Risk Management (RM) is rapidly evolving; its practitioners are increasingly shifting focus from pure operational or financial risks to a broader Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). ERM involves a set of processes and methods used to manage risks that are not just associated with accidental losses but also associated with financial, strategic, technological and other business areas. This article ...

uncertainties in industrial environments can cause considerable complexities, during the implementation and management of projects. so, performing a risk management model in such environments has become inevitable. in such circumstances, many risk management models have been introduced in literature, which majorities of them are general, while some of them are developed to be applied to specifi...

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...

Today's enterprises face the daunting task of complying with an increasing number of intricate and constantly evolving laws and regulations. While some individual regulations such as Basel II or the USA Patriot Act necessitate the use of risk-based approaches to achieve compliance, the heightened cost and risk of compliance activities have resulted in a general tendency of enterprises to integr...

The radiation therapy department (RTD) initiated in 2009 a policy of open and transparent reporting of events not harming (near incidents) and potentially harming patients (incidents and accidents). This approach was immediately followed by the leader’s decision to engage towards the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence model. The EFQM approach structured the journey of ...

On their way to success and the achievement of benefits in the e-business arena many companies worldwide are to overcome inhibitors that this area of business is facing nowadays. The best way of overcoming those is the identification and evaluation of so-called critical success factors that can act as the solution for the inhibitors encountered. The research reported in this paper addresses e-b...