Breaking Risk Management Out of its Silos

Knowledge Management in Support of Enterprise Risk Management

Risk management and knowledge management have so far been studied almost independently. The evolution of risk management to the holistic view of Enterprise Risk Management requires the destruction of barriers between organizational silos and the exchange and application of knowledge from different risk management areas. However, knowledge management has received little or no attention in risk m...

SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF SILOS WITH DIFFERENT HEIGHT TO DIAMETER RATIOS CONSIDERING GRANULAR MATERIAL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION

Silos are structures that are used for storing different types of granular material. Dynamic behavior of silos under seismic loads is very complex. In this paper seismic behavior of steel silos with different height to diameter ratios is investigated by considering granular material-structure interaction using ABAQUS finite element package. Silo wall is modeled by shell elements and its behavio...

Breaking down Information Silos between Manufacturing and Design: a New Approach to Cad/erp Data Integration

Contextual Records Management: Managing Risk, Complexity and Cost in Law Firms

Despite of the importance of records management (RM) in helping law firms manage legal, financial and organizational risk, many firms currently lack effective RM policies and systems. The rise of e-mail and other electronic content has led to the emergence of separate content silos and duplicative RM processes, increasing cost and complexity. Cumbersome, out-of-date systems challenge compliance...

Relationship between management philosophy and clinical outcomes.

BACKGROUND Medical research continues to focus overwhelmingly on biomedical interventions, such as drugs, devices, and procedures. The dysfunctional health care cultures and systems need more attention for quality of care to improve further. PURPOSE The existing health services management research has not used a systematic theoretical framework to predict the effects of organizational variabl...