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A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...
Traveling on business soon? Be sure to keep an iron grip on those bags of yours! The burning question: Which airport has the fattest chance your luggage will be pilfered? The answer: Los Angeles International LAX. A 2004 report by the Transportation Security Administration reported 1,458 luggage theft claims...
SAN ANTONIO -- Digital Defense, Inc. DDI, a provider of information security assessment services and Software as a Service SaaS risk management solutions, today announced that testing of its new information security risk assessment management tool has successfully completed. DDI applied OCTAVE Allegro, a methodology to streamline and optimize the...
When companies decide on an offshore outsourcing strategy, select service providers and plan their onshore-offshore integration, due diligence and risk assessment is normal part of the process. Until recently however, systematic attention to the cross-cultural dimensions of risk assessment has been rare. With mergers and acquisitions, corporate culture compatibility and...
A randomised trial of a multifaceted intervention for improving adherence to clinical practice guidelines for the pharmacological management of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia increased prescribing of thiazides, but detected no impact on the use of cardiovascular risk assessment tools or achievement of treatment targets. A predominantly quantitative process evaluation was carried...
The Bank Secrecy Act/Customer Identification Program (BSA/CIP) requires a risk assessment of each member account. While we can define these requirements, actually implementing the necessary processes in you anti-money laundering AML efforts may be easie The Bank Secrecy Act/Customer Identification Program (BSA/CIP) requires a risk assessment of each member account....
The U.S. EPA's Framework for Metals Risk Assessment, released March 8, is a guideline document about metals and describes how they should be considered in conducting human health and ecological risk assessment. The U.S. EPA's Framework for Metals Risk Assessment, released March...
In spite of the increasing importance of compliance and ethics, many companies, even in heavily regulated industries, address compliance and ethics on an ad hoc basis. Many attempt to manage their risks without the benefit of hard facts or a clear understanding of the implications. Those organizations that tend to...
SPRINGFIELD, Va. -- VERSAR, Inc. (Amex:VSR) announced today that the United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA Office of Research and Development has awarded Versar, one of two, five (5) year contracts for peer review and risk assessment activities. The two contracts have a combined maximum value of $11 million. Versar...
The need to assure the timely and ongoing effectiveness of risk management and control systems is critical. Organizations are continually exposed to significant errors, frauds, and inefficiencies that can lead to financial loss and increased risk. These new realities are pressuring organizations to improve their methods of performing ongoing evaluation...
Older people living in nursing homes are at high risk of falling because of their general frailty and multiple pathologies. Prediction of falls might lead to an efficient allocation of preventive measures. Although several tools to assess the risk of falling have been developed, their impact on clinically relevant endpoints...
Risk analysis and management of petroleum exploration ventures is growing worldwide and many international petroleum companies have improved their exploration performance by using principles of risk analysis in combination with new technologies This paper intends to show how two different methodologies, a Monte Carlo simulation method and a connectionist approach...
In this paper one analyzes the strategic objectives formulated in the Regulation for the establishment of the European Network and Information Security Agency, ENISA and one focuses on; The actions required for the development of best practices; The actions for the promotion of interoperable Risk Assessment and Risk Management solutions...
Risk assessment involves both identifying significant risk factors that are correlated with insurance losses and claims, and determining how those risk factors are interrelated. This article indicates that complete and accurate risk assessment offers an insurer a real competitive advantage in pricing, but only if the insurer also has the...
Air transportation is essential to continued economic development of the world. It is the most rapidly growing mode of transportation and it is one of the safest modes of travel. Nevertheless, the public demands that safety levels continuously improve and that the absolute number of aviation accidents continue to decline,...
Simulation models are used in many financial institution applications. But the risk associated with such models is an area of compliance that has received very limited discussion despite its centrality to Sarbanes-Oxley 404 needs in financial institutions. In this context, model risk is defined as the exposure arising from management...
In response to an increasing focus on cumulative risk, EPA announced a new "Framework for 'Cumulative Risk Assessment," an integrated approach to environmental risk assessment. Cumulative risk assessment is the analysis of the combined ris In response to an increasing focus on cumulative risk, EPA...
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