomography (CT) studies in smoking individ...

Managing food-related health risks

Managing a portfolio of risks

Managers and stakeholders concerned about all sorts of entities often face a complex mixture of threats originating from multiple sources. Traditional management approaches that deal with multiple decisions, such as project portfolio management and risk assessment, are focused on single sources of risk or integrate risks using simplified assumptions (e.g., simple addition). Current challenges –...