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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S. Constructing Risk is a fully developed treatise on the current state of art of disaster risk and “development,” represented by planning, design and construction of the built environment. Hardback 978-`-80073-162-2 $60.00; Ebook 978-1-80073-163-9 $29.95

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience

MHA Consulting

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss?

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How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience

MHA Consulting

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss?

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” How to Manage Residual Risk Managing residual risk is not a project; it is an ongoing, cyclical process.

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SIA New Member Profile: Riley

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Riley provides a global security risk management system that streamlines security risk management policy implementation, including duty of care compliance. In 2013, we added a security consulting and advisory practice to support clients across the Middle East and Africa.

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The Multiple Factors Leading to the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

Erwood Group

Some additional key risk reduction steps SVB took early on were: They required a pledge of half of a startup’s shares as collateral (Reduced later to seven percent). The bank’s leadership failed to implement effective risk management policies, which led to poor lending decisions.

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